Which import in English:
There is a place within the wind-
ing shore of Seuerne sea,
On mids of rock, about whose foote,
The tydes turne-keeping play:
A towry-topped Castle heere,
wide blazeth ouer all,
Which Corineus auncient broode,
Tindagel Castle call.
It is not layd vp amongst the least vaunts of this Castle, that our
victorious Arthur was here begotten by the valiant Vter Pendragon,
vpon the fayre Igerna, and [122] that without taynt of bastardy,
sayth Merlyn, because her husband dyed some houres before.
Of later times, Tintogel hath kept long silence in our stories, vntill
H. the 3. raigne, at which time (by Mat. Paris report) his brother,
Earle Ri grew into obloquy for priuy receyuing there, & abbetting,
his nephew Dauid, against the King. After which, being turned from
a Palace [8 .R. 2.] to a prison, it restrained one Iohn Northamptons
libertie, who for abusing the same, in his vnruly Maioralty of London,
was condemned hither, as a perpetuall Penitenciary.
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