1 88 CORWEN TO BALA. 



gramage unto hym fomc withe kynr, other wiihc o::eii orhorHs, 

 and the rcfte withe money in fo muchc tliat there was fyve or 

 fyxe Imndrcthe pillgramci to a mans cflimacon that offered to the 

 faide image the fifte daie of this prcfente moncthe of ApII ; the 

 innocente people hathe ben fore ahiryd and entifid to worfliipe 

 the faide image in fo muche that there is a comyn faynge as yet 

 amongift them that who fo ever will offer anie thinge to the faide 

 fmage of Darvell Gadarn, he hathe power to fatche hym or them 

 that fo offers once oute of hell when they be dampned. Ther- 

 forc for the reformacon and amendmente of the premifis I wolde 

 gladlie knowe by this bcrer youre honorable plcafure and will, as 

 knowithe God ; who euer preferae your lordefiilpe longe in welth 

 and honor. —•Written in Northe Wales the vi. day of this prcfente 

 Aprill ( 1537).— Youre bedeman and dayelie orator by dutie. 



" Elis Price*." 



The Welfh people had extant a prophefy con- 

 cerning this image, that it {hould " make tl fore/i 

 blaze,'* and in the enfuing year an opportunity oc- 

 curred not only of depriving them of the caufe of 

 their fuperflition, but even of completing the pro-s 

 phefy, in a manner, hov/ever, that they little ex- 

 pected. A friar obfervant, whofe name was Forejl^ 

 was condemned to the flake for having denied the 

 fupremacy of the king f. The name was thought 

 by the heads of the church a fortimate occurrence, 

 and it was advifed that the image flioukl be immc- 



* Cotton MSS. In tlic Biitini Mufeum ; Cleopatra. E. IV. 

 fol. SS' 



•j- On his arraignment Foreil replied to the court, \\\ anfwer to 

 tlie proof of perjury againft him, \\\ having before taken the 

 oath : *' 1 took the oath with my outward man, but my inward 

 man never cnnfentcd to it." Holinlhed, \\, 945. 



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