. Owen Glyndwr and the last struggle for Welsh independence, with a brief sketch of Welsh history;. outmost of his long struggle, eventually received theroyal pardon, and succeeded to the estates. Buteven his attachment to the Welsh chieftain had notin any way atoned for his brothers opposition, oraverted the inevitable fate which overtook the pro-perty of all Glyndwrs opponents. Both Cefn-y-fanand Gesail-Gyferch were burnt this year to the former the conflagration was so prodigious,says an old local legend, that the ruins smoked andthe coals glowed for two whole years
. Owen Glyndwr and the last struggle for Welsh independence, with a brief sketch of Welsh history;. outmost of his long struggle, eventually received theroyal pardon, and succeeded to the estates. Buteven his attachment to the Welsh chieftain had notin any way atoned for his brothers opposition, oraverted the inevitable fate which overtook the pro-perty of all Glyndwrs opponents. Both Cefn-y-fanand Gesail-Gyferch were burnt this year to the former the conflagration was so prodigious,says an old local legend, that the ruins smoked andthe coals glowed for two whole years was rebuilt by Robert and may beseen to-day, much as he made it, between the vil-lages of Penmorfa and Dolbenmaen. Its owner,when the war was over, married, and had a host ofchildren, from whom innumerable Welsh families areproud to trace their descent. If this gossip aboutthe sons of Meredydd and about Howel Sele mayseem too parenthetical, it serves in some sort toillustrate the severance of families and the relentlessvengeance which Glyndwr himself executed upon allwho opposed 1402] The King and Hotspur 177 In the meantime, while Glyndwr was besieging thecastles upon the Carnarvon and Merioneth coast, hisgreat opponent Henry was being sorely pressed. Thebattle of Pilleth and Mortimers captivity had raised astorm among those who had been the Kings friends,and worse things seemed in the air. Prince Thomas,his second son, who was acting as viceroy in Ireland,was reduced by want of money to sore straits, whileforty thousand Scotsmen, with numerous Frenchallies in their train, were far outnumbering anyforces the Percys unaided could bring against with all this the King was burning to crushOwen and chastise the Welsh, and it was from nowant of will or vigour that he had for so many weeksto nurse his wrath. Richard, Earl de Grey, had beenleft in charge of the South Wales Marches, while theEarl of Arundel was doing his best to keep ordernorth of the Severn.
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