£ 4o3 ] 



the Lord, and to acquit them, foe it were not in cafes of treafon. 

 A damnable cuftome ufed in thole dayes in the lordfhips marches, 

 which was ufed alfoe in Mowddwy b , untiil the new Ordinance 

 of Wales, made in the feven and twentieth yeare of Henry VIII. 

 Hereupon Jevan ap Robert ap Meredith commanded one of his 

 men to ftrike off their heads, which the fellow doeing faintely, 

 the offender told him, that if he had his necke under his fword, 

 he would make his fword take better edge than he did : foe refo- 

 lute were they in thofe days, and in contempt of death ; where- 

 upon Jevan ap Robert in a rage ftepping to them, ftrucke off their 

 heads. 



David Llwyd ap Gruffith Vychan, grandchild to Jevan ap 

 Robert ap Meredith, in his youth waited upon Hugh, fonne to 

 Mr. Robert ap Rys at Cambridge, elected Abbot of Conway by 

 ,his father's procurement in his minoritie. He being at Plas 

 }olyn c , at the houfe of Mr. Robert ap Rys, an old woman that 

 dwelt there in Rys ap Meredith's time, told him that me had feene 

 his grandfather Jevan ap Robert at that houfe, both in goeing 

 and comeing from his voyage into Chirkeland, and that he was 

 the talleft and goodlieft man that ever (he had feene : for, fitting 

 at the fire, upon the fpur d , the hinder parte of his head was to 



be 



h Mowddwy is by that ftatute of Henry the Eighth now annexed to 

 Merionethlhire, whereas it was before part of Montgomeryshire. 



c Plas Jolyn is in Denbighfhire, not far from Gelar and Voelas : it 

 now belongs to Mr. Myddelton of Chirk Cattle. 



d Spur (or, as it Ihould feem to have been pronounced by the author, 

 Spew) means that feat near a kitchen or hall fire, which gene- 

 rally goes by the name of a Settle. It is not very obvious however 

 .whence fuch a feat fhould have obtained the name of Spur or Spere. I find 

 the following palfage in the Saxon Chronicle, which mews the word Spur 

 to be originally a term in that language " namen pa. £et pot-fpune :" 

 which Bifliop Gibfon renders fcabellum. See the Chron. A. D. 1070. 



It 



