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like a trivett, either a mile diftant from each other. QuelHoning 

 with my uncle, what mould move him to demolifh the old 

 church, which Hood in a thickett, and build it in a plaine, ftronger 

 and greater than it was before : his anfwer was, he had reafon for 

 the fame, becaufe the countrey was wild, and he might be op- 

 prefled by his enemies on the fuddaine, in that woodie countrey? 

 it therefore flood him in a policie to have diverfe places of retreat, 

 Certaine it was, that he durft: not goe to church on a Sunday from 

 his houfeof Penanmen, but he muft leave the fame guarded with 

 men, and have the doores fure barred and boulted, and a watch- 

 man to ftand at the Garreg big, during divine fervice ; being a 

 rock whence he might fee both the church and the houfe, and 

 raife the crie, if the houfe was affaulted. He durft not, although 

 he were guarded with twenty tall 0 archers, make knowne when 

 he went to church or elfewhere, or goe or come the fame way 

 through the woodes and narrowe places, left he fhould be layed 

 for : this was in the beginning of his time. To ftrengthen him- 

 felfe in the countrey, he provided out of all parts adjacent, the 

 talleft and moft able men he could heare of. Of thefe he placed 

 colonies in the countrey, filling every empty tenement with a 

 tenant or two, whereof moft was on the Kinge's lands. Many 

 of the pofteritie of thefe tenants remaine untill this day. One 

 William ap Robert of Ifcorum, being one of his followers, he 

 placed in a tenement of the townefhippe of Gwedir, called Pen- 

 craig Inko, now worth £. 30. per annum, who paid for the fame 

 onely a reliefe to the King or lord, which was 10 J-. \d. 



Such were the lawes in thofe days, and are ftill, that if the 

 King's tenant holding in freehold, or freeholder holding under 



0 Tall at this time often fignifks Jlout, and is ufed by Shakfpeare in 

 that fenfe. P. 



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