Welsh Journals

and the Gwyddel will raise a shout and come nearer our nation. And the Hog1 will return to the land, ravaging Cymru in hatred, with destruction in every town. The brutal ravagers will wait for a holy-day in Anglesey. For the Feast of the Virgin I will watch; they will come to Ty Ddewi. And the Cymry will judge the world, and there will be havoc there too. The son of Anglesey will gild his children and his ancestors. Let disaster visit the world beyond-eternal peace will remain with him.2 The vaticinations did their work well; they propagated a nationalism which, for the first time in Welsh history, was acceptable to the whole land. At least it was unquestion- ingly accepted in North Wales, because of the hold of the Tudors in that part. With the strong ties of kinship that existed it was no difficult task to commend to the men of Gwynedd a national cause that centred around Henry Tudor. How far these generalizations apply to South Wales it would, in the present lack of data, be unsafe to say. A considerable body of literature is calendared in the Hist- orical Manuscripts Commission reports which should throw light on this subject, but, as yet, practically none of it has been published. There are indications, however, that the forces of nationalism were at work in the South as well.3 To Gwynedd the appeal was direct:- Of like condition has wide Gwynedd been, following the crown, as the blind witless man who once was bound, I know it is so, by shackles to the foot of that ancient pillar of yore and who pulled in one hour the building down on his own head. Thus is Gwynedd to-day, bruised and with sore wounds, seeking a feeble prophet as a leader. There is one better-if they but knew- from Anglesey, one of ancient stock. Turn thy art, an Edward thou art, towards the North Sea-a great Bull art thou. Be kind of deed and word to the good Cymry, thou valiant Cymro. Paul of many gifts was once immeasurable in folly. Mary 1 Richard III. 3 See footnote 3, ante, p. 30. 2 For text see Appendix V.