Ebook The Story of Glamorgan

The design on the cover will be new to most of our readers, and for it we are indebted to T. H. Thomas, Esq., R.C.A., the Herald Bard of Wales. It is a design that the people of Glamorgan should be proud of, as it formed the Blazon of the Men of Glamorgan at the famous Battle of Agincourt, where Welshmen did much towards winning the victory, though they got but little of the praise. Drayton, however, in his poem, refers to the Blazon in the following words: -

"Glamorgan men, a castle great and high,
From which, out of the battlements above,
A flame shot up itself into the sky."

Though much interesting information has, of necessity, been omitted from this book, it is hoped that enough has been written to arouse in the sons and daughters of Glamorgan, for whom it is intended, a desire for a further and deeper knowledge of their native county, a county which is second to none in the possession of an honourable and blood-stirring past, a prosperous present, and, it is to be hoped, a glorious future.