Author: John Roland Phillips

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9780267829354

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales, Vol. 1 of 2: And the Marches, 1642-1649 Some years ago, while engaged in an investiga tion into the history of my native parish, I was anxious to learn whether the Castle, which forms its principal attraction, had been garrisoned during the Civil War. I found that there was no book which could give me the information I wanted, but I discovered that vast materials existed in the bound less waste of the King's Pamphlets at the British Museum, in the State Papers at the Record Office, and in private collections; and that so far as Wales was concerned it was an untrodden field. After some hesitation I resolved to attempt to contribute something towards a history of the Principality during that period. The leisure. Hours of some years have been devoted to the subject, ' and the result is now offered to the public, in the belief that it will fill a gap in the History of Wales and the Marches, and that it will not be without some in terest to my countrymen. Of the labour which this Work has involved I will not speak. Sufficient it is to say, that every pamphlet and every newspaper of the period, - many thousands in number, -all the memoirs and collections bearing on that period, andviii. Preface. 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.