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family is now extinct. It is always difficult to 

 arrive at the exact date of this sort of traditionary 

 tales ; but as the great grandson of the person, 

 who received the outcast into his house, is now 

 living, this and some other circumstances will 

 enable us to place this occurrence about a hundred 

 and fifty years ago. To make the above account 

 complete, I should observe that Mr. Hughes, the 

 tenant at Penrhyn, not many years since, had oc- 

 casion to build a lime-kiln, and in a fissure of the 

 rock, filled with soil, he discovered a perfect ske- 

 leton, immediately behind the house. 



The greater part of the present house of Glodd- 

 aith was built by Thomas Mostyn, in the reign of 

 queen Elizabeth ; but there was a residence here 

 of the ancient family of Gloddaith for several 

 centuries before. In 1448, Gruffydd ab Rhys ab 

 Gruftydd ab Madoc Gloddaith ab Madoc ab 

 lerwerth Goch of Creiddyn lost seven children in 

 the same week, who died of the plague ; on which 

 occasion the following elegy was written by Robin 

 Ddu ab Siencin, an eminent bard, who flourished 

 from 1440, to 1470. As the original has never 

 been printed, it is here inserted. 



