. Owen Glyndwr and the last struggle for Welsh independence, with a brief sketch of Welsh history;. ero of the Welsh wars,and Sir John Oldcastle, a typical border soldier, whobecame Lord Cobham and was ultimately hunteddown as a Lollard at Welshpool and burned byHenry V. ; while Lord Berkeley commanded thefleet and managed the siege train. It was notknown at Aberystwith, either by the Welsh or thebesiegers, where Owen was. He could not readilytrust himself in castles, besieged both by land andsea, and run the risk of being caught like a fox in atrap. He bided his time, on this occasion, as wil
. Owen Glyndwr and the last struggle for Welsh independence, with a brief sketch of Welsh history;. ero of the Welsh wars,and Sir John Oldcastle, a typical border soldier, whobecame Lord Cobham and was ultimately hunteddown as a Lollard at Welshpool and burned byHenry V. ; while Lord Berkeley commanded thefleet and managed the siege train. It was notknown at Aberystwith, either by the Welsh or thebesiegers, where Owen was. He could not readilytrust himself in castles, besieged both by land andsea, and run the risk of being caught like a fox in atrap. He bided his time, on this occasion, as will beseen, and arrived precisely at the right Henry found the castle impregnable to as-sault, and there was nothing for it but to sit downand reduce it by starvation. The only hope of thegarrison lay in Owens relieving them, and with suchan army before them the possibility of this seemedmore than doubtful. Provisions soon began to fail,and in the middle of September Rhys ap Griffithmade overtures and invited seventeen of the Englishleaders within the castle to arrange a 1408] Aberystwith 291 One of these was Richard Courtney of the Powder-ham family, a scholar of Exeter College, Oxford,and Chancellor of the University. Mass was saidby this accomplished person to the assembled Welshand English leaders, after which they received thesacrament and then proceeded to draw up an agree-ment which seems a strange one. By it the Welshundertook to deliver up the castle on November istif Glyndwr had not in the meantime appeared anddriven off the besiegers. Till that date an armisticewas to continue. Those of the garrison who wouldnot accept these terms were to be turned out to taketheir chance ; the rest were to receive a full pardonat the capitulation. The abbot of Ystradfflur, who,though a Cistercian, had taken Owens side, andthree Welsh gentlemen, were given up as hostages. The Prince and his nobles were doubtless gladenough to get away from so monotonous a tas
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