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A33602	The history of Wales comprehending the lives and succession of the princes of Wales, from Cadwalader the last king, to Lhewelyn the last prince of British blood with a short account of the affairs of Wales under the kings of England / written originally in British, by Caradoc of Lhancarvan ; and formerly published in English by Dr. Powel ; now newly augmented and improved by W. Wynne ...; Historie of Cambria	Caradoc, of Llancarvan, d. 1147?; Powell, David, 1552?-1598.; Wynne, W. (William), 1649 or 50-1711?	1697 (1697)	Wing C488; ESTC R12980	312,583	490

Increase how they fairly bid for ●he Conquest of that Country which had been go●erned by British Kings for the space of 1827. Years This troubled him exceedingly and tho he had lit●le hopes of prevailing by the Strength and Num●er of his Forces yet he made the best preparation that the Opportunity would permit and dispatched his Fleet for the transportation of his Army which consisted partly of his own Subjects and partly of such Succours as he received from Alan Whilst he vigorously prosecuted this Design and was ready to strike sail for Britain his Voyage was prevented by a Message from Heaven which counselled him to lay aside the thoughts of recovering his Kingdom because it was already decreed above that the Britains should no longer enjoy the Government of Britain till the Prophesie of Merlyn Ambrose was fulfilled And instead of a Voyage to Britain he is ordered to take his Journey to Rome where he should receive Holy Orders at the hands of Pope Sergius and instead of recovering the British Crown have his own Crown shaved off and be initiated into the Order of the Monks Whether this Vision was signified to him in a Dream or by the impositious Illusion of some wicked Spirit or whether it may be a phantastical Conceit of his own being a Man of a mild and easie temper wearied with Troubles and Miseries is very dubious Only this is certain tha● he never returned again to Britain after he had gone over to Alan But Cadwaladar had no sooner received this Vision but immediately he relates the whole to his Friend Alan who presently consults all his prophetical Books chiefly the famous Works of the two Merlins Ambrose and Silvester The first is said to be begotten on a Spirit and born in the Town of Carmarthen whence he received the Name of Merli● and to flourish in the Reign of King Vortigern The latter called Caledonius from the Forest Caledon in Scotland and Silvester or Merlyn Wylbt by reason he fell mad and lived desolately after that he had seen a monstrous shape in the Air prophesied in the time of King Arthur and far more full and intelligible than the former Both these were in great Reverence and Reputation among the Britains and their Works very religiously preserved and upon any considerable occasion most venerably consulted They were of opinion that nothing could escape their Knowledg and that no Accident of moment or revolution could happen which they did not foretel and was to be ●●covered in their Writings In the consultation ●●erefore of their Prophesies and the Words which 〈◊〉 Eagle is said to have spoken at the building of ●●er Septon now Shaftsbury namely that the Bri●●ns must lose the Government of Britain till the ●●nes of King Cadwalader were brought back from ●●me Alan found out that the time was now come ●hen these Prophesies were to be accomplished and ●●e Britains forced to quit their native Inheritance to ●●●angers and Invaders Upon this he advised Cad●lader to obey the Commands and follow the Coun●●● of the Vision and to hasten his Journey for Rome ●●is he was willing to submit to being desirous to ●●end the remainder of his Days in Peace and Quiet●●ss which before he had no opportunity to enjoy ●o Rome therefore he hastens where he was kindly ●●ceived by Pope Sergius and after eight Years spent ●ere in Piety and Devotion he died in the Year ●●8 and with him the Kingdom and total Govern●ent of the Britains over this Island King Cadwalader is said to have been a considera●●e Benefactor to the Abby of Clynnoc Vawr in Arvon ●●on which he bestowed the Lordship of Grayanoc ●his place was primarily founded by S. Beuno to ●hom it is dedicated who was the Son of Hywgi ap ●wynlliw ap Glywis ap Tegid ap Cadell a Prince or ●ord of Glewilig Brothers Son to S. Cadoc ap Gwyn●●●w sometime Bishop of Beneventum in Italy He 〈◊〉 by the Mothers side Cosin German to Laudatus ●●e first Abbot of Enlli or the Island of Bardsey ●●d to Kentigern Bishop of Glascow in Scotland and 〈◊〉 Lhanolwey or S. Asaph in Wales which last was ●on to Owen Regent of Scotland and Grandson to ●rien King of Cumbria The building of a Mona●●ry at Glynnoc happened upon this occasion Baeuno ●aving raised to life as the Tradition goes S. Weni●●yd who was beheaded by one Caradoc a Lord in North Wales upon the account that she would not ●ield to his unchast Desires became in very great ●steem with King Cadvan who bestowed upon him ●ertain Lands whereon to build a Monastery Cadwallon also Cadrans Son gave him the Lands o● Gwareddoc where beginning to build a Church 〈◊〉 certain Woman with a Child in her Arms prevente● his further progress assuring him that those Land● were the proper inheritance of that Child Be●●● was so exceedingly troubled at this and withou● any more consideration on the matter taking th● Woman along with him he went in all haste to Ca● Sevant called by the Romans Segontium now C●●narvon where King Cadwallon then kept his Court when he was come before the King he told him wit● a great deal of Zeal and Concern that he had n●● done well to devote to God's Service what was a●other Man's Inheritance and therefore demand●● back of him the Golden Scepter he had given him 〈◊〉 lieu and consideration of the said Land which th● King refusing to do was presently excommunicated b● Beuno who thereupon departed and went away B● a certain person called Gwyddeiant the King 's Cosin-German hearing what had happened immediatel● pursued after Beuno whom when he had overtake● he bestowed upon him for the good of his own So● and the Kings the Township of Clynncovawr being his undoubted Inheritance where Beuno built a Church about the Year 616. about which time King Cadvan dyed leaving his Son Cadwallon to succeed him And not long before this time Eneon Ehre●● or Anianus King of the Scots a considerable Prince in the North of Britain leaving all his Royalty i● those Parts came to Lhyn in Gwyneth where he built a Church which is still called from him Lha● Eingan Bhrenin where he is said to have spent the remainder of his Days in the Fear and Service of God He was Son to Owen Danwyn the Son of Eneon Yrth Son to Cunedha Wledig King of Cambria and a great Prince in the North and Cosin-German to the great Maelgwn Gwyneth King of Britain whose Father was Caswallon law-hîr the Brother of Owen Danwyn and his Mother Medif the Daughter of Voylda ap Tal● Traws of Nanconw●y This Maclywn died about the Year 586. Ivor and Edwal Ywrch WHen Cadwalader was departed for Rome Alan began to reflect upon the state and condition Great Britain he imagin'd with himself that the ●ecovery of it was not impracticable but that a con●●●erable Army might regain what the Saxons now ●●ietly possessed Therefore he was resolved to try ●●e utmost and to send over all the Forces

in Northumberland and was with much rejoycing received by the Inhabitants But before he could secure himself in the Government he was shamefully banished the Country and so the Northumbrians elected one Hircius the Son of Harold for their King But to shew the Inconstancy of an unsettled Multitude they soon grew weary of Hircius and after Three Years space expelled him and voluntarily submitted themselves to Edred who after he had reigned eight Years dyed and was buried at Winchester To him succeeded Edwin the Son of Edmund a Man so immoderately given to Venety that he forcibly married another Man's Wife for which and other Irregularities his Subjects after four Years reign set up his Brother Edgar who was crowned in his stead with A.D. 958 grief of which he soon ended his days The Summer that same Year proved so immoderately hot that it caused a very dismal Plague in the following Spring which swept away a great number of People before which Gwgan the Son of Gwyriad the Son of Roderie dyed At this time Ievaf and Iago forcibly managed the Government of all Wales and acted according to their own good Pleasures no one daring to confront or resist them But for all their Power the Sons of Abloio King of Ireland ventured to land in Anglesey and having burnt Holyhead wasted the Country of Lhyn Also the Son of Edwyn the Son of Colhoyn destroyed and ravaged all the Country to A.D. 961 Towyn where they were intercepted and slain About the same time dyed Meyric the Son of Cadfan Rytherch Bishop of S. Davids and Cadwalhon ap Owen Not long after the Country of North-Wales was cruelly A.D. 965 wasted by the Army of Edgar King of England the occasion of which Invasion was the non-payment of the Tribute that the King of Aberffraw by the Laws of Howel Dha was obliged to pay to the King of London But at length a Peace was concluded upon these Conditions that the Prince of North-Wales instead of Money should pay to the King of England the Tribute of 300 Wolves yearly which Creature was then very pernicious and destructive to England and Wales This Tribure being duly performed for two Years the third Year there were none to be found in any part of the Island so that afterwards the Prince of North-Wales became exempt from paying any Acknowledgment to the King of England A.D. 966 The Terror apprehended from the English being by these means vanished there threatned another Cloud from Ireland for the Irish being animated by their late Expedition landed again in Anglesey and having slain Roderic the Son of Edwal Foel they destroyed Aboffraw And this danger being over Ievaf and A.D. 967 ●ago who had jointly and agreeably till now managed the Government of Wales from the death of Howel ●ha began to quarrel and disagree among themselves and Iago having forcibly laid hands upon his Brother 〈◊〉 confined him to perpetual Imprisonment These Heats and Animosities between the two Brothers A.D. 968 gave occasion and opportunity to Owen Prince of South-Wales to carve for himself who presently ●eized to his hands the Country of Gwyr And to A.D. 969 ●ugment the Miseries of the Welch at this time Mactus the Son of Harold with an Army of Danes ●ntered the Isle of Anglescy and spoiled Penmon King Edgar was so indulgent to these Danes that he permitted them to inhabit through all England inso●uch that at length they became to be as numerous ●nd as strong as the English themselves and fell into ●uch lewd courses of Debauchery and such horrid Drinking that very great Mischief ensued thereupon The King to reform this immoderate Sottishness enacted a Law that very one should drink by measure and so stamped a Mark upon every Vessel how ●●at it should be filled But Harold having taken Pennon A.D. 970 made subject to himself the whole Isle of Anglesey which however he did not keep long being forced to quit the same and to return home as did the Fleet of King Alfred which he had sent to sub●ue Ca●rlheon upon Vsc And now being rid of the A.D. 971 English and Danes the Welch begin to raise Commotions among themselves Ievaf continued still in Prison A.D. 972 to rescue whom his Son Howel raised his Power and marched against his Uncle Iago who being vanquished in sight was forced to quit the Country to ●ave himself Howel having won the day took his eldest Uncle Meyric the Son of Edwal Prisoner and pulled out both his Eyes clapt him in Prison where in a woful condition he shortly dyed leaving behind him two Sons Edwal and Ionafal the first of which lived to be afterwards Prince of Wales and to revenge upon the Posterity of Howel that unnatural Barbarity shewed to his Father But though Howel delivered his Father from his long and tedious Imprisonment yet he did not think fit to restore him to his Principality for whether by Age or Infirmity he was incapable Howel took upon him the sole Government of Wales which he kept and maintained for his life-time but afterwards it descended to his Brethren For Ievaf had Issue besides this Howel Meyric I●vaf and Cadwalhan all three Men of great Repu●● and Esteem About this time dyed Morgan Hên in his younger days called Morgan Mawr being an Hundred Year● old having lived Fifty Years after the death of h●● Wife Elen Daughter of Roderic the Great by who● he had one Son called Owen Morgan was a valiant an● a victorious Prince and well beloved of his Subjects 〈◊〉 but sometime before his death Owen the Son o● Prince Howel Dha laid claim to Ystradwy and E●y called the two Sleeves of Gwent Vwchcoed being th● Right of Morgan and seized upon them to his ow● use But the matter through the mediation of the Clergy and Nobility being by both Parties referred to the decision of Edgar King of England it was by him adjudged that the said Lands did of right belong to Morgan and to the Diocess of Lhandaff and that Owen ap Howel Dha had wrongfully possessed himself of them The Charter of the said Award wa● made before the Archbishops Bishops Earls and Barons of England and Wales at may be seen at Lhandaff in an old Manuscript called y Cwtta Cyfarwydd 〈◊〉 Forgannwg And there is somewhat to the same purpose in the old Book of Lhandaff only the mistake in both is that they make Howel Dha the Intruder into the said Lands who had been dead at least Twenty Years before King Edgar began his Reign Howel ap Ievaf HOwel after that he had expelled his Uncle Iago and forced him to quit his own Dominions ●●ok upon himself the Government of Wales in ●●ght of his Father who tho alive yet by reason of ●●s Years was willing to decline it About the same 〈◊〉 Dwnwalhon Prince of Stradclwyd took his Jour●●y for Rome and Edwalhon Son of Owen Prince ●f South-Wales died But the English received a ●●eater Blow by the Death of King Edgar who was Prince of