Welsh Journals

to the Library by Sir John Williams, Bart., who was born on November 6, 1840, and who was the principal founder of the Library and its first President. "Original Documents" in the second number has its Welsh counterpart in this number-Pethau nas Cyhoeddwyd, i.e. original material not previously published. The examples given are introduced by Mr. B. G. Owens and Miss Megan Ellis, both of them Assistants in the Department of Manuscripts and Records. Mr. Owens deals with an unpublished fragment of a translation into Welsh of George Marshall's A Compenjdious treatise in metre j declaring the first origijnall of Sacrifice, and of the buylding j of Aultares and Churches, and of the/ firste receauinge of the Christen j fayth here in Englande, 1554, whilst Miss Ellis, who has made a study of the work of Rowland Vaughan of Caergai, Merioneth (1 590-1667 D.N.B. Iviii, 178), royalist soldier, author, and translator, prints a dedicatory letter by Vaughan to Colonel Sir John Owen of Clenenney, co. Caernarvon (1600-1666 D.N.B. xlii, 422), an ancestor of Lord Harlech. This letter prefaces a newly-discovered and hitherto unknown fragment of a translation by Vaughan, found among manuscripts and records deposited in the Library by Lord Harlech, of Eikon Basilike, sometimes known as The King's Book". It is of interest to find that this work was translated into Welsh, and also of considerable interest, in view of the controversy which raged for so long, to have the testimony of such a staunch royalist as Vaughan regarding the royal authorship of the original. The Editor regrets to record the death, which occurred at Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., of Professor J. M. Manly, co-author, with the late Professor Edith Rickert, of the article on the Hengwrt manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales which appeared in the last number of this Journal. Both Professor Manly and Professor Rickert had been frequent visitors to the National Library of Wales, which had made for them a photostat facsimile of the Hengwrt Chaucer. The work on which he and Professor Rickert had been engaged for many years, namely, The Text of the Canterbury Tales studied on the basis of all known manuscripts, was published in eight volumes by the University of Chicago Press early this year, a few weeks before Professor Manly died.