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beftowed on him the honour of knighthood, 

 and allowed him to take for his arms a 

 pole-ax argent, between three flower-de- 

 luces, and to add to his name y Fwyall, or 

 the Ax. And further to perpetuate the 

 memory of his great fervices, the prince 

 ordered, at the expence of the crown, that 

 a mefs of meat mould be every day ferved 

 up before the ax, with which he had per- 

 formed thefe wonderful feats. This, af- 

 ter it had appeared before the knight, was 



* Sir Howell ap Fwyall, ap Griffith, ap 



41 Howel, ap Meredith, ap Einion, ap Gwgan, 

 " ap Meredith Goch, ap Collwyn, ap Tangno, 

 ' called Sir Howel y Fwyall, or Sir Howel Pole-. 

 " Axe, from his conftant fighting with that war- 

 " like instrument. It is faid he difmounted the 

 " French king, cutting off his h erf is bead at one 

 " blow with his battle-axe, and took the French 

 * king prifoner; as a trophy of which viclory, it is 

 " faid, that he bore the arms of France with a 

 *< battle-axe in bend finifter, argent." Harl. MSS. 

 No. 2298. p. 348. Wynne's Memoir;, 425. 



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