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" horfed and well appointed."* And fuch 

 were the feuds which prevailed around 

 him, that he never dared to quit his houfe 

 without leaving in it a powerful guard. 

 He removed the church of Dolwyddelan, 

 which before lay in a thicket to a more 

 open place by way of fecurity, and when- 

 ever he went to it he was attended by 

 twenty tall archers, and a watchman was 

 ftationed on a neighbouring rock, called 

 Carreg y Big, to give notice of the ap- 

 proach to banditti. He ended his ufeful 

 life in the year 1525, and left behind him 

 twenty-three legitimate, and three natural 

 children. -f- 



The village of Dolwyddelan, which is 

 about a mile from the Cattle, feems, from 

 it's mountainous fntuation, to be quite fe- 

 cluded from the world. It's inhabitants 

 are extremely fimple, and in their manners 



* Wynne's Memoirs of the Gwedir family, p. 429. 

 t Pennant, II. 146. 



rather 



