Description of Pembrokeshire by George Owen

Description of Pembrokeshire by George Owen is in Victorian Books.

Here againe in Pembrokshere happened his landinge [on 7th August 1485] and first footeinge when he came to enioye the Crowne, and to confounde the parricide and bluddie tyrante Ri: 3 here founde he the hartes and hands first of all this lande readye to ayde and assist him and presently after breathinge of this his natyve Countreys ayre began his forces to increase. The good kinge seemed to acknowledge this soyle fatall and happie to him, for in the place where he first touched lande in Milford havon; he builded a Chappell1 as thoughe he wished to haue that luckye place hallowed to gods service; of the bodie of this Pembrokshere Prince hath sprunge and budded out such Joyes, as make the hartes of all good subjectes to leppe for joye, as first in extinguishinge our home and domesticall sedicion, as alsoe in thinkeinge vpon the happie yssue out of his loynes, namely the famouse kinge Henry: 8: in his tyme most famouse in the world;

Note 1. At Dale. No vestige of the chapel remained in Fenton's time; see Pemb., — p. 166.