A topographical dictionary of Wales, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, with historical and statistical descriptions; (14590657429)

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Title: A topographical dictionary of Wales, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, with historical and statistical descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties; and a map of Wales ... and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishopricks, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municipal corporations. With an appendix, describing the electoral boundaries of the several boroughs, as defined by the late act
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Lewis, Samuel, d. 1865
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Publisher: London, S. Lewis and co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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, and henceproceeded into Pembrokeshire. About the year 106S,the Normans having proved successful in their invasionof England, a strong body of them made a descent uponthe western coast of South Wales, and ravaged thiscounty and that of Pembroke; but, being quickly attackedby Caradoc, Prince of South Wales, they were compelledto abandon their plunder, and retreat to their ships. . ■■ ~-K— ■= i! ir ■ - !»
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CAR C A R These marauders returned three years after, in 1071,but with the like ill success, being defeated with greatloss by Rhydderch, son and successor of Caradoc. In1087, the sons of Bleddyn ab Cynvyn, a deceased princeof North Wales, raised a formidable insurrection inSouth Wales, against the authority of Rhys ab Tewdwr,the reigning prince of this country, whom they com-pelled to retire to Ireland. Being aided with a largebody of Irish troops by his brother-in-law, the king ofDublin, Rhys soon returned, and was joined by numer-ous friends ; while the sons of Bleddyn, thinking thatdelay would increase the strength of their antagonist,hastened to give him battle. The adverse armies metat a place called Llechryd, and a sanguinary conflict en-sued, in which the sons of Bleddyn were totally defeat-ed, and two of them slain : the scene of this action hasbeen generally placed in Radnorshire, but it is nowthought to have been fought at Llechryd, near the Teivy,in this county, a few miles