pported by common report,) seven
hundred prisoners;" and of his prisoners, how many
soever they were, he transported (as Des Ursins
tells us) only the most considerable to England,
dismissing the rest under promise to bring their
ransom to him in the field of Lendi, on the feast
of St. John in the summer, and, if he were not
there, they should be discharged of the debt.]

[Footnote 141: Of this gallant Welshman, the
following account is taken from the Appendix of the
"Battle of Agincourt." "Dr. Meyrick (now Sir
Samuel) says, Davydd Gam, _i.e._ Squint-eyed David,
was a native of Brecknockshire, and, holding his
land of the honour of Hereford, was a strenuous
supporter of the Lancastrian interests. He was the
son of Llewellyn, descended from Einion Sais, who
possessed a handsome property in the parishes of
Garthbrengy and Llanddeu. In consequence of an
affray in the high street of Brecknock, in which he
unfortunately killed his kinsman, he was compelled
to fly into England to avoid a threatened
prosecution, and became the implacable enemy of
Owain Glyndowr, whom he attempted to assassinate.
Gam, it may be supposed, was his nick-name, as he
called himself David Llewellyn; and there are good
grounds for supposing that Shakspeare has
caricatured him in Captain Fluellin. His
descendants, however, conceiving that his prowess
more than redeemed his natural defect, took the
name of Game. Sir Walter Raleigh has an eulogium
upon his bravery and exploits on the field of
Agincourt, in which he compares him to Hannibal. He
was knighted on the field with his two companions
in glory and death, Sir Roger Vaughan, of
Bedwardine in Herefordshire, and Sir Walter, or
rather Watkin Llwyd, of the lordship of Brecknock.
Sir Roger had married Gwladis, the daughter of Sir