Author: Wales Cardiff

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-13

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 9780260991591

Excerpt from Cardiff Records, 1905, Vol. 5: Being Materials for a History of the County Borough From the Earliest Times The miscellaneous character of the Cardiff Records, and the lack Of arrangement in the manner of their presentation, are, it must be confessed, still more evident in this fifth volume than in its predecessors. The mixed nature of the materials, ranging, as these do, from mediaeval charters to Igtli-century tombstone inscriptions, and from Diocesan Act Books to the reminiscences of living persons, is not likely to incur the disapproval of the antiquary. It is otherwise with the admitted want of chronological sequence in the ordering of the various classes of records. This defect is one of which any student may reasonably complain. He is asked, however, to hold both the Records Committee and their Archivist excused for this shortcoming, on the ground that the scope of their research, at first restricted within narrow limits, was enlarged to its present range by several successive resolutions of the Borough Council, at considerable intervals of time. The reader who is more concerned with the monuments of antiquity than with the affairs of yesterday, may begrudge the space allotted in the present volume to recent Minutes of Council, and will perhaps think that as the Minutes were already printed and issued to the general public, it was superfluous to reprint extracts from them in this series. In anticipation of such an objection, I would remark that a person who should refer to the official Minutes of Council for concise information on a particular matter of permanent local interest which happened a few years back, would find his search an arduous one. What I have done in this respect has been to select, from that huge mass of dry reports, statistics and ephemera, just what seemed worth preserving and would increase in interest with the passing years, and to condense the same selections into readable, and useful proportions. Some of these excerpts may appear insignificant, but each will be found, on consideration, to involve some point of local history having its distinct value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.