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It is neceflaiy, for the undemanding of this record, and the 

 fenfe thereof, that you firft underftand, that after the death of 

 Prince Llewelyn in Buellt, the King made a proclamation of 

 peace to all the inhabitants of Wales, receiving them all that 

 would come in and yeald themfelves to him into his protection ; 

 graunting the ufe and fruition of their lands,, liberties, and pri- 

 vileges they held before ill their countrey under the Princes of 

 Wales. This is the peace fpecified in the record : after which 

 Tudur ap Eingan had held his lands almoft one yeare. To 

 whom or to what family this Givervill wae married I cannot as 

 yet learne. This land foe taken is part of the poffefTions of the 

 principalitie of Wales to this day. It is to be noted here, that all 

 the felfe fame time, in the raigne of Edward the Firfr, ,the 

 Queene his wife tooke perforce the land of Eingan ap Cariadog's 

 offspring in the county of Carnarvon, and Henry Lacie exchanged 

 perforce, with Gruff" ap Cariadog's offspring-, in Denbigh land, 

 and that the cozens flood in equall degree of kindred one to ano- 

 ther, viz. cozen germans removed ; which hard dealing muft 

 needs pull downe a kindred. It cannot be otherwife alfoe, but 

 that Friwlwyd was by the fame Queene, or by the Juffice Will' 

 Sutton or others, who dealt hardly with the gentrie of thefe parts 

 in thofe days, taken from the pofterity of Gruff', for it is parte 

 of the principalitie to thefe daies, although the record proving 

 this happened not to fall into my hands. 



quid de eorum hasreditate fuerit faciendum. Refponfum eft quod pti- 

 net ad Juftic' ordinare de ballivis JnM utilitati domini melius viderit 



e'xpedire. 



There are very fine tranferipts of thefe Petitions prefented to the King 

 at Kennigton. in N' 47 6 of the Harleian MSS. which is a large Folio, 

 containing chiefly a moft complete extent or furvey of the counties of 

 Anglefey, Merioneth, and Carnarvon, made in the 26th year of Edward 

 the Third. The date agrees except in. the difference of 3 2d year of Ed- 

 ward the Third inftead of the 33d. 



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