Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . sly, and in so much that they arenot well contented therewith. But if it please our Lord, I will help you togovern them better than they have been governed in time past. KingRichard then answered him, Fair cousin, since it pleaseth you, it pleasethus well. And be assured that these are the very words that they two spaketogether, without taking away or adding anything: for I heard and understoodthem very well. And the Earl of Salisbury, and another aged knight who wasone of the council
Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . sly, and in so much that they arenot well contented therewith. But if it please our Lord, I will help you togovern them better than they have been governed in time past. KingRichard then answered him, Fair cousin, since it pleaseth you, it pleasethus well. And be assured that these are the very words that they two spaketogether, without taking away or adding anything: for I heard and understoodthem very well. And the Earl of Salisbury, and another aged knight who wasone of the council of Duke Henry, told me the same in French. He toldme, as we rode to Chester, that Merlin - and Bede had, from the time in which They probably recognised this herald from having seen him in the suite atParis. His style was Lancaster King at Arms. The prophecies of Merlin in those days had their practical influence through-out England and Wales, and were widely circulated through the were printed at Paris, in French, 1498 ; in London, by WynkyndeWorde, 1529 ; and at Venice in KING RICHARD II. DEPOSED IN FLINT CASTLE. 79 they lived, prophesied of the taking and ruin of the King, and that if I werein his castle he would show me the prophecy, in manner and form as I hadseen it come to pass, saying thus :— There shall be a king in Albion who shall reign for the space of twentyor two-and-twenty years in great honour and in great power, and he shall beallied and united with those of Gaul ; which king shall be undone in the partsof the north in a triangular place. Thus, the knight told me, it was writtenin a book belonging to him. The triangular place he applied to the town ofConway ; and for this he had a very good reason ; as though it had been solaid down by exact measurement. In the said town of Conway was the Kingsufficiently undone ; for the Earl of Northumberland drew him forth, as you haveheard before, by the treaty which he made with him; and
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