i 35^ ] 



Written by Sir John Wynne of Gwyder,Knt. and Baronet, 



Ut creditur & patet. 



RUFFITH ap Conan, Prince of Wales, had by his wife 

 ™ Anyhared, the daughter of Owen ap Edwyn, Lord of 

 Englefield, Owen Gwynedd, Cadwalader and Cadwallon, who 

 was flaine before his father's death : he reigned over Wales fifty 

 years. His troublefome life and famoufe adles are compiled by a 

 rnofl auncient frier or monke of Wales : this was found by the 

 pofterity of the faid Gruffith ap Conan in the houfe of Gwedir * 

 in North Wales, and at the requefr. of Morice Wynne, Efq. 

 (who had the fame written in a moft ancient booke and was 

 lineally defcended from him) was tranflated into Latine by Ni- 

 cholas Robinfon, Bifhop of Bangor b . 



Owen Gwynedd was Prince after his father. 

 He married to his firft wife Gwladys, daughter to Lowarce ap 

 Trahayarn, Lord of Divet, by whom he had only Yerwerth c 



Drwndwn 



a There are two houfes fo called at prefent very near each other, the 

 one Lower Gwydir and the other Upper ; they are both in Carnarvonshire, 

 on the weftern fide of the Conway oppofite to the town of Lanrwft. One 

 of thefe houfes is fo ancient as to be mentioned in Saxton's map of Car- 

 narvonfhire, which was engraved in 1578 



b The lateRev. Mr. Lloyd of Cowden in SufTex informed me that he faw 

 this MS. of Bifhop Robinfon, at the Rev Mr, Hugh Hughes's late vicar 

 of Bangor, whole father and eldeft brother were ftewards after him at 

 Gwedir. 



c This account differs very materially from that given by Dr. Powel 

 in his Hiftory of Cambria, p. 226. It fhould feem however that the 

 author made ufe of fome materials in compiling this fhort chronicle of 

 .ihe Princes of Wales, which Dr. Powel had no opportunity of confulting^ 



and 



