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NOTES TO GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN.

, in a note to his "Metrical Romancëes," mentions, that our early historians, as Roger Hoveden, Matthew Paris, &c., often advert to the custom of the ancient monarchs of France and England, of holding a cour plénière, or plenary court, at the three principal eastsfeasts [sic] of Easter, Whitsuntide, and Christmas. On those occasions "they were attended by the earls and barons of the kingdom, their ladys and children; who dine'd at the royal table with great pomp and eclat; minstrels flocking thither from all parts; justs and tournaments being performed, and various other kinds of divertisements, which lasted several days."—III. 235.

These three principal festivals, or prif wyl, "Pasc, Nadolic, a Sul-gwyn," are commemorated as such in one of the Triads, lvii.

—Page 141. another part of this work, the word Offeren is rendered offering; but here it has been thought advisable to use the more general term