* This poem is attributed to Walter Mapes in the old list of his works. It has been preserved by having been inserted in Ralph Higden's Polychronica. The MSS. of the Polychronica are so numerous, that it would take much time to make a general collation. I have thought it sufficient to form a text by the collation of the printed edition of Gale with two fine MSS. on vellum, of the fourteenth century, in the Royal Library at the Brit. Mus., and with a paper MS. preserved in the Library of the Abbey Church of Bath, The collations of the latter were very kindly communicated to me by the Rev. Joseph Hunter. This poem is little more than an epitome of Giraldus Cambrensis: in some parts the author has shown his ingenuity in breaking into rhyme the historian's own sen tences. The first part, on the name and divisions of Wales, and the cha racter of the people and country, is takenfrom the Cambvise Descriptio; the rest from the Itinerary. An old En glish version of this poem is given in our Appendix.