DID WALES DISCOVER AMERICA ?
There is' further evidence fwrites a correspondent of the Daily Mail) in support of the Welsh contention that they discovered America before Columbus in Rowland's 'Mona Antigua Rcstaurata/ published in 1756, where the following passage occurs: — "If a 'right to the 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 hss -confirmed, it does, then we are all 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 advantured and*"perf6rnTe"d"the"discovery of the .West, lndies, returned, -and went again there with a colony of Welshmen, above three hundred years before Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci mode their discovery of it, on which ths Spaniards ground their titl: to those rich and spacious regions and islands thereunto belonging."
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10568, 14 February 1902, Page 1
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189DID WALES DISCOVER AMERICA ? Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10568, 14 February 1902, Page 1
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