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all the protestants in Creiddyn, and for the accom- 

 plishment of this deed a body of men Mas to ar- 

 rive at a certain time of the night ; previously to 

 their coming, great preparations were made in pre- 

 paring provisions, and a servant of Gloddaith, wlio 

 paid his addresses to a woman in the service of the 

 family, finding her engaged at an unseasonable 

 hour, obtained by his urgent enquiries a know- 

 ledge of the conspiracy: he immediately hastened 

 home, and disclosed what he had heard to his 

 master, who with the greatest despatch procured 

 a troop of horse, and invested Penrhyn. This 

 speedy intervention frustrated their designs, and 

 some of the inmates escaped, while others were 

 taken; but the priest, who was supposed to be 

 the contriver of the plot, for some time eluded the 

 strict search made for him : it happened however 

 that some persons, being in a boat out at sea, ob- 

 served smoke ascending from Rhiwleden rock, 

 which circumstance exciting their curiosity, they 

 hastened there, and in a small cave called Ty yn 

 y graig, which is about ninety feet from the sum- 

 mit, and the approach to which is extremely diffi- 

 cult, the priest was discovered ; he was drawn and 

 fpiartered in a field below the liouse, and his name, 

 Sir William Guy, is even preserved; there was h 



