The following are the major testimonia for the revolt in the examined chronicles composed in Latin. These chronicles have been chosen for particular attention because they have not previously been translated. They are assembled here in order to give a sense of the wider contexts in which the passages quoted occur. They appear in the following order:

Chronicle 1: Thomas Walsingham’s Historia Anglicana

Chronicle 2: Continuatio Eulogii

Chronicle 3: Historia Vitae

Chronicle 4: Dieulacres Chronicle

Chronicle 5: John Capgrave’s Liber de Illustribus Henricis

Chronicle 6: John Rous’s Historia Regum Angliae

Chronicle 7: Polydore Vergil’s Historia Anglica

The passages are arranged in the order in which they appear in the texts.

Chronicle 1: Thomas Walsingham, Historia Anglicana

Historia Anglicana: De tempore regis Henrici, Post Conquestum Quarti, ed. H. T. Riley, 2 vols (Rolls Series, 1863).

manuscripts: Cambridge, CCC. Ms 7.

Passage 1a. Thomas Walsingham, Historia Anglicana, II, 246

Interea Wallici, nacta occasione de regis absentia, duce quodam Oweyno de Glendour, rebellare coeperunt. Hic primo apprenticuis fuit apud West-monasterium, deinde scutifer Regis moderni; sed orta discordia inter eum et dominum Reginaldum Grey de Ruthyn, pro terris quas asseruit sibi jure haereditario pertinere, cum rationes suas et allegationes parvipensas cerneret, primo in dictum Dominum de Grey hostilia commovit arma, vastans possessiones ejus per incendia, et ferro perimens plures de sua familia nimis crudeliter et inhumane. Quem proinde Rex prosequi statuens, tanquam pacis patriae turbatorem, cum armata manu Walliam est ingressus; sed Cambri, cum duce suo, montes Snowdoune occupantes, intentatae vindictae se protinus subtraxerunt. Rex vero, combusta regione et quibusdam peremptis, quos sors pro tunc gladiis evaginatis obtulerat, cum praeda jumentorum et animalium remeavit.

In the meantime, there happened to be an occasion that the king was absent, and the Welsh, with a certain leader, Owain Glyndŵr, began to rebel. This man was first an apprentice near Westminster and later the squire of the current king; but discord arose between him and Reginald Lord Grey on account of lands which he claimed belonged to him by right of inheritance, and when he discerned that his reasoning and claims were of little weight, he began hostilities against the said Lord de Grey, laying waste his possessions with fires and slaying many of his household too cruelly and savagely.