This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...as a grandson's grandchild. It is also used for an illegal possessor of land.--Ed. Tr. by their particular degrees, or the protection of the ninth degree, that is, the seizor. 68. There are three privileged professions, with complete privilege, that is, to five free acres of land and professional fees to each person, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...as a grandson's grandchild. It is also used for an illegal possessor of land.--Ed. Tr. by their particular degrees, or the protection of the ninth degree, that is, the seizor. 68. There are three privileged professions, with complete privilege, that is, to five free acres of land and professional fees to each person, who is of approved knowledge and practice (in his profession), exclusive and in addition to the land due to him as a native Welshman. These professions are bardism, mechanics, and study, or book-learning.f Each, of these has a right to five free acres in consideration of his profession, he being in character and practice of the one or the other, with approbation of a learned teacher of the profession. No one is to follow two professions, or, if he does, his full privilege can only be in right of one (of them; for two professions or employments cannot be pursued at the same time with proper effect or regularity. The original word is ferylltiaeth, which does not seem to have quite the extensivei meaning here given it. It implies more properly, perhaps, the art of metallurgy, or, in a still more confined sense, the craft of a smith, in which acceptation it is frequently used by the early poets and others. On one occasion (see Cato Cymraeg) feryll, however, occurs as a term for the Georgics of Virgil, whence the word may appear to have had the sense of " agriculture," or " tillage." Feryllliaeth may be considered, therefore, to have a general reference to such trades as are concerned with metals, as well as with bodies that undergo the operation of fire, and hence it may be taken to have also the meaning of " chymistry." Dr. Davies, accordingly, renders it, in his Dictionary, chymia. See Triad, 73, post.--Ed. Tr. f In ...
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