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to change its appearance. The road, inftead of 

 winding amongfl mountains, now lay in a direct 

 line. 



About three miles farther on, an oak wood on the 

 left, and a fmall clump of firs on an eminence on 

 the right of the road, mark the place near which the 

 palace of " the wild and irregular'* Owen Glyndwr 

 once ftood. There are at prefent no other remains 

 of it than a few fcattered heaps of (tones. lolo 

 Goch, Owen's bard, about the year 1390, wrote a 

 poem containing a defcription of this palace. He 

 fays it was furrounded by a moat filled with water, 

 and that the entrance was by a coflly gate over a 

 bridge. The lllle feems to have been of gothic 

 architedure, for he compares one of the towers to 

 a part of Wefbminfiier abbey. It was a Neapolitan 

 building, containing eighteen apartments, "■ a fair 

 timber flruclure, on the fummit of a green hill." 



Memoranda of Owen Glyndwr. 



This celebrated hero, whofe actions make fo con- 

 fpicuous a figure in the Englilh hiftory at the com- 

 mencement of the fifteenth century, was the fon of 

 Griffith Vychan, a defcendant of Meredith, prince 

 of North Wales. He received a liberal education j 

 and when of proper age, was admitted a ftudent in 

 one of our inns of court, and was afterv/ards regu- 

 larly called to the bar. It is probable that he foon 

 quitted the profeflion of the law, and adopted that 

 of arms, which, as it afterwards proved, was much 



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