Page:Speeches and addresses by the late Thomas E Ellis M P.pdf/161

 I shall briefly refer to similar work already done which may serve as models for us. There is first of all the great Rolls series of the Government. Four or five books relating to Wales have been published as part of the series, but there is no reason why we as Welshmen should not secure a series on the same lines, as well-edited and proportionately as ample as the Rolls series, to form a basis for a real and scholarly insight into the past of Wales, whether that past has reference to the political, religious, social, material or agrarian development of Welsh life. Another model which occurs to me is that interesting series of books, documents and extracts published by the Clarendon Press under the general title of Anecdota Oxoniensia. We are proud that our countryman, Mr. Morris Jones, has contributed one scholarly work to that splendid series, but my hope is that books such as his will form part of a collection which would do for Wales what that valuable collection has done for research more especially relating to Oxford and life in Oxford. There is another, and perhaps a more modest