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liv PEEFACE. Welsh Chronicle. Girakliis Cam- brensis, De Instructione Principuni. The Annals of Inisfallen. Maclden's edition. He places the composition of the work in the year 1204. 26. Welsh Chronicle. — These few extracts are taken from a Welsh chronicle in the " Red Book of " Hergest," which appears to have been composed in the reign of King John of England. They are col- lated with another copy in the Hengwrt collection. The events are the same as those mentioned in the chronicle annexed to the Harleian MS. of Nennius. 27. GiEALDUs Cambrensis, De Instructione Principum. — This tract is printed from the Cot- tonian MS. (Julius b. xiii.) containing Giraldus' work, " De Instructione Principum," which was completed about the year 1214, as the oldest ver- sion of the legendary destruction of the Picts by the treachery of the Scots. A few passages from this chapter were printed by Mr. Brewer in his edition of that work, but the whole chapter is now printed for the first time. 28. The Annals of Inisfallen. — Two versions of the "Annals of Inisfallen" were printed by Dr. O'Connor in his " Rerum Hibernicarum Scrip- " tores veteres ;" one from a MS. in the Bodleian, and the other from a Dublin MS. The Bodleian MS. alone, however, contains the real " Annals of Inis- " fallen," Avhich were compiled in the year 1215. The Annals contained in the Dublin MS. have no good claim to that title, and are a much later com- position. The extracts here printed have been care- fully collated with the MS. in the Bodleian (Rawlin-