Galfredi Monumetensis historia Britonum : Nunc primum in Anglia, novem codd. msstis collatis, edidit J.A. Giles

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NUNO PRIMUM IN ANGLIA,

NOVEM CODD. ΜSSTIS COLLATIS,

DIDIT

ANGLIcANAE ECCLESIAE PRESBYTER,

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EVERENDISSIΜΟ Patri et Domino

Henrico Ecclesiae Sancti Asaphi Episcopo, Salutem et debitam ad omnia obodientiam i Sancti Asaphi sancta hodio sancta Paternitas tua solicissimo gubernat, is sibi suffragia nostra jure vindicat, quia in Britannia nulla fere antiquior ad nostra tempora pervenit: ita ut contra illos, qui a Sancto Augustino

originem suam trahentes ecclesiam tuam subvertere volunt, ipsa de se veraciter praedicare possit: Antoquam Sanctus Augustinus fieret, ego sum I V Sod non me defensoro Sanctus Asaphus indigot: nam si nulli hominum curae esset HuS cauSam Protegere, Deus certe occlosiam suam in illis partibus mutilam et mancam fieri nullo modo sineret. At nunc hondo his agitur, sed de Episcopo jam soptingentis

annis defuncto, quom inter rectores suos ecclesia Diuiti reo by Cooste

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Sancti Asaphi numerabat. Liber ejus, quem de Historia Britonum composuit, odii pro fabuloso habendus sit, a civibus suis avido logebatur, nec ullus alius per tot annos tantam famam aut sibi aut scriptori suo arrogavit. Hunc nunc primum inter nos in lucem editum suscipiat, quaeso, in tutelam suam Paternitas tua, atque, si ipsius Galfredi vorbis uti licet, opusculo meo ita saveat, ut non ex Galfrodi ΜOnumetonsis sonticulo censeatur exortum, sed salo Μino vae tum conditum. Bene valeat Paternitas tua. Dat. Lond. Kal. Aug. Anno Dominicae incarnationis 1844, Indictione II. Diuiti oti by Cooste

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EOFFREY, furnamod of Μonmouth, is celebratod in English Literaturo asino author, or at least the translator, of Historia Britonum, a Wota Dom ich nearly Hl our great Vornacular poets havo drawn the materials sor some of their nobtest moris of fiction and characters of romance. He liuod

in tho carly part of the twelfth centu , and in the year 1152, was mised to tho Bishoprio of St. Asaph. Τho first of his writings, in polat of timo, Was a Latintranslation of tho Prophecies of Moesin, Which he under-took at the roquest os Aloxander Bishop of Lincoln. His nexi Work was that On Whita his fame principallyrosis, tho Histortia Britonum, dedicated to Robert, Dinoos Glaucoster, Whodiod in 1147. Into this second workho insertod the Latin translation above-mentioned, Whichnow appoma af the sevonth book of Historia Britonum. Α third composition has also boon ascribed to Goostro, Otiuod Vim Merlini, in Latin hexameter verse: butine internat evidenco whicli it affords, plataly proves that it is the work of a disseront author.