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After Meredith had lived certaine yeares at Dolwyddelan cafEIe,. 

 Be builded the houfe in Penanmen, being the principal beft ground 

 in Dolwyddelan, and alfo within certaine yeares after, he re- 

 moved the church of Dolwyddelan from a place called Brin y 

 bedd, to the place where now it is, being parte of the poffeffions 

 of the priory of Bethkelert. He alfo there new-built the fame as* 

 it is now, one croffe chapell excepted, which my uncle Robert 

 Wynne built. It mould feeme, by the glaffe window there, that 

 it was built in anno 1 5 1 2 ; but whether it was in that yeare 

 glazed, (which might be done long after the building of the 

 church), I am uncertaine. The church, which is very ftrongly 

 built, the caftle, and his houfe of Penanmen. ftand three fquare,. 



** wyce z poor archer might have taken, a prynce or noble lord,, 

 " and fo the arms of that prifoner he may put to him and his heyrs." 

 Book of St. Albans, by dame Julian Bernes. 



The author feems alfo; to have forgotten fome Wellh verfes which are 

 inferted in the margin of the MS. commemorating the grant of the mefs 

 of meat to be ferved at Sir Howell's table, whilft the battle, axe fol- 

 lowed. 



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Segir fy feiger wyail doeth honn garr bron y brenin 

 Gwedyr maes gwaed ar y min ; i dyfaig ai dewifwrjj 

 Ai diod oedd waed a dw.r. 

 Kowydd * i Jevan ap Meredith O Cefelgyfarch 

 Howell ap Reignalt ai cant. 



<c Place on the table my - fewer,, (bearing the axe which came front the ■ 

 " prefence of the king, with blood on its edge) the two dilhes which I 

 6t have chofen. The drink muft be blood and water. 



"The poem in praife of Jevan ap Meredithof Cefelgyfarch, by Howell": 

 ** ap Reioalt the Bard/' 



* Towydd (or diftich) was inferted in the margin by a different hand from that of / 

 lhe copier: it is faidto be very incorrect, and confequently not perfectly intelligible. . 

 Xhe above tranflation is fuppofed to be nearly the fenfe of it. .. 



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