alged in nearL Men were tanni that they must appear in the presence of the Divine Jove, azi sag. “I have not party line end to my réqueur. Í have not affined any, nor onsed any to weep. I have not olile Ibwe bor done any wikkel thing I have not lone what was hateful to the gods. I have not calumniate i the slave to his master. I have not been ide. I have Lot stolen. I have not committed attery. I have not committed murder", and so on. The Egyptians had a contempt for illness. "God loathes ide hands." (Hymne au Nil.) “Ra (the Sun) the giver of food, destroys all place for idleness. (Ritual of the Dead, xv, 20.) In one of the Letters we read, "Why is thy heart volatile as the chaff before the wind? Give thy heart to something worthy of a man's doing. Give not thy heart to pleasure. Idleness is unprofitable. It is of no service to a man in the day of account. His work is found wanting when weighed in the balance. Such is the man whose heart is not in his business, whose eye scorns it." But their commandments were positive as well as negative. On the tombs (B.c. 4000) we find the common Die ägyptische Gräberwelt (Leipzig: Von H. Brugsch, 1868). * Goodwin, Essays. formula: "I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, shelter to the stranger." In the lamentations at funerals, the mourners see the deceased enter the presence of the Divine Judge, and they chant the words: "There is no fault in him. No accuser riseth up against him. In the truth he liveth, with the truth he nourisheth himself. The gods are satisfied with all that he hath done. . . . . He succoured the afflicted, he gave bread to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, he sheltered the outcast, his doors were open to the stranger, he was a father to the fatherless." This tenderness for suffering humanity is characteristic of the nation. Gratefully does a man acknowledge in his autobiography (B.c. 4000): "Wandering I wandered and was hungry, bread was set before me. I fled from the land naked, there was given me fine linen." In a volume of maxims we read: "Maltreat not an inferior. Let your wife find in you her protector, maltreat her not. Save not thine own life at the cost of another." On the tomb of a man at El-Kalh (B.c. 4000) it is recorded that he "never left home with anger in his heart." STANZAS1 Addressed to Hywel ab Ieuaf, Lord of Arwystli, by the Bard Rheiddin a'm rhoddes Hywel, Llef a glywaf gloew eilyrth, 1 Liber Metempsychosis veterum Egypt. Von H. Brugsh, Berlin, 1851. 3 Deutsch, Lit. Rem., p. 197. 2 Chabas, 1863. Hist. of the Parish of Llangurig, translated by Howel W. Lloyd, Esq., M.A. 5 Talgarth is in the parish of Tref Eglwys in Arwystli. VOL. I. 20 TRANSLATION. I. To me, with lavish lips hath Hywel given A sleek and monstrous beast that tears the ground; II. I hear a startling sound of music clear, A horn loud sounding in the van of war, A deep-toned sound, and that from Talgarth's bull. DESCENT OF THE PRINCES AND LORDS OF POWYS AND FFERLIS. GLOUYW GLWAD LYDAN, King and Founder of the city of CAER Louyw, or Gloucester. THE NOBLE TRIBE OF THE MARCHES OF POWYS, & FOURTEENTH NOBLE TRIBE OF GWYNEDD. GWNFYW FRYCH, the second son of Cadell Deyrnllwg, King of Powys (see p. 8), was Lord of both Maelors, Chirk, Whittington, Nantheudwy, and Croes Oswallt or Oswestry. He was the ancestor of GWRGENEU, Lord of the above-named Lordships, and Chief of the fourteenth noble tribe of Gwynedd. Gwrgeneu was the son of Gwaethgar, ab Bywyn, ab Biordderch, ab Gwriawn, ab Gwnan, ab Gwylawg, ab Gwnfyw Frych, ab Cadell Deyrnllwg,3 King of Powys, and was father of 2 Lewys Dunn, vol. ii, p. 83. 2 Iorddwfri according to others. 3 Gutyn Owain and Sir John Leiaf. See Lewys Dunn, vol. I, xv, Introduction. CADFARCH AB GWRGENEU, Lord of Maelor Gymraeg, Maelor Saesneg, Chirk, Whittington, Oswestry, and Nantheudwy. He was the father of— YNYR AB CADFARCH, Lord of Maelor Gymraeg, Maelor Saesneg, Chirk, Whittington, Oswestry, and Nantheudwy. He built the castle of Whittington, in the latter part of the ninth century, and married Rhiengar, daughter of Lluddoccaf, ab Hyfaidd,' ab Caradawg Ffreichfras, King of Gloucester, Hereford, Erging, and Ewias, who bore azure, a lion rampant, party per fess, or and argent, in a bordure of the third, eight annulets sable; by whom he had issue, besides a younger son, Ynyr Frych, Abbot of Abbey d'Or, in the Golden Vale in Herefordshire, an elder son, TUDOR TREFOR, King of Gloucester, Hereford, Erging, Ewias, Maelor Uchaf, now called Maelor Gymraeg,3 Maelor Isaf, now called Maelor Saesneg, Chirk, Whittington, Oswestry, and Nantheudwy. He bore, party per bend sinister, ermine and ermines, a lion rampant or, armed and langued gules. In 907, he married Angharad, daughter of Hywel Dda, King of Wales, who bore argent, three lions passant regardant in pale, gules; and dying in 948, left issue three sons:-1. Goronwy; ---2. Lluddoccaf; and-3. Dingad, of whom presently; and two daughters: 1. Arddun, ux. Gwrydr Hên;5 and 2. Rhiengar, ux. Cadell, a prince of the line of Rhoderig the Great. 1. GORONWY AB TUDOR, the eldest son of Tudor Trevor, married Tangwystl, daughter of Dyfnwal ab Alan ab Alsar ab Tudwal Gloff, Prince of Dyfed, fourth son of Rhoderig the Great, King of Wales." He died in the lifetime of his father, leaving issue an only daughter and heiress Rhiengar, who married Cuhelyn ab Ivor ab Severus ab Cadifor ab Gwenwynwyn ab Idnerth ab Ior 1 Harl. MS. 4181. 2 Lewys Dunn, vol. i, p. 297; vol. ii, p. 152. See p. 306. 3 Cae Cyriog MS. 5 Lewys Dunn, vol. ii, p. 307. 4 Lewys Dunn, vol. ii, p. 307. 6 Eyton Pedigree. 7 Eyton Pedigree, Lewys Dunn, vol. ii, p. 307. |