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Updated: September 14, 2025
Then he knew that he should soon die, but he bade the seven men to cut off his head and told them that they must always carry it with them that it would never decay and would always be able to speak and be pleasant company for them. "A long time will you be on the road," he said. "In Harlech you will feast seven years, the birds of Rhiannon singing to you all the while.
The song of "The March of the Men of Harlech" is a memorial of this siege. Harlech was the last Welsh fortress during the Civil Wars that held out for Charles I., and since then it has been gradually falling to decay. We have now conducted the tourist to the chief objects in North Wales.
I cannot see, therefore, how I can be viewed as an English subject: and if I were to allow myself the magnificent language adopted by my learned enemy who opened the case for the crown, I might rather claim to be considered as a foreign power making unsuccessful war upon the king of England in his castle of Harlech, and now taken prisoner in my final invasion of his territories.
'Right you are, said Montgomery, pulling out his pocket-book. 'Breaking the Spell, so far so good; now we must have a song or a character sketch to follow, and I don't think it would be a bad idea if we rehearsed a comedietta. What do you say to The Happy Pair? 'Right you are, pencil it down, can't do better, it always goes well; and then I can sing between "The Men of Harlech."
But this time her voice was stronger and more dramatic; and as for the composition all I can say is it had a wild, fierce ring to it, like "Men of Harlech"; only the notes did not correspond to the chromatic scale. "By George!" when she had done. "Now we HAVE got something! For the first time, we've heard some genuine, unadulterated Blind Spot stuff!"
There was an immense crowd of people, who were entirely unarmed, not even a shillelagh among them; but if knitted brows and flashing eyes mean anything, there were men there capable, if any incident set pent-up rage free, to imitate the men of Harlech, who, with plaided breasts, encountered mail clad men.
Of these castles, the most elaborate is the castle of Caerphilly, built by Gilbert de Clare, the Red Earl of Gloucester who helped Edward in the Welsh wars. And it was by means of these magnificent concentric castles Conway, Beaumaris, Carnarvon, and Harlech that Edward hoped to keep Wales. There are many kinds of bows. In war two were used the cross-bow and the long-bow.
The crown lawyers painted the prisoner's guilt in the most alarming colours; insisting much on his extraordinary talents both military and civil as a leader in popular tumults. The witnesses deposed with tolerable consistency to his having tampered with them for purposes connected with some design upon Harlech castle. The capture of one outwork of Harlech was established.
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