ABSTRACT
Thomas Churchyard, A general rehearsal of warres, called Churchyardes choise. Just two of the many relevant antecedents of The Worthines of Wales are The History of Cambria, now called Wales, translated by Humphrey Llwyd and revised by David Powel, and the Latin edition of William Camden's Britannia. Churchyard served under Henry Sidney during the Irish campaigns of 1566 and 1575-76, and the chorographic form of The Worthines of Wales may have been prompted by Sidney's intellectual investments in mapping the landscape. In a text obviously designed to flatter the Queen, Churchyard says that under Elizabeth's Princely favour undertaken to set forth a work in the honour of Wales, where your highness ancestors took name'. Conversely, Churchyard takes issue with George Buchanan, the author of Rerum Scoticarum Historia, who refutes Llwyd's scholarship on the foundations of the British Empire' which appeared in Commentarioli Brittanicae descriptionis fragmentum.
