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I find not, during Prince Llewelyn ap Jerwerth's raigne, any 

 mencion made of any thing done by the pofterity of Rodri ap Owen 

 Gwynedd : a man may eafily guefle the reafon, for this Prince 

 held them under, and fufpe&ed left they mould afpire to the 

 princely dignity, which their anceftors fometime had held. 



In the raigne of David, fonne to the faid Prince Llewelyn by 

 Joane King John's daughter, who began to raigne anno 1240, 

 Eignan-and Gruff' ap Cariadog, tooke parte with their lifter's 

 fonne, Llewelyn ap Gruff', the laft Prince of Wales of that line, 

 afterwards flayne at Buellt. 



We receave it by tradition from father to fonne in Evioneth, 

 that David ap Llewelyn being Prince by the ayde of his uncle, 

 the King came to the towne of Pwllhely in Ll&n to parle with 

 the bretheren Eingan and Gruff' ; whom the bretheren met with 

 fuch a force on the day of truce, that the Prince told them they 

 were too ftrong to be fubjects ; whereto they anfwered, that 

 he was rather too weake to be Prince, and foe parted without 

 any conclufion or agreement. In the end they were forced by 

 long warrs to forgoe that countrey, and to lofe their land there, 

 and to joyne themfelves to their nephew Llewelyn ap Griffith, 

 who then had his court at Maefmynan in Flintfhire. He alfo 

 held, as is before mentioned, the cantreds of Englefield, Dyffryn 

 Clwyd, Ros, and Rovoniawg, againft his uncle David ; haveing 

 warre on the one fide with the King, on the other fide with his 

 uncle, who gave them greate pofleflions (as fome thinke) as afore 

 is remembred about Denbigh Caftle. 



Llewelyn, the fonne of Gruffith, their nephew, after the death 

 of his uncle David, attayning the government of Wales, reftored 

 to his uncles their lands and pofTeflions in the county of Carnar- 

 von. I find noe record of any thing done by them in the time 

 of the fame Prince. 



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