Authority Cited: Rowland[s] [Henry]
Author name and dates: Henry Rowlands (1625-1723)
BKG Bio-tweet: Lived on isle of Anglesey (Wales); investigated prehistoric ruins; SJ discusses Rowlands' ancient Briton derivations in etym
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: three Rowlands cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. The title below was the only edition published before the 1755 Dict. No Rowlands cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 33. 12. Rowland on Vegetation (published in 1764, written in 1704) . . . &c. .]
Author name and dates: Henry Rowlands (1625-1723)
BKG Bio-tweet: Lived on isle of Anglesey (Wales); investigated prehistoric ruins; SJ discusses Rowlands' ancient Briton derivations in etym
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: three Rowlands cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. The title below was the only edition published before the 1755 Dict. No Rowlands cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 33. 12. Rowland on Vegetation (published in 1764, written in 1704) . . . &c. .]
- Mona antiqua restaurata. An archæological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the isle of Anglesey, the antient seat of the British druids. In two essays. With an appendix, containing a comparative table of primitive words, and the Derivatives of them in several of the Tongues of Europe; with Remarks upon them. Together with some letters, and three catalogues, added thereunto. I. Of the Members of Parliament from the County of Anglesey. II. Of the High-Sheriffs; And, III. Of the Beneficed Clergy thereof. By Henry Rowlands, Vicar of Llanjdan, in the Isle of Anglesey, 1723, Dublin: printed by Aaron Rhames, for Robert Owen, Bookseller in Skinner-Row; mail (p.323, etymology for mail not in 1773 Dict.); tribe (p.115); tyrant (p.42)