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■ .Rodri his fecond wife was daughter to Gotheric, King of Man. 

 In anno Dom. 1 243 Rodri ap Owen, by the help of -Gotheric K. 

 of Man, invaded Anglifey, but within one yeare was thence re- 

 pulfed by the fons of Conan ap Owen Gwynedd, who held the 

 ■ifle to themfelves. Quere, who are defcended of this Conan ? 

 "There Is in the townefhipp of Pennant Evioneth a gwely called 

 gwely wyr'wn Cynan r held very freely ; many fuppofe -that part of 

 this Conan's inheritance was there. I remember the words of 

 Giraldus Cambrenlis, that fayeth, I will advifedly omit the cruell 

 and unnaturall warrs that were for ambition of government be- 

 twene Prince Owen's children and offefpring in the time of the 

 faid Giraldus. Rodri lyeth buried in the Colledge of Kerkyby s . 

 This I had out of the Welme cronicle, copied by Sir Thomas 

 Will' ofTrefriw'. 



Thomas, ap Rodri maried Marged, the daughter of Einion ap 

 Sifyllt, and had by her Cariadog ap Tho', who maried Eva the 

 -daughter of Gwyn ap Gruff', Lord of Kegidfa, and had by her 

 Einion ap Cariadog, Lord of Penycen (where his manor is called 

 to this day, L!ys u Einion ap Cariadog), Bala devlyn, Penyberth, 

 and of many places more, as may be imagined by his greatnefs in 

 his time. He had alfo GrutP ap Cariadog Lord of Friwlwyd % 



r This may be rendered, The Tenement of the Nephews of Conan.— 

 Gwely is literally a bed — metaphorically any place of reft, hence houfe, 

 habitation, manor, eftate, or tenement. 



[Gwely is likewife metaphorically a family, or houfehold.} E. 



s Kerkby is at prefent called Holyhead in Anglefey. 



* Trefriw is a village in Carnarvonlhire, fituated ort the fouthern fide 

 of the Conwoy, about two miles below Gwedir, It fignifies the town 

 on the bank or declivity. 



n Llys fignifies a palace, or great manfion houfe. 



x Friwlwyd is a townlhip fituated in the parifh of Lanarmon and hun- 

 dred of Evioneth in Carnarvonlhire : a fmall river runs through it bear- 

 ing that name. Yftrad and Elkibion mull probably adjoin to this 

 townfhip. 



A a a 2, (where 



