Excerpt from A Glossary of Mediaeval Welsh Law: Based Upon the Black Book of ChirkThe new task, though immeasurably more interesting, has also turned out to be much more difficult than I had foreseen, and in moments of despair, when besieged by crowding difficulties or exasperated because the lawyers gave more thought to folk-etymology than to law, I often wished I had chosen some other task for my apprentice hand; for the more di'iculties I thought I had solved the more remained to worry me. The need, however, was so great, that even at the risk of blundering oft and badly it was worth the trouble to arrange the words of this earliest vernacular law-text in alphabetical order and bring together as many pertinent quotations as possible from other texts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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