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Itineray of Baldwin in Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis
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together with the whole body of the faithful, and for the glory of
his name and the palm of faith which he hath planted, teach their
hands to war, and their fingers to fight.



Footnotes:


{1} It is a somewhat curious coincidence that the island of Barry
is now owned by a descendant of Gerald de Windor's elder brother -
the Earl of Plymouth.

{2} "Mirror of the Church," ii. 33.

{3} "Social England," vol. i. p. 342.

{4} Published in the first instance in the "Transactions of the
Cymmrodaian Society," and subsequently amplified and brought out in
book form.

{5} Introduction to Borrow's "Wild Wales" in the Everyman Series.

{6} Geoffrey, who ended his life as Bishop of St. Asaph, was
supposed to have found the material for his "History of the British
Kings" in a Welsh book, containing a history of the Britons, which
Waltor Colenius, Archdeacon of Oxford, picked up during a journey in
Brittany.

{7} Walter Map, another Archdeacon of Oxford, was born in
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