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A17946	The historie of Cambria, now called Wales: a part of the most famous yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language aboue two hundreth yeares past: translated into English by H. Lhoyd Gentleman: corrected, augmented, and continued out of records and best approoued authors, by Dauid Powel Doctor in diuinitie	Caradoc, of Llancarvan, d. 1147?; Powell, David, 1552?-1598.; Llwyd, Humphrey, 1527-1568.; Price, John, Sir, 1502?-1555.	1584 (1584)	STC 4606; ESTC S121940	250,742	447

for me in September last requesting me to peruse and correct it in such sort as it might be committed to the presse But I knowing my selfe to be far vnable to performe and accomplish those things which are requisite to the publishing of such an historie and being otherwise called and imploied was verie loath anie thing to medle therein and so excused my selfe yet he conceiuing a better opinion of me than there was cause would needs haue me to doo mine indeuour in that behalfe VVhose request I was not of dutie to gainesaie or withstand and therevpon I promised to doo my best which trauell two things haue caused me to be the more willing to take it in hand First because I see the politike and martiall actes of all other inhabitants of this Iland in the time of their gouernment to be set out to the vttermost and that by diuers and sundrie writers and the whole doings and gouernment of the Brytaines the first inhabitants of the land who continued their rule longer than anie other nation to be nothing spoken of nor regarded of anie especialie sithence the reigne of Cadwalader hauing so manie monuments of antiquitie to declare and testifie the same if anie would take the paines to open and discouer them to the vew of the world The second thing that mooued me therevnto is the slanderous report of such writers as in their bookes do inforce euerie thing that is done by the Welshmen to their discredit leauing out all the causes and circumstances of the same which doo most commonlie not onelie eleuate or dissemble all the iniuries and wrongs offered and done to the Welshmen but also conceale or deface all the actes worthie of commendation atchieued by them Search the common Chronicles touching the Welshmen and commonlie thou shalt find that the King sendeth some noble man or other with an armie to Wales to withstand the rebellious attempts the proud stomachs the presumptuous pride stirre trouble and rebellion of the fierce vnquiet craking fickle and vnconstant Welshmen and no open fact laid downe to charge them withall why warre should be leuied against them nor yet they swaruing abrod out of their owne countrie to trouble other men Now this historie dooth shew the cause and circumstances of most of those warres whereby the qualitie of the action may be iudged And certeinlie no man is an indifferent witnesse against him whom he counteth his enimie or aduersarie for euill will neuer speaketh well The Welshmen were by the Saxons and Normans counted enimies before the twelfth yeare of Edward the first while they had a gouernour among themselues and afterward when king Edward had brought the countrie to his subiection he placed English officers to keepe them vnder to whome most commonlie he gaue the forfaits and possessions of such Welshmen as disobeied his lawes and refused to be ruled by the said officers the like did the other Kings that came after him The said officers were thought oftentimes to be ouer-seuere and rigorous for their owne profit commoditie which things caused the people often to disobeie manie times like desperate men to seeke reuengement hauing those for their iudges which were made by their ouerthrow and also wanting indifferencie in their causes and matters of griefes for the Kings alwaies countenanced and beleeued their owne officers by them preferred and put in trust before their accusers whom they liked not of Wherevpon the inhabitants of England fauoring their countriemen and freends reported not the best of the Welshmen This hatred and disliking was so increased by the stirre and rebellion of Owen Glyndoure that it brought foorth such greeuous lawes as few Christian kings euer gaue or published the like to their subiects These things being so anie man may easilie perceiue the verie occasion of those parentheseis and briefe notes of rebellion and troubles obiected to the Welshmen without opening of cause or declaration of circumstances The Normans hauing conquered England and gotten all the lands of the Saxon nobilitie would faine haue had the lands of the Welshmen also wherevpon diuers of them entred VVales with an armie so that the VVelshmen were driuen for their owne defense to put themselues in armour for the which fact they are by some writers accused of rebellion wheras by the law of Nature it is lawfull for all men to withstand force by force They were in their owne countrie the land was theirs by inheritance and lawfull possession might they not therefore defend themselues from violence and wrong if they could What right or lawfull title had the Earle of Chester to Ryuonioc Tegengl or the Earle of Salope to Dyuet Caerdigan Powys or Rob. Fitzhamon to Glamorgan or Barnard Newmarch to Brechnoke or Ralph Mortimer to Eluel or Hugh Lacy to the land of Ewyas or anie other of them to anie countrie in VVales By what reason was it more lawfull for those men to dispossesse them of these countries with violence and wrong than for them to defend and keepe their owne Shall a man be charged with disobedience because he seeketh to keepe his purse from him that would robbe him I meane not by this to charge those Noble men which wan these countries by the sword but I speake it to note the parcial dealing of the writers setters foorth of those histories that should haue reported things indifferentlie as they were done and laid downe the causes and circumstances of euerie action truelie who being altogither parciall fauoring the one side hating the other do pronounce of the fact according to their priuate affections condemning oftentimes the innocent and iustifieng the wrong doers These considerations I saie besides my bounden duty caused me to venture to take this thing in hand The translation of H. Lhoyd I haue conferred with the Brytish booke whereof I had two ancient copies and corrected the same when there was cause so to doo And after that the most part of the booke was printed I receiued another larger copie of the same translation being better corrected at the hands of Robert Glouer Somerset Herald a learned and studious Gentleman in his profession the which if I had had at the beginning manie things had come foorth in better plight than they now be Againe I got all the authors that I could come by which haue anie thing written of the affaires of VVales as Gildas Asser Meneuensis Galfride William of Newborow Matthew Paris Matthew Westminster Thomas Walsingham Ponticus Virunnius Polydor Virgil Io. Leyland Io. Bale I. Prise Matthew Parker Io. Caius VVilliam Lambert and all the English Chronicles printed In written hand I had Gildas Sapiens alias Nennius Henrie Huntington VVilliam Malmsbury Marianus Scotus Ralph Cogshall Io. Euersden Nicholas Triuet Florentius Vigorniensis Simon of Durham Roger Houedon and other which remaine in the custodie of I. Stowe citizen of London who deserueth cōmendation for getting togither the ancient writers of the histories of this land I had also the

the people with much gladnes but anon after like fickle and vnconstant men they banished him the land againe and tooke to their king one Hircius the sonne of Haroald whome likewise after three yeares they expelled and willinglie submitted themselues to Edred who after he had ruled the whole land eight yeares died and was buried at Winchester After him reigned Edwyn sonne of Edmund in whose time chanced nothing woorthie to be put in writing but that he married another mans wife hir husband being aliue This man after he had gouerned the realme foure yeares died leauing his kingdome to his brother Edgar who was crowned king of England in his stead In the yeare 958. was a woonderfull hot summer when Gwgan the sonne of Gwyriad the sonne of Roderike died After the which heate there followed a great plague in March following In those daies Iago and Ievaf by force and strength ruled all Wales as they thought good and yet for all their power Abloic king of Ireland landed in Môn and hauing burnt Holyhed spoiled the countrie of Lhyyn In the yeare 961. the sonnes of Edwyn the son of Colhoyn were slaine after they had destroied all the countrie to Towyn About this time Meyric the sonne of Cadvan Rytherch Bishop of S. Dauids and Cadwalhon ap Owen departed out of this transitorie world Not long after the countrie of Northwales was sore spoiled by the armie of Edgar king of England The cause of this warre was the non paiment of the tribute that the King of Aberffraw by the lawes of Howel Dha was to paie to the king of London In the end there was a peace concluded for king Edgar vnderstanding what hurt the countries of England and Wales receiued dailie by reason of the great multitude of Woolues that then abounded especiallie in Wales which destroied much shéepe and otherwise did great harme released the tribute in monie appointed by the said lawes of Howel Dha and bound the prince of Northwales to paie him yearelie certaine Woolues for his tribute and so to be released of that other tribute in monie which the said prince performed vntill he had left neuer a Woolfe in Wales or England In the yeare 966. Roderike the sonne of Edwal Voel was slaine by the Irishmen by whome Aberfraw was destroied The next yeare there fell a great debate betwixt the two sonnes of Edwal Iago and Ievaf which had ruled iointlie together from the death of Howel Dha to that time and shortlie after Iago hauing taken his brother Ievaf by force verie cruellie kept him in prison a long time about the which time Eneon the sonne of Owen prince of Southwales wan and seazed to himselfe the land of Gwyr And in the yeare 969. Mactus the sonne of Haroald with an armie of Danes did enter the Ile of Anglesey and spoiled Penmon These Danes were suffered by Edgar to inhabite quietlie through all England till they were as strong as the Englishmen and then they fell to such riotousnes and drinking that much mischiefe insued thereof wherevpon Edgar made a law that euerie man should drinke by measure and caused a certaine marke to be set in euerie pot how deepe they should drinke and so by these meanes he somewhat staied that immoderate ingurgitation Not long after that Godfryd the sonne of Haroald did subdue to himselfe the whole Ile of Anglesey which he inioied not long King Edgar likewise in the yeare 972. did send a great nauie to Caerlheon vpon Vsc which shortlie turned backe without dooing anie notable act The next yeare following Howel the sonne of Ievaf raised a great power against his vncle Iago for the deliuerance of his father out of prison and ouercame his vncle in fight whome he chased out of the land and tooke his eldest vncle Meyric the sonne of Edwal and put out both his eies and kept him in prison where he died shortlie after leauing behind him two sonnes Edwal and Ionaval of the which Edwal came afterward the most woorthie princes of Wales Howel notwithstanding he had set his father at libertie yet tooke vppon himselfe the whole rule of the land for his life time He had three brethren all men of great estimation Meyric Ievaf and Cadwalhon whose liues shall insue heereafter Howel ap Ievaf Howel the sonne of Ievaf They ouerranne also and spoiled the whole countrie of Deuon and Cornewale burned the towne of Bodman and the cathedrall church of S. Petrokes with the Bishops house Wherevpon the Bishops sea was remooued from thence to S. Germans where the same continued vntill the remoouing and vniting thereof vnto Crediton About this time died S. Dunstane who prophesied of much mischiefe and great destruction of the land by the Danes The yeare 981. Godfryd the sonne of Haroald did gather a great armie and landed in Westwales where spoiling all the land of Dyuet with the church of S. Dauids he fought the battell of Lhanwanoc Likewise in the yeare next ensuing Duke Alfred with a great power of Englishmen spoiled and destroied Brechnock and a great part of the lands of Owen prince of Southwales against whome Eneon the sonne of the said Owen and Howel king of Northwales did raise all their power and ouerthrew them in battell where the greatest part of Alfreds armie was slaine and the rest put to flight The yeare following the Gentlemen of Gwentsland rebelled against their prince and cruellie slue Eneon the son of Owen which came thither to appease them This Eneon was a woorthie and noble Gentleman who did manie notable actes in his fathers time and left behind him two sonnes Edwyn and Theodor or Tewdor Mawr of whome came afterward the kings or princes of Southwales In the yeare 984. Howel the sonne of Ievaf king of Wales entred England with an armie where he was fought withall and slaine valiantlie fighting This Howel had no sonne but his brethren reigned in his place Cadwalhon ap Ievaf Cadwalhon the sonne of Ievaf AFTER the death of Howel his brother Cadwalhon the second sonne of Ievaf tooke in hand the gouernance of Northwales and first made war with Ionaval his coosen the sonne of Meyric and right heire to the land and slue him but Edwal the yongest brother escaped awaie priuilie The yeare following Meredyth the sonne of Owen king or prince of Southwales with all his power entred into Northwales and in fight slue Cadwalhon the sonne of Ievaf and Meyric his brother and conquered the land to himselfe Wherein a man may see how God punished the wrong which Iago and Ievaf the sonnes of Edwal Voel did to their eldest brother Meyric who was first disherited and afterward his eies put out and one of his sonnes slaine For first Ievaf was imprisoned by Iago then Iago with his sonne Constantine by Howel the sonne of Ievaf and afterward the said Howel with his bretherne Cadwalhon and Meyric were slaine and spoiled of all their lands Meredyth ap