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Rev. Mr. Evans, in his Specimens of Welfh Poetry, and it ap- 

 pears that he had. made the extract from a copy in the collection 

 of Sir Ros:er Moftvn, Bart. 



It is believed likewife that there is another tranfcript c in the 

 poffeffion of Mr. Panton, of Plafgwyn in Anglefey, who, to- 

 gether with Mr. Holland of Conway, and the Rev. Mr. Jones 

 (late Vicar of Lanrwft), have been fo obliging as to communicate 

 many particulars with regard to the Gwedir family. 



The author was indeed a general collector of what ..related not 

 only to his own anceftors, but the antiquities of the Principality d , 

 as Rowland cites an Extent 6 or Survey of North Wales, illuftrated 

 by ufeful remarks of Sir John Wynne. 



There was fome difficulty in fettling the time of the author's 

 birth and death, till Mr. Granger's Biographical Dictionary wa)s 

 confulted, who gives the following infeription under a copy made 

 by Vertue, from an engraving of the author by Vaughan. 



" Johannes Wynn de Gwedir in Com. Carnarvon Eques & Ba- 

 " ronettus f ; obiit i mo die Martii, 1626, aet. 73." 



The accuracy of thefe dates feemed at firft to be very fufpicious, 

 as there is an account of a voyage to Spain by Sir Richard Wynne 

 of Gwedir, Baronet, in 1623, which is prefixed to that volume 

 of Hearne's Tracts that begins with the Life of Richard the Se- 

 cond. Application was however made to the late Mr, Wefr, 

 Pr. R. S. for leave to examine the original print, in his very va- 



c The prefent publication is alfo from a copy that belonged to Capt. 

 Jofeph Williams of Glanravon, which he kindly communicated. 

 d See Mon. Antiq. p. 123. 



e This extent or furvey of North Wales is now in the Harleian Col- 

 lection. It is a very fine MS in Folio, and appears to have been made in 

 the 26th year of Edward the Third. It relates only to the counties of 

 Anglefey, Carnarvon, ar.d Merioneth. 



1 .He was created Baronet in 161 1. (See Gwiilim's Heraldry, 6th ed.} 



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