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In the partition of the inheritance of Jevan ap Robert ap Me- 

 redith betweene his five fonnes, according to the cuftome of 

 Wales ; Henblas in Maethbrood and all the land in Llanrwft 

 in Denbigh land defcending unto him, (as afore is mentioned, as 

 cofen and next heire to Robin Vaughan ap David ap Howell ap 

 Gruff'), fell to be the parte and portion of Gruff' Vaughan his 

 fonne, who maried the daughter 8 of GrufF ap Madog Vaughan, 

 who was grandchild to Rees ap Einion Vaughan, viz. his daugh- 

 ter's daughter. You are to underftand, that though Robin 

 Vaughan did not defeat his cofen and next heire Jevan ap Robert 

 ap Meredith of the land held in the Welfh tenure, yet minding 

 the preferment of his daughter, as much as law would fuffer him, 

 he charged the land with a mortgage of £. 12. to Rys ap Einion 

 Vaughan his fonne-in-law, which the faid Rys ap Einion 

 Vaughan did releafeto Gruff' ap Jevan ap Robert in parte of his 

 manage goods with his cofen, the daughter of Owen ap Gruff' 

 ap Madog : the very releafe I have in my cuftody. 



God hath mewed fuch mercy to our kind, that ever fince the 

 time of Rodericke the fonne of Owen Gwynedd, Lord of Angle- 

 fey, our common anceftors, there lived in the commonwealth in 

 eminent forte one or other of our name, and many together at 

 times. I have in my minde, in the perufal of the whole courfe 

 of the hiftory of our name and kindred, compared or likened 

 God's worke, in that to a man ftriking fire into a tinder-box, 

 by the beating of the flint upon the fteele there are a number of 

 fparkles of fire rayfed, whereof but one or two takes fire, the 

 reft vanifhing away. As for example, in Einion ap Cariadog, 

 Gruff' ap Cariadog, and Sir Will' Cariadog alias Willcocke Cari- 



a She is called foon after this the Daughter of Owen ap GrufF' ap 

 Madog. It is here given more contracted. P. 



adog, 



