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ftable of the Cattle.* Of this illuftrious 

 hero Leland *j- relates a ftory, that being 

 for his valour noted far and near, he was 

 challenged, at a tournament, by a gentle- 

 man of Wales, who in the combat ftruck 

 out one of his eyes ; but, being afterwards 

 in the Englim, court requefted to challenge 

 him. in return, he wifely mewed that 

 he had prudence as well as valour by de- 

 clining a fecond combat, alledging as his 

 excufe, that he did not intend the Welfh- 

 man to knock out his other eye. 



From this place I retraced my road back 

 again, through Rhyddlan, to St. Afaph, 

 from whence, the next morning, I fet off 

 to Conway. I muft here remark that, in 

 the latter part of this day's excurfion, from 

 Rhyddlan to Diferth, I received but little 



* Pennant, II. 8, who quotes Llwyd's Itinerary, 

 MS. 



t Leland's Itinerary, VI. 21, 



II 3 amufement, 



