A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 1^1 



Juftices of the King's Bench, by whom 

 he had feveral children. 



In the beginning of the reign of 

 Henry IV. he received fome ferious in- 

 juries from Reginald, Lord Grey of Ru- 

 thin, who took advantage of the depofal 

 of Richard, for which he applied in vain 

 to the Parliament for redrefs. His love 

 for his late mafter, the injuftice that he 

 had fuffered, and his own ambitious 

 fpirit, all confpired to make him defi 

 rous of throwing off the Enlifh Yoke, 

 and of attempting by force to obtain 

 the government of Wales. He revolv- 

 ed in his mind, his own genealogy, a 

 defcendant from the ancient Britifh 

 princes, and being ftrongly tinctured 

 with fuperftition, he attached to himfelf 

 many of the prophecies of Merlin, and 

 of the other old Britifh bards. Thefe, 

 with the dreadful omens that he had 

 been told had happened at his birth, 



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