The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, Vol. 31: Or Monthly Political and Literary Censor; From September to December (Inclusive), 1808 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, Vol. 31: Or Monthly Political and Literary Censor; From September to December (Inclusive), 1808

Every attempt to persuade the King to accede to his election proving vain, Giraldus returned to Paris, where he acquired prodigious fame by his eloquent declama tions in the schools, and bavin remained about three years, he came back to England. On his way through Canterbury, he dined with the prior and monks of Christ Church in that city by invitation; and in describing his entertainment, be inveighed with much 'ust their luxurious manner of living: their tables, he (fiwes, abounded with nu merous and savoury dishes, and with such a variety of the choicest wines, that ale and beer were not allowed to be introduced. Proceeding to St. David's, he found that diocese in great confusion, through some disputes between the Bishop, Peter de Leia, and the Welsh and on the advice of the Archbishop, he was appointed administrator of that Church, and anaged its concerns for a considerable time with much pru encc and success. He was afterwards invited to court, and deputed as a pacificator to Wales, in which 5 tion his conduct so highly pleased the King, that he declared that If Giraldus had not been born in Wales, and so nearly allied to its Princes and Chieftains, he would have loaded him with ecclesiastical benefices, and preferred him to the highest ho nonrs. In 1185, Henry appointed him preceptor to his son John, whom in the same year he accompanied to Ireland as secretary, and who successivel offered him the Bishoprics of Fernes and Leighlin, and the Archbishopric of Cashel, all which he refused, from a latent hope of obtaining the Sec of St. David. Whilst in Ireland he was extreme] assiduous in collecting materials for his two works De raphia Hibernia and Deewpugnationa Hibernian sevemorggpim of which still exist in manuscript in our different libraries.

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