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[1]
[2] In the meane time that
the king was thus in Scotland,
King Henrie returneth home.
The Scots burne in Nor|thumberland. Iusts at Yorke.
the Scots made a rode into Northumber|land, and burned diuerse
townes in Bamburrough shire. At the kings comming backe to Yorke, there were
two strangers, the one a Frenchman, and the other an Italian, requiring to
accomplish certeine feats of armes, against sir Iohn Cornewall, and Ia|nico
de Artois. Their request was granted, and the strangers were put to the
woorst, whereby sir Iohn Cornewall obteined the kings fauour so farre
foorth,Sir Iohn Cornewall marrieth the kings
sister. that he married the kings sister, the widow of Iohn
Holland, earle of Huntington. Yet some said, that the knight and the
countesse were agréed aforehand, without the kings consent. In the kings
absence, whilest he was foorth of the realme in Scotland a|gainst his
enimies,The Welsh|men rebell by the setting [...] of Owen Glendouer. the Welshmen tooke occasion to rebell
vnder the conduct of their capteine Owen Glendouer, dooing what mischeefe
they could deuise, vnto their English neighbours. This Owen Glen|douer was
sonne to an esquier of Wales,
Iohn Stow. Owen Glen|douer what he was. named Griffith
Uichan: he dwelled in the parish of Con|waie, within the countie of
Merioneth in North|wales, in a place called Glindourwie, which is as much to
saie in English, as The vallie by the side of the water of Dée, by occasion
whereof he was sur|named Glindour Dew.