From the PREFACE Daring the spare moments of the last seven years the writer has been engaged in producing the following work on the Old Stone Crosses of the Vale of Clwyd and neighbouring parishes, together with some account of the ancient manners and customs, and Legendary Lore connected with the District. Most of the crosses are now for the first time described and delineated, and additional matter has been collected about such crosses as had previously been described. The folk-lore has been collected from various sources, but chiefly from the aged inhabitants, many of whom are now no more, and in most cases, if not in every case, the writer has given his authority, or mentioned the name of his informant. This part of the work is capable of much enlargement. Wales teems with folk-lore of great variety and interest, and in the grave of the aged, as they one after the other leave us, is buried forever some tale of by-gone days, which we could wish had been retained. The writer hopes that he has rescued a few of these tales from oblivion.