After suppressing a minor rebellion in Wales in 1277, Edward invited the Welsh nobles and their Bards, to Montgomery Castle, for a banquet and a festival of music and song. When the Welsh Bards refused to sing to celebrate his victory but instead sang of Welsh victories, he burned them at the stake. He then dispatched his men to the four corners of Wales to seek out and burn, all the remaining Welsh Bards. In all, it is told, five hundred bards were...