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technically isolated, and the manuscript may represent an attempt to retain for posterity an ancient repertory long overtaken by new fashions. If it is typical of works played by a succession of Welsh harpers at the Tudor and early Stuart courts, it must have occasioned the same bemused responses which greet performances today, and which stimulate so much interest and fascination in the man, the manuscript and the music. Plates and figures from Lbl MS Add. 14905 and Lbl MS Add. 14970 (pp. 90, 112-13, 263-8) are all reproduced by permission of the British Library, as is the text of the Statute of Gruffudd ap Cynan from Lbl MS Add. 19711 (pp. 285-91). The plate from AB MS 17116-B (Gwysaney 28) (p. 193) is reproduced by permission of the National Library of Wales. Figure 4a (p. 270) is reproduced from J. A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay Squire (eds.), The Fitiwilliam Virginal Book, revised Dover Edition, corrected, edited and with a preface by Blanche Winogron, Dover Publications Inc., Toronto and London 1979-80, vol. n, p. 366. This volume has been collaborative from its inception, and I am grateful to all who participated in the 1995 Robert ap Huw Symposium of the Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies, where so much was conceived and discussed. Special thanks are due to Peter Crossley-Holland for wise counsel and encouragement, Peter Greenhill and David Klausner for sharing extensive unpublished research, Robert Evans for help with the glossary, and Lyn Davies and the Arts Council of Wales for generous financial subsidy. Wyn Thomas, Ruth Dennis-Jones (University of Wales Press), Andrew Lewis and Alistair Warwick have all provided substantial and essential assistance with the physical aspects of the publication. Without three people, however, this volume could never have reached fruition: John Harper, whose idea it all was; Glenda Carr, who has continued to produce masterly translations at great speed, despite a serious accident which rendered her housebound for three months; and Jennie Lewis, an unfailingly supportive and patient assistant editor and typesetter throughout. Sally Harper Llangoed, Anglesey February 1999