I held a tower in France, till all the old women in Wales heard of it; and now the old women of France shall hear how I defended the Welsh castle. The book of North Wales - Page 224by Charles Frederick Cliffe - 1850 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Britton - Architecture - 1812 - 1070 pages
...for the surrender of the place, to which the governor promptly replied, " I held a tower in France, till all the old women in Wales heard of it; and now the old women of France shall hear how 1 defended the Welsh castle."* The assailing army, after a long... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1812 - 1052 pages
...for the surrender of the place, to which the governor promptly replied, " I held a tower in France, till all the old women in Wales heard of it ; and now the old women of France shall hear how 1 defended the Welsh castle."* The assailing army, after a long... | |
| Emma Roberts - Great Britain - 1827 - 572 pages
...effectually resisted all the efforts of Edward's commanders to take it, saying, " I held a tower in France till all the old women in Wales heard of it, and now the old women in France shall hear how I defended the Welch castle."* The Cambrian hero was however... | |
| Thomas Dugdale - Chronology, Historical - 1830 - 266 pages
...to a summons to surrender from the English general, Sir Richard Herbert ; I held a tower in France, till all the old women in Wales heard of it; and now the old women of France shall hear how I defended the Welsh castle." Nevertheless, subdued by famine,... | |
| 1830 - 482 pages
...for the surrender of the place, to which the governor promptly replied : " I held a tower in France, till all the old women in Wales heard of it; and now the old women of France shall hear how I defended the Welsh castle." The assailing army, after a long... | |
| Edward Parry - Wales - 1843 - 252 pages
...orders to surrender the place : to which the governor promptly replied, " I held a tower in France till all the old women in Wales heard of it; and now the old women of France shall hear how I defend this castle.'' The assailing army found that the place... | |
| Edward Parry - 1851 - 532 pages
...orders to surrender the place : to which the governor promptly replied, " I held a tower in France till all the old women in Wales heard of it ; and now the old women of Prance shall hear how I defend this castle." The assailing army found that the place... | |
| Anne Beale - 1858 - 954 pages
...the envoy, gave the following ready reply : — " Go tell your general I held a tower in France till the old women in Wales heard of it ; and now I will let the old women in France hear how I defend my fortress in Wales." The Saxon knight was not so much... | |
| John Timbs - Historic buildings - 1872 - 602 pages
...after his possession of the crown. In 1468, Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, invested the place, and the answer of the Welsh hero is on record. ' I held a...reduce it only by the slow assault of famine, and Dafydd surrendered on honourable terms, his life being spared as a condition of his surrender. Edward,... | |
| Thomas Nicholas - Wales - 1872 - 524 pages
...Herbert, the earl's brother, received from the stout defender this answer, — " I held a tower in- France till all the old women in Wales heard of it, and now the old women of France shall hear how I defend this castle." Famine, however, at length succeeded,... | |
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