Welsh Journals

216 Olion. No. IX. Oaford; Dee. 21, 93. HoND- Sa- I am obliged to return you my humble thanks, for that favourable encouragement you are pleas'd to give me, in your letter to Sr. Roger, and am much concerned yt. my present occasions are such as allow me not to come to the Country, to receive your Kindnesse. The truth is, the booksellers concerned in this new edition of Camden, are not willing to be at such charges with the persons they employ, as to enable them to survey their respective Pro¬ vinces, all they require are onely such additional notes, as may render this edition preferable to any yt. hath been yet publish'd, and that it will prove so, there is no doubt at all, for to my know¬ ledge there are several persons employ'd (for the English Coun¬ ties), who are generally allow'd to be men of learning and worth, and some of these are resident in those Counties they have under¬ taken to illustrate; particularly Dr. Plot for Kent, Dr. Tod (of Univers. Coll.) for Cumberland, Mr. Nicolson, formerly of Queen's Coll., for Northumberld. Mr. Machel for Westmorland, and Mr. Kennet for Oxfsb.; but to come nearer home, I hope you'l pardon my boldnesse if I beg of you some contribution towards Flint¬ shire, or any other part of Wales. I had addressed myself to you long since, but that I had no thoughts till of late medling with any more than ye. three Counties of Denbigh, Merioneth, and Montgomery, but the Gentlemen yt. had once undertaken ye. other Counties of N. Wales, imagining some difficulty in it, have altr'd their thoughts. Sr. Roger is pleas'd to inform me, that there is an inscription on a stone near Mostyn, whereof I also found mention in a ms. of one Mr. Aubrey, f. of ye. r. s. %vho says it is called Maeny Chwy- fan, which seems so strange a name that I cannot devise what should be the origin of it, an accurate copy of this inscription would doubt- lesse be acceptable to ye- public; the same ms. informs me that there has been a stone chest or coffin full of Urns found in ye. Carnedh, called Arjfedogaid y wrdch, and that there is, hard by the Abbey of Vale Crucis, an inscription on a stone (which when it stood) was above 7 yards high, concerning a battle between ye. K. of Powys and the Saxons; he says it begins thus, congen- filivs eliseg: but he has no more of it, and this was never copied from ye. Stone, but onely told him by Mr. Meredyth Lloyd. But I need not give any hints of what would be acceptable on this oc¬ casion to one thats a farr better judge of it than myself: I have sent to some friends a few general Queries which I hope have come to yr. hands, to which I have nothing else to add but that, no in-