Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . ^. CHAPTER V. FLINT AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD DURING THEREBELLION OF OWEN GLYNDWR. The following extracts from the Welsh Records and RecognizanceRolls of the Palatinate of Chester form the only facts of interestthat can be gathered, relating to events occurring in Flint andthe neighbourhood during the reign of Henry IV. Soon after Bolingbrokes usurpation there commenced a seriesof troubles, of which very little conception can in our day beformed,—troubles which laid the foundation of the
Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . ^. CHAPTER V. FLINT AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD DURING THEREBELLION OF OWEN GLYNDWR. The following extracts from the Welsh Records and RecognizanceRolls of the Palatinate of Chester form the only facts of interestthat can be gathered, relating to events occurring in Flint andthe neighbourhood during the reign of Henry IV. Soon after Bolingbrokes usurpation there commenced a seriesof troubles, of which very little conception can in our day beformed,—troubles which laid the foundation of the civil contestsbetween the Houses of York and Lancaster, that for severalgenerations involved the country in all the horrors of civil war. There had been almost unbroken peace between the Englishand the Welsh for about 120 years. Nevertheless the latter hadborne the annexation of the Principality to the Crown of Englandwith reluctance. English laws and customs were forced uponthem, and English officers appointed to carry them into all the castles in the Marches of Wales had towns closeby th
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