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It appeareth by the records in K. John's time remayning in the 

 Tower, that Me King gave to Owen the Ton of David, being 

 his cofen g >ian, and to GrufTith the fonne of Rodri 0 three can- 

 treds, viz. i 10s, Ilheviniog, and Duffryn Ciwydd, excepting 

 the cattle of Gannocke p aud the territorie of Criddyn, wherein 

 the faid caftle did fland, and alfoe gave them three other cantreds 

 if they could winne them : the record followeth in haec verba q . 



By this record, (as alio by the Welfh hiftorie, which mention- 

 eth that David ap Owen often allayed by the power of the King 

 of England to recover the principality againft Prince Llewelyn 

 his nephew") it may appeare that the cofens, Owen the fonne of 



0 Rodri is a contraction for Roderic. Thus Odd is for Odcric. See 

 Hilt. Lit. de la France, t. VIII. p. 108. 



p The cattle of Gannocke is fuppofed to have been fituated below 

 Conway, where the river empties itielf into the fea. 



° JO' Dei gra, &c. Sciatis Nos concefliffe & hac charta nra confir- 

 maiTe Aud.oeno filio Davidis & Gruff' filio Roderici tria cantreda ; fc. 

 Rhos, falvo Nobis cait.ro de Gannocke cum Creythyn ubi caflrum illud 

 iedet, Rhevinioc & Duffryn Clwyd cum ptinentiis fuis integre tenenda 

 ipfis Audoeno & Gruffino & heredibus fuis de Nobis & heredibus Kris per 

 lervicia fubfcripta ; f. fmgulis annis xn dextrarios de pretio : f. dc uno- 

 quoq; cantred 1111 dextrarios ; & preterea de illis tribus cantredis unam 

 natam * canum p annum, <k decern lepores & omnes accipitres Sc falcones 

 gentiles & fpervarios dicf' trium Cantredorum, reddendo inde Nobis & 

 heredibus Kris fingulis annis apud Salop ad Felt urn S. Petri ad vincula. 

 P'terea ipfi ambo lbunt in fervitium iirum cu gentibus de did:' cantredis 

 & alias remanebunt fi volumus. P'dicfi vero Audoenus & Gruffinus ob- 

 fides Nobis dabunt de fideli fervitio fuo. S. Audoenus fifiiis David dabit 

 film' fuu' de uxore fua defponfat' &c. & ft p pojfe ittor'uni & p* liceniiam 

 n'ram pojjint conquirere Arfon ar & clawddd et Lleyn, idon' fervic' Nobis 

 facient de illis tribus pdic/t' cantredis. His T. Dom', Winton Fpo, W. 

 Comite Sarum fratre noftro, G filio Petri Com' Warren, S. Com' Win- 

 ton, Wm Com' Ferrar, Willifno Briover, Petro fil' Herberti, Tho de 

 Ardiner, Pho de Arch Juftic' Ceftr'. Dat' apud Suwerit' xxxi O&ob' 

 anno regni nri xiiii 0 . 



* This is the word ufed in the MS. ; it fhould however, probably, be madam cMnm, 

 from the French word mtute. 



A a a David, 



