Owen Glyndwr and the Last Struggle for Welsh Independence

The title names Owen Glyndwr and the last struggle for Welsh independence, and adds a brief sketch of Welsh history. The text notes the Arrival of the Saxons, 577, and says that after their great victory of Deorham they destroyed the British strongholds of Bath, Gloucester, and Cirencester and appeared on the Severn about the year 577. The text says the ferocity of the conquerors, aggravated, no doubt, by the stubborn resistance of the conquered, is a fact beyond all question.

The text says Owen's character as a magician had been firmly established this long time in Wales, and that his power of eluding the King's armies, to say nothing of his occasional victories, and still more the way in which the elements had seemed to fight for him, had given him even throughout England something of a reputation for necromancy. The text says the practical mind of Henry himself had been disturbed by the strange rumours that had reached him. The text quotes verse that asks, "Give me the fair, the gentle maid, Of slender form, in mantle green."