Catalog Record: British remains: or, A collection of antiquities relating to the Britons: comprehending, I. A concise history of the lords marchers ... II. The arms of the ancient nobility and gentry of North-Wales. III. A letter of Dr. Lloyd, bishop of St. Asaph's concerning Jeffrey of Monmouth's History. IV. An account of the discovery of America, by the Welsh, more than 300 years before the voyage of Columbus. V. A celebrated poem of Taliesin, translated into Sapphic verse. The whole selected from original mss. and other authentic records. To which are also added, Memoirs of Edward Llwyd, antiquary, transcribed from a manuscript in the museum, Oxford | Hathi Trust Digital Library

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