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 SHERRATT & HUGHES MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS HISTORICAL SERIES. No. IX. HANES GRUFFYDD AP CYNAN. The Welsh text with translation, introduction, and notes by Aethtje Jones, M.A., Jones Fellow in History. Demy 8vo, pp. viii. 204. 6s. net. (Publication No. 50, 1910.) " No Welsh historian of the future can anord to neglect this scholarly attempt to give the work of Griffith ap Cynan a true historical setting. The introduction is an ideally well-balanced estimate of a singularly quaint and beautiful piece of history." — Glasgow Herald. " The Editor has prefaced his text with a comprehensive and nearly always convincing introduction of more than 100 pages, besides copious notes. Nearly every page of both contains matter of Irish history, sometimes really new, since taken from the document never deeply studied before, and always valuable from the new light thrown by the collation of independent, ' international ' testimonies. ... It will at once be seen that we have here a document of the first interest to ourselves ; the University and the Editor have put us in their debt for a valuable contribution to our history." — Freeman's Journal. "Mr. Jones prints the Welsh text in a scholarly recension, and accompanies it page by page with a faithful version into English, explains its obscurities and personal and local aiHusions in notes always concise and to the point, and brings it in with an interesting introduction, which treats fully of the transmission of the text, of its value as an historical document, and of its relation to other remaining original authorities for the history of the Norman Conquest. "^ — Scotsman. " Mr. Jones's enterprise is the result of the happy union in the University of Celtic and of historical studies. . . The textual editing, the annotations, and the translation have all been admirably done, and the work is a credit aliks to the author, the University, and to the Press." — Manchester Guardian. " Hearty thanks are due for a most useful and satisfactory edition." — Archcedogia Comhrensis. No. X. THE CIVIL WAR IN LANCASHIRE. By Ernest Bboxap, M.A. Demy 8vo, pp. xv. 226. 7s. 6d. net. (Publication No. &1, 1910.) "By a judicious use of it he has produced an eminently readable and informing work. . . . The University of Manchester, which, but for the pressure of the political situation, would have been founded in 1642, is to be congratulated upon its choice of an historian of the war in Lancashire." — Atherweum "Mr. Broxap's monograph must be welcomed as the most important of those hitherto given to history to illuminate the county aspect of the Civil War The whole book is very carefuuy _ revised and accurate in its details, full and satisfactory, and the order in which the story is told is excellent The index is also sufficient, and the whole study is amply annotated. Altogether, both the author and the Manchester University Press are to be thoroughly congratulated upon the volume." — Morning Post. , Soho Square, London, W. 15