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of the Hall; Dryfawr Yr Yftafell, the 

 Door-keeper of the Chamber; Pen- 

 eenydd, or the Mafter of the King's 

 Hounds; Meddwyd,the King's Cellarer; 

 Meddyg, or the Phyfician to the Houfe- 

 hold; Trulliad, or the Butler; Dry- 

 fawr, or the Porter,* who had to provide 

 ftraw for all the beds, and to kindle all 

 the fires in the court ; the Cog, or Cook ; 

 the Cantrwllyd, the Curator of Lights; 

 Morwyn Yfdafell, the Chambermaid ; 

 Gwaftrawd Avwyn, the Groom of the 

 Rein; Troedawc, the Footholder; and 

 Gwaftrawd Avwyn Yvrenhines, the 

 Groom of the Rein to the Queen. 



In this eftablifhment we fee the head 

 of the falconers, the chief of the grooms, 

 the poet laureat, and the cook, all ranked 



* Of the fwine that paffed through the gate, he was to have, 

 as a perquifite, any fow that he could lift by the bridles with 

 one hand, fo that her feet fhould be as high as his knees. 

 And every animal without a tail paffing through the gate. 

 was his property, Leget Wall* 



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