[The history of Caradoc ends with A.D. 1156. The continuation, to the year 1270, is ascribed by Powel, the editor of the volume, to the monks of Conway and Stratflur.] Carmina Meredith filii Rhesi [Meredydd ab Rhys] mentionem facientia de Madoco filio Oweni Gwynedd, et de suâ navigatione in terras incognitas. Vixit hic Meredith circiter annum Domini 1477. Madoc wyf, mwyedic wedd, Iawn genau, Owen Gwynedd; Ni fynnum dir, fy enaid oedd, Na da mawr, ond y moroedd. _The same in English._ Madoc I am the sonne of Owen Gwynedd With stature large, and comely grace adorned; No lands at home nor store of wealth me please, My minde was whole to searche the ocean seas. "These verses I received of my learned friend M. William Camden." _Richard Hakluyt_, 1589. [The eulogy of Meredydd ab Rhys is very indefinite, but deserves notice on account of its early date. He "flourished," says W. Owen, "between A.D. 1430 and 1460."] "This land must needs be some part of that countrie of which the Spaniardes affirme themselves to be the first finders sith Hannos time; ... Whereupon it is manifest, that that countrie was long before by Brytaines discouered, afore either Columbus or Americus Vespatius lead anie Spaniardes thither. Of the viage and returne of this Madoc there be _manie fables fained_, as the common people doo use in distance of place {57} and length of time rather to augment than to diminish: but sure it is, that there he was."--HUMFREY LHOYD, _Additions to the Historie of Cambria_, p. 228. [Lhoyd, who translated the history of Caradoc, and made considerable additions to it, died in 1568. He mentions the second voyage of Madoc, but cites no authority.] "This Madoc arriving in that westerne countrie, unto the which he came, in the year 1170, left most of his people there: and returning backe for more of his owne nation, acquaintance and freends, to inhabite that faire and large countrie: went thither againe with ten sailes, as I find noted by Gutyn Owen. I am of opinion that the land, wherevnto he came, was some part of Mexico:" etc.--David Powel, S.T.P., note in _The historie of Cambria_, 1584. 4°. p. 229. [The learned Powel relies on the authority of the poet Gutyn Owen. "He wrote," says W. Owen, "between A.D. 1460 and 1490"--three centuries after the event in question!] _Ethnographic evidence._ "They came [anno 1536] to part of the West Indies about Cape Breton, shaping their course thence north-eastwards, vntill they camme to the Island of Penguin," etc.--The voyage of master Hore, in _The principall navigations_, etc. 1589. Fol.