Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . CHAPTER VI. FROM THE DEATH OF OWEN GLYNDWR TO THE ACCESSIONOF THE HOUSE OF TUDOR. There is no epoch of history in which there is less chronicledrespecting Flint, or in fact Wales generally, than during theperiod that ensued between the date of Owen Glyndwrs rebellionand the time of Henry Tudor. The Welsh took little or no interest in the Wars of the Roses :mindful, perhaps, of the late brave but untoward struggles ofOwen Glyndwr, they rather rejoiced that the English were nowat war am
Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . CHAPTER VI. FROM THE DEATH OF OWEN GLYNDWR TO THE ACCESSIONOF THE HOUSE OF TUDOR. There is no epoch of history in which there is less chronicledrespecting Flint, or in fact Wales generally, than during theperiod that ensued between the date of Owen Glyndwrs rebellionand the time of Henry Tudor. The Welsh took little or no interest in the Wars of the Roses :mindful, perhaps, of the late brave but untoward struggles ofOwen Glyndwr, they rather rejoiced that the English were nowat war amongst themselves. Three-quarters of a century passedinto the gulf of time, and Wales had her reward,—she conqueredher conquerors. From the loins of Owen Tudor, of a royal tribe,came a line of sovereigns who, for a hundred years and more,wielded the British sceptre. Within that period, however, greatdeeds were done. At the battle of Agincourt Wales was wellrepresented : to Sir David Gam and his Welsh companions Henryof Monmouth, now Henry V., owed his life on that bloody field. The heraldic devices of th
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