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ems. This cufiom they carried to fuch 

 an excefs, and fuch refpecl v/as con- 

 ftantly paid to their requefts, that, in 

 the time of Gryffydd ap Cynan, it be- 

 came necefiary to controul -them by a 

 law, which retrained them from aikine 



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for the Prince's horfe, liawk, or grey- 

 hound, or any other pofleiTion beyond a 

 certain price, or that was particularly 

 valued by the owner, or could not be 

 replaced. 



The revenues of the Bards arofe from 

 prefents, at princely or other nuptials; and 

 from the fees that they received in their 

 circuits at Chriftmas, Eafter, Whitfun- 

 tide, and in their triennial Clera, or grand 

 circuit, when they were received into 

 the houies of the great, and continued 

 fo long as any feafting lafted. Thefe 

 fees and prefents were regulated in pro- 

 portion to their degrees. They were 

 alfo allowed a certain fiun out of every 



plough- 



