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will is dated at Krikieth, before one Rob't Swaython, official of 

 the Archdeacon of Merioneth. Meredith ap Howell had by her 

 two fonnes, Rob't and Jevan, and a daughter, called Mariii, mar- 

 ried to Jenkin Conwey of Ruddlan, mother to Hen Sion acer c y 

 Conwey, of whome all the Conweys, of Ruddlan and Bodriddan, 

 and Lords of Preftatyn, are defcended. She was the firft Welm- 

 woman that was maried into that houfe, as John Conwey, Efq. 

 my cofen, (now Lord thereof) told me. John Tudur, one of 

 our Welfh heraulds, fayth, that there was a third brother, called 

 Robin, whofe daughter and heire Ithel Vaughan maried, and 

 -therefore thofe defcended from him doe quarter Owen Gwynedd's 

 egletts d . 



I find an obligacion, bearing date 20 July, 2 0 Edward IV» 

 •wherein John ap Meredith ftandeth bound to Jevan ap Robert 

 Meredith to ftand to the award of Gruff' ap Robin ap Gruff*, 

 -and Lewis ap Howell ap Llewelyn, arbitrators elect for the faid 

 John ap Meredith, and Meredyth ap Rys, and Jevan ap Howell 

 ap Rys ap Eingan, arbitrators elect for the faid Jevan ap Robert, 

 to parte certaine tenements betweene them in Evioneth : and in 

 cafe they could not agree, then was Howell ap Eingan ap Howell 

 .'Coetmore named umpire. 



Memorandum, That during Robert ap Mered' his time, the 

 inheritance defcended to him and his brother was not parted after 

 the cuftome of the Countrey, as being gavelkind ; but Jevan 

 being maried enjoyed both their houfes, xiz. Keven y vann and 

 ;Kefelgyfarch : and for that Jevan, then Conftable of Criketh, 



c There is no word in Dr. Davis's Dictionary nearer to this than 

 ■achor, which he fuppofes to fignify little. 



d Thefe are mentioned in the Preface, to have been the arms of Owen 

 Gwynedd. 



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