[1] About this season a great part of Flanders being drowned by an exundation or breaking in of the sea, Polydor. Ran. Higd. a great number of Flemings came into Eng|land, beséeching the king to haue some void place as|signed them,Flemings cõ|ming ouer in|to England, haue places appointed them to in|habit. wherein they might inhabit. At the first they were appointed to the countrie lieng on the east part of the riuer of Twéed: but within foure yeres after, they were remooued into a corner by the sea side in Wales, called Penbrokeshire, to the end they might be a defense there to the English against the vnquiet Welshmen.