The lives of the British Saints

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THE LIVES
OF
THE BRITISH SAINTS
They are all gone into the World of Light !
And I alone sit lingering here !
Their very memory is fair and bright
And my sad thoughts doth clear.
It glows and
glitters in my cloudy breast,
Like stars upon some gloomy grove,
Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest
After the sun's remove.
I see them
walking in an air of glory
Whose light doth
trample on my days ;
My days, which are at best but dull and hoary,
Mere
glimmering and decays.
HENRY VAUGHAN : Silex Scintillans,
1655.
THE LIVES
OF
THE BRITISH SAINTS
THE SAINTS OF WALES AND CORNWALL AND
SUCH IRISH SAINTS AS HAVE DEDICATIONS
IN BRITAIN
By
S. BARING-GOULD, M.A.,
AND
JOHN FISHER, B.D.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
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LONDON :
Published for the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
By CHARLES J. CLARK, 65, CHANCERY LANE, W.C.
1907
H>efcicatefc to tbc fl&emors of jfour [pioneers
in Celtic 1bacjiolocj.
To
The Rev. RICE REES, B.D., FELLOW OF
JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND PRO-
FESSOR OF WELSH AT S. DAVID'S COLLEGE, LAMPETER.
NICOLAS ROSCARROCKop ROSCARROCK IN S. ENDELION'S, CORNWALL, GENT.
ALBERT LE GRAND, PRIEST OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS, PROVOST OF
THE DOMINICAN CONVENT AT RENNES.
JOHN COLGAN, O.F.M., OF THE CONVENT OF S. ANTONY, LOUVAIN.
Q. A. P. D.
Aeterna fac, cum Sanctis Tuis, in
gloria munerari.
Publishers' Note
THIS work, which is new, and entirely distinct from
The Lives of the Saints, by Mr. Baring-Gould, issued
in 1872-77, is published on the initiative, and under
the auspices of THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF
CYMMRODORION. The funds of the Society, not
being available for the purpose of producing a work
of this magnitude, the COUNCIL took the course of
instituting a Special Subscription Fund, to meet the
necessary heavy expense of printing and publication.
In response to their appeal a sufficient number of
subscribers were obtained to warrant a commence-
ment of the undertaking, and it is hoped that
further support will be forthcoming in order to
ensure the publication of the remaining volumes at
intervals of not more than six months. On behalf
of the Society, E. VINCENT EVANS, Secretary.
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