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VIII. Some Account of two Musical Instruments used in Wales. By the Hon. Daines Barrington

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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The first mention which I have happened to meet with of the old Welsh instrument sent herewith is in Leland's Collectanea (where, amongst some Latin words for which he gives the Saxon appellations) Liticen is rendered cruth. This agrees almost in so many letters with the Welsh instrument called a crwth, by which name it is still known in some parts of North Wales.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1775

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page 30 note [a] Vol. IV. p. 135.

page 30 note [b] Carpentier (in his lately published Supplement to Du Cange) says, that this word is applied to players on the louder wind-instrument. See the article Lituicines. This however by no means agrees with the Crwth, which is stringed. -

page 30 note [c] See the Life of Anthony Wood, written by himself, and published by Hearne, in the second volume of Caii Vindiciae, p. 501,

page 31 note [d] The Welsh word for the player on this instrument is also crythor. See Davies's Dictionary in articulo.

page 31 note * See P. VII.

page 32 note [e] See the establishment of the household in the first year of Queen Mary, p. 24. B. in a MS. which I had the honour of presenting to the Society. Lord Bacon also frequently mentions the regal in his experiments on sound, as he does the cornet, which he represents as an instrument of flexion.

page 33 note [f] See an order, de arrestando Elizabetham Percy, in the 5th year of Henry IV, A. D. 1403. Rymer, Vol. IV. Part I. p. 57. Hague edit.

page 33 note [g] Particularly Warwickshire, Shakespeare's native country.

page 33 note * See Pl. VII.

page 34 note [h] Literally the Pipe-horn.