Welsh Journals

to think that he had made a third effort to print his work. He had, however, been dead a year and a half when John Jones's statement appeared III. We have recently come upon announcements which show that the Cringell writer made two serious attempts, in 1803 and 1810, to collect subscribers for his history. Seeing that these papers are quite unknown and probably unique- and that the author's MSS., after a chequered career, have vanished from sight-we consider them worthy of re- production. It will be interesting to compare them with one of the many projects of a contemporary of the author, whose Prospectus of a Collection for a New History of Wales is printed at length on pp. 177-85 of Elijah Waring's Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams, 1850. Davies's first prospectus was a small pamphlet of eight pages, wherein the scope of the projected history is fully set out. The last paragraph but one, containing the author's statement that he intends further to consult' the MSS. in the British Museum, Jesus College, the Bodleian Library, and the Tower of London, shows that at this period the work was by no means in a complete state :­ PROPOSALS for Publishing The History of GLAMORGANSHIRE. By WILLIAM DAVIES, Swansea: Printed by John Voss, Market-Place. 1803. [Page 2] TO THE PUBLIC. The County of Glamorgan affords an ample Field for the Topo- grapher it displays some of the most beautiful and romantic