The Chester Cambrian Societies 17601906 Author:Thomas Edwards Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ni adiiwn un dydd Dewi—heibio Heb ofal o'i berchi ; A'i Genhinen gavvn honni, Tra rhed dw'r trwy y Roodee." Y Genhinen wnaeth gynhenu—llygrawl Gynt rhwng Llo... more »egr a Chymru ; Ond eilwaith y ddau deulu Sy law-law'n Iwys liwlon lu. Y ddwy ochr a heddychwyd,—hynt dedwydd, Hil Tudur goronwyd ; A'r Cynhen a ddybenwyd, Am 'wn i, chwaith, mwy ni chwyd. Bridge Street. H. Erfyl. The interest created by the esteemed bard's observations, was such as to cause a movement to be made in the direction of those suggestions, and we find that Erfyl was in Liverpool on the 2oth of March, consulting the rules and methods of the Cym- reigyddion Societyt in that town ; and on the eleventh day of April, a meeting was called " at gt fflnimi $rms, for % purpose of forming a (Kgmmraborion Sacirfn in ibis Citjj, at tnlwb sebtn respeciabk gomtg trabesmen nttcnbcb. ®b/ rnlts fat re nab, anb gc nuessarrr preparations lubiebeb. qDbc meeting broke np at half past ten." Such was the spontaneous character and sacred undivided affinity inherent in Cambrians that five days only had elapsed before Erfyl's peaceful evening was interrupted at 9 p.m. by a summons " to atttnb a nutting of gt Cgmmroborion at £Tc |ltb £ton," where he was desired to take the "chair." The rules of the society about to be formed, were read; several resolutions passed; and necessary officers were elected. The meeting broke up at eleven o'clock. This latter meeting was the first formal meeting of the society, and its date, The Race Course, around part of which the river Dee flows. f The writer on making enquiries with two eminent and literary members of the Welsh National Society in 1904, was informed that they never heard oi such a Society, and failed to obtain any clue after consulting other members. There is, howev...« less