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William Salesbury was a near neighbour, and evidently interested himself in the young curate, whom he seems to have straightway infected with his own enthusiasm for Welsh studies, and to have mapped out for him a piece of original work, which only a man with his life before him could aspire to accomplish. It can hardly be a mere coincidence that, as early as February 1574, at the very threshold of his career, young Wiliems should have finished a transcript of the only Welsh Dictionary* then in existence, with additions and "corrections by William Salesbury." From this time forward traces of his pen and industry can be followed through a large number of the older MSS., and in word lists, excerpts, and transcripts. For thirty-four years he laboured steadfastly, undaunted by poverty and the crusty conduct of certain owners of manuscripts, at his Latin-Welsh and WelshLatin Dictionaries, which have the distinction of being based on materials and illustrations drawn direct from originals, thus anticipating modern methods by three centuries. He forsook the church and took up the practice of medicine some time before 1592, but he does not appear to have mended his fortune by the change. In health too he seems, about the year 1603, to be growing more and more conscious of increasing infirmities. Fearing probably that he might die before his work was done, he * See Havod MS. 26, Part I., which is a copy of Cardiff MS. 82, which in turn is a copy of Peniarth MS, 230, which is the first Welsh Dictionary proper, though there were plenty of Vocabularies much earlier. 98616. Wt. 7509. a 2 Sir T. Wiliems of Trevriu, |