Welsh Journals

00 amoot, 'compact, a contract made in the presence of witnesses' 2ob; ? amuot, ib., dooleur, 'declaration, assertion'. Johan Vising cites cool for col and oos for os taken from Walter de Bibbesworth about 1300. dooureth 67.18, 'quarters, billeting' (during 'progress'), but they seem to be rare in French, and Tanquerey gives only nooz ( = nos) in a letter dated 1274. From the foregoing discussion two conclusions impose themselves. The first is that the orthography of the codex is a variation of the orthographia gallica anglicana evolved by the Anglo-Saxons over the border and not as we thought a spelling peculiar to a Welsh copyist or copyists. The second is that upon the evidence furnished by Old French phonetics and borrowed words the Black Book of Chirk was not effected before the first quarter of the second half of the Xlllth century; in other words, that it is younger by half a century than the date generally attributed to it by the authorities. MORGAN WATKIN Caerdydd