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Gage of Suffolk Fellow in a Turban Town of Holyhead Father Boots An Expedition Holy Head and Finisterrae Gryffith ab Cynan The Fairies' Well.
R. Gryffith to Cardinal Wolsey: Ellis, first series, Vol. I. p. 191, &c. Leland, Vol. II. p. 110. Campion's History of Ireland. Leland, Vol. II. p. 111. Campion. Leland. The earl married Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver St. John, while in London. Report to Cromwell, apparently by Allen, Master of the Rolls: State Papers, Vol. II. p. 175. Henry VIII. to the Earl of Surrey: State Papers, Vol.
Then as I looked towards the sea I thought I saw the fleet of Gryffith Ab Cynan steering from Ireland to Aber Menai, Gryffith, the son of a fugitive king, born in Ireland, in the Commot of Columbcille, Gryffith the frequently baffled, the often victorious; once a manacled prisoner sweating in the sun, in the market-place of Chester, eventually king of North Wales; Gryffith, who "though he loved well the trumpet's clang loved the sound of the harp better"; who led on his warriors to twenty-four battles, and presided over the composition of the twenty-four measures of Cambrian song.