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his father, being coimtreys next adjoyning unto England, to the 

 end he might defend his countrey from the Englifh. 



This Gruffith, in his father's time, maried Sina, or Senena, 

 as the Latine Booke f calleth her, daughter to Cariadog ap Tho* 

 Rodri ap Owen Gweyned : fome of our Welfh pedigrees fay {he 

 was the daughter of the King of Man, but it is an untruth ; there 

 are other moft ancient records to the contrary g , veryfying as here 

 is laid do wire. 



Alfo it is evident her brethren Eingan apCariodog and Gruffith 

 ap Cariadog loft their lands in the quarel of her fonne, Llewelyn 

 ap Griffith, laft Prince of Wales, when his uncle David held the 

 principalitie againft him, as mall hereafter appeare. In Prince 

 Llewelyn ap Jerwerth's time you mull find mencion made" of 

 Howell ap Gruffith ap Conan ap Owen Gwynedd, whom the 

 Prince doth banifh in anno 12.11, and after, in anno 121 5, you 

 mall rind him firft remembered in the honourable voyage Prince 

 Llewelyn made unto South Wales, when he rafed Carmarthen. 

 ,(Quere, Where his poffemons were ? and who are come of him ?) 

 Howell ap Gruff' ap Codan was buried at Conway. 



f It is rather difficult to afcertain what hillory of Wales the author 



-means to refer to by what he ltiles the Latine booke. Caradocof Lancar- 

 van's Hillory ended with the year 1156, and therefore long before Gruf- 

 fith's marriage. It was continued indeed by the bards., (which belonged 



:to .the two abbeys of Conway and Stratflur) to the year 1270;- but Dr. 

 Powel, who mentions the above particulars, does not ftate whether this 

 continuation was in Welfh or Latin. As it chiefly depended upon the 

 Bards at their clera, I mould fuppofe that it was in the Welfh language. 

 As for Geoffrey of Monmouth, whofe hiftory is in Latin, all the tranf- 



. actions he gives an account of are long anterior to what is here alluded 

 to. It mould therefore feem, that the author refers to Matthew Paris or 



fome of our Hiftotians, who wrote in Latin, and occafionally take notice 

 of Welfh occurrences. 



g See in Powel's Hillory articles of agreement between Henry III. and 

 Senena wife of Gruffith, p. 301. Yet fome Welfh Pedigrees fuppofe he 

 married Rhanul't daughter of Rheinalt King of Man. P. 



I find 



