MONA ANTIQUA RESTAURATA: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE ON THE ANTIQUITIES, NATURAL AND HISTORICAL, OF THE ISLE OF ANGLESEY, THE ANCIENT SEAT OF THE BRITISH DRUIDS. IN TWO ESSAYS. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING A COMPARATIVE TABLE OF PRIMITIVE WORDS, AND THE DERIVATIVES OF THEM IN SEVERAL OF THE TONGUES OF EUROPE; WITH REMARKS UPON THEM. TOGETHER WITH SOME LETTERS, AND THREE CATALOGUES. BOUND WITH A HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF ANGLESEY. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, MEMOIRS OF OWEN GLENDOWR (1775), AND A GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF OWEN GLENDOWR; COPIED OUT OF A BOOK ON PEDIGREES, COLLECTED BY MR. THOMAS ELLIS, B.D. AND FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD.
London, England: J. Knox near Southampton-Street in the Strand, 1766. Second Edition, Corrected and Improved. Leather-bound. Quarto Second Edition, corrected and Improved. 4to. pp.xi,88. Full contemporary calf with worn gilt decorated spine, red leather title label. Several armorial bookplates, one of the Reverend Thomas Leman, Chancellor of Cloyne, who served in that capacity between 1796 and 1802, who, like author Rowlands, was himself a recognized authority. Bound with History of the Island of Anglesey, (1775) LACKS MAP. Twelve engraved plates, numbered correctly. First edition was published in 1723, this one much expanded upon, "corrected and improved". Final leaf contains an Errata sheet, and on the verso, advertisement for other books published by John Knox. Variant title: Observations on the Antiquities of the Island of Anglesey xi, [5], 357, [3] p., [1], XII leaves of plates : ill., map ; 4 . ESTC citation T139796. Rowlands devoted himself to the investigation of stone circles, cromlechs, and other prehistoric remains, especially those of his native county, his hypothesis being that Anglesey was the ancient metropolitan seat of the Druids. Good Plus. Item #83246
"Owen Glendower, was a Welsh leader, soldier and military commander in the Late Middle Ages, who led a 15-year-long revolt with the aim of ending English rule in Wales. He was an educated lawyer, forming the first Welsh parliament under his rule, and was the last native-born Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales.[1] In 1400 Owain Glynd r, a descendant of several Welsh royal dynasties, had a dispute with a neighbouring English lord that resulted in Glynd r claiming his ancestral title of Prince of Wales, which instigated the revolt against English rule. In response to the uprising, discriminatory penal laws were implemented against the Welsh people; this deepened public unrest and significantly increased support for Glynd r across Wales. In 1404, after a series of successful castle sieges and several battlefield victories against the English, Owain gained control of the country and was officially crowned Prince of Wales in the presence of French, Spanish, Scottish and Breton envoys. He summoned a national parliament, where he announced plans to reintroduce the traditional Welsh laws of Hywel Dda, establish an independent Welsh church, and build two universities. Owain formed an alliance with King Charles VI of France; in 1405 a French army landed in Wales to support the rebellion. Under Owain Glynd r's leadership, an internationally recognised independent Welsh state was briefly established. It lasted for five years until February 1409, when English forces captured Owain's last remaining strongholds of Aberystwyth Castle and Harlech Castle, effectively ending his territorial rule in Wales. Glynd r refused to surrender to the new king Henry V, ignoring two offers of a pardon from the monarch. He retreated to the Welsh hills and mountains with his remaining forces, where he continued to resist English rule by utilising guerrilla tactics. This continued until Owain disappeared in 1415, when one of his supporters, Adam of Usk, recorded that he died of natural causes.[2] Despite the large bounty placed on him by the English crown, Glynd r was never betrayed or captured, and in Welsh culture he acquired a mythical status alongside the likes of Cadwaladr, Cynon ap Clydno and King Arthur as a folk hero awaiting the call to return and liberate his people – "Y Mab Darogan" ('The Foretold Son').[3] In William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 he appears as the character Owen Glendower..." ((Wikipedia).
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