Excerpt from The Celtic Church of Wales Histories of the Church in the British Isle are so numerous that some good reason is required for adding to the number. That reason is furnished in the fact that nearly all the histories regard the question from the Latin, none from the Celtic, point of view. The publication of the ancient laws of Ireland and Wales, and other documents relating to the early church history of these islands, renders such a survey now possible. Welsh ecclesiastical history is full of difficulties; it may be that such difficulties are capable of explanation if looked at from the Celtic side. It is generally admitted that the ecclesiastical organization of Ireland and Scotland differed from that of England. It is possible that that of Wales inclined more to Ireland than to England, more to the Celt than to the Latin, and that such a state of things is the key to the explanation of the difficulties connected with Wales. The following pages are an attempt to regard some of the points of Welsh Church organization from the Celtic side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.