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Howell, delivered out of prifon, never durft. come to his owne 

 houfe in Evioneth, but came to Penmachno % to his mother's 

 kindred, Rys Gethin's fonnes, and there died. It is a note worthy 

 obfervation that the houfe by little and little decayed ever fmce, 

 neither hath any of his pofterity beene buried in his owne fepul- 

 chre, being four defcents befides himfelfe. 



Rys ap Howell ap Rys his fonne, cofen german to my greate 

 grandfather Meredith ap Jevan ap Robert, maried to his firft wife, 

 an inheretrix of the Trevors, by whome he had greate pofleffions 

 in Hopefland °. He afterwards, by the procurement of my great- 

 grandfather, maried Margaret, daughter to Hugh Conwey the 

 elder, Reinalt ap Meiricke's widdow, his next neighbour in 

 Gwedir, and was overfeer of his workes when he built Gwedir- 

 houfe, as William David ap Ellis Eytyn his cofen, who lived 

 with him in thofe dayes, told me. He was buried on the right 

 fide ia the chancel in Llanrwft ; and was taken up at the bury- 

 ing of Cadwalader ap Robert Wynne of Havod y maidd p , as 

 my uncle Owen Wynne gueffed by the greatnefs of the fame. 



Thomas ap Rys ap Howell fold all his mother's lands and live- 

 ing in Hopefland, and a great part of his owne, and was buried in 

 Hopefdale. 



Cadwalader ap Thomas, his fon and heire, lying at Chefter, 

 died there. 



Ellis ap Cadwalader, (who had maried my cofen german, m^ 

 uncle Owen Wynne's daughter), my kind cofen and friend, a 

 man endued with many good parts, being ficke of an impofhime, 



n Penmachno is a fmall village in Carnarvonihire, on the road between 

 Llanrwft and Feftiniog. 



0 Hopefland is a part of Flintfhire, fituated in the hundred of Rhew. 



r Havod y maidd is a farm in Denbighfhire, not far from Caerydryidion, 

 it fignifies the whey farm. 



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