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be the elder brother to Jevan ap Meredith. The wordes of the 

 writ doe follow, in hasc verba f . 



But howfoever it be, the gavelkind and cuilume of the country 

 not yealding to the elder any prerogative or fuperiority more 

 than to the younger, it is not a matter to be flood upon. Indeed 

 Jevan ap Meredith maried in his youth Llenau the daughter of 

 Howell Sele ap Mereicke, of the houfe of Nannau in Merioneth- 

 mire g , and begat by her Meredith ap Jevan ; whome in his youth 



he 



f HENRICUS Dei gratia Rex Anglia? & Francis & DKus Hiber- 

 niae, diledtis fibi Roberto ap Meredith, Meredith ap Jevan ap Meredith, 

 Rys ap Tudur, Howell ap Madog ap Jevan, John ap Gronw, & Howell 

 ap Jevan Vaughn, Salutem. Quia f p certo fumus informati, qd Jevan 

 ap Robin & alii diverfi notorii utlegati & incogniti de die in diem vi & 

 armis cum diveriis felon' in comitiva fua, ut dicitur, faciunt ambula- 

 tiones flip diverfos fidelium noftrorum infra comitatum nrum de Carnar- 

 von & diverfos de eifd' fidelib' fpoliaverunt, & male tradraverunt in de- 

 ftructionem & depaupationem ligeorum noftrorum manifefcam, ac contra 

 formam ftatutorum progenitorum noflrornm in hac pte ^viforum. AfTjg- 

 navimus vos & unumquemq' veftrum conjundtim & divifim ad arreftan- 

 dum & capiendum pdicY Jevan ap Robin & alios in comitiva fua exif- 

 tent' p corpora ubicumq' invent! fuerint infra cofnotum de Evioneth & 

 eos falvos & fecuros ufq' caftrum nrum de Carnarvon indilate duci fa- 

 ciatis conflabulario nro ibid-' liberandos & in eodem caftro moraturos 

 quoufq' de eorum deliberatione aliter duxerim' ordinandum; & ideo 

 vobis mandamus qd circa pmiffa diligenter mtendatis & ea faciatis cum 

 effe&u ficut inde coram nobis refpondere valueritis. Damus aut'em univfis 

 & fingulis fidelibus nris tenore pfenfium firmiter in mandatis quod vobis 

 & cuilibet veftrum in omnib' quae ad arrefcationem & captionem pdidti 

 Jevani ap Robin & aliorum ptinent' intendentes fmt, auxiliantes, forti- 

 fkantes, & p omnia refpondentes. In cujus rei teftimonium has litteras 

 noftras fieri fecimus patentes. T. meipfo apud Carnarvon 28 dieAugufti 

 anno regni nri vicefimo. 



s Nannau is a very ancient family-feat, about three miles N. of Dol- 

 gelly inMerionethfhtre. it {lands perhaps on higher ground from the valley 

 beneath, than any Gentleman's houfe in Great Britain. In Saxton's maps it is 

 fpelt Nanna,&s it continues to be commonly pronounced. There are fome 

 traditional anecdotes about Howell Sele, or Selif, which is the fame with 



Ccc 2 Solomon, 



