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(C have done too much." " If that be foe," faid Owen ap John ap 

 Meredith, " I was this morning the beft man in my countrey," 

 meaning Evioneth, " but now I know not who is." 



You are to underftand, that in Evioneth of old there were two 

 fects or kindred, the one lineally defcended of Owen Gwynedd, 

 Prince of Wales, confifting then and now of four houfes, viz. 

 Kefelgyfarch, y Llys ynghefn y fann, now called Yftimkegid, 

 Clenenny, and Brynkir, Glasfrin or Cwmftrallyn ; the other feci: 

 defcended of Collwyn, whereof are five houfes or more ; viz. 

 Whelog, Bron y foel, Berkin, Gwnfryn, Talhenbont, and the 

 houfe of Hugh Gwyn ap John Wynne ap Williams called Pen- 

 nardd, all defcended of their common anceftor, Jevan ap Einion 

 np Gruffith. His brother was Howell ap Einion ap Grumth, 

 that worthy gentleman called Sir Howell y fwyall k , who be- 

 haved himfelfe fo worthyly at the field of Poitiers (where John 

 the French King was taken by the Blacke Prince), that he re- 

 ceived of the Prince in guift the conftablefhip of Criketh caftle, 

 and other great things in North Wales, alfoe the rent of Dee 

 milles in Chefter ; and, what was more, a mefle of meat to be 

 ferved before his battle-axe or partifan forever, in perpetual me- 

 mory of his good fervice m . This meffe of meat was afterwards 

 carried downe to be given to the poore, and had eight yeomen 

 attendants found at the King's charge, which were afterwards 

 called yeomen of the crowne ; who had 8 d. a day, and lafted 

 till the beginning of Queene Elizabeth's time. Sergeant Roberts 

 of Havod y bwch, neare Wrexam, was, at his beginning, yeo- 



k i. e. The axe. 



1 This circumftance hath been before mentioned by the author. 

 See p 40. 



m Our author here repeats what hath before been ftated, of which 

 there are fome other inftanccs when the matter was particularly in- 

 terefiing. 



man 



