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A18769	The vvorthines of VVales vvherein are more then a thousand seuerall things rehearsed: some set out in prose to the pleasure of the reader, and with such varietie of verse for the beautifying of the book, as no doubt shal delight thousands to vnderstand. Which worke is enterlarded with many wonders and right strange matter to consider of: all the which labour and deuice is drawne forth and set out by Thomas Churchyard, to the glorie of God, and honour of his Prince and countrey.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1587 (1587)	STC 5261; ESTC S105094	65,030	110

attempt of man Can win the Fort if house be furnisht throw The troth whereof let world be witnesse now It is great payne from foote of Rocke to clyme To Castle wall and it is greater toyle On Rocke to goe yea any step sometyme Uprightly yet without a faule or foyle And as this Seate and Castle strongly stands Past winning sure with engin sword or hands So lookes it ore the Countrey farre or neere And shines like Torch and Lanterne of the Sheere Wherefore Denbigh thou bearst away the praise Denbigh hath got the garland of our daies Denbigh reapes fame and lawde a thousand waies Denbigh my pen vnto the Clowdes shall raise The Castle there could I in order drawe It should surmount now all that ere I sawe ¶ Of Valey Crucis Thlangothlan and the Castle Dynosebrane THE great desire to see Denbigh at full Did drawe my muse from other matter true But as that sight my mynd away did pull From former things I should present to you So duetie bids a writer to be playne And things left out to call to mynd agayne Thlangothlan then must yet come once in place For diuers notes that giues this booke some grace An Abbey nere that Mountayne towne there is Whose walles yet stand and steeple too likewise But who that rides to see the troth of this Shall thinke he mounts on hilles vnto the Skyes For when one hill behind your backe you see Another comes two tymes as hye as hee And in one place the Mountaynes stands so there In roundnesse such as it a Cockpit were Their height is great and full of narrowe waies And stéepe downe right of force ye must descend Some houses are buylt there but of late daies Full vnderneath the monstrous Mountaynes end Amid them all and those as man may gesse When rayne doth fall doth stand in sore distresse For mightie streames runnes ore both house and thatch When for their liues poore men on Hilles must watch Beyond the same and yet on Hill full hye A Castle stands an old and ruynous thing That haughtie house was buylt in weathers eye A pretie pyle and pleasure for a King A Fort a Strength a strong and stately Hold It was at first though now it is full old On Rocke alone full farre from other Mount It stands which shewes it was of great account Betwéene the Towne and Abbey built it was The Towne is néere the goodly Riuer Dée That vnderneath a Bridge of stone doth passe And still on Rocke the water runnes you see A wondrous way a thing full rare and straunge That Rocke cannot the course of water chaunge For in the streame huge stones and Rocks remayne That backward might the flood of force constrayne From thence to Chirke are Mountaynes all a rowe As though in ranke and battaile Mountaynes stood And ouer them the bitter winde doth blowe And whirles betwixt the valley and the wood Chirke is a place that parts another Sheere And as by Trench and Mount doth well appeere It kept those bounds from forrayne force and power That men might sléepe in suretie euery hower Here Denbighshiere departs from writers pen And Flintshiere now comes brauely marching in With Castles fine with proper Townes and men Whereof in verse my matter must begin Not for to fayne and please the tender eares But to be playne as worlds eye witnesse beares Not by heresay as fables are set out But by good proofe of vewe to voyd a dout WHen Sommer swéete hath blowne ore Winters blast And waies waxe hard that now are soft and foule When calmie Skyes sayth bitter stormes are past And Clowdes waxe cléere that now doth lowre and skoule My muse I hope shall be reuiu'de againe That now lyes dead or rockt a sleepe with paine For labour long hath wearied so the wit That studious head a while in rest must sit But when the Spring comes on with newe delite You shall from me heare what my muse doth write Here endeth my first booke of the worthines of Wales which being wel taken wil encourage me to set forth another in which work not only the rest of the Shieres that now are not written of shalbe orderly put in print but likewise all y e auncient Armes of Gentlemen there in general shalbe plainly described set out to the open vewe of the world if God permit me life and health towards the finishing of so great a labour FINIS Thomas Churchyard EN·DIEV·ET·MON·ROY· Churchiards Armes William Malmesburie de regibus anglorum Dauid Powell a late writer yet excellently learned made a sharp inuectiue against William Paruus and Pollidor Virgill all their complices accusing them of lying tongues enuyous detraction malicious slaunders reproachfull and venomous language wilfull ignorāce dogged enuie and canckered mindes for that thei spake vnreuerently of Arthur and many other thrise noble Princes Jeffrey of Monmouth Matthewe of Westminster and others are here in like sort to be read looked on The Authors troublesome life briefely set downe A short note of the nature of many Coūtries with the disposition of the people there A commendation of the loyaltie of Welshmen A rehearsall of great strife and dissention that ruinated Wales How Lawe and loue links men together like brethren The accustomed courtesie of Wales No such theft and robberie in Wales as in other Countries Victuals good cheape in most part of Wales A great rebuke to those that speakes not truely of Wales Good disposition neuer wants good maners Good true Authors that affirmes more goodnesse in Wales than I write of Two Riuers by Mōmouth the one called Monnow and the other Wye King Henry the fifth Neere the Towne Sir Charles Harbert of Troy dwelt in a faire Seate called Troy At Wynestow now dwels Sir Thomas Harbert a little from the same Troy Maister Roger Ieames dwelt at Troy nere this Towne The Earle of Worcesters house and Castle The Earle of Penbroke that was created Earle by King Edward the 4. buylt the Castell of Raggland sumptuously at the first Earle of Worcester Lord hereof A faire bridge Maister Lewis of Saint Peere dwelles neere that Sir Charles Sommerset at the Grange doth dwell now Sir William Morgan that is dead dwelt at Pennycoyd Harbert of Colbroke buryed there Chepstow In the Castle there is an ancient tower called Longis tower wherby rests a tale to be considered of Of this Earle is a great and worthie tale to be heard A peece of a petigree Earle Strongbowe was maried to the King of Lynsters Daughter in Ireland and this Strongbowe wan by force of armes the Earledoms of Wolster Tyroll The Authors verses in the honor of noble mynds Good men are made of and bad men rebuked Sir William Harbert of ●●●nt Gillyans Polidorus Virgilius spake all of his owne nations praise and sawe but little of Brittaine nor loued the same Venerable bede a noble writer Gildas a passing Poet of Brittaine

in the hall windowe All that followes are Armes of Princes and Noblemen The great water called Teā comes 17. mile frō a place called the Whitehall neere vnto Begyldie in the County of Radnor The Forrest of Brenwood is west from the towne The Chace of Mocktrie and O●kley Parkes stāds not farre from thence A deuice of the Lord Presidents He gaue great possessions large liberties and did incorporate them with many goodly freedomes That Towne hath bin well gouerned a lōg while with two Bayliefes twelue Aldermen and fiue and thirtie Commoners a Recorder a Townclarke assistant to the sayd Bayliefes by iudiciall course of lawe weekely in as large and ample maner for their triall betweene partie and partie as any Cittie or Borrowe of England hath The poore haue sweete lodgings each one a part to himselfe An Hospitall called S. Iones A Guyld that King Edward by Letters Pattents gaue to the Bayliefs and Burgesses of the towne The Aldermē are Iustices of the Peace for the time being A deuice of the Author called Reasons threatning The Author borne in Shrewseburie Shrewseburie the marshes of Wales Reasons threatning is done The priuie blowes that Reason giues For feare of shame slouthfull men are well occupied Newe buildings makes old deuice blush Labour reapes reward Many well borne and rich in Shrewseburie Diuers Almes houses in Shrewseburie and hath bin there mainteyned in old time Shrewseburie and Wales are like in courtesie Fayre wordes and reuerence is a common thing there Good nature and good maners shewes good mynds Stout behauiour is rather abhorred then embraced Many of wales wealthie men in Shrewseburie A deepe deuice the foundation of Shrewseburie The Castle built in such a braue plot that it could haue espyed a byrd flying in euery streate A matter to be marked A Knight lyes crosselegged in S. Maries his name is Leyborne Of the same of Churches Of the Riuer of Seuarne A notable Riuer called Seuarn running vnder two faire bridges of stone There is a bridge called Welshbridge which shewes Shrewseburie to be of Wales The Castle though old and ruynate stands most braue and gallantly Maister Prince his house stāds so trim and finely that it graceth all the Soyle it is in Here is the way to Meluerley to Wattels Borrow where Ma. Leighton dwelles to Cawx Castle Lord Staffords and to Maister Williams house Aldermen in Scarlet orderly in Shrewseburie and two Bayliefes as richly set out many Mayor of some great Cities Great costly banquetting in Christmas and at all Sessions Sizes A matter of trafficke to be noted and cōsidered of London compared to the flowing Sea The great must maintaine the smal Ludloe is set out after Ozestrie and Bishops Castle doth front in Wales Of a notable market a meruclous matter Poore folkes makes fewe words in bargayning The blessednesse of plaine people A rare report yet truely giuen of Wales You must reade further before you finde Ludloe described The Authors forgetfulnesse clensed A pleasant and artificiall peece of groūd Maister Aston was a good and godly Preacher A Friery house stood by this ground called the Welsh Fryers In Shrewseburie were three Fryer houses A briefe discourse of auncient tyme. The occasion of buylding strong Holds Wales hath a wonderfull number of Castles A description of Denbighshiere A conceyted toy to set a broach an earnest matter Being Muster-maister of Kent more chargeable then well cōsidered of there Chirke Castle a goodly and princely house yet Keeryock a wondrous violent water Maister Iohn Edwards hath a fayre house nere this Newe Bridge on the Riuer Dee A straūge nature of a water There is a poole in Meryonethshiere of three myle long rageth so by storme that it makes this Riuer flowe Ruabon Church is a fayre peece of worke This Gentleman was called Iohn Bellis Eytton Offaes Dyke Wats Dyke Robert Howell lyes there a Gentleman In Maylor are all these Gentlemen Maister Roger Pilsons house at It●hlay Maister Almmer at Pantyokin Maister Iohn Pilson of Bersan Maister Edward Iones of Cadoogan Maister Iames Eaton of Eatton Maister Edward Eaton by Ruabon Maister Owen Brueton of Borras Maister Iohn Pilson of Haberdewerne Maister Thomas Powell of Horsley Maister Iohn Treuar of Treuohn Agene all praise of all Gentlemen inhabiting of any Countrey Holt Castle an excellent fine place the Riuer of Dee running by it Maister Hues dwelles there Maister Euan Flud dwelles in Yale in a fayre house Castle Dynosebraen on a wooddie hill on the one side Greene Castle on the other A Bridge of stone very faire there stands ouer Dee Maister Lakon Ma. Thlude of Yale The names of the Riuers of Denbighshire Keeriock parts Shropshere Dēbighshere before Chirk Dee at newe Bridge and Thlangothlen Aleyn in the valley of Yale Clanweddock in the fayre vale of Dufrin Cloyd Cloyd receiues Clanweddock and Elwye by Saint Asse Istrade by Denbigh Raihad comes to the Vo●●ney Keynthleth comes into Rayhad The Castle of Wrythen is yet outwardly a marueilous faire and large princely place There is a Poole here abouts that hath in it a kynd of fish that no other water can shewe A Riuer called Aleyn in the valley of Yale The valley of Yale The Earle of Kent lyes here An Anckres in King Henrie the fourths tyme buryed here The pleasant vale of Diffrin Cloyd The Vale throughly described Three Riuers in this Vale. A naturall secret touched Thomas Salesburie of Lleweni Robert Salesburie of Bachenbid Foulk Lloyd of Houllan Piers Holland of Kynmel Piers Owen of Abergele Edward Theleall of Beren William Wyn of Llamuaire Elis Price of Spitty Iohn Middleton The strongest Castle seate that euer man beheld Marke wel the situation and buylding of the same A practise by the Author proued A great glorie giuen to Denbigh The Abbey of Valey Crucis Castle Dynosebraen A goodly bridge of stone here The Towne and the bridge with the vyolent Riuer before that Towne A little spoke of Fluntshiere The Author fell sicke here The writer takes here breath till a better season serues