33.
{3} "Social England," vol. i. p. 342.
{4} Published in the first instance in the "Transactions of the
Cymmrodaian Society," and subsequently amplified and brought out in
book form.
{5} Introduction to Borrow's "Wild Wales" in the Everyman Series.
{6} Geoffrey, who ended his life as Bishop of St. Asaph, was
supposed to have found the material for his "History of the British
Kings" in a Welsh book, containing a history of the Britons, which
Waltor Colenius, Archdeacon of Oxford, picked up during a journey in
Brittany.
{7} Walter Map, another Archdeacon of Oxford, was born in
Glamorganshire, the son of a Norman knight by a Welsh mother. Inter
alia he was the author of a Welsh work on agriculture.
{8} Green, "Hist. Eng. People," i. 172.
{9} "England under the Angevin Kings," vol. ii. 457.
{10} Project Gutenberg has released "The Description of Wales" as a
separate eText - David Price.
{11} Giraldus has committed an error in placing Urban III. at the
head of the apostolic see; for he died at Ferrara in the month of
October, A.D. 1187, and was succeeded by Gregory VIII., whose short
reign expired in the month of December following. Clement III. was
elected pontiff in the year 1188. Frederick I., surnamed
Barbarossa, succeeded Conrad III. in the empire of Germany, in
March, 1152, and was drowned in a river of Cilicia whilst bathing,
in 1190.
