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but one and thirtie yeares of age, of the plague, at Kefelgyfarch 

 his houfe. 



In the warrs betweene the houfes of Yorke and Lancafler, he 

 (as all his) were Lancastrians, and he was one of the captaines 

 who laid wafte the Duke of Yorke' s eftate in Denbigh land ; in 

 revenge whereof, the King fent Will' Herbert, Earle of Penbroke, 

 in Edward the Fourth's time, who came with a greate army to 

 recover the Caftle of Harddlech r , held by David ap Jevan ap 

 Einion for Jafper Earle of Penbroke, then beyond the feas. He 

 alio wafted with fire and fword all Nanconway, and the whole 

 countrey lying betweene Conway and Dovi. He graunted at the 

 fame time a protection or fafe conduct to Jevan ap Robert ap 

 Meredith, and to his followers to come to parle with him, which 

 I have to mew, under his feale ofarmes, in haec verba 5 . 



r When this town is thus fpelt, it is faid to fignify the beautiful or high 

 rock * ; when in the common way [Harlech~\, it may be rendered the t wn 

 upon the rock. As unfortunately the lately publifhed Memoirs of Lord Cher- 

 bury are become exceilively fcarce, it may not perhaps be improper to in- 

 fert from thence an anecdote relative to this liege of Harlech. The gover- 

 nor being fummoned to furrender, fent an anfwer to the following effect : 

 " That he had held out a cattle in France till all the old women in Wales 

 " talked of him, and that he would defend his Welfli cattle, till all the 

 " old women in France fhould hear of it." 



5 OMNIB', &c. fidelibus ad quos pfens fcriptum pvenerit, Guilielm' 

 Comes Pembrochire Juftic' dni regis in ptibus fuis North Walli^, falu- 

 tem. Sciatis nos dedifle & p pfentes conceffirle Jevan ap Rotit de corrioto 

 Evioneth in Comitatu Carnarvon falvum 8c fecurum conductum intrandi, 

 veniendi, ambulandi, expectandi, comorandi ac falvo eund' & redeundi 

 p & infra Comitatum de Carnarvon & Merioneth p fe, bonis, & catallis, 

 fine areftatione, molellatione, impechimento, damno, violentia, manu- 

 captione, pturbatione, feu gravamine aliquo tam ad fectam dni regis, 

 quam ad fectam partis alterius pfonas cujufcumq' a die confectionis pfen- 

 tium quoufq' p nos habuerit pmonitionem fex dierum. Datum fub 

 figillo noftro quarto die mentis Novembris anno regni regis Edwardi 4ti 

 poll Conqueftum oftavo. 



* See Llwyds's Arcb^olog. p. 276. article/*?/?-, 



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