"Madoc  wifmio  ydie  wedd,
Jawn  ycnan  Owen  Gwynedd,
Ni  fennum  dvi  enriddoedd,
Ni  dv  mawr  ondy  mervedd."

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"  Madoc  ap  Owen  was  I  call'd,
Strong,  tall,  and  comely,  not  enthrall'd
With  home-bred  pleafures;  but  for  fame,
Through  land  and  fea  I  fought  the  fame.'


i42  Appendix

2.  See   third  volume  of   the  Voyages  of   the    Englifh
Nation,  by  Richard  Hakluyt,  Student  of  Chrift  Church,
in   Oxford,   p.    i.
3.  See  Pagett's  Chriftianography,  p.  47.
4.  See  the  third  and  laft  volume  of  the  Turkifh  Spy,
p.  202.
5.  See  Purchas's  Pilgrimage,  book  viii,  p.  899.
6.  See  Broughton,  who  affirms  that  the  faith  of  Chrift
was  preached  in  America  by  some  of  our  firft  planters
that  preached  in  Britain.
7.  See  George  Abbot,  Lord  Archbifhop  of  Canterbury's
Hiftory  of  the  World,    p.    255,  56,   and  57,  who    informs
us  that   King  Arthur  had   fome  knowledge   of  America,
and  that  a  prince  of  Wales  firft  found  it  out.
8.  See  the  Welch  Cambria,  wrote  by  David  Powell,  and
Sir  John   Price,    Knt.    tranflated   into    Englifh  by   Hum
phrey  Llyod,  Gent.,  there  you  will  fee  the  reafons  that
induced  the  Prince  Madoc  ap  Owen  Gwynedd  to  travel.
9.  See  Sir  Walter  Raleigh's  Hiftory  of  the  World,  and
the  words  the  natives  ufed  when  they  talked  together.
They  fay  thefe  and  the  like  words:    gwrundo,  which  is
hearken,  or  liften,  in  Welch;  a  bird  with  a  white  head,
they  call  pengwyn;   the   white   rock,    caregwen;   a  river,
gwndwr;  and  there  is  a  promontory,  not  far  from  Mex
ico,  called  Cape  Breton,  all  which  are  Britifh  words;  and
many  more  words  of  like  nature;  which  does  manifeftly
fhew  that  it  was  that  country  that  Prince  Madoc 's  peo
ple  inhabited.
