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leaveing her greate with child, (which after proved to be a forme), 

 by a fall from his horfe, upon the way, died. 



Thefe three were buried in their owne fepulchres in the church 

 of St. Katherine's in Crikeith, after this booke was by the author 

 written. 



It may be a queftion here, and a doubt to the reader, w r herefore 

 the land of Robin Vaughan ap David ap Howell fhould defcend to 

 Jevan ap Robert ap Meredith, his cofen and next heire, he 

 haveing a daughter and heire of his owne body lawfully begot- 

 ten ? To anfwere this queftion, you are to underftand that Henry 

 Lacie, Earle of Lincolne, upon the conqueft of Wales, haveing 

 received of, Edward the Firft his gift the countries of Ros and 

 Rovoniog, now Denbigh land, and planted the fame with di- 

 ve rfe Englifhmen, who held their lands, as well as their pofte- 

 ritie, by the Englifh tenure ; the reft of the Welfhmen, loaded 

 with many bad cuftomes, held their lands in the Welfh tenure. 

 One condition thereof was, that the inheritance fhould not de- 

 fcend to daughters, but fhould goe to the heire male of the houfe, 

 if there were any fach within their % degrees to the dead man, and 

 if not, that it fhould efcheate to the Lord of the foyle ; yet in re- 

 fpecl: of the poffibilitie of iffue male, which the owner of the 

 land might have while he was alive, the cuftome of the countrie 

 did permit him to mortgage the land to ferve his need, without 

 the Lord's leave. You fee hereby that Robin Vaughan did what 

 he could, according to the cuftome of the countrie, towards the 

 preferment of his daughter, and the reafon why Jevan ap 

 Meredith his next kinfman and heire, had the lands. Which 

 proveth alfoe that Robert ap Meredith was eldeft brother to Jevan 

 ap Meredith, John ap Meredith's grand father, which his 



* Three, perhaps. 



which 



