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ever bred In the pofteritie of the two houfes a conceit of diflike 

 which continued long after in the kindred, the one towards the 

 other, but with matches and continuance of time it is worne 

 out. 



This John ap Meredith was cofen to Owen Tudur, and went 

 with a hundred gentlemen of North Wales, his kinfmen to vifit 

 the faid Owen, being in trouble at Rwfg caftle, called Brynbyga % % 

 In his returne being befet with enemies, favourers of the houfe 

 of Yorke, he made an oration to comfort his people, willing 

 them to remember at that time the fupport of the honour and 

 credit of their anceftors, and concluding, that, it mould never in 

 time to come be reported, that there was the place where a hun- 

 dred North Wales gentlemen fled, but that the place mould carry 

 the name and memory, that there a hundred North Wales gen- 

 tlemen were llayne. Becaufe alfb fome of his kinfmen had 

 brought with them all their fonnes, and fome others had but one 

 fonne to fucceed in their name and inheritance, (as Howell ap 

 Llewelyn ap Howell, and others,) he placed all thefe in the 

 rearward, out of the fury of the fight, whilft all his fonnes were 

 in the vanward, which himfelf led, where he was fore wounded, 

 in his face, whereof he was called Squierjy graith h to his dying- 

 day : but God gave his enemies the overthrow, he opening the 

 paffage with his fword. 



? In Sir John Price's defcription of Wales prefixed to Wynne's Hifto- 

 ry, p. 20. Ufk in South Wales is faid to be called likewife Brynbyga ; 

 Rwfg Caftle therefore mould perhaps be written Yr Ufg or. Wfg, when j 

 it would lignify the Caftle upon the Ujk. As this place lies at fuch a dis- 

 tance from Gwedir, and the inhabitants of the two divifions of the Prin- 

 cipality have fo little connexion with each other even to this day, fuch a . 

 miftake is by no means improbable. 



h Squier y graith figttifies Efquire with a fear. 



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