Welsh Journals

CD "per C 12supplied from CD; 604 AB; sex< > F 13supplied from BDF; quendem A 14excitavissentZ) 15leporem: + insectabantur in margin of A 16insequebantur: + sectabatur CF; + sectabaturque D 17et: D 18illi F 19ad: + quendam F 20supplied from BCDF; rubem A 21quendam: F; + rubum CD 22supplied from CD; venisset ABF 23supplied from CDF; ventrem AB 24Tunc CDF ^subsequently amended to ac in A; ac CD 26inhabitasset D 27supplied from BCDF; quindecem A 28contemplatus B 29post CDF 30rogitauit F 31cujaD 32esset: + etC 33responsitC 34de: D 35Jowcheh et F 36gnata C 37meus: + me F 38Hibernia: + dare F 39peteverat C 40natalem B 41virginis B 42morior C ^supplied from CDF; vno AB 44virginis: + et vitam F 45perupit C 46quod: + tu F 47vere CF; veri D 48veracissima CDF 49supplied from BCD; serocienti A 50salutem D 51supplied from DF; prosecutione AB; persecutionem C 52supplied from B; mordacium CD; inordacum A 53omnino C 54libentissimo: lubentissimo B; + perpetuo F 55perperuum sit: sit perpetuum D 56asylum: + miserorum F 57per C 58adeo F 59supplied from BC; quenquamD; quemquiam.4 60suppliedfrom CDF; isticAB 61masculam C 62hiisF 63tuis terris: terris tuis C 64pollutant C 65foris F 66supplied from CDF; libere AB 61 supplied from CDEF; annos 37. AB 68ac F 69supplied from BCDEF; dibus A 70fuere:- B 71quas F 72affectu: + acta sunt AB 73Brochwell F; Brochwael C 74Tysiliaw C; Tyssiliaw DEF 75Conan CD; Kynan EF 76Tyssiliau B; Tysiliaw C; Tyssiliaw DEF 77Tambryt EF 78Gurmylk D 79Durie (?) F 80Melangelh B; Melanghell F 81miseriorum D 82utilissimum B 83principis: + Brochwell F 84supplied from BCDEF; Eeadem A 85supplied from CDEF; vero AB 86quasdem D 87ac E 88timore F 89perseverant et D 90studuitque C 91interitae C 92nil C 93et B 94ex F 95quid C 96Melangelh B; Melanghell F 97virginis C 98aut DE "subiti C 100sancitatem E; immunitatem F 101permissam C 102evitare B 103Monacellae: + Finis. C; + Etc. F TRANSLATION THE HISTORY OF ST MONACELLA Once upon a time there was in Powys a most illustrious prince by the name of Brochwel Ysgithrog, also earl of Chester, who was living in the town called at that time Pengwern Powys, now in fact Shrewsbury, and whose residence or dwelling stood where the College of St Chad the bishop is now situated. But the same excellent prince gave in alms, and conceded in perpetuity for himself and his heirs, his aforesaid residence or manor by his own pure generosity for the use and service of God. When at length on a certain day in AD 604 the said prince had gone hunting to a certain place, called Pennant in Welsh, within the said principality of Powys, and where the hunting dogs of the same prince had aroused a hare, he and the dogs pursued the hare until they came to a certain large and thorny bramble bush. In that bramble bush indeed he found a certain virgin beautiful in appearance praying as devoutly as possible, and given up to divine contemplation, together with the said hare lying down under the hem or girdle of her garment, with its face turned towards the dogs boldly and calmly. Then as the prince [came] shouting, 'Catch it, pups, catch it! the more he shouted to urge them on, the more distant and farther away the dogs retreated and fled from the little animal howling. Finally the prince, totally astonished, asked the virgin for how long she had lived on his lands alone in such a wilderness. The virgin said in reply,