Welsh Journals

then it was planned before his departure to Rome and completed immediately on his return., This work was wrongly incorporated into Nicholas Upton's De Studio Militari, edited by Sir Edward Bysshe in 1654. This work also appeared in a Welsh garb as Llyfr Dysgrio Arveu.'2 One manuscript only attributes the work to one Siôn Trevor. The strongest claimant for the authorship is bishop Trevor. That the names Ieuan and Siôn can or cannot be interchanged presents no serious difficulty.3 Guto'r Glyn speaks of Abad Sion and Ieuan Abad in the same cywydd (cviii), and Tudur Aled calls Rhobert ap Ieuan ap Deicws also by the name Rhobert ap Sion (cxv). As bishop of St. Asaph, Trevor had exceptional interest in the parish church of Llan- farthin.4 That he was the author of Buchedd Sant Marthin,' a Welsh translation of excerpts from the works of Sulpicius Severus, Gregory of Tours, and Paulinus of Nola, is the claim put forward in The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, Vol. IV, Pts. III and IV. The anonymous Coninuatio Eulogii Historiarum is the work of more than one writer. The portions omitting the years 1390-5 and post 1405 seem to have been written by Trevor.5 The 'Metrical History of the Betrayal and Death of Richard II until now attributed to one Jean Creton, was almost certainly composed not by a Frenchman, but by a native of this country, and the only claimant who can make any show of right to the authorship is bishop Trevor.6 Letters and ballads dealing with the death of Richard and the need for a French invasion of Britain, also attributed to Creton, may be considered as the work of Trevor.7 If it can be assumed that Jean Creton was actually bishop Trevor, then it can safely be taken for granted that he was with the royal forces in Ireland and that he crossed from Dublin to Conway with his friend the Earl of Salisbury, with whom he had previosuly taken part in many diplomatic missions. As the friend and companion of Salisbury he would be witness to Richard's misfortunes which ended in his imprisonment and depos- ition. As the historian who wrote the Continuatio Eulogii and the Traison his influence upon French writers during his political missions to the French court must have been great. It is clear that the verse Traison influenced Jean le Beau, the author of the prose version of Richard's betrayal and death as well as the author of the Chronique du Religieux de Saint Denis, who has been identified by MoranvilIé as Salmon.8 Salmon, alias Pierre le Fruitier, was secretary to Charles VI, and Jean le Beau was one of Queen Isabella's chaplains in England. Trevor must have held communications with these writers. A description of Bishop Trevor's mode of living and of his hospitality is given by Iolo Goch in a cywydd in which he describes the bishop as Prydllyfr Offerenllyfr ffydd and Pennaeth o dadwysaeth da E. J. JONES. 1 E. J. Jones Mediaeval Heraldry (Privately printed, 1931) Speculum, XII, 197 The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, Vol. IV., Parts III and IV. 2 British Museum Stowe MS. 669 Llanstephan MS. 46 Jesus College, MS. 6.145 Cardiff MS. 323, 4,246. 3 See Henry Lewis's note to Cywydd i Ieuan Trevor' in Cywyddau Iolo Goch ac Eraill. 4 R. W. Eyton Antiquities of Shropshire, p. 316 E. J. Jones Mediaeval Heraldry. ,5 Speculum XII, 197. 6 Speculum, XV, 464 et seq. 7 Jbid, 8 Bibliothique de VEcqle des Charms, 1889.