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daughters actually comprise grandchildren. Sonship meant no 

 more than relationship carrying with it tribal rights. 



If we look at the Welsh Chronicles we see that there was 

 an incessant attempt made by the Irish Picts to establish 

 themselves on the Welsh coast. For instance : 



335. Forty thousand Irish Picts slain in the north. 

 339. Many Irish freebooters taken and burnt alive. 

 400. Irish Picts came into Cambria and committed atrocious 

 depredations ; but at last they were vanquished, 

 unsparingly, and driven back over the sea to their 

 original country. 

 410. The pike-bearing Irish beset the coast and carried 



away Patrick into captivity. 

 430. The Irish Picts made a descent on Anglesey and 

 Arvon, and were joined by the Irish settled 

 there in combined hostility against the crown of the 

 Island of Britain. 

 436. The Irish Picts came to Cambria.* 



These Goidels or Scots achieved the conquest of Pembroke- 

 shire and of Grwynedd. As already said, they had succeeded in 

 establishing themselves in Brecknock. The Armorican coast 

 was also harried by them. They had carried their arms even 

 into the heart of Gaul. London had been in their possession. 

 They were wresting Alba from the Picts and giving it their own 

 name. 



It would seem probable that they would not spare the 

 Devon and Cornwall seaboard any more than they did the rest 

 of the west coast. Moreover, we learn from Irish sources 

 that at one time the king of Ireland did exact a tribute from the 

 Damnonii, from Land's End to the Parret. 



Now we do know that in Penwith and Carnmarth they 

 achieved a settlement. They were encountered by Tewdrig, who 

 had his palaces at Crooderne and at Riever, and he killed several 

 of them, and those who fell are accounted as martyrs. Their 

 names are met with from Camborne to Land's End. Of this 

 invasion, or rather these invasions, for there would seem to have 



*Caradoc of Llancarvan, in lolo MSS, p. 417. 



