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treafon, and feifed the cantreds b .of Llun and Evioneth, which 

 were Conan's lands, into his own hands. Giraldus Cambrenfis 

 in his Itinerarlum Cambria fayeth, that the cantreds of Llun and 

 Evioneth were the pofTeffions of Owen Gwynedd's children when 

 he pafl'ed through Wales, and that they had two caftles ; the one 

 in Carnmadrin in Llun, the other called Dewdraeth juxta mon- 

 tana de Erryri , which confirmeth that Ardydwy and Evioneth 

 made but one cantred, for Penrhyn Deudraeth, where that caftle 

 flood, is in Ardydwy °, I am of opinion that the cantreds of 

 Llun and Evioneth were the pofleffions of Rodri, and given by 

 this Prince Llewelyn, upon the expulfion of Rodri from the 

 principality, to this Meredith ap Conan : howfoever it was, the 

 pofterity of Rodri held it till the conqueft of Wales by the King 

 of England, and then how they loft what remayned undivided 

 intofmall portions, fhall hereafter be mewed in this hiftory, 



Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, married Joane the daughter of 

 King John, begotten on his wife Agatha, daughter of Robert 

 Ferrers, Earle of Darby. The King in marriage gave with his 

 daughter the lordihip of Elefmer in the marches of Wales. Some 

 will affirme that Agatha was not the King's wife, but paramour. 

 But that is moft untrue, for he married her long before he was 

 King, and becaufe fhe bare noe hTue male (as fome affirme) di- 

 vorfed himfelfe from her ; others thinke me died anone after he 

 was King d . 



Prince 



b A cantred is a diftricl: of country, which is thus defcribed by Giral- 

 dus Cambrenlis; " Unius commoti folum, i. e. quarta pars cantredi; 

 habet autem ha?c infula (fc. Mona) trecentas quadraginta villas, & pro 

 tribus cantredis reputatur." The cantreds of Llun and Evioneth are in 

 the S. W. parts of Carnarvonfhire. The latter is fo called from its 

 being watered with manyftreams, as Aquitaine in France is fuppofed to be. 



• Ardydywy is a hundred in the N. Weftern part of Merionethlhire. 



A Joane was, however, moft certainly the illegitimate daughter of 

 Agatha, as there is in Rymer an inftrument thus entitled, " De remiffione 



" Lewelino 



