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FAMOUS SONGS
In close committee (October, 1399) it was determined that Richard should be conveyed to some castle, there to be kept in strict and secret imprisonment, where none of his former friends might have access to him. Whereupon he was removed from the Tower in the first instance to Leeds Castle, Kent; and like Edward II., he seems to have been removed secretly by night from one castle to another. " Every man," says Froissart, " might well consider that he should never come out of prison alive." And, as every school-boy knows, he never did. But how he came by his death is not known for certain to this day. The fact that Blondel was of French origin and could not write in Welsh, while Owen Glendower was a Welshman by birth, seems conclusive that the song refers to Richard II. and not Richard I.; besides, the time of BlondePs song, already described, and that of " A Mighty Warrior" (Per Alaw) are quite different.
Several of the Welsh songs are founded by the bards themselves upon their own love dis-appointments and experiences. "The Bard's Love" tells of the bard Hoel ap Einion, who fell in love with the celebrated Myvanury Vechan (residing in the year 1390 at Castel Dinas Bran in the Vale of Llangollen), and died broken-hearted because of her disdain. " Idle Days in
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