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with Dr. Freeman, at that time inclined to believe in the almost complete depopulation of portions of those districts by the Flemings, and there can be no doubt that the best and fairest discussion of this question is contained in Mr. James's few pages.

With the current running so strongly towards English, the real difficulty, as Mr. James observes, is to understand how so much of Wales remained Welsh in speech. The Parliamentary troubles, however, told hardly against the Welsh gentry, who were mainly royalist, and the ruin of the castles and their occupants gave to the ancient language, aided by the issue of popular works, the opportunity of retrieving its lost ground. Mr. James, in a lecture delivered before the Cymmrodorion Society of London, which that Society has not published in its Transactions, has followed the fortunes of the Welsh youth who, during the prevalence of the English fashion, and through the succeeding generation, sought their education at Oxford and their career in English public life. In the century and a half from 1558 to 1714, at least fifty Welshmen were raised to the episcopal bench, and within the same period the Welsh graduates at Oxford were out of all proportion to the numbers at the University. The avenues of temporal success were closed against the Cymry of a later generation by the ruin of the Welsh gentry under the Commonwealth (" for them there was no Restoration", says Mr. James), and the coincident revival of the old language. It is a pity that Mr. James has not added his lecture upon Charles Edwards to the present essay: each forms the complement to the other. The mastery shown over his subject, his remarkable acquaintance with the Welsh literature of the period since the Reformation, his impartiality and critical acumen, his clear and lucid style, all point him out as the one man capable of writing a satisfactory history of Welsh society and literature from the reign of Henry VII to the revival of letters that may be said to have begun with the present century.

THE BEAUFORT PROGRESS THROUGH WALES IN 1684.-An account of the first Duke of Beaufort's Progress, as Lord President of the Council in Wales, through Wales and the Marches in 1684, was printed for private circulation in 1864, at the present Duke's expense, from the original MS. of Thomas Dingley, under the supervision of the late Mr. Charles Baker, in a handsomely printed volume, with a limited number of woodcuts of the pen and ink sketches, which are incorporated in the text. As the work was a private one, limited to 100 copies, the knowledge of its contents has been confined to a few. The occasional extracts which have appeared in the Archeologia Cambrensis and elsewhere have given rise to a desire that a work of such interest should be reprinted for general circulation.

With this view an application was recently made to His Grace on behalf of the Cambrian Archæological Association, that he would

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permit the MS. to be reprinted by the Society. His Grace readily gave his assent to the application, and suggested that the work would be more valuable if the MS., with all the sketches in the text of castles, mansions, churches, monuments, and coat-armour, were reproduced.

Acting on His Grace's suggestion, inquiry was made whether Messrs. Blades, East, and Blades, well known as engravers and printers in fac-simile, were willing to publish a fac-simile of the entire MS., and on what terms. On their agreeing to undertake the work (provided an adequate number of copies to compensate them for the trouble and expense were subscribed for), His Grace deposited his MS. with them for the purpose.

In 1867 the Camden Society published a similar work of Thomas Dingley, History from Marble, in fac-simile of the original MS. in the possession of the late Sir T. E. Winnington, Bart., by the process of photo-lithography, with an elaborate Introduction by the late Mr. J. Gough Nichols, F.S.A., in two parts, which the author, in his account of the Duke's Progress, refers to as his English Journal.

The Progress, abounding as it does with pen and ink illustrations of the text, can only be satisfactorily published by photolithography.

The MS. consists of 354 pages, exclusive of two maps, equal to 5 pages more. In order to reproduce the MS. satisfactorily, many difficulties which involve time and labour have to be overcome.

The publishers, with a view to place the work in general circulation, have assented to issue it at the price of £1 1s. for each copy, in quarto, bound in cloth and lettered, provided 200 copies are subscribed for. 130 are already subscribed for. This edition will be limited to 350 copies; and a special edition of 25 copies, numbered, etc., in the usual way, on large paper, will be issued to subscribers at £3 38.

The price of a copy to non-subscribers will be £1 11s. 6d.

As the MS. must be returned soon to the Duke of Beaufort, an early application for copies should be made to the publishers, not later than the 1st of April, as after that date no further subscriptions can be received.

INDEX TO THE ARCHEOLOGIA CAMBRENSIS.-The index to the first four Series of the Archæologia Cambrensis is now ready for the press. It is proposed to print 250 copies at 7s. 6d. each to members of the Association. Subscribers' names should be sent to the Editors as soon as possible.

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Archaeologia Cambrensis.

FIFTH SERIES-VOL. V, NO. XVIII.

APRIL 1888.

ACCOUNT OF THE OPENING OF A BARROW IN THE PARISH OF COLWINSTON,

GLAMORGANSHIRE.

BY F. G. HILTON PRICE, ESQ., F.S.A.

(Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 2nd Series, vol. xi, p, 430, by kind permission of the Council, and with the sanction of the Author.)

THIS barrow which is now about to be described is situated within a few feet of the high-road from Cowbridge to Bridgend, at a place called the Golden Mile, upon the estate of Mrs. Collins Prichard of Pwllywrach, the lady of the manor.

Some years ago it is asserted that the then owner of the property, wishing to satisfy his curiosity, made an opening into the mound from the north side, near the centre, and, as might be expected, did not find any interment; and, upon meeting with large stones at a distance of about twenty feet from the outside, he gave up the venture as hopeless. The next excavation was made by Mr. Collins Prichard about two years ago. He entered the barrow from the east end, driving a narrow trench in about twenty feet, and gradually expanding it at the centre. He met with no less than nine vessels of British pottery, all arranged near the centre, at short distances apart; each, it is

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said, was placed upon a flat stone, with stones arranged round the sides, and a large stone upon the top as a cover. The vessels are stated for the most part to have contained calcined human bones, and in one was a flint knife. As this excavation had been made in the hopes of discovering treasure, the find was not considered to be of any value; therefore, these cinerary urns and food-vessels, some of which were, from descriptions given, of an ornamental character, were permitted to fall in pieces, and at the present time only one small fragment, about two or three inches square, is all that remains of them. Thus no exact particulars are known of this important find. The next time the barrow was dug into was in March 1887; this time by Mr. J. C. Priestley, who was then a guest of Mrs. Collins Prichard. He having heard what had formerly been found in the Twmpath (the name by which the barrow is known), determined to ascertain for himself if there were any burials left. He obtained the valuable assistance of Mr. Bertie Prichard, and in the course of an hour he met with a cinerary urn, filled with calcined bones. It was discovered about six feet from the centre, upon the south-east side of the barrow, near the edge of the trench that had been made by Mr. Collins Prichard. This cinerary urn had been placed upon the earth with stones built up to protect the sides, and one large one placed upon the top. Mr. Priestley succeeded in getting this fine specimen, which is called No. 1 interment, without any mishap. It is 1 foot 2 inches high, 1 foot 1 inch in diameter, and 3 feet 5 inches in circumference at the widest part. It is ornamented with three lines made with twisted thong, pressed into the clay when moist; then follows a wide zigzag ornament made in the same manner, below which are again three lines, likewise made by the impression of twisted thong; and immediately below these last lines are thumbmarkings, on a raised rib running round the wide part of the urn. There is a similar raised rib with

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