[ 40i ] 



whofe inheritance my uncle, GrufF Wynne bought, being 

 but a matter of three pounds a-yeare. Into foe little partes did 

 the gavelkind by many defcents chop our inheritance, being at 

 firft large. Conferring oft with the freeholders of the parim of 

 Llanrwft, my neighbours, how they held their lands; and from 

 what common anceftor they were defcended ; moft of them are 

 faid to be defcended lineallie from Ednyfed Vaughan, in the 

 townhYip of Tybrith and Garthgarmon. Inquireing alfo of them 

 whence the freeholders of Maethebrood Rys Llevelyn ap David, 

 and Lancellott's wife were defcended, they faid they were fo- 

 reigners, and came from the caftle of Denbigh, as though the 

 caftle of Denbigh did procreate men : which fheweth that the 

 tradition is not yet forgotten, from whence they came. The moft 

 parte of that towne of Maethebrood is in our brood, bleffed bo- 

 God ! 



Robin Jachwr, the greaterl: antiquarie of our countrey, being 

 at Gwedir with my grandfather, and going one day to a cbwarev- 

 fa gampav °, where the countrey was affembled at a place called 

 Gardd y felin n\ the parifh of Llanrwft, alked whether he would 

 command him any fervice thither. Nothing, laid my grand- 

 father, having a nofegay in his hand by chance, but deliver this 

 nofegay to the beft gentleman thou feeft in the company, upon 

 the credit of thy fkill ; who delivered the fame with proteftation 

 of his charge in the prefence of all the company to Llyn ap 

 David, Rys Llyn ap David's father. I cannot however get his 

 pedigree, nor Lancelot's wife's pedigree in any certaintie, to 

 joyne them to ours : the reafon is, that poverty foone forgets 

 whence it be defcended, for it is an ancient received faying, that 



n Of Berth-ddu. See the pedigree at the end of the MS. P. Berth-ddu 

 is in Llanrwft parifh. 



° Chwarevfa gampau. Country games or exercifes. 



F f f there 



