. Americana. of King Henry theEighth, and continued the hiftory to the death of Prince Llew-elyn ap Gruffyth in the year 1282. But, this gentleman havingbeen prevented by death from publifhing his work, it was notfent to the prefs till the year 1584, when Dr. Powell publifhedit, with many additions and interpolations of his own. The lat-ter fays in his preface that he had conferred Lluyds transla-tion with the Britifh book, whereof he had two ancient copies,and corrected the fame when there was caufe so to do, andadds, that, after the moft part of the book was printed, he re-ceived another lar
. Americana. of King Henry theEighth, and continued the hiftory to the death of Prince Llew-elyn ap Gruffyth in the year 1282. But, this gentleman havingbeen prevented by death from publifhing his work, it was notfent to the prefs till the year 1584, when Dr. Powell publifhedit, with many additions and interpolations of his own. The lat-ter fays in his preface that he had conferred Lluyds transla-tion with the Britifh book, whereof he had two ancient copies,and corrected the fame when there was caufe so to do, andadds, that, after the moft part of the book was printed, he re-ceived another larger copy of the fame tranflation. being bettercorrected, at the hands of Kobert Glover, Somerfet herald, alearned and ftudious gentleman in his profefBon, the which if hehad had the beginning, many things had come forth in betterplight than they now be. : \ ^r^w^^ww ■^SSW^ ; ■% J ~ * »■ . (■ i 1 ■■ ■^, : ! % 1,; ^ f . \ \ ? ■ 0 _^:_ :;,.Jr, ■■i^...:Ji Hawarden Castle ^.W fcrt^^.^. _. -ijlurr -*«^ --. _^- •*■■- - Ruthin Castle TRADITIONS OF THE EARLIEST AMERICANS 447 It is therefore very doubtful whether the above-cited paffageconcerning the Madoc voyage gives the fenfe of the Britishbook which Gutryn Owen had tranfcribed, as tranflated byLluyd, or as corrected by Powell, and whether we can depend onit being agreeable to the original text. It may be fufpected thatLluyd, living after the difcovery of America by Columbus, mayhave dreft up some accounts of traditions about Madoc, whichhe found in Gutryn Owen, or other ancient Welfh writings, infuch a manner as to make them convey an idea, that this prince,who perhaps was a bolder navigator than any of his country-men in the age when he lived, had the honour of being the firftdifcoverer of that country. Sir Philip Herbert, a writer of thefame nation, who is zealous for the truth of this fuppofed dif-covery (which he conceives would give our kings a title to theWest Indies) adds to the authority o
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