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bridge near the ford ; fhe then fteps to the foot-bridge, and takes 

 away the canllaw x , or handftay of the bridge, and with the 

 fame letts rlie at her brother, and, if he had not avoyded the blow, 

 fhe had ftrucke him downe from his horfe. 



— Furor arma mhiijlrat* 



Howell ap Rys and his company, within a while, overtooke Jevan 

 ap Robert and his followers, who turned head upon him, though 

 greatlie overmatched. The bickering grew very hott, and many 

 were knocked downe of either fide. In the end, when that 

 mould be performed which they came for, the murthering 

 butcher haveing not ftrucke one ftroake all day, but watching op- 

 portunity, and finding the company more fcattered than at firft 

 from Jevan ap Robert, thruft himfelfe among Jevan ap Robert's 

 people behind, and, makeing a blow at him, was prevented by 

 Robin ap Inko his fofter-brother, and knocked downe ; God 

 bringing upon his head the destruction that he meant for another : 

 which Howell ap Rys perceiving, cryed. to his people, " Let us. 

 " away and be gone, for I had given chardge that Robin ap 

 " Inko mould have been better looked unto :" and foe that bicker- 

 ing brake with the hurt of many, and the death of that one 

 man. 



It fortuned anon after, that the parfon of Llanvrothen \ tooke 

 a child of Jevan ap Robert's to fofter, which fore grieved Howell 

 Vaughan's wife, her hufband haveing then more land in that 

 narifh than Jevan ap Robert had ; in revenge whereof (he plotted. 



x Richards, in his Dictionary, renders this word accordingly a long, 

 rail ufed as a fide fence to -a bridge. It alio fignifles a counfjlfor or' 

 attorney. 



2 Llanvrothen is a fmall village in Merionethihire^. filtrated near 

 Traethmawr fands. 



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