Dr Lloyd ^Powel, a great Antiquarian says, that the Harp was not known in Wales, till the time of Griffith ap Conan, ‘who being born in Ireland brought with him divers cunning Musitians [sic] out of that country, who deviced [sic] in a manner, all the Instruments of musick now in use; as further appeareth by the Books written of the same; as well as the names of the Tunes and measures used to this day’. Hist. Camb. p. i9i. Vide¹

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Editorial notes

1. This material closely reflects text from a 1774 edition of David Powel, The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales. See The history of Wales. Written originally in British, by Caradoc of Lhancarvan, Englished by Dr. Powell, and augmented by W. Wynne, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxon. (London: T. Evans, 1774), p. 159. Pennant used it in A tour in Wales 1770 [1773], I, p. 433.