Miscellanies, antiquarian and historical / By F. Sayers.

  • Frank Sayers
Date:
1805
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    ‘Glendower, in ‘the year 1400,* that the fame no- ‘bleman efpoufed, in 1402, the daughter of this cele- ‘brated Welch Chieftain,{ that he foon after became a confederate with his father-in-law’ in the grand ‘rebellion which was excited by Northumberland{ ‘and Percy, and that he furvived buta very thort ‘time the extinGtion of that rebellion,§ which was * Holinfhed, (vol. 111: p. 520, 591) and fome other writers of note, inform us that the Mortimer who was taken by Glendower at this period was the Earl of March; but it appears from Dugdale (Baronage, p. 150 and 151), that doth the uncle and the nephew were, at different. pe- riods, prifoners to the Welch Chieftain; and as that Mor- timer who fell into his hands in 1400, foon after married his daughter and dzed, it is plain that he could not be the Earl of March, who (as will be feen inthe fequel) was not more than eight years of age at this period, and who undoubtedly lived more than twenty years after it, 1 fhall have occafion to fpeak again of the time in which the younger Mortimer appears to have been in the Redd of ‘Giendower. . + Stowe’s Chronicle, oe 328. Holinfhed, vol. 1116 Pe 52k- ' $ This nobleman had married Elizabeth, the daughter of uy elder Edmund Mortimer. § According to Speed he died even before the conteft qwaes terminated, {peedily
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