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fofter and fecond father, (for he gave him with breeding alfoe his 

 inheritance) may be attributed his good fortune (God's provi- 

 dence always excepted) which fometymes worketh by fecondary 

 meanes, whereof this man was the inftrument, Haveing lived 

 there till the age of twenty yeares, or thereabouts, his fofter- father 

 being dead, he fell in liking with a young woman in that towne, 

 who was daughter-in-law to one Spicer, the reputed daughter of 

 William Gruffith ap Robin, fheriffe of the county of Carnarvon. 

 This Spicer was a landed man of £. 50. per annum, which de- 

 fcended to him from his anceftors, yet had an office in the Ex- 

 chequer % and dealt with trade of merchandife alfoe, that he be- 

 came a great and wealthy man. His fonne, John Spicer, ,was a 

 juftice of the peace in the firft commiffions after the new ordi- 

 nance of Wales, and was brother by the mother to Alice William, 

 the wife of Meredith ap Jevan ap Robert. Their mother is faid to 

 be of the Bangors, whom I have knowne often to have claymed 

 kindred of me by that woman. At Crieg he began the worlde 

 with his wife, and begate there by her two daughters, Jonett, 

 the firft, maried to Edmund Griffith, and afterwards to Sir John 

 Pulefton ; and another called Catherine, maried to Rowland 

 Gruffith of Pias Newydd K After this, finding he was likely - 

 to have more children, and that the place would prove narrow 

 and ftraight for him, he was minded to have returned to his in- 

 heritance in Evioneth, where there was nothing but killing and 

 fighting, whereupon he did purchafe a leafe of the caftle and 



x The author means the Exchequer for the Principality, then kept at 

 Carnarvon. 



y Plas Newydd fignifies the new Man/ion or Gentleman y s honfe ; the 

 name is therefore very common in Wales, and it is difficult to determine 

 what Plas Newydd the author alludes to- It fhould feem that our modern 

 exprefFion of a Gentleman's P/ace is taken from this Welfhterm. 



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