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was taken and fpoiled by the two cou- 

 fin germans Owen Cyveiliog and Owen 

 ap Madoc *, which latter kept pofleflion 

 of it for twenty-five years, when he was 

 befieged there, and flain in the night by 

 his relations Gwenwynwyn and Cad- 

 wallon, fons of Owen Cyveiliog, his for- 

 mer companion in plunder and devafta- 

 tion-f. 



Ofweflry is a confiderable market 

 town in Shropfhire, and a place that 

 was much celebrated in the Saxon 

 times. Before I came to the town, I 

 pafled a large and elegant brick build- 

 ing, a houfe of Induftry, erecled a few 

 years ago, by a joint fubfcription from 

 feveral of the neighbouring parifhes, 

 for the ufe of their poor. From every 

 prefent profpecl, this place promifes to 

 be much more comfortable to the poor; 



Towel's Hiftory of Wales, p. 219. 

 f Ibid, p. 241. 



and, 



