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Young Folks, History of England

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...name that meant strangers, and we call them Welsh still, and their country Wales. They made a great many grand stories about their last brave chief, A... ...owned as their over-lord by all the kings of the remains of the Britons in Wales and Scotland. Once, eight of these kings came to meet him at Chester,... ...t was made prisoner by his brother, who sent him off to Cardiff Castle, in Wales, where he lived for twenty-eight years, and then died, and was buried... ...that time, the eldest son of the King of England has always been Prince of Wales. There was a plan for the little Prince Edward of Caernarvon being ma... ... prince against his father. Edward and his friends were hunted across into Wales; but they were tracked out one by one, and the Despencers were put to... ...great battle by land—so long, that the king’s eldest son, Edward Prince of Wales, was sixteen years old. He is generally called the Black Prince—no on... .... They were Edward, Lionel, John, Edmund, and Thomas. Edward was Prince of Wales; Lionel, Duke of Clarence; John, Duke of Lancaster; Edmund, Duke of Y... ...as sent to fight with the Welsh: and with the king’s son, Henry, Prince of Wales—a brave boy of fifteen or sixteen—under his charge, to teach him the ... ...ud Percy so angry that he gave up the cause of King Henry, and went off to Wales, taking his prisoners with him; and there—be- ing by this time nearly...

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