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This Monarch of the Cambrian mountains was anciently held in the higheft veneration among the Britons.

This favourite Air is fung very differently in South Wales to what it is North Wales,& both so pretty that I am perplex'd in the choice;therefore,fhall prefent my readers with both. The Burden perhaps fhould be fung by another Perfon

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An invitation to the Oaken Grove was ufual with lovers in former times:alfo,to drive Hogs to feed on Acorns.

Hoby Deri Dando.__.

As fung in South Wales.
Chearful

Away my herd under the green Oak.

The Burden

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There is another very Ancient Tune that bears a fimilar name to the above; A Rhapfody of it, as formerly ufed with the Cowydd Pedwar, concludes each ftanza as follows. "Nawdd Mair a nawdd y gróg,Hai down ir deri danno ."

- The protection of Mary & protection of the Crofs; - Come let us haften to the Oaken-Grove.

Which is the burden of an old Song of the Druids, fung by the Bards and Vades, to call the people to their religious afsemblies in the Groves. Alfo, it is evident that the old English Song,

"Hie down, down derry down?

Alfo, "In Summer time when leaves grow-green,
Down, a down, a down?

are borrowed from that Druidical Song.

Tenderly

Cynwyd was a man's name, and Cynwydion was the name of the Clan and Land; from which the Village of Cynwyd in Merionethshire

derives its name.

Difyrrwch Gwyr Dyfi.

The Delight of the Men of Dovey.

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is a Seaport in Merionethfhire, alfo a confiderable river which divides North,and South Wales.

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This beautiful bird is an inhabitant of the Mountains of Wales; and is sometimes call'd the Heathrcock. Black-game ; which species of moor game

died.

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come very

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A Song of the wooing of Queen Catherine by Sir Owen Tudor,
a young Gentleman of Wales.

was

Whilft King Henry V: was purfuing his conqueft in France, Charles VI: unable to refift his victorious arms, came to a treaty' with him, and in the year 1420, King Henry was married to Catherine, the daughter of Charles; by virtue of which the Latter acknowledged Henry, Regent of France, during his Life time, and after his death abfolute fovereign of that kingdom. The christmas following King Henry brought his Queen over to England, where she was crowned on the 24 Feby. 1421. The feafon of taking the field being come, and the Dauphin having levied fresh forces, King Henry haftened over to France, whither his Queen could not accompany him, being at that time with child, and on the 6th of December following the deliverd at Windfor of Prince Henry, who fucceeded his Father. The April following fhe pafsed over to France with large reinforcements for her husband; he being at that time very ill of the Dysentery, of which he fhortly after Soon after, Queen Catherine return'd to England. It was impofsible that a young hand fome widow, of her dignity could Live without a number of admirers; and in, the foremoft rank appeard Sir Owen Tudor, of Pen-Mynydd Môn, in Anglefsey; who was a graceful and most beautiful perfon, and defcended from the ancient welsh Princes. This Owen was fon of Meredith ab Tudor ab Gronw ab Tudor,ab Gronw, ab Ednyfed Fychan, baron of Brinffenigl, in Denbigh-Land, Lord of Criceth; and fo lineally defcended from King Beli the great. His genealogy was drawn out of the chronicles of Wales,hy order of King Henry the Seventh, and is to be found in the appendix of Caradoc's hiftory of Wales, the Iaft edition) Sir Owen Tudor was an officer of the Queen's household, and being comely and active, he was defired to dance before the Queen; & in a turn not being able to recover himself, fell into her lap, as fhe fat upon a little ftool with many of her ladies about her. Soon after, he won her heart and married her; and by him fhe had three fons; of whom Edmund the eldeft, was created Earl of Richmond, and was Father to King Henry the 7th The fecond Son was Earl of Pembroke. — Queen Catherine furvived this hufband alfo, and then retired into the Nunery of Bermondfey in Surry, where she died in the 14th year of the reign of her Son Henry the VI.

+ Hull's Chronicle describes Owen Tuder as follows.

A goodly Gentleman & a beatiful person, garnished with many Godly gifts both of nature & of grace, cuted Owen Teuther; a man brought forth & come of the noble lineage & ancient line of Cadwalader, the last King of the Britons._ Tudor married Queen Catherine in the year 1428. by whom he had three Sons &one Daughter: Edmund, Jasper; Owin.§7. See more, in Pennant's Wales, Val:24 p.256.

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