The presentation in this volume of the text of the 'Cronica Walliae' marks the first the first appearance is published form of the history of Wales written by the humanist Humphrey Llwyd in 1559.

Preface.

The basic biography of Humphrey Llwyd was compiled by Anthony Wood in his Athenae Oxoniensis of 1691-2.

Introduction.

[1] After that Cadwaladr, the last kinge of the Britons, descendinge frome the noble race of Troians, by extreme plagues of deathe and famyne dryven to forsacke this him realme and others, hade remayned awheile with his cosin Alan, kinge of litle Bryttayn, which is called in the Brytish tonge Lhydaw, was certifeid howe a greate number of strangers as Saxons, Angles and Juthes had arryved in Britane and finding hit desolate, and without inhabitantes savinge a few Saxons whiche had called them in, and certaine poore Britons that lyved by rootes in rockes and woodes, had over runne a greate part thereof and devidinge hit to dyverse territories and kingedomes inhabited that whiche was then and is nowe at this daye in the Britishe or Welshe tonge called Lloyger, and in the Englishe tonge Englande, with all the cities townes castelles and villages which the Britons had builded ruled and inhabited by the space of 1817 yeres under divers kinges and princes of greate renoune, thought to returne and by streingth of Britishe knightes to recover his owne lande againe.

Cronica Walliae.