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■whereof the print is yet extant, the very flones of the mines of 

 manie habitations, in and along my demaynes, carrying yet the 

 colour of the fire. John ap Meredith being cofen german's fonne 

 to Jevan ap Robert ap Meredith, notwithftanding he was foe 

 much elder than he, (as the one was in man's eftate, and the 

 other but a youth), had the government of his uncle ', and of 

 his livings m : during which time of his nonage, Robin Vaughan 

 ap David ap Howell dying, as aforefaid, John ap Meredith came 

 over with his uncle to Llanrwft and the Lordfhip of Denbigh, to 

 take pofleffion of the inheritance lately befallen him, called the 

 Henblas in Maethbrood, where Rys ap Einion Vaughan and 

 Catherine daughter of Robin Vaughan then dwelled. Haveing 

 furveyed the land, they gave Rys ap Einion Vaughan then warn- 

 ing that he mould avoyd the land at Michaelmas, for then he 

 mould have the twelve pounds mortgage-money payed him. Oh 

 this he requeued to be tenant, and was anfwered by Jevan ap 

 Robert ap Meredith, that he mould lie there at times himfelfe, 

 and therefore would not fett it. Whereupon Rys ap Einion 

 Vaughan built Brynfullty houfe, upon parte of that land which 

 Henry Lacie, Earle of Lincolne, Lord of Denbigh, exchanged 

 with our anceftors, and which he had bought of fome of our 

 ktnfmen that had the fame by gavel-kind. Their name, how- 

 ever, is forgotten, as is the pedegree of two other freeholders in 

 Maethebrood belides, which held land in my time in that towne, 

 lineallie from that grant and exchange. The one was called 

 Rys ap Llewelyn ap David, whofe pofteritie doth yet inherite 

 parte of this land : the other the wife of one Lancelott a weaver, 



1 i. e. His Welch Uncle, for Jevan was coufin-german to John's 

 father. P. 



ra Livinge hath before been ufed by the author in the fame fenfe with 

 eftate. 



2 > whofe 



