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daughter, who belonged to the houfe of Lancafter : foe he clave fad 

 to that houfe in the time that Owen Glyndwr rebelled in Wales. 

 Soe that in the time of that warre he and Meredith ap Hwlkyn 

 Llwyd of Glynllifon % had the charge of the town of Carnarvon, 

 and an Englifh captain was over the caftle ; in revenge whereof, 

 Owen burned his two houfes, Keven y van and Kefelgyfarch in 

 Evioneth. In the proceiie of continuance of this warre Jevan 

 died at Carnarvon, and was brought by fea (for the paffages by 

 land were fhut up by Owen's forces) to Penmorva °, his parifli 

 church, to be buried. Robert his brother, taking a clean con- 

 trary courfe, was out with Owen Glyndwr, as may be gathered 

 by a pardon granted him in the ninth yeare of Henry the Fifth, 

 then Prince of Wales, which I have to fhew, whereof the true 

 copie enfueth p. 



Rys 



n This place lies about fix miles S. of Carnarvon. 



0 Penmorva fignifies at the end or head of the marjh. This village is 

 fituated at the entrance of the Traethmavvr fands, which divide Meri- 

 oneth and Carnarvonfhire. 



p HENRICUS illuftris Regis Angliae & Franciae primogenitus, Prin- 

 ceps Anglic, Dux Aquitania?, Lancaftria? & Cornubia?, & Comes Cef- 

 trhe, locum tenens metuendiffimi dni nri regis & patris in gtib' South- 

 Wallia? & North WalHse oibus & fingulis pfentes literas nras infpedturis, 

 "Salutem. Sciatis quod nos authoritate & potentate nobis p ipfum metu- 

 endiflinium ctnumnrum regem & patrem ' comiffis, as etiam pro quadam 

 fine nobis p RoBtum ap Meredith ap Howell nuper rebellem dicti dni 

 nri regis & patris in partib' Wallia?, ad opusejufd' dni nri regis & patris 

 foluta ; recepimus & admifimus dictum Robertum ad gratiam pdidti dni 

 nri regis & patris, & ei pardonamus noie ejufd' dni regis & patris fecfam 

 pacis fuse qus ad ipfum dnum nrum regem & patrem ptinet $ omni- 

 modis pditicnib', rebellionibus, incendiis, feloniis, adha?fionib', tranf- 

 greffionibus, mifprifionib', & malefattis quibufcumq' p pdiclum Rober- 

 tum in ptibus & marchiis Wallia? ante haec temppra fadtis five ppetratis, 

 unde indictatus, vetatus *, reciatus, vel appellatus exiftit, ac etiam ut- 



* This word properly fignifies ro injoln or forlid; it is corruptly ufed for vetitus. See da 

 Cange, in articulo. Reftatus from reSum fignifies profecuted. 



legariis, 



