File:A topographical dictionary of Wales, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, with historical and statistical descriptions; (14590711598).jpg

Identifier: topographicaldic11lewi (find matches)
Title: A topographical dictionary of Wales, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, with historical and statistical descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties; and a map of Wales ... and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishopricks, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municipal corporations. With an appendix, describing the electoral boundaries of the several boroughs, as defined by the late act
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Lewis, Samuel, d. 1865
Subjects:
Publisher: London, S. Lewis and co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
kingadvantage of the distractions which then prevailedthroughout Wales, soon after invaded Gower, which,under pretence of opposing the Irish and Danes, hetwice devastated. It was during the reign of MorganHen that a question arose, whether the tribute of thepetty princes of South Wales should be paid to theking of North Wales, or to the king of England, aslord paramount, which was finally determined, in 962,by the appearance of Edgar, with an armed force, atCaerlleon, who bound the princes to the payment of itto the English crown. In 9S7, the Danes landed on thecoast of this county, in which they committed greatravages, burning the churches of Llanilltyd and Llan-daf, with other religious edifices. As Morgan Hen ad-vanced in years, he resigned the government to his sons,of whom Owain and Ithel are expressly mentioned inthe Welsh annals, as reguli of the country during thelifetime of their father. Ithel, surnamed Ddu, or theBlack, from the colour of his hair, lived occasionally -•sy-
Text Appearing After Image:
— y* % ^ % _ ._. GL A G LA at Ystrad Owain, and had a summer residence at a placecalled Ton Ithel Ddu, a few miles to the north ofBridgend: he survived Owain, and, about the year 990,his territories were attacked and ravaged without mercyby Edwin, son of Eineon, who, in alliance with Mere-dydd, sovereign of all Wales, and aided by parties ofSaxons and Danes, entered them from Carmarthenshirethrough Gower; but Hywel, the younger brother ofIthel, exasperated to heroic exertion by the depredationswhich these invaders every where committed, suddenlyraised the country in their rear, and, having assembledan immense multitude, armed with the first weaponsthey could obtain, fell upon them on their return, at aplace called Cors Eineon, in the parish of Llangyvelach,routed their forces with great slaughter, and recoveredthe plunder which they were carrying away. Ithel diedin 994, and was succeeded in the government of Gla-morgan by his son Gwrgan, who is described as anenlightened and peaceab

Note About Images