Awen ystwythach na'm Hawen i, yr hon ysgatfydd sydd mor wargaled o ddiffyg na buaswn yn ei dofi yn ieuangach. Cennad i'm crogi onid wyf yn meddwl fod yr Awen, fal llawer mireinferch arall, po dycnaf a diwyttaf y cerir, murseneiddiaf a choocaf fyth ei cair. Nis gwn i, pe'm blingid, pa un waethaf ai gormod gofal, ai gormod diofalwch.
We have here in this parish of Wroxeter some very curious pieces of antiquity lately found. They are three Roman monuments, set up, as appears by the inscriptions (which are very plain and legible-the stones, too, being entire), about the time of Vespasian; one being for Caius Manlius,-a Prætorian legate of the twentieth legion; and another for Marcus Petronius, an ensign or standard-bearer of the nine- teenth legion. Wroxeter was once one of the finest cities in Britain, though now but a poor village, as appears by the ruins that are now to be seen, and are daily more and more discovered, and by the vast number of Roman coins that are yearly and daily found in it. It was called by the Romans Uriconium" and "Viriconium," perhaps from Gorygawn or Gurogion, and probably destroyed by the Saxons; for we have here a tradition, that it was set on fire by a flight of sparrows that had matches tied to their tails for that purpose by the enemy.
