Transcriber's Note
The front cover has been created by the transcriber for the convenienceof the reader. The front cover is released into the public domain.
OWEN GLYNDWR
AND THE LAST STRUGGLE FOR
WELSH INDEPENDENCE
WITH A BRIEF SKETCH OF WELSH HISTORY
BY
ARTHUR GRANVILLE BRADLEY
AUTHOR OF “HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN NORTH WALES,” “SKETCHES
FROM OLD VIRGINIA,” “THE FIGHT WITH FRANCE
FOR NORTH AMERICA,” ETC.
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON
27 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET 24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND
The Knickerbocker Press
1901
COPYRIGHT, 1901
BY
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
Heroes of the Nations
EDITED BY
Evelyn Abbott, M.A.
FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD
FACTA DUCIS VIVENT, OPEROSAQUEGLORIA RERUM.—OVID, IN LIVIAM 265.
THE HERO’S DEEDS AND HARD-WONFAME SHALL LIVE.
OWEN GLYNDWR
Heroes of the Nations
A Series of Biographical Studies presenting thelives and work of certain representative historicalcharacters, about whom have gathered thetraditions of the nations to which they belong,and who have, in the majority of instances, beenaccepted as types of the several national ideals.
12o, Illustrated, cloth, each, $1.50
Half Leather, gilt top, each, $1.75
FOR FULL LIST SEE END OF THIS VOLUME
PREFACE
IF this little book purported to be a biography inthe ordinary sense of the word, the scantiness ofpurely personal detail relating to its hero mightbe a fair subject of criticism. But men of the Glyndwrtype live in history rather by their deeds, and thedeeds of those they lead and inspire. This is peculiarlythe case with the last and the most celebratedamong the soldier patriots of Wales. Thoughso little remains to tell us of the actual man himself,this very fact has thrown a certain glamour andmystery about his name even in the Principality.While numbers of