DID WALES DISCOVER AMERICA?

Evening Star, Issue 11675, 6 February 1902, Page 8

DID WALES DISCOVER AMERICA?

There is further evidence (writes a correspondent of the ' Daily Mail') in support of the Welsh contention that they discovered America before Columbus in Rowland's Mona Antiqua Restaurata,' published in 1756, where the folowing passage occurs: 'lf a right to tho possession of undiscovered regions belongs to the Crown or Sovereignty of those Kingdoms or States whose native subjects were the first discoverers of them, as the Spaniards affirm, and as the Pope has confirmed, it does, then we are well able to prove, as far as any credit of history and attesting circumstances go, that his present Majesty King George, in right of the Imperial Crown of Great Britain, is rightly entitled to all America, by the first, discovery and Premier seisin of that country by one Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd, born in this island —who adventured and performed the discovery of the West Indies, returned, and went again there with a colony of Welshmen, above three hundred years before Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci made their discovery of it, on which the Spaniards ground their title to those rich and spacious regions and islands thereunto belonging."