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afliiir olimportaiice. In 1277, the king of Eng- 

 land, having subdned the intervening country, ad- 

 vanced at the head of a large army into Conwy, 

 where he remained quiet, fully determined to 

 starve Llywelyn into submission. The latter 

 having no resources, for Anglesey, the granary of 

 Wales, was in the hands of the English, was at 

 length compelled, for the sake of his suffering peo- 

 ple, to propose an accommodation with Edward ; 

 a peace was accordingly concluded on the most 

 mortifying terms, and afterwards ratified in the 

 king's absence, by the commissioners of the two 

 princes at Aberconwy.^ For some years Llyw- 

 elyn submitted to the ungenerous and atrocious 

 insults offered him by the English king; but in 

 1282, the patience of the Welsh being totally ex- 

 hausted, they rose in arms, and endeavoured to 

 obtain some alleviation of their miseries. Edward 

 eagerly seized the opportunity of destroying Llyw- 

 elyn, and joining Wales to England: about the 

 first of November he left Rhuddlan, and advanced 

 with his army to Aberconwy, where he stationed 

 it in advantageous positions in tlie neighbourhood; 

 and Edward was here when lie liad the satisfaction 

 of receiving the head of his bra\e but unfortunate 



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