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Excerpt from Owen Tudor: An Historical Romance But, though vanquished in the field, and curbed on every side by the stron firrisons introduced b the English into the very heart of eir fastnesses, the elsh were far from fishing implicit submission to their conquerors. Still, the wise moderation of the government introduced by Henry V. Among his Welsh con nests, the efforts which he made to in gratiate himself with e co le, - above all, the blaze of mili tary glory which'surroun ed is name, always a dazzling lure to nations of Celtic blood, - produced in progress of time a remarkable effect onehe upper classes of the people and no bility, if not on the great mass of the population of Wales. This was sfieciallz the case in the countries more immediately under the uglis sway, or bordering on the English counties. The remote and mountainous districts were, of course, the latest in suffering this new light to stream in upon them; but even Snowdon itself could not always interpose its mighty shadow between the islanders of An lesea and the progress of the neighbouring civilization. Most alone among his equals and former companions in arms, the Lord of Pen myn dd continued to defy the conquerors, and, like a dark cloud in a brightening sky, suffered no shred of his gloom to mingle or dissipate in the new radiance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.