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many. Upon this the crie of the countrie did rife, and Jevan 

 ap Robert's tenants and friends aflembled in greate numbers, 

 (whereof Robin ap Inko was captaine), who fought with the 

 befiegers, and in the end with their arrows did drive the befiegers 

 from the one fide of the houfe, who continually affaulted the other 

 fide. After they had continued all that day and all that night in 

 that manner, the next morning, feeing they could prevaile little 

 to enter the houfe, they came to a parley with Robin ap Inko, 

 who advifed them to be gone in time : 44 For," faidhe, as foot) as 

 44 the water of Traeth mawr will give leave, Jevan Krach, my 

 44 matter's kinfman, will be here with Ardydwy men, and then 

 ** you fhall be all flaine." (This Jevan Krach was a man of 

 greate account in thofe dayes, in Ardydwy', and dwelt at Kelli 

 lydan, in the parilh of Maentwrog.) Whereupon they gave 

 over their enterprife, and returned to Bron y foel, to Howell ap 

 Rys ap Howell Vaughan his houfe, where David ap Jenkin ad- 

 vifed his cofen Howell ap Rys to take Jevan ap Robert for his 

 brother-in-law, neighbour, and friend : "For," laid he, " I will 

 ^ 4 not be one with you to affault his houfe when he is at home, 

 44 feeing I find fuch hot refinance in his abfence." 



Dayly bickerings, too long to be written, palled betweene foe 

 neare and hateful neighbours. In the end the plague, which 

 commonly followeth warre and defolation, after the Earle ot 

 Pembroke's expedition, tooke away Jevan ap Robert, at his houfe 

 in Kefelgyfarch, in the flowere of his age, being thirty-one years 

 of age ; whofe death ended the ftrife of thofe houfes ; for his 

 three eldeft fonnes were lifter's fonnes toHowell apRys ap Howell 

 Vaughan. 



* Ardydwy is a diftridt in the north-weftern part of Merionethmire. 

 Mantwrog is alfo a parilh of the fame county, not far diilant from Ar- 

 dydwy; it adjoins to Llanwrothen, the parfon of which the author hath 

 before had oceafion to mention. 



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