ADVERTISEMENT. THE COUNCIL OF THE CYMMRODORION SOCIETY have to apologise for diverging from the Prospectus in the second section of the first part of " Y Cymmrodor". To have strictly carried out their original plan would, in this instance, have delayed the publication for several months. The preparation necessary to the proper editing of the important MSS. they are about to embody in their transactions, required a far longer time than had been given to the Editor, seeing that the date of his appointment is coincident only with the issue of the Prospectus. They have now to inform the Members that the second section of the next part of "Y Cymmrodor” will enter on the publication of valuable MSS of the fourteenth and succeeding centuries, taking up the work where the Myfyrian Archæology had left off. The first volume will be one of poetry: it being well known to Cymric scholars that the poetical effusions of those centuries are replete with illustrations of history, and elucidate in a remarkable manner such events as the wars of the rival houses of York and Lancaster. This delay, however, is not without its benefit; it enables the Council to publish a short Sketch of the history of the Cymmrodorion, with the Constitutions of the Society as settled in 1755. Although these are not the Constitutions of the present Society, they form a code of laws and propound subjects for discussion of a suggestive and important character, to which the Council invite earnest attention. The list of the first Members, with their place of residence and of birth, will be interesting not only to genealogists, but to the several descendants of those Members now interspersed through the counties of Wales. The Proceedings of the Society, with an account of its Meetings, Lectures, Musical Entertainments and Conversazioni, will be given in an Appendix, which will be published at the end of the year, to be bound up with "Y Cymmrodor". The Appendix will also contain. the Society's annual Financial Statement. 7, Queen Victoria Street, London, 1876. |