Show discovery of america above three hundred heeres before columbus toy by madoe ap owen gwyneth albeit formerly in a line or two vindicated the honour of our country lost in the greater part by protract protract of malicious malit ious time and well to 0 defend it I 1 desire to speak more largely largel y here and give yo you u the ground of my conjecture that madoc T son of owen gwyneth discovered the we sterne world now callad america and odd od beers before C columbus ol umbus not to detract from that mans worth but that the truth may prevailed pre vaile and the memory of our heroic countryman revive revive havin having gasped too long in in hateful ignorance a and oblivion flor for if analogy of language and authority of good authors maybe credited it it may peradventure be accepted of yea amongst critics game gaine entertainment from an innate desire to and to avoid do mystique mes tique broils he put that in action which some old I 1 ique sayings gave hira him light and encouraged him in tie very ver y like he had bad read plato for what part of the world has ever more affected learning than the brittains brittaine Britt ains who in his dialogue twixt and Cri ri cias discourses of a great vast ile west from the named atla At lasas sas bigg ia as asia and africa put together some illumination nee hee had also out of aristotle and their books of aar i ties writ two thon thousand sand beeres aboe pom pom 9 mela a and lamprides affirmed the land was south ou from carthage hee bee discovered madoc from these lights discerned it and least any may the man to whom we erect a trophy of so great honour an obscure or illiterate man not worth a memory lets in a line or two speak his descent and quality and then the particulars of his voyage he was brother to of that famous owen gwynedd prince of wales who for above 30 beeres governed wisely with great courage and good for fortune tane his father was grath griffith ap an conan that did homage for some lands in engl england anar to willi william the Conque at St Davids and descended li neally from king mawr or roderic the great glorious in numy many conflicts and victories against again the saval savage e saxon in those four great battles espee especially bally at berthen erthen bangela Ban gelu Mon egid and Aug anglesea lesea in the beere from adamu adam from the nativity of our blessed savior such time as Burch red king of mereia mercia athel wolfe king of the west Says ses meiric and other valiant princes by sad trial found him fortunate foit which suffice to illustrate madocs quality every way exceeding honourable honour able wal madoc ap owen wen gwyneth perceives the normans ready to swallow wim them for nothing more destroys a nation than a div division Islon and that his advice nor propositions of peace were hearkened to but rather by such good offices made him the object of their fui rie he thenceforth studies his owne preservation but sees no part of his native home glance any happ inesse but everywhere horror and destruction his genius therefore ej prompts him to adventures yeah yea to haste abroad in some remote place or other to establish his present state and future happiness no shew of feare no improbability in in i reason no p peradventures per er adventures any whit dis animating his well spirit to sea there fore he meant to go and prepares speedily for at that instant bee saw that tique song penned by ambrose a noble barde fulfilled in the beere madoe madoc the rather confirmed his intentions for trav ell when bee saw such distraction at home holpe s such ach apos tacy in all cal callings lingi eil also so his life every day in danger r all things therefore being f fitted bee put pat tosea to sea without bidding his kindred farewell least too much love or hate might have withdraw ne him the beere he set forth in was from adam from christ 1170 the wind and sea seemed to favour him omens of good fortune so as after some patience and weeks saile due west hee bee descried land a land where he found aund store of good victual ls sweet water fresh we ayre gold and w which aich was best where they were a goo good whiles healthfully health full such as overwhelmed him with joy but moderated when he con sid aired how almighty god was alike powerfully power full and gracious in all places his exile now turned into into comfort in seiw of ingeminating his owne misery hee bee jo joyes yes him and sees his brothers brother s most unhappy princes who so eagerly emu emulates lateA hiie one an others great nesse la a territory cabi causing it which compared with this god had directed him to was but bill as a handfuls hand full of earth and which he had possession of without opposition or bloodshed here madoe madoc planted in Florida or canada some part of mexico raisa some fortifications for defence left a hundred and twenty men 1 I follow the old copie e in this storie and directed by gods provi dence aoel the e best compas seand benefit of the pole st starre adre after long saile baile arrived safely at home where hee bee recounted his mar vailous successfully success full voyage the fruitfulness of the soil the simplicity of the savages the great wealth abounding abounding there and facil facility ily of conquest a discourse that filed uld them with joy and admiration mi ration and whereby hew hee drew many willing buling minds to to beturne with him I 1 in ten good barques loaded with all necessary essaiy provisions 7 ion they ey advanced back and most fortunately re tattled attained the same place they hoped for great rejoicing was among them at their happ inesse but no lesse sorrow followed ford for being come to the he t plantation they found few of those they left there living caused by too much eating the in indisposition or nove novelty 7 of that ayre and climate which though never so excellent yet causes sicknesses sick nesse and alteration in new inhabitants by some trephene tre chene cherie of the barbarians madoc d digested ested it with a christian fortitude and patience al and forthwith bettered the colony by help of Eneo nand edwall his brothers contriving everything with io ao t good order that they were secure from any en benemie erdie and had all things conducing to ease plenty and contente dnesse they threw away the too indulgent I 1 thoughts of their native homes holnes by this reason that if they e died there they ey were m in t the e same distance is ance from heaven ave and had as easie a journey aljourney thither what most afflicted isted them was the breach I 1 df of pro promise T many of their friends had made but not p performed r for the cause was not in them but in the overture of that state turned topsie aurvie by the brittain princes and totally by the indiscretion of that unhappy prince 1 lluellyn ap griffith lately married to cleoner Ele oner daughter 0 of at Afon Monteford teford ao bold earl of lecester and cleoner Ele oner daughter of which griffith was anno 1282 at by Franck ton an eug eng lishman in an unmanly fashion so that madoe madoc and his company returned ito no more nor did the welsh saile thither afterward whereby one of another in small 01 time were in some sort forgotten and never remembered te y but and his cambrian crew are dead and their memory moth eaten yet the footsteps and TeJi re liques ques former living there are to be trac ad and such as deserve to be revived clearly the language they left there the religion they taught the savages agi manifested it otherwise how come those many british words not much altred from the dialect amongst the mexicans whence had they the use I 1 of beads of crucifixes cruci fixes of Te re liques ac all which the spaniards as we read in lopez de gomera and others confesol con confess fessl they found amongst the cannibals Cani bals and thos of aculano and at their first landing in america yea some contradiction and reports amongst the mexicans that about t the he time tim e madoc was there a stran strange ge people came thither in cor baughs or ships who taught them some knowledge of god 3 and by whose whose examples they became more moree civil ivil and industrious testified by columbus franciscus lopez z Coz oz tezo ezo os us and other r Casti as i lians ia s 0 of quality that at of F fernando ando cortez anno domini domi ambassador ass or and gen Generall I 1 for Ferdin ferdinand hud and isabell is also 0 remarkable this is made more orthodox all by welsh names given givan on en there to birds rivers rocks beasts ac as garan do wathaw and them signifying to give eare unto or hearken penguin referd by them to a bird that has a viente white head and to rocks rock of that resemblance the bics the cape of brittain gw gwyn ya doar white water bara bread mam mother tate father doar water time bu or buch bubb a C cow w 01 calugar a heathcock loynol a fox wy an egg calaf a quill arwyn a nose net ef heaven and others welsh words and of the same signification i whereby in in my conceits conceit none save detracting el can justly oppose such modest testimonies and of what I 1 wish were generally allowed of axy NOT or is it a of yesterday many worthy men of late and ancient times have revived it such are e ap orono grono meredith ap rayce bayce guten owen lloyd powell pris Hac kluit broughton davys ac farre be it from me or any honest man to detract columbus or to derogate from his deserved glory it may be his discovery wasas madocs ly from his owne skill genius and out knowledge of madocs former being there or of encouragement from old conjectures his greatest reason I 1 know was that so much of the degrees could scarce be ocean and that he mi might ht as wei well discover westward as the gals hj had done east to the oth other er indies but this I 1 would withal have also granted that this his vo voyage ge was after the other of our countryman three zered hundred and two and twenty beeres and that the spaniards have not so much right to those counties counti ies 1 I meane of america as our king has so long as they arrogate their blaime from a prim ier ier discovery the above curious carious narrative of so early a discovery of america is extracted from a work entitled some beeres arti travels els into africa asia the great ac by thomas herbert esq who sailed from dover with six well manned vessels on good friday 1626 |