Assistance from Brecon—Petitions for the Same from Herefordshire—The Welsh Overrun Western Herefordshire—Glyndwr at Carmarthen—He Consults a Soothsayer—The Plot of the Percys—Battle of Shrewsbury—Glyndwr’s Connection with the Movement—He Appears in Flint—The King Prepares for the Invasion of Wales.

  CHAPTER VII OWEN AND THE FRENCH, 1403-1404 212 Beleaguered Castles—The King Invades Wales—He Reaches Carmarthen and Hurries Home Again—Glyndwr Takes more Castles and harries Herefordshire—The French Land at Carmarthen—Anglesey—Carnarvon—Glyndwr Captures Harlech—He Calls a Parliament at Machynlleth—Davy Gam—Glyndwr Sends Ambassadors to Paris—Bishop Trevor Joins the Welsh—Herefordshire and the English Borders Ravaged—Urgent Appeals for Succour to the King—The Earl of Warwick Defeats Glyndwr—Glyndwr Gains a Victory—He Forces Shropshire to Make Terms—Owen’s Court at Harlech—Iolo Goch.   CHAPTER VIII WELSH REVERSES, 1405 237 Desolation of Wales—Owen’s Methods of Warfare—Country Houses of the Period—Welsh Rural Life and Population—Glyndwr Not a Rebel—Lady Despencer and the Young Princes—Prince Henry’s Letter on the Battle—Welsh Defeated at Mynydd-y-Pwll-Melyn—Owen’s Brother Killed, and his Son Captured—The Percys Rise in the North—Depression among Owen’s Followers—Landing of the French at Milford—The Allies March to Worcester—Battle of Woodbury Hill—Retreat of Franco-Welsh Army to Wales—King Henry Unsuccessfully Invades Wales—Cadogan of the Battle-axe—Departure of the French—Pembroke Makes Terms with Owen.   CHAPTER IX THE TRIPARTITE INDENTURE, 1406 263 The Tripartite Indenture—Defeat and Execution of Lord Percy and Bardolph—Owen’s Letter from Pennal to the King of France—The Papal Schism—Owen’s Star Waning—Anglesey—Dejection in the Vale of Towy—Glyndwr’s Lonely Wanderings—The Valle Crucis Story—The Berkrolles’ Story—Iolo Goch’s Lament.   CHAPTER X ABERYSTWITH. OWEN’S POWER DECLINES, 1407-1409 284 Owen’s Movements Vague—The King Failing in Health but Anxious to Enter Wales—Preparations for Siege of Aberystwith—The King Shrinks from Going to Wales—A General Pestilence—Prince Henry Leads a Large Force to Aberystwith—Terms of Surrender Arranged—Agreement Upset by Owen’s Sudden Appearance—Fall of Aberystwith and Harlech—Death of Mortimer—Owen Sinks into a Guerilla Leader—Pardons and Punishments—Death in Paris of Bishop Trevor.   CHAPTER XI LAST YEARS OF OWEN’S LIFE, 1410-1416 300 Harsh Laws Enacted against the Welsh—Davy Gam—A General Pardon Offered by Henry V.—Owen an Outlaw in the Mountains—Owen, Left Alone, Disappears from History—Henry V. Sends him a Special Pardon—Kentchurch or Monnington the Scene of Owen’s Death—Some Remarks on his Policy.   CHAPTER XII CONCLUSION 310 Wales after Glyndwr.   APPENDIX THE BARDS 333

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