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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 94. 



Evans, now in the Possession of Paid Panton, Esq., of 

 Anr/ksea. 



Sjeleucus. 



THE BRITISH SIDANEN. 



(Vol. iv., p. 83.) 



Mr. J. P. Collier will find all the information 

 that Cambrian antiquaries can give liiin respecting 

 Sidanen in Powell's Cambria, Matthew Paris, 

 Wynne's Caradoc, and Warrinijton's History of 

 Wa^es, under the year 1241. The history is given 

 at most length in Warrington ; where the share 

 which Sidanen had in an interesting episode in 

 Cambrian history is fully developed. There were 

 two Welsh princes named Llywelyn, who stood to 

 each other in the following relation : 



Ll-TWELYN AB JoRWEaill 



(died in 1240). 



Griffith, married to 

 Senemi, daughter 

 of a Cambrian lord 

 na'ned Caradoc ab 

 Thomas. 



David. 



Gladys, a 

 daughter. 



OwE.V. 



David. 



Llywei.tn ab Griffith, 

 last Prince of Wales. 



The Prince of Wales mentioned by Munday is 

 the first, Llywelyn ab Jorwerth, wJiose descent, as 

 Lis fatlier was not allowed to reign on account of 

 personal deformity, we had better indicate : 

 Owen, king of North Wales. 



(Eldest son) Jorwerth, the Broken-nosed. 



I 

 Llywelyn ab Jorwerth. 



Llywelyn, as has been shown, had two sons, 

 Griflith and David, the first and eldest of whom, 

 being a turbulent prince, was set aside by his 

 fiither at a solemn assembly of Cambrian lords, in 

 1238, and David was elected to succeed his father. 

 In 1240, David became king of North Wales, and 

 one of his first acts was to apprehend his brotlier 

 and his son Owen, and put them in prison. This 

 was done with the connivance of a Bishop of 

 Bangor: but that worthy, fearing that the scandal 

 would spread abroad, intrigued with Seuena, the 

 daughter-in-law, and not the daughter of Prince 

 Llywelyn, and wife of his sun Grilfitli, for his re- 

 lease. Overtures were made to Henry III. ; and 

 certain lords having joined the confederacy, stipula- 

 tions were entered into, and Henry marched against 

 King David. David, who had married the king's 

 daughter, now began to counterplot, in wliich he 

 was quite successful ; for Henry, who had come to 

 release Griffith, by special contract with his brother, 

 took him, with his wife Senena, and his son Owen, 



with him to London, and imprisoned them in the 

 Tower, in attempting to escape from whence, two 

 years afterwards, Griflith lost his life. Such is a 

 brief outline of all that is known of Senena, who is 

 undoubtedly the Sidanen of IMunday, and whose 

 name is variously written Sina, Sanan, Sanant, and 

 in the Latin chronicle Senena. The negotiations 

 here alluded to, with the names of all the parties 

 engaged in them, will be found in the authorities 

 herein named ; all of which being in English, 

 Mr. Collier can easily consult. 



John a Cumber is probably John y Kymro, or 

 John the Cambrian ; but I know nothing of him. 



Respecting John of Kent there is but little else 

 known than may be found in Coxe's Monmouth- 

 shire, and Owen's Cainhrian Biography, sub "Sion 

 Cent." There is, however, a tradition in this 

 neighbourhood that he was born at Eglwys Han, in 

 the county of Glamorgan ; and the road is shown 

 by which he went to Kentchurch, in Herefordshire. 

 It was at Eglwys Ilan that he is reported to have 

 pounded the crows by closing the park gates. As 

 this story has not appeared in English print, I will 

 endeavour to furnish you again with a more cir- 

 cumstantial statement. Sion Kent, who lived 

 about 1450, appears to have derived his name from 

 Kent Chester, or Kent Church. He was a monk, 

 holding Lollard opinions ; and a bard of consider- 

 able talent and celebrity. As a matter of course, 

 he was on good terms with his Satanic majesty; 

 for he has a mighty rejDutation as a conjuror. 

 Mr. Collier may find a portion of one of his 

 poems, translated in the lolo MSS., page 687. 

 Should this, or any other authority herein named, 

 not be accessible to Mr. Collier, it would afford 

 me great pleasure to send him transcripts. 



There is a very gross anachronism in making 

 Sion, lege Sliou Kent, to be the contemporary of 

 Senena. T. Stephens. 



Merthyr Tydfd, Aug. 7. 1851. 



PETTY CURT. 



(Vol. iv., p. 24.) 



I believe that Petty Cury signifies the Little 

 Cookery. See a note in my Annals of Cambridge, 

 vol. i. p. 273. C. II. Cooi'ER. 



Cambridge, July 12. 1851. 



To those who are familiar with the Form of 

 Cnry, edited by Dr. Pegge, no explanation can be 

 necessary for the name of this street, or rather 

 lane. It seems, indeed, strange that any one who 

 calls himself a Cambridge man should have failed 

 to discover that it was the peculiar quarter of the 

 cooks of the town ; as we in London have our 

 Poultry named from the Poulters (not Poulterers, 

 as now corruptly designated) who there had their 

 shops. F. S. Q. 



The Cambridge senate-house is called " Curia," 



