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Excerpt from The History and Antiquities of Glamorganshire and Its Families: With Numerous Illustrations on Wood From Photographs, of Castles, Abbeys, Mansions, Seals, Tombs, Arms, &C
IT has long been a matter of surprise that so important a county as that of Glamorgan has never had its History written. Several of the shires of Wales, less important than this, have long since been described and illustrated by appropriate memoirs. The History of Brecknockshire, by Theophilus Jones; of Monmouth shire, by Cox, and by Williams; of Anglesey, by Rowlands, and by Angharad 'llwyd and of Cardiganshire by Meyrick, - all supply valuable details. F enton's Tour through Pembrokeshire, and Mr. Williams' brief History of Denbighshire, complete our treasury of county histories. Montgomeryshire, through the labours of the Party's-laud Club, bids fair to have its annals searched out and illustrated with greater completeness than has fallen to the lot of any other Welsh or English county.
Carmarthenshire, Carnarvonshire, Flintshire, Merioneth, and Glamorgan - all counties rich in event, all prominent in their activity during the most stirring periods - have their annals still unwritten.
The present work, planned on a scale which as far as possible avoids voluminousness and expense, is intended to be a condensed sketch of the ancient and middle-age story of Glamorganshire and its Families, with a supplementary part on the genealogy of its leading modern Families. In substance it is also incorporated in the Author's larger work, entitled Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and Families of Wales, in which Glamorgan has received a treatment exceptionally extensive, corresponding with its relative importance. Especial attention has been given to the conquest by the Normans, and to the Old and Extinct Families both of Norman and British extraction. The link of connection between the domestic and official annals of past and modern times is supplied by' the elaborate Rolls of High Sheriffs and Members of Parliament, from the age of Henry VIII. Downwards. In all these respects it supplies information never before made accessible to the general public. I In the ancient British period, care has been taken not to mar and encumber the history by the introduction of legendary matter. Among the illustrations, through the courtesy of the present Duke of Beaufort, several interesting engravings have been introduced from the account, recently privately printed, of the Progress of the first Duke of Beaufort, Lord President of Wales, in 1684 See pp. 59 - 61, It 7.
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