Welsh Journals

THE CAMBRO-BRITON. 463 as might be expected, considering the quality and circumstances pf the respective parties, with success. The Duke of Somerset was attainted the 1st of Edward IV„ in 1461—pardoned in 1462—and, for joining Margaret the Queen of Henry VI., beheaded in 1463. Edmund his brother, then Duke of Somerset, fled beyond the seas. In the same year, Ed¬ ward IV., having in vain offered a pardon to all the friends of the house of Lancaster, who would make their submission, and swear allegiance to him by a given time, confiscated their estates. It was at this time, most probably, that the possessions of Owain Glyndwr, hitherto in the hands of the Somersets, were alienated, —the Lordship of Cynllaith Owain, in this parish, to the owner of the Llangedwyn estate, now the property of Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart.; and the Lordship of Glyndyfrdwy to Robert Sa¬ lisbury, Esq. of Rug,—and from him, and the succeeding Salis* burys—the Pughes of Mathafarn in Montgomeryshire—the Pryces of Gogerddan in Cardiganshire—r-to the present Lord of Glyn¬ dyfrdwy, Gruffydd Hywel Vychan, Esq. of Rug. Mr. Yorke, in his Royal Tribes, p. 64, may have been mistaken in saying, that these lordships were sold by Henry IV., as, for the reasons above given, it is more apparent, that they were disposed of by Edward IV. in the confiscation of the Somerset possessions in 1463. Omitting, for the present, any further anecdotes relative to our parishioner Glyndwr—the modes of incitement made use of by the bards to rouse their " Maby Darogan" to action—and to prevail upon him to continue the struggle for national liberty, even when but faint hopes of success remained— " Na weinia gledd—Owain y Glyn," &c. I shall conclude this account of him, and of the parish where he occasionally resided, with only noticing the discrepancies of writers respecting the time of his death, some dating it earlier, others later. Rapin says, " It is certain that he lived till the year 1417." We must prefer Welsh authority upon this point; which is, that he sunk under a pressure of anxiety and disap¬ pointment at the house of one of his two daughters, Scudamore or Monington, in Herefordshire, on the eve of St. Mathew, Sept. 20, 1415. A Welsh Englyn preserves the year of his rising, as well as the year of his death, without scarcely a possibility of mistake, thus— Mil, a phedwar-cant, nid mwy—cof ydyw Cyfodiad Glyndyfrdwy; A phymtheg, praff ei saffwy, -Bu Owain hen byw yn hwy.