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(where the ruins of his manor houfe do alfoe appeare), Yilracf,, 

 Elkibion, and of other great poflemons in Rhos and Ravoniawg. 

 He had likewife Syna maried to Gruff' ap Llewelyn,, by whom 

 the faid Gruff' begat Llewelyn ap Gruffith laft Prince of Wales, 

 of the Brittifh race, who was flayne at Buelt. Llewelyn ap> 

 Jerwerth ap Owen Gwynedd haveing by the helpe of his Cofens 

 Conan ap Owen Gwinedd's ibnnes, deprived his uncles, began to 

 raigne anno 1 194, who atchieved foe many noble enterprifes that 

 he obtained the name of Llewelyn the Great among all pofteritie 

 and waiters. His workes and worthy deeds being re mem bred by 

 foe many writers, do make me the leffe to dwell upon the reher- 

 fall of them, feeing my purpofe is no more than curforiwife to 

 touch the raigne of the princes, to the end to make the hiftory ? 

 I write more eafie to be underflood. Only I have thought good 

 to infert here a coppie of one of King Henry the Third's letters 2 



unto- 



7 The author by this means the hiftory of his own family. 



z HENRICUS Rex Anglic, &c. Leolino Principi Aberfr' Dno de 

 Snowdon, Salutem Sc fetotum. Cum propter innundationes aquarum & 

 viarum difcrimina nuncii nri' ad vos aecedere non poffint, pcurforem 

 quendam literas pfentes duximus deflinendas, p quas majeftati veftrze 

 fignificamus qdNos g Nobis &,nris vobifeum &. cum oibus veftrispacem 

 tenuimus & tenebimus in futur', & hoc dedimus ballivis nris & impri- 

 mis ■* in mandatis, ut pacem cum fuis Comarchionibus firmiter tensant 

 & obfervent. Quare veftram rogamus ferenitatem quod ballivis in Mar- 

 chia comorantib' detis fi placet in mandatis qd cum flris pacem teneant 

 inviolatam beneplacitum veilrum fi placet nobis fignificetis. Valeat 

 exlentia veftra. 



This letter is printed as copied by Sir John Wynne. It mould not be 

 concealed however that upon examining the records in Rymer for the 

 year 1233 and 17th of Henry the Third, it turns out to be a letter from 

 Lewelin to Henry the Third, and not from that King to Lewelin. See 

 Rymer, vol.1, par. i. p. 114. Hague Ed. 



* This word fignifies one who undertakes another's bufinefs, from ewprenclre, an old 

 French term uled for entreprendrc. 



This 



