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Title: The London & North-Western Railway
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Eyre-Todd, George, 1862-1937
Subjects: London and North-Western Railway Railroads -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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stle took place in the days of Edward I.himself. All the world knows how, after the fall ofLlewellyn, Edward summoned the Welsh chiefs to meethim here, and how, when he asked them to agree withhim in arranging for the good government of thecountry, they clamoured out that they would acknow-ledge no prince but one born in Wales, who should speakto them in the Welsh tongue. The scene in the greathall at that moment has been made the subject of awell-known picture. With ready tact in the emer-gency, Edward produced before them his infant son,born in Carnarvon itself a few days previously. Here, he cried, is the prince you seek. He hasbeen born in Wales, and I undertake that he shallspeak to you in the Welsh tongue.3 Thus it was that the son of Edward I., who wasafterwards the unfortunate Edward II., became thefirst English Prince of Wales. From that day till the twentieth century, thoughthe eldest son of every English and British king hasbeen Prince of Wales, it is probable that none was
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SOUTH STACK LIGHTHOUSK. HOI A1IKAD. From Holyhead the London and North Western Railway receives and despatches the Irish mails and passengers. The Castles of Old Wales ever invested with the title and dignity on Welsh soil.At last, however, on June 13, 1911, the mighty walls ofCarnarvon Castle saw the splendour of royal pageantryagain, when Edward, the eldest son of King George V«was duly invested there with the ancient name andinsignia of Prince of Wales. He is the eighteenth thathas borne the title since the fall of the House ofLlewellyn. CHAPTER VIII THREE FAMOUS BATTLE-FIELDS IT is common, among people who have only looked athistory on the surface, to suppose that the battles ofbygone centuries in this country were fought merelyto satisfy the ambitions and personal purposes ofnobles and kings. While a few of the struggles mayhave been nothing better than this, by far the greaternumber had very different and more serious cause.People fought then, as they might fight now, to redres

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