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 to Maenan Abbey and finally to Llanrwst Church. But in that beautiful Vale of Conway, where every sod is consecrated by the blood shed by our forefathers for Wales, there is no monument to remind the generations of his genius and to animate us in the attainment, under widely-differing circumstances, of the ideal of Cymru yn Un for which he strove so gallantly and so successfully.

Need I dwell on the sad memory of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, ein Llyw ola'? His alliance with that great Briton, Simon de Montfort, in the struggle which led to the establishment of the English Parliament, his romantic attachment to Eleanor de Montfort, his happy marriage to her at Worcester in the presence of the Kings of England and Scotland, his gallant struggles against Edward I., his dignified controversy with Archbishop Peckham, the devotion of the Welsh people to him, his sad, sad death, all these are familiar to you. The frantic exultation of Edward I., when the brave Llywelyn's head was brought to him, the hideous jeers with which the cruel populace of London placed a crown of shame