The Welsh settled down peaceably on their lands and generally adopted the English customs. Except a few great lords, their gentry were still the

Seldom has a shameful and violent death been better merited than by a double-dyed traitor like David, false by turns to his country and his king; nor

A curious superstition precipitated an outbreak . . . the so-called prophecies of Merlin, which were designed to reconcile the Welsh to the Norman