A feature in Western Mail of 1st April 2009 ‘Glyndwr Letter Comes Home – as a copy’ was of course referring to the Pennal Letter of which six copies have been made to distribute around Wales to be placed at a number of venues but not at Cefn Caer where the letter was probably finally drafted (it’s connection with the Church at Pennal possibly a matter of some religious approval for said document). Whatever? The WM feature went on to make a big deal of comparing the Pennal letter as ‘’our Elgin Marbles’’ but as stated by Arwel Jones of the National Library, ‘’the French are the legitimate holders of the letter’’. For it was sent by Owain Glyndwr to they regards seeking French help in the war against the English. Thus this is not only a disservice to the French who for a number of years were our allies and sent an army to aid us in the war of National Liberation against the English but it is also a distraction from historical truths.
The truth is that the Elgin Marbles were stolen from the Greeks whilst they were still under Ottoman rule, and thus the Greeks are quite right to demand their return whilst we have no right to demand anything of the French in similar connection. Further on in this feature an Adrian Jones compares the Elgin Marbles to Scotland’s Stone of Scoone, again a rather silly comparison to say the least, as this also was stolen by the English but eventually returned. If we are to draw any comparisons at all with the aforementioned thefts of National Treasures, then a much better comparison is of course our Croes Naid – not only one of our greatest symbolic icons but also a stolen national treasures - symbolic of our lost sovereignty.
More than any other patriot it has been Edgar Pritchard of Ynys Mon who has done post to pursue and write up the truth about ‘Y Groes Naid’, I have urged him to publish his writings and hope he will in the not too distant future but mean while search web for information on this most important of our national treasures. However, ‘Y Groes Naid’ was but one of a number of our national and royal treasures of Gwynedd stolen by the English King Edward I but like so much in our history there is a rather sad and sickening ‘home Truth’. That is the reality, that a Welsh Traitor who was given these royal treasures of Gwynedd into his safe keeping handed them over to the English. His reward a ‘’student grant’’ to Oxford, if you think that is ‘’sad & sick’’ did you know that in a number of Welsh Chiefs of Gwynedd collaborated with Edward I in the provision and presentation of our own ‘’Vichyist Treaty’’, the Statutes of Rhuddlan 19 March 1284 – a ‘Colonial Charter’ if ever there was one! Whilst on matters of ‘’Home Truths’’ here’s another great big vomit worthy episode of betrayal, that of the gathering of a 1000 Welsh Minstrels at Overton to sing for their supper and English patronage no doubt, as they sometimes do today.
2009 is the 725th anniversary of this looting of our National Treasure, time for us to demand them back and this will be the purpose of this blog to provide information on our stolen national Treasures and to promote campaigns to bring them back home to Cymru where they rightly belong. Keep an eye out for further blogs on this post.
G.ap Gruffydd. Welsh Remembrancer & Adfywiad Gwladgarwr.
The truth is that the Elgin Marbles were stolen from the Greeks whilst they were still under Ottoman rule, and thus the Greeks are quite right to demand their return whilst we have no right to demand anything of the French in similar connection. Further on in this feature an Adrian Jones compares the Elgin Marbles to Scotland’s Stone of Scoone, again a rather silly comparison to say the least, as this also was stolen by the English but eventually returned. If we are to draw any comparisons at all with the aforementioned thefts of National Treasures, then a much better comparison is of course our Croes Naid – not only one of our greatest symbolic icons but also a stolen national treasures - symbolic of our lost sovereignty.
More than any other patriot it has been Edgar Pritchard of Ynys Mon who has done post to pursue and write up the truth about ‘Y Groes Naid’, I have urged him to publish his writings and hope he will in the not too distant future but mean while search web for information on this most important of our national treasures. However, ‘Y Groes Naid’ was but one of a number of our national and royal treasures of Gwynedd stolen by the English King Edward I but like so much in our history there is a rather sad and sickening ‘home Truth’. That is the reality, that a Welsh Traitor who was given these royal treasures of Gwynedd into his safe keeping handed them over to the English. His reward a ‘’student grant’’ to Oxford, if you think that is ‘’sad & sick’’ did you know that in a number of Welsh Chiefs of Gwynedd collaborated with Edward I in the provision and presentation of our own ‘’Vichyist Treaty’’, the Statutes of Rhuddlan 19 March 1284 – a ‘Colonial Charter’ if ever there was one! Whilst on matters of ‘’Home Truths’’ here’s another great big vomit worthy episode of betrayal, that of the gathering of a 1000 Welsh Minstrels at Overton to sing for their supper and English patronage no doubt, as they sometimes do today.
2009 is the 725th anniversary of this looting of our National Treasure, time for us to demand them back and this will be the purpose of this blog to provide information on our stolen national Treasures and to promote campaigns to bring them back home to Cymru where they rightly belong. Keep an eye out for further blogs on this post.
G.ap Gruffydd. Welsh Remembrancer & Adfywiad Gwladgarwr.
