Drwndwn or -Edward with the broken nofe 6 , and by his fecomi 

 wife called Chriftian, daughter of Gronow ap Owen ap Edwyn 

 Lord of Englefield, being his eofen, he had David who after 

 him was Prince ; he had alfo Rodri Lord of Anglefey, and Cad- 

 walion who was Abbot of Bardfey, and Angharad wife of Griffith 

 Malor e . Lie had befides thefs by diverfe women Conan., Llewellio. 

 Meredith, Edwal, Fun, Howel, Cadelh, Madoc, Eneon, Cynw- 

 ric, Philip, and Riryd l ord of Clochran in Ireland (v. Powell 

 Chron.) This Prince Owen with his brother Cadwalader {as the 

 Welih Chronicle maketh mention) in his father's time made 

 many victorious voyages into South Wales againft the Normans 

 that incroached mightilie on that country, and in a pitched field 

 Hew joco men, and put the reft to flight. Being prince after 

 his father's death, he overthrew the Earle of Cheftcr and a num- 

 ber of March Lords, ai\d (as Giraldus Cambrenfis hath it in his 

 Hiftory, intituled Itinerarium Cambriae) repulfed K. Henry II. 

 who made three voj'ages royall againit. Wales with all the Power 

 of England, Normandy, and Aquitane, together with the fuc- 

 cours of Flanders and Britayne. In one of the voyages at 

 Counfyllt wood the whole army of the King was put to flight, 

 as the French Chronicle f fayth, the King's perfon endangered, 



and 



and he hath already mentioned a life of Griffith ap Conan written "by a 

 inoft ancient Friar or Monk of W ales. 



Dr. Powel's Hiftory was publifhed in 1584, and as the author refers to 

 it in this, page, it proves that this part of the MS. was written after that 

 year. 



d " Yerworth Drwyndon near to Brute." Out of a charte of the 

 Genealogie of the Dukes of Yorke inferted in Leland's Colled:, vol. IT. 

 p. 616. 2d edit. 



c Gry ffith Maelor Lord of Bromfield, who died in 11 91. [See Ander- 

 fon's Royal Genealogies.] He was brother of Maryed, mentioned here- 

 after. P. 



f As there are feveral French Chronicles which occafionally treat of 

 what happened in England, it is difficult to afcertain what Hiftory the 



author 



