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frkhes ' of Dolwyddelan, of the executors of Sir Ralph Berkinnet. 

 I find in the records of the Exchequer of Carnarvon, the tranfcript 

 of an act. of refumption enrowled, made in the third yeare of 

 king Henry the Seventh, by which act all king Richard's gifts 

 are refumed, excepting one leafe of the frith of Dolwyddelan, 

 granted to Sir Ralph Berkinnet of the countie of Chefter, knight, 

 Chamberlaine of North Wales. Haveing purchafed this leafe, he 

 removed his dwelling to the caftle of Dolwyddelan, which at that 

 time was in part thereof habitable, where one Hovvel ap Jevan ap 

 Rys Gethin, in the beginning of Edward the Fourth his raigne, 

 captaihe of the countrey and an outlaw, had dwelt. Againfr. this 

 man David ap Jenkin rofe, and contended with him for the fov- 

 raignety of the countrey ; and being fuperiour to him, in the 

 end he drew a draught for him, and took him in his bed at 

 Penanmen with his concubine, performing by craft, what he 

 could not by force, and Lrought him to Conway caftle. Thus, 

 after many bickerings betweene Howell and David ap Jenkin, 

 he being too weake, was faigne to flie the countrey, and to goe to 

 Ireland, where he was a yeare or thereabouts. In the end he 

 returned in the fummer time, haveing himfelfe, and all his fol- 

 lowers clad in greene 3 , who, being come into the countrey, he 

 difperfed here and there among his friends, lurking by day, and 

 walkeing in the night for feare of his adverfaries ; and fuch of the 



E Frith is a very common term in Wales, and fignifies generally a 

 fmall field taken out of a common. There is a market town in Derby- 

 fhire called Chapel in the Frith, which is fituated in a valley amongft fuch 

 inclofures. The term of frith is originally Saxon, hence tieonppib fig- 

 nifies a foreft with its bounds. Chron. Sax. A. D. 1086. 



a The tradition is well known, that Robin Hood, and the outlawea 

 his followers, were clad in the fame livery. As they generally lived in 

 forefts, perhaps it might be conceived that they were lefs diftinguifhable 

 when dreffed in this colour. 



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