A continuation of the Complete history of England: containing the lives and reigns of Edward I, II & III and Richard the Second / [Robert Brady].

Robert Brady

Date:: 1700

Credit: A continuation of the Complete history of England: containing the lives and reigns of Edward I, II & III and Richard the Second / [Robert Brady]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$B D With this Army the King marched from £4] Chcjler towards Wales • in his way there was a great Wood, and fo thick as his Army could not pafs it 5 part of which was cut down, and a very large and wide Way made into Lewclin's Country, where i he Built the two Cafiles of IFltnt and RotUelan ^ feifed the Welfb- 1 metis Lands, and Goods, and wafted their Country, drave them into their ufual place of Retreat, the Mountains of Snowdon ^ and with the affiftance of the Men of the Five Ports took the Ifle of Angle fey. The Prince of Wales finding himlelf not able to refift the Force of the Engliflj, defired Peace, which was [5] Granted unto him upon the following Articles. 1. That all Engliftl Prifaners fwuld be Rcleafed freely, without claiming any thing from them. 2. That for this Peace, and the King's Good Will, he fwuld fay at the Kings pleaftre, 500001. Sterling. 3. That Four Cant reds, and all the Lands Conquered by the Englifh, Cexcept Anglefey) fljould be and remain to the King and his Heirs for ever. And for Anglefey, the Prince was to pay to the King 1000 Marks every year. The firfl Payment to begin at Michael mats then at hand • and for his Ingrefs or Entry upon it 5000 Marks $ and if the Prince died without Heirs, the King to have the Poffejjion of it. 4. That he fwuld come into England to the King at Chriftmafs to do his Homage. 5. That all the Homages in Wales, fwuld be to the King, except of Five Barons that lived in the Confines of Snowdon, becaufa he could not be called Prince unlefs he had fame Barons under him, for his Life, but after his Death, the Homages of thofa Five Barons, fwuld remain to the King and his Heirs for ever. For the Security and Obfervation of thefe Articles, he deliver¬ ed to the King [6~\ Ten Hoftages of the beft Perfons in Wales, without being retrained, or di (inherited. And the beft Men of every Cantred, and of Snowdon, by Confent of the Prince * were to Swear upon the Holy Reliques, That whenfoever the Prince broke any of thefe Articles, unlefs upon Admonition he corte&ed himfelf, they would Eftrange themfelves, (abalienarent fa ab eo) and become his Enemies in all things they could. Alfo, befides thefe things, \j~] he was to fatisfie his Brothers for the Injuries he had done them, they were Three, ©tyep, and RoDmr, whom he had put into Prifan, and fDdtJtO, whom he had forced to fly into England. The Laity as an Aid towards this War, [8] gave the King the 20th part of their Goods. If the Reader defires to be better informed, or to fee this Weljb Affair in a clearer light, let him look back into the Life of Henlil. foL 578, 579) 580. and fol. 663. D. E. F. &c. Upon this Peace [<f] Eleanor, the Daughter of Simon Mont- forty was given in Marriage to Lewclin by the King, wliofe Pri- foner [4] Tho. Wiker, Chron.ficj. Flint and Ro- thUan Caftles builr. Anglefy takem [5] IVatfmz- ham, f. 48. n. 10, 20. Peace granted to rhe Prince of Whiles, and the Articles. [6] Ibm. Security for the perfor¬ mance of Ar¬ ticles. [7] Ibm. [8] Ibm. n. 20, jo. [9] Ibm.n 30. Leolin Marries the Drughter of Simon 'Montfort.$