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build Brynlulity, before that Michaelmas appointed. I have feenc 

 an old man in my time called Jevan ap John ap David Vaughan, 

 at leaft of ninety years old ; this man's mother ferved Rys ap 

 Eingan Vaughan at that time, and me was wont to reporte, 

 that corne d faylmg them to build e the houfe, they reaped the 

 corne that grew in the raine f to ferve that turne, as the come in 

 the ridge was not readie. 



The warrs of Lancafter and Yorke beginning this fummer, 

 made Jevan ap Robert ap Meredith forget full of his promife to 

 redeeme the lands ; for in the time of that civill warre land was 

 not ought worth, neither was it redeemed during his life. In 

 thofe warrs Jevan ap Robert ap Meredith, even in the fixth of 

 Edward the Fourth, with David ap Jenkin and other captaines of 

 the Lancaftrian faction, wafted with fire and fword the fuburbs 

 of the town of Denbigh. In revenge of this, Edward the Fourth 

 fent William Earle of Penbroke with a great army to waffe the 

 mountaine countreys of Carnarvon and Merioneth mires, and 

 take the caftle of Hardlech (held then by David ap Jevan ap 

 Einion, for the two Earles Henry Earle of Richmond, and Jafper 

 Earle of Pembroke) which Earle did execute his chardges to the 

 full, as witnefleth this Welfh rime. 



Hardlech a Dinbech pob dor 



Yn Cunnev, . .. 1 



Nanconway yn farwox 



d i. e. to be ufed as Uraw. F. 

 e 1. e. to thatch it. 



f Raine, in fonle parts of England, is ufed for furrow, or the lower 

 part of the ridge. Wormius derives the word Ram (from whence the 

 Runic character) from either ryn, a furrow; or ryn, a gutter or channel. 

 •See lett. Run, p. 2. 1636. cited in the New Tranilation of Mallet's Den- 

 mark, vol. I. p. 363. 



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