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¶The third Chapter dooth shewe the lawfull tytle, which the Queenes most excellent Maiestie hath vnto those Coun∣tries, which through the ayde of almightie God are mente to be inhabited. (Book 3)
AND it is very euident that the planting there shall in time right amplie enlarge her Ma∣iesties Territories and Dominions (or I might rather say) restore her to her Highnesse auncient right and interest in those Countries,* 1.1 into the which a noble and woor∣thy personage, lyneally descended from the blood royall, borne in VVales, named Madocke ap Owen Gwyneth depar∣ting from the coast of England, about the yeere of our Lord God. 1170. arriued and there planted himselfe,* 1.2 and his Colonies,* 1.3 and afterward returned himselfe into Eng∣land, leauing certaine of his people there, as appeareth in an auncient Welch Chronicle, where he then gaue to cer∣taine Ilandes, Beastes, and Fowles, sundrie VVelch names, as the Iland of Pengwyn, which yet to this day beareth the same.
There is lykewise a Fowle in the sayde Countries, cal∣led by the same name at this daye, and is as much to saye in Englishe, as VVhiteheadde, and in trueth, the sayde Fowles haue white heads.