J^S LLANGOLLEN TO CORWENr- 



more congenial with his difpofition. He warmltr 

 efpoufed the caufe of Richard II., to whom he was- 

 fincerely attached. He adhered to his royal mafter 

 till the lafl, having been taken prifoner with him 

 in Flint caflle ; and when the king's houfehold was 

 dilTolved, retired to his patrimony in Wales, with 

 full refentment of his fovereign*s wrongs. It ap-' 

 pears that during the reign of Richard II. he ii:id 

 received the honour of knighthood, for in a legal 

 procefs of that period, he is fdled fir Owen de Glen- 

 dore. 



He married a daughter of fir David Hanmcr, of 

 Hanmer in Flintfhire, one of the juftices of the court 

 of King's Bench ; and had by her fiveral children. 



In the beginning of the reign of Henry IV. Regi- 

 nald lord Grey, of Ruthin, taking advantage of the 

 depofrJ of Richard, and Glyndwr's attachment to his! 

 caufe, wrefhed from him a confiderable part of his 

 poiTeiTions. Glyndv/r applied to the parliament for 

 redrefs, but in vain. His ambitious fpirit, confpiring 

 with a fenfe of his wrongs, and a deteftation for the 

 ufurper Bolingbroke, determined him to throw off, 

 if pofiible, the Englifh yoke, and to obtain by force 

 the government of Wales. He revolved in his mind 

 his own genealogy, a defcendant from the ancient 

 Britifh princes : his fuperftitious notions attached to 

 himfeif m.any of the prophefies of Merhn, and other 

 bards of former years. Thefe, wkh the dreadful 

 omens that he believed had taken place at his birth, 

 confirmed him in the opinion that he was deflined 

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