that my conclusions will seem warranted by the facts.
The Notes are primarily intended for School and College use, though I trust they will not be found without interest even to the general reader. The are printed only in the student's edition of Part I. Theophilus Evans lived and wrote two generations before the birth of the science of philology, and it is no wonder that the bulk of his numerous attempts at tracing the history of words and his historical inferences based upon them should appear to us the unscientific guesswork of mis-spent ingenuity. I have not been tempted therefore to annotate his philology excepting where the origin and life-history of a word were sufficiently interesting to warrant an independent note.
My obligations are great for much assistance willingly rendered. Mr. Richard Williams, Celynog, Newtown, and Mr. J. H. Davies, Hon. Secretary to the Guild, very readily lent me their valuable copies of the 1740 Edition. Mr. Davies also sent me his copy of the very rare first edition of 1716. Mr. T. W. Barker, of the Diocesan Registry, Carmarthen, undertook investigations for me which must have entailed much labour. Mr. J. Ballinger, of the Free Library, Cardiff, supplied me with much valuable information regarding the editions known to him of "Drych y Prif Oesoedd," and also regarding the other works of Theophilus Evans: without his valuable assistance this part of the Introduction would be very imperfect. I was received most kindly by the Rev. D. Francis, the present incumbent of Llandugwydd, who accorded me every facility for perusing the old church registers there. Rev. J. Lloyd James (Clwydwenfro), March,
