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Title: Owen Glyndwr and the last struggle for Welsh independence, with a brief sketch of Welsh history;
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Bradley, A. G. (Arthur Granville), 1850-1943
Subjects: Glendower, Owen, ca. 1354-1416
Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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his presumed abundance.* Intheir appeal the King saw another means of puttinga bridle on the Welsh, at no expense to himself, tosay nothing of the advantage of posing as a phil-anthropist. He granted therefore to the Flemingsjust so much of the south-western promontory ofWales as they could hold and conquer, togetherwith the peninsula of Gower, which juts out from thecoast of modern Glamorgan. Pembroke was themore important and populous colony of the two.The native inhabitants, it may be presumed, werefew in the twelfth century ; at any rate the Flemingshad no difficulty in driving them inland and form-ing a permanent settlement. There was no assimila-tion with the natives ; they were completely pushedback, and in a short time Normans came to the * Some accounts say that Henry first received them in England,but got uneasy at the number which accumulated there and orderedthem all into south-west Wales. Small lodgments of Normans andother aliens would seem to have preceded the Flemings.
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1400) hitroductory Sketch 41 assistance of the Flemings. The great castles ofPembroke, Manorbier, Haverfordwest, and Tenbywere built, and speaking broadly the south-westernhalf of the modern county of Pembroke became asTeutonic, and in time as English, as Wiltshire orSuffolk. Continual fighting went on between the nat-ive Welsh and the intruders, keeping alive the ani-mosity between the two races and laying the seedsof that remarkable cleavage which makes the countyof Pembroke present to-day an ethnological curios-ity without a parallel in the United Kingdom. The Flemings, as English subjects and constantlyreinforced by English arrivals, lost in time theirnationality and their language, and became as thor-oughly Anglo-Saxon as the most fervent Salop-ian or the most stolid Wiltshireman. They remainso, in a great measure, to this very day. Intermix-ture with the Celtic and Welsh-speaking part of thecounty has been rare. The isolated position offurther Pembrokeshire makes this anomaly st

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