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Iohn Leland syllab. ant dict. Hum. Also by the witnes of Humfrey Llhoyd, there is an Iland néere vnto Wales, called Insula Bardorum, and Bardsey, whereof the one name in Latine, and the other in Saxon or old English, signifieth the Iland of the Bardes or Barthes. Thus farré the gouernement of the Celts in this Ile. Bodinus writeth vpon report, that the British and Celtike language was all one.
This day, about nine o'clock in the morning, the wind grew high, and we being among the sands lay at anchor; I began to be dizzy and squeamish. Before dinner my Lord sent for me down to eat some oysters, the best my Lord said that ever he ate in his life, though I have ate as good at Bardsey.
Yet, in coming to him, we feel that the worst is over, that we are one remove further from the Restoration, that we are past the Nadir of national taste and morality. William Congreve was born in 1670, at Bardsey, in the neighborhood of Leeds.
Twelve hundred of the student-monks of Bangor, for example, were slaughtered in 613 by the Saxon Ethelfrith; whereafter the rest fled to Bardsey Island in Cardigan Bay, and the great college at Bangor ceased to be. Augustine of Canterbury, sent by the Pope to convert the English, had summoned the Welsh bishops to a conference, and ordered them to come under his sway and conform to Rome.
After passing Aberdovey and Barmouth, in Cardigan Bay, we sighted Saint Tudwell's Island; and then rounding Bardsey Island, on which stands a square white tower, ninety-nine feet in height, with one bright fixed light shining far out over Saint George's Channel, we ran north past Porthdinlleyn, steering for Caernarvon, at the southern entrance of the Menai Straits.
The weather had hitherto been very fine, and we hoped to have a pleasant run. We were gliding smoothly on, and had got very nearly half across Cardigan Bay, when the weather gave signs of changing. "We shall have a dirty night of it, sir, if I don't mistake," observed Truck to papa; "if the wind comes from the westward, it will be all we can do to weather Bardsey Island."
Dubric probably became a bishop about 470, resigned his see in 512, and died in Bardsey Island, A.D. 522. It was this Dubric who is said to have crowned Arthur at Cirencester, A.D. 506.
Yet, in coming to him, we feel that the worst is over, that we are one remove further from the Restoration, that we are past the Nadir of national taste and morality. WILLIAM CONGREVE was born in 1670, at Bardsey, in the neighbourhood of Leeds.
'I wonder it did not occur to you that Ruby would go there. John Crumb scratched his head, as though acknowledging the shortcoming of his own intellect. 'Of course if she was to go to London it was the proper thing for her to do. 'I knew she'd do the thing as was right. I said that all along. Darned if I didn't. You ask Mixet, squoire, him as is baker down Bardsey Lane.
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