thing of him I suppose.

I am glad your spitting of blood is over; take care, your life is
precious, whether you have a fat living or no. Dont despair; some men of
sense may take notice of you; though, even among the ancient Britons,
canonization went seldom out of great families, as appears by _Bonedd y
Saint_, which I have at last completed, as far as my materials reached.
I now plainly see that the Llanerch MS. of Bonedd is but a fragment; for
there is not a syllable of the Brychan family in it; and but very little
of the Caw family. I have reduced the whole into genealogical order; and
they take but a very narrow compass. I shall have some difficulty in
fixing the times of these saints; for there is some confusion among them,
occasioned by the blunders of transcribers.

They have been all hunting after the Llanerch MS. of _Bonedd_, even Dr.
Thomas Williams, and the Anglesea Man, as well as Thomas Wynne, and
Thomas ab Llewelyn, &c., and have stumbled in the reading of it, as now
plainly appears to me; and what, if I tell you, that you and I also have
slipped in one place: I am sure we have.

I am tired now, and have no more to say, but I cough a little less than I
did a week ago; and am likely to live till winter at least, unless some
unforeseen accident happens. It will be a hard battle if I hold out all
the winter. You are now in your bloom of body and spirit; do not lose a
moment; you will be sorry if you do. God be with you, and keep you.

I am yours sincerely,
LEWIS MORRIS.

_Penbryn_, _July_ 4, 1760.

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The same to the same.

DEAR SIR,

It is a long while since I heard from you, and really I don't know when;
for my long and dangerous illness has eradicated all former transactions
out of my memory, so that I have but a very faint idea of my former
letters sent or received. From the beginning of November to this time, I
have been struggling with death at his door; and in the very height of my
fever, an accident by fire had likely to have destroyed me and mine.
Such shocks are terrible, and enough to deface all correspondence. I am
now beginning to be able to sit down to write a little, and but very
little; for I am severely troubled with an asthma, which I suppose will
finish me one day or other. _Chwilio_, _chwilio a ffaelio cael eich
ll