No. II. The Answer of [Dionothus] the Abbot of Bangor, to Augustino the monk, requiring subjection to the Roman church, about the year 603; in Welsh and English; (word for word): out of Spelman's Concilia.* Bid yspys a diogel i chwi, yn bod ni holl un ac arall yn uvydd ac ynn ostyngedyg i Eglwys Duw ac ir paab o Ruvain, ac i bool kyur grissdion dwyvol, i garu pawb yn i radd mewn kariad perffaith, ac i helpio pawb, o honaunt a gair a gweithred i vod ynn blant i dduw ac amgenach uvydddod no hwn nid adwen i vod ir neb ir yddych chwi yn henwi yn baab ne yn daad o daade yw gleimio ac yw ovunn. Ar uvydddod hwn ir yddym ni yn barod yw roddi ac yw dalu iddo ef, ac i pop krisdion yn dragwyddol. Hevyd in ydym in dan ly wodraeth esgob Kaerllion ar Wysc yr hwn ysydd yn olygwr dan dduw arnobm ni y wneuthud i ni gadwyr ffordd ys brydol. Be it known and certain to you, that we are all and singular obedient and subject to the church of god and to the pope of Rome, and to every pious * This is, in all probability, the oldest and best authenticated specimen of the British or Welsh language now extant. Sir Henry had it from an old MS. of Peter Mostin, a Welsh gentleman, copied, no doubt, from one still older. christian, to love every one in his degree with perfect charity, and to help every one of those, and by word and deed, to be the sons of god: and other obedience than this I know not due to him whom you name the pope, or the father of fathers to challenge and to require. But this obedience we are ready to give and pay to him, and to every christian for ever. Moreover we are under the government of the bishop of Caerleon upon Usk, who is superintendent under god over us to make us keep the spiritual way. No. III. British and Welsh Saints. Aaron and Julius, martyrs; 1st of July, about 304. Aidui. Alban, martyr. Almedha, virgin and martyr; 1st August, in the sixth century. Amphibalus, a nonentity; being only a name given by Gildas to St. Albans cloak. Asaph, bishop; 1st May, toward the beginning of the seventh century. Augul, bishop and martyr; 7th of February. Barcian, confessor. Barruc, confessor, disciple of St. Cadoc; 27th of September. Benedict, abbot Bernach, confessor; 9th of March. Brendan, abbot; 17th of May. Irish. Cadoc or Sophias, bishop and martyr; 24th of Ja nuary, in the sixth century. Cadroë, abbot; 6th of March, 988. Carantoc, confessor; 16th of January, in the sixth century. Cinvarch, the disciple of St. Dubricius. Clytauc, king and martyr; 3d of November. Constantine, king, monk, and martyr; 11th of March. Cradoc, confessor; 14th of April. Crisant and Dario, martyrs; 1st of December or Fe bruary. Cuthman, confessor; 8th of July. Daniel, bishop of Bangor; died about 545. David, archbishop of Menevia; 1st of March, 544. Dochelm, confessor; 8th of July. Dochow, priest and confessor; 15th of February. Dubricius, archbishop and confessor; 14th of November, 512. Elvan, bishop, and Meduin; 1st of January, about 198. Faustinian and Juventia, martyrs; 16th of February. Gildas, the wise, abbot; 29th of January, in the sixth century. Gistlian, bishop and confessor. Gundlei, confessor; 29th of March. Iltut. Ismael, bishop and confessor; 16th of June. Justinian, contemporary with Sts. Daniel and David. Keyne, virgin; 8th of October, in the fifth or sixth century. Kieran, bishop and confessor. Kigwe, virgin; 8th of February. Kyned, contemporary with Sts. David, Theliau, Patern, &c.* * This saint was the son of Dihoc, prince of Little Britain by his own daughter; and was born in a province, by name Goyr, about a mile from the palace of king Arthur. See Usher, 275. Luidger, bishop and confessor; 26th of March. Ninian, bishop and confessor; 16th of September. Nonnita, mother of St. David. Oudoceus, bishop of Landaf; 11th of July, 563. Patern, bishop and confessor; 15th of April, about 560. Patrick, bishop and confessor; 17th of March. Irish. Teliau, or Theliau, bishop; 9th of February, 544. Tisoi (Monasticon Anglicanum), III., 202. |