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went to one Dr. Davies neare Brecknock, and there died. This 

 man's name I am bound to make an honourable mention of, for 

 diverfe kindnefles he (hewed unto me, and efpecialiy for the wife 

 advice and counfell he was wont to give me. Among many, 

 one efpecialiy is by me and my pofterity to be remembred, which 

 I doe thinke worthy to be recorded in writeing. Unkindnefs and 

 variance befalling betweene myfelfe and my uncle Owen Wynne, 

 being neighbours, for wayes croile my ground for the carrying of 

 his hay from theKing's meadow in Trefriw to his houfe at Caer- 

 melwr, I grew to a great heat, and faid that he mould not pafle 

 that way without the lofie of mens lives. Whereupon, he being 

 prefent, and wifhing well unto us both, reproved me fharpely, 

 wifhing me to follow the courfe of my anceftors, who with wif- 

 dome, unanimity, and temperance, from time to time, had raifed 

 their fortunes, affureing me his anceflors might be an example 

 unto me of the contrary, who with headinefs and rafhnefs did d. ; - 

 minim and impaire theire eftates from time to time. Whitii 

 counfel of his tooke deepe roote in me ever after, and, to my 

 great good, I bridled my choller, whereunto I was much fub- 

 jea. 



Owen Ellis, the fonne of Ellis Cadwalader, died by a fall from 

 his horfe goeing home from Crikeith in the night, haveingbeene 

 there all the day drinking. 



Ellis Ellis, his fonne, fell mad, and continued foe a long time, 

 and at length m that cafe^ died. 



Owen Ellis, his fonne, being a young man, newly maried, 

 going home in the night betweene Nanhoren and Vaerdre, in 

 Llun r , where his wife lived, haveing by her one daughter, and 



i This is a lingular method of exprefimg himfelf, which the author 

 frequently ufes. 



* Llun is the S. Weftern peninfula of Carnarvonshire. 



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