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David, and Gruffith the fon of Rodri, joyned 1 with the IC of 

 England againft their prince Llewelyn % but all in vaine, for 

 Giraldus maketh mention,, they got noe other portion but what: 

 they had by composition. In what place it was in Wales the 

 fons of Rodri had poffeffions graunted them,, or whether it was in: 

 diverfe places (as is moil likely it mould be, to weaken men ofv 

 their alliance, friends, and authority among the commons), it 

 doth not appeare by certayne record. 



Whether David ap Owen had any more children by the king's 

 lifter but Owen, and whether any, or who be defcended, either 

 by male or female, of them, I cannot yet find any certainty 

 thereof. In a fragment ofaWeluh cronicle,, copied bv^ Sir Thomas 

 Williams, I find y that in the end Llewelin killed his uncle 

 David, and all his pofterity, at Conway. Soe that I think there 

 is none defcended from the faid David and the Lady, Emma his- 

 wife either male or female. 



The pofterity of Rodri had large poffeffions in Denbigh land^ 

 called Rhos Ravoniawg, neare and about Denbigh caftle, in the 

 chiefeft and bell: part of the fame, as hereafter in this hiftory mall 

 appeare (whereby it may feeme K. John's graunt of that countrey. 

 was not wholly fruftrate unto them, or perhaps they had that 

 land given them by the laft prince Llewelyn) and' alfo were 

 lords of diverfe lordfhips in the county of Carnarvon, efpecialie 

 in the hundred of Evioneth. The Evioneth men have it among 

 them by tradition, that Llewelyn the Great gave the lands in 

 Evioneth unto the pofterity of Rodri. I find in. a fragment of a 

 Welfh cronicle, copied by my kinfman SirThomas Williams, that 

 Rodri had another fon called Einion (as is afore fpecified) by the 

 daughter of the Lord RySj, Prince of South Wales, befide GrutEth 

 before mentioned and Thomas. 



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