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Welsh Sketches, by the Author of 'Proposals for Christian Union'. Ernest Silvanus Appleyard No preview available - 2010 |
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Page 11 - ... in deed, he would win by good words and gentle speeches. In time of peace he was more ready to yield and obey, than to rule and bear sway.
Page 45 - I say, well versed in commerce and woollen manufacture ; a people anxious to seek gain by sea or land, in defiance of fatigue and danger ; a hardy race, equally fitted for the plough or for the sword ; a people brave and happy...
Page 32 - Castle, that he would yield it to him quickly; ' and if not,' said he, ' let not the blood of any of our men be lost, but let this sword and arm of mine, and those of yours, decide who shall call this Castle his own.
Page 114 - Welsh, that monarch found it necessary to order " that the Westours, Bards, Rhymers, and other idlers and vagabonds, who lived upon the gifts called Cymmortha, be not supported, nor sanctioned in the country, lest by their invectives and lies they lead the people to mischief, and burden the common people with their impositions.
Page 130 - ... John de Hausted and John de Weston, we entreat and request you especially to be pleased to beg my lady the queen, our dear mother, that she would be pleased to beg the king to be pleased to grant two more valets to dwell with us ; that is to say, Gilbert de Clare and ' Perot' (Peter) de Gavaston ; for if we had these two, with the others whom we have, we should be much relieved from the anguish which we have endured, and yet daily suffer, from the restrictions at the pleasure of our lord the...
Page 134 - The king immediately vowed before God and the swans, that he would revenge the death of Comyn, and punish the perfidy of the rebels ; and then addressing the company, conjured them in the event of his death on the expedition, to keep his body unburied, till they had enabled his son to accomplish his vow. The son swore that he would not sleep two nights in the same place till he had entered Scotland to execute his father's commands ; the rest applauded his oath, and imitated his example. The next...
Page 92 - Madoc goch min inawr, or red haired wide mouthed Madoc. He arrived at the bridge over the Wye, time enough to pass and break it down, before, his pursuers could come up with him ; here, therefore, they were completely thrown out, as there was no other bridge over the Wye at that time, nearer than Bredwardine, thirty miles below. Thus foiled and disappointed of their...
Page 143 - I will put enmities between thee and the woman and thy seed and her seed : she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.