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Poetical Works of Rice Jones, of Blaenau, commenced in 1736.
Heraldic MS. Chart. Sæc. XVII.-W. Owen, Esq.
MS. Membr. Sæc. XV.-Ven. Archdeacon Newcome.
Extracts relating to the Salusbury family
Collection of Welsh MSS.-Ven. Archdeacon Newcome.
Welsh Almanac, &c., Chart. Sæc. XVI.

PRINTED BOOKS.
Rhees' Welsh Grammar: Lond. 1592.-W. Owen, Esq.
Welsh Version of the Psalms, by Ed. Kyffin and Wn. Middleton ; Black Letter :
Lond. 1603.-Mr. W. Lloyd.
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W. Owen, Esq. Fasciculus Temporum : Argentorati. 1488. Declaration of Sir Thomas Middleton: Lond. 1644.

Galfr. Monemut. Britanniæ utrius Regū ac Origo : Argentorati. 1515.Ven. Archdeacon Newcome.

Davies' Welsh Dictionary: Lond. 1632.-W. Owen, Esq.
Drayton's Polyolbion, &c.—The same.
Dean Goodman's Fall of Man. N.D.
Work upon Husbandry.-Mr. Edward Jones.
Köller's Atlas.-W. Owen, Esq.
Salisbury's New Testament; Welsh : 1620. The same.
Tyndal's New Testament : 1527.-Miss Cordelia Jones.
Ciceroni Rhetorica : 1497.-Rev. E. L. Barnwell.

DRAWINGS.
Collection of architectural drawings, Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire.-E.
A. Freemam, Esq.

Colle tion of drawings of Celtic antiquities.-W. Owen, Esq.
The old entrance of Gwydir house.-Mr. Edwards.

ENGRAVINGS.
Engravings of Chirk Castle, and of Ruthin Castle, before and after the rebuilding.
-F. R. West, Esq., M.P.

RUBBINGS OF BRASSES.
A Collection of Rubbings.--Rev. H. Jones, D.D.

RUBBINGS OF STONES.
Rim of Font; Brecon Priory.-Rev. H. Longueville Jones.
Stone at Llanrug Vicarage, Caernarvon.—The same.
Stone with Oghams, Cilgeran, Pembrokeshire.—The same.
Lintel of Llanfaglan Church, Caernarvonshire.—The same.

POTTERY.
Vase found in 1834, at Stansty, near Brynhyfryd Bridge.
The “ Blessed Bear of Bradwardine.”-Robert Ellis, Esq.
Three delft dishes.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The keys of Ruthin Castle.-F. R. West, Esq., M.P.
Various articles found in Ruthin Castle. The same.
Escrutoire, R. I. 1669.”—Mr. Roberts, Clwyd Street.
Small casket.

Sun-dial from Clocaenog. " THOM.......SAND : SIXE : HUNDRED : FOU...”—Mr. Robert Pierce. (See above, p. 210.)

Iron Box, found in a dungeon under the present kitchen at Llysmeirchion, lying beside a human skeleton, and containing papers too old to be deciphered.-Mrs. Chambres, Llysmeirchion.

Fetters upon the limbs of the skeleton just mentioned.-Mrs. Chambres, Llysmeirchion.

Model of the temple at Pæstum.
Key from Rhuddlan Castle.—Mrs. Goodman Roberts.
Two early Italian pictures ; Gold ground : Orgagna of Pisa._F. R. West, Esq.
Base of screen from Bettws Church.
Two misereres from Beaumaris Church.-Rev. Dr. Jones.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH.

SPECIAL EVENING MEETING.

The Rev. Dr. Jones took the chair at half-past seven o'clock : none but subscribing members were present. The following gentlemen were elected Vice-Presidents :

Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart., M.P.,
Sir Joseph Bailey, Bart., M.P.,

The Very Rev. the Dean of St. Asaph;
And these gentlemen were elected to fill the places vacant on the
Committee :

Rev. C. H. Hartshorne, M.A.,
Hugh Powell Price, Esq.,

Rev. W. Reed, M.A. The Secretary made the following announcements on the part of the Committee :

The Rev. David Davies, of Llanwnog, had been elected a Local Secretary for Montgomeryshire; The Rev. W. Basil

Jones had resigned the office of General Secretary, and the Rev. E. Lowry Barnwell, Head Master of Ruthin School, had been elected to succeed him.

A Sub-Committee, consisting of the following gentlemen, had been appointed to superintend the publications of the Association:

C. C. Babington, Esq.,
E. A. Freeman, Esq.,
Rev. W. Basil Jones,
Rev. H. Longueville Jones,

Rev. John Williams (of Llanymowddwy).
The Annual Meeting of the Association for 1855 will be held at
Llandilo-fawr.

The Secretary then read the Report of the Special Committee appointed at Brecon to consider the extension of the Association, which was divided into two votes, and considered in the order indicated by the numerals in brackets :

At a meeting held on the 29th May, 1854, and by adjournment

on the following day, at the Treasurer's rooms, 4, Elm Court, Temple,--the Earl of Cawdor in the chair,—it was resolved by the Sub-Committee appointed at Brecon to consider as to the extension of the Cambrian Archæological Association to recommend as follows:

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(2.) That the Association be styled “The Cambrian Association of Archæology and Natural History," on which subjects papers shall be received.

That papers which in the opinion of the Committee shall be of sufficient local interest may be read at the General Meetings, although not upon subjects of Archæology or Natural History,

That the several subjects at the General Meetings may be allotted to different sections.

(1.) That members of the Association may in future be allowed to compound for all subscriptions by a payment of £10.; and that all members shall be allowed, on payment of the composition, to deduct half the amount of the subscriptions previously paid by them.

Both motions were negatived by large majorities. Mr. Freeman and Mr. Basil Jones spoke in favour of both; among those who spoke in opposition were Mr. Babington, Mr. T. Wright, Mr. Longueville Jones, Mr. Turnor, and Mr. Barnwell.

At the conclusion of the proceedings, Mr. James Allen moved and Mr. Longueville Jones seconded a vote of thanks to Mr. Basil Jones for having conducted the business of the Association, as its Secretary, for the last six years.

Mr. Jones having returned thanks, the meeting broke up.

The Right Hon. the Lord Dynevor will be President for the year 1855–6.

Since the close of the meeting, Matthew Moggridge, Esq., has accepted the office of Local Secretary for Glamorganshire, and Hugh Powell Price, Esq., has declined the place on the Committee to which he was elected. The two vacancies thus caused have been filled by the election of the Rev. W. Basil Jones, and Frederick L. Lloyd Philipps, Esq.

J. Jones, Esq., of Cefn-faes, has accepted the office of Local Secretary for Radnorshire.

VESTIGES OF THE GAEL IN GWYNEDD.

SUPPLEMENTAL SECTION.

(Read at Ruthin.) Some two or three of my hearers may remember, I am not so sanguine as to hope that many do,-a paper which I read at Dolgelley four years ago, and which was afterwards expanded into something which I may venture to call a volume, under the title of Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynedd. Its main object was pretty accurately expressed by that title; as it undertook to show from a comparison of existing traditions with the present local nomenclature, that a large part of Wales, and especially of its northern division, had been in early times in the occupation of a Gaelic tribe, a race, that is, remotely akin to the Welsh, but more nearly to the inhabitants of Ireland, Man, and the Scottish Islands. The fact of such an occupation is admitted by all Welsh archæologists, and all that my paper can be said to have proved with any degree of certainty, or indeed to have proved at all, was the extent and the importance of that occupation. It had, however, a further object to indicate, namely, the probability, or (to say the least) the possibility, that the Gaelic inhabitants of North Wales were not, as represented by tradition, invaders of that country, but the elder occupants of the soil, who were gradually dispossessed, and either exterminated or absorbed, by the victorious Cymry. I do not expect the latter theory to command the assent of all who hear me, as the weight of tradition is decidedly against it; but I venture to think that it is worthy of consideration, and deserves to be ventilated and discussed.

My present object in recapitulating the contents of my former essay, is to bring the subject once more before a competent tribunal, fortified with such arguments as have 1 Archæologia Cambrensis, New Series, vol i., Supplement, p. 1. ARCH. CAMB., NEW SERIES, VOL. V.

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occurred to me subsequently to its original publication. The most prominent of those which I advanced in favour of my view,-one of which, I believe, no previous use had been made,—was the occurrence in various parts of Wales,-and, as I then believed, more particularly in North Wales,-of the names of places containing the word “Gwyddel” (“Gael”). Of these I gave not less than five-and-twenty instances; and contended that so large a number could not be accidental, but must point to some very extensive Gaelic influence in the country, and in all probability to the occupation faintly recorded by tradition. Even if we had no certain evidence of the English conquest of South-eastern Britain, and the expulsion of its previous inhabitants,-it would be rendered, to say the least, extremely probable by the occurrence, in several parts of the country, of local names containing the element“Wal,” “Wale,” or “Walling.” “Walton, “Walney, .“Walewood,” and “Wallingford,” distinctly prove Welsh influence, and go very far towards proving à Welsh occupation, in that part of Britain which is now called England. The case of names containing the element “Gwyddel," and scattered up and down the Principality, is, I conceive, completely parallel.

Subsequent examination has nearly doubled my list; and although I hold it better, as a general rule, to withdraw dry details and statistics from a paper designed to be delivered orally-regarding them among the things which

“ Segnius irritant animum demissa per aures

Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus”. I have judged it better in the present instance not to withhold them; partly because, in an assembly of archæologists convened from various parts of Wales, I may have the good fortune to swell my catalogue:-partly because, if I omit this, I shall have very little left.

I proceed, therefore, to give a complete list of those which I have been able to discover, arranged according to counties :

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