THE GLEN COLLECTION OF SCOTTISH MUSIC Presented by Lady Dorothea Ruggles-Brise to the National Library of Scotland, in memory of her brother, Major Lord George Stewart Murray, Black Watch, killed in action in France in 1914. 28th January 1927. % i % I % / 1 9 ' //f . y////**'/' .m/i ■/'/•. /ft /uhj x+fre//tq, 'f/ZmA /tot tr ■- //or/ //ti///t /'/‘otv //o /ftat/ //t/o/tay. t s/t /t/ //f/r/ty (//t //ivrtrtoj, ///sr/iy a /a/ »ur/x><<>.///ay, W/uJt /////// // // (/Da rt/ /u/// ( /ti/tte// //tony a <//«/, 7' jPu&lifked (urord/ng to Act of 'Z*a/ftt/ntc/it Jleb. hr sooZ fiv IA*Jones, in Zcrcl Stew on'As /b-uit -yard, SfJhnuirS'jP*ahue BARDIC MUSEUM, OF P RIM1TIVE BRITISH LITERATURE; AND OTHER ADMIRABLE RARITIES ; FORMING THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE jftflustcal, poetical, anti Historical 3kritriis Clit WleteO jBartis anu Biutos DRAWN FROM AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS OF REMOTE ANTI$UITT; (WITH GREAT PAINS NOW RESCUED FROM OBLIVION,) AND NE TER BEFORE PUBLISHED : CONTAINING, THE BARDIC TRIADS ; HISTORIC ODES ; EULOGIES ; SONGS ; ELEGIES ; MEMORIALS OF THE TOMBS OF THE WARRIORS; OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS; REGALIAS; THE WONDERS OF WALES, ET CIETERA : WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AND HISTORIC ILLUSTRATIONS: LIKEWISE, THE ANCIENT WAR-TUNES OF THE BARDS ; Fix. The Tjubanau ; Cjibbiganau; Blobau ; Ealajibonau ; ^oppebbau; Tlypau ; CDpynebbau; Hymns Paftorals ; Jigs; and Delights: TO THESE NATIONAL MELODIES ARE ADDED NEW BASSES; WITH VARIATIONS, FOR THE EIARP, OR HARPSICHORD ; VIOLIN, or FLUTE; {DEDICATED sr PERMISSION to HIS ROTAL HIGHNESS the PRINCE of WALES,) BY EDWARD JONES, B-1R D TO THE PRINCE. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOnopooOOOOOOOOOOObooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBOLet us now praife famous men. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them, through his great power from the beginning. .Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counfel bv their underftandmg, and declaring prophecies : ^ Leaders ot the people by their counfels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wife, and eloquent in their inftru£l:ions. r r > > Such as found out Mufical Tunes, and recited Verfes in writing. / All thefe were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their times. Ecclesiasticus, Chap. xliv. ver. i, &c. “ Pojleri dies tejles funt Sapient 'ue Antiquorum: “ Inquirens, invenies non Rubum,fed Rofam.” OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OCQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQO LONDON: Printed by A. Strahan, Printer-Streety For the Author; ^ari-ToId at frfrP gj in Green Street, Near GrolWnor ■ (Price i/. 5J.) entered at ^tatfonm’ ^all. V V' « ' INTRODUCTION T O ®)c partite fieUcfcs* ^jpHE primitive Britijh Bards conftituted one of the moft refpefted order of men in the ancient Britifh dates1 : they were the Fathers of Sciences* the national indruftors, muficians, legiflators, priefts, prophets, and often princes. They aduaged favage men to knowledge, with their oratory, and poliflied human nature by their Mufic and Poetry*, Thefe Beirddy or Bards, were afterwards a branch of the Druidical inditution in Britain, and in ancient Gaul j and were called Derwyddveirddy or Druid-Bards: they alfo kept an account of the defcent of families, and compofed Songs to commemorate the a&ions of the worthy and the brave j which they fang and accompanied on the Harp, and on the Crwth 4 j confequently they were the national chroniclers ; and from their Jongs our ancient Annals have been collected j and not only ours, but all ancifent hidories of all nations were gathered from a fimilar kind of materials *. According to the tedimony of Cafar, the inland parts of Britain were inhabited by thofe whom fame reports to be natives of the foil: and the inditution of the Druids is fuppofed to have originated in Britain, whence it pafled into Gaul; and fuch as were defirous of being perfeft in it, travelled thither for inftru&ion. He further fays, that the Britons had two orders of men, that were held in high degree of honour and edeem, and with whom all authority and didin&ions were lodged; thefe were the Druids, and the nobles: and that the Druids prefided in all matters of religion, decided controverfies, and had the direction and edu- cation of the youth, who were taught to repeat a great number of verfes by heart, and often fpent twenty years upon that inditution The Druids were divided into three different clafles, who applied to different branches of learning, and performed feparate parts in the offices of religion. Thefe- ‘ The ifonaV are juftly eftcemed the moft ancient order of people in and thefe were before the •Dm'*//, although in time the latter got the upper hand of the others in great efteem.” Samme's Britannia, pages 99 and 100. See alfo the Bardic Triads, in the following work. a “ Per beec loca bominibus paullatim exuhis, viguerefiudia laudabilium dodlr inarum, inchoaia per Bardos, et Eubages, et Druid as.” i. e. In thefe places, among th« rude unpolifhed people grew up the knowledge of Arts and Sciences, begun and fet up by Bards, Euvates, and Druids. Arnmianus Marcellinus, lib. xv. c. 9. Strabo, lib. iv. p. 197. 3 Cafar's Commentaries, book vi. c. 13. Pomponius Mela, lib. iii. c. 2. Athena us, iib. vi. c. 12. Tacitus, lib. xii. C. 34, 7. Dr. Brown’s Differtation on Poetry and Mulic, p. 157. and Leges tVallica, Lib. i. C. 10. li. “ And you, old Bards, who made it all your care, “ To fing of war, and men renown’din war; “ When peace returning rais’d your joyful tongue, “ Secure continu’d your immortal fong.” Lucan. 4 Diodorus Siculus, by Booth, book v. c. 2. p. 189.—Book ii. c. 3. p. 77, &c. Venantius Fortunatus, lib. vii. carm. 8^ Leges Wallica, or King Howel’s Laws, lib. i. t. 19; 45. and the Preface. Ammianus Marcellinus, lib. xv. c.9. * Origin of Law, &:.by Prefident de Goguet, vol. i. book 2, p. 28, &c. 5 “ The Druids (or Priefthood) never go to war, they are exempted from taxes and military fcrvice, and enjoy all manner of “ immunities. Thefe mighty encouragements induce multitudes of their own accord to follow that profefiion ; and many are fent " by their parents and relations. They are taught to repeat a great number of verfes by heart, and often fpend twenty years upon “ this iv INTRODUCTION. Thefe three clafles were, the Bards, as before mentioned, who were the national Preceptors, Poets, and Muficians. The Ofyddion, (Offwyr, or Ovates,) compofed and performed facred and prophetic hymns, and were alfo natural philofophers, aftronomers, and magicians. The Druids were the priefts, moral philofophers, and phyfiologifts; which laft name, (Druids,) was frequently given to the whole order, and fometimes appropriated only to a particular clafss. From the great affinity in their civil and ecclefiaftical rites and cuffoms, the Druids, and the other branches of the facerdotal order, appear to have been originally a tribe of the firft Patriarchs7, and def- cended from Corner, the fon of Japheth ; and that hierarchal cuftom was continued by the Druids, Bards, and Ofyddion, in this ifland, until about the fevtnth century ; and much later than that, in the ifland of Bardfey, in the Ifle of Man, and in the Albudes, or Hebrides*. The Patriarchal was the moft ancient form of government amongft mankind and the foundation of the Monarchical, of the Eremitical, (or Britifh Saints,) and of the Monachal inftitution in Britain, and among other Celtic nations. ff Mufic and poetry were doubtlefs invented by the fages before the flood. Mofes particularly tells us, that JubalwiiS the firft inventor of mufic* ; and with refpedl to poetry, he has given us a fhort fpecimen of it, in the fpeech of Lamech to his two wivesf. Indeed man could not behold the beauties of nature with- out admiration j and the fight of the wondrous objedts of creation muft infpire him to return thanks to the great Author of his being, in the moft beautiful and pleafing words his mind could fuggeft. His raptures would have been but ill exprefled, had he ufed the common language; fomething more fweet and har- “ this inftitution : for it is deemed unlawful to commit their ftatutes to writing ; though in other matters, whether public, or private, “ they make ufe of Greek chara&ers. They feem to me to follow this method for two reafons: to hide their myfteries from the “ knowledge of the vulgar; and to exercife the memory of their fcholars. They teach likewife many things relating to the liars “ and their motions; the magnitude of the world and our earth, the nature of things, and the power and prerogatives of the im- “ mortal God.*' Cafar's Commentaries, Book vi. c. 13. 6 Strabo, lib. iv. Ammianus Marcellinus,lib. xv. c. 9. Pliny, lib. xvi. c. 44. lib. xxx. c. 1. Lucan’s Pharfalia, book 1. 449. Rowland’s Mona Antiqua, and Borlafe’s Hiftory of Cornwall. Befide the Druids, the Britons had DruUeJfes, who affifted in the offices of religion, and (hared in the honours and emoluments of the prielthood. The Druidefles of Gaul and Britain are faid to have been divided into three ranks, or claftes. Thofe of the full clafs vowed perpetual virginity, and lived together in fxfterhoods, very much fequeftered from the world. Thefe venerable veftals were great pretenders to divination, prophecy, and miracles; were highly admired by the people, who confulted them on all important occafions as infallible oracles. The fecond clafs confifted of certain female devotees, who were indeed married, but fpent the far greater part of their time in the company of the Druids, and in the offices of religion ; and converfed only occalionally with their hulbands, who perhaps thought themfelves very happy in having fuch pious wives.