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known ; but it was fent for to London in 

 the year 1538, upon the condemnation 

 of Dr. Foreft, a friar obfervant, for trea- 

 ion, in having denied the fupremacy of 

 the King, and was placed under him a? 

 fuel when he was burned in Smithfield.* 

 Thus was this prophecy fulfilled, but in 



a manner no doubt that was little ex- 



/ 



peeled by the credulous Welfliraen of 

 that time. 



Llanfawr, the Great Village^ I next ar- 

 rived at. This is the fuppofed place of 

 interment of Llywarch Hen, or Uy~ 

 ivarcb the Aged, a Cambrian Prince, and 

 a moft celebrated Britifh bard and war- 

 rior, who flourifhed in the feventh cen- 

 tury ; and, after a life of viciflitudes and 

 misfortunes, died at the great age of a 



* Holinfhcd's Chronicle, II. 94^. Wnitelock's Memo- 

 rials from Brnte, p. 216- The Doftor's reply to the Court 

 upon his arraignment, when it was proved that he had per- 

 jiired hinifclf, in having before taken theoarh of fupremacy, 

 was that " he took that oath with his outward man, bur his 

 *' inward man never confented to it." llli*fiid t II. 9^^. 



hundred 



