British antiquities revived Author:Robert Vaughan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: first argument and reason for Cadelh's seniority and sovereignty quite overthrown: first, by the testimony of Camden, declaring that the latter Princes of Powys ... more »(the issue of Cadelh) were descended from the third son of Roderic the Great, which degree of birth the authors above mentioned ascribe unto Cadelh by name. Secondly, by an undoubted proof of Mervyn's issue. And lastly, by the sovereignty over Powys proved to be in the Princes of North Wales; all which infallibly conclude them to be descended from the eldest son of Roderic the Great. THE SECOND ARGUMENT. That South Wales, which was the portion of Cadelh, was far larger than any of the two other, almost double in quantity, containing 38 Cantreds, and 80 Commots; whereas both North Wales and Powys contained but 29 Cantreds and 78 Commots: and yet the Cantred of Buelht and the Forest of Dean are admitted in that division to be in Powys, which were part of South Wales, and assigned to Cadelh. South Wales also was far better soile generally, and most replenished with noblemen and gentry. Therefore it was the fittest portion to be assigned to the eldest and soveraigne, and unfit for a younger brother upon evident ground of reason. THE ANSWER TO THE SECOND ARGUMENT. To find out the true proportion of Cadelh's inheritance, your countryman Jo. Asser Menevensis, that lived in Cadelh's time, will with most approved authority direct us: lllo enim tempore fy multo ante om- nes regiones dextralis Britannie e partis, ad Elfred regem pertinebant, §- adhuc pertinent. Hemeid scilicet, cum omnibus habilatoribus Demeticte regionis, 4" sexfiliwum Rotri vi compulsus regali se subdiderat imperio,Hovil quoq; filius Ris rex Gleguising fy JBrochmail atque Feruailjilii Meuric, reges Gtcent vi Sf tyrannide Eadred comitis fy Merciorum com-...« less