Identifier: narrativeofjourn00turn (find matches)
Title: Narrative of a journey : associated with a fly from Gloucester to Aberystwith, and from Aberystwith through North Wales, July 31st to September 8th 1837
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Turner, Thomas, of Gloucester Radclyffe, William, 1780-1855, engraver. egr Turner, Thomas, of Gloucester, signer. sgn UPB
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Publisher: London : Printed for private distribution only
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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tower, which stands pre-eminent, and herein is exhibited an apartment inwhich Queen Eleanor was delivered of her unfor-tunate, though pusillanimous son, whose unhappydestiny the bard in solemn strain predicts : Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edwards race ; Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year and mark the night When Severn shall re-echo, with affright, The shrieks of death thro Berkeleys roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king! It is said that soon after the birth of the prince,Edward, being obliged to leave the country,addressed himself to the Welsh nobility, andartfully engaged that he would comply with theirlong fostered wish and their importunity toappoint them a prince, on condition that theywould swear allegiance to the individual he shouldnominate. The Welsh acquiesced, reserving onlythat he should determine upon one of their ownnation. The king accordingly promised that he ««s;;..:;;:/:■;:.;.::;*!
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m LLANBERIS TO CAERNARVON. 127 would name one born in Wales, who could notspeak a word of English, and whose life wouldbear the strictest inquiry. The Welsh readilyagreed to obey this person ; but how were thesedeluded men astonished, when the monarch nomi-nated his own son, then but recently born in Caer-narvon Castle ! The walls of this noble structureare eight feet thick, a narrow gallery runningthrough their whole extent, in which there arenumerous slips for the discharge of arrows. Theonly remaining staircase is in the Eagle tower,which ascends 158 steps. Dr. Johnson says ofhis visit to Caernarvon Castle; We saw but avery small part of this mighty ruin, and in all theseold buildings, the subterraneous works are con-cealed by the rubbish. To survey this placewould take much time. I did not think there hadbeen such buildings. It surpassed my ideas.Wandering through this edifice, noble even in itsruins, the mind aptly forms a retrospect of thosescenes and those occurrences which hav

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