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any other Lord, did ceafe for two years to do his fervice to rafc 

 King or Lord, the faid may re-enter. The writte is called Ce/Ja- 

 *vit per biennium ; the exactions were, in thofe dayes, foe mani- 

 fold, that not onely the bondmen ranne away and forfooke the 

 Kinge's land, but al'foe freeholders their owne land. 



Here to lay downe in particular the Welfh cuftomes would 

 make the volume too great- 

 Owen ap Hugh ap Jevan ap William, great grandchild to the 

 faid William, enjoyeth the land to this day ; though in my 

 grandfather's time it was in fute, by the contrivance of John ap 

 Madog ap Hofhell, but it is now recovered by the meanes of my 

 grandfather. Einion ap Gruffith ap Jockes, a freeholder of Fef- 

 tiniog and'Llanvrothen, he placed in the King's frith at Bryntirch, 

 of whom are defcended many in Nantconway, Fefliniog, and 

 Llanvrothen. Howell ap Jevan ap Pellyn, a Denbigfhire man,, 

 and a tall archer, of whom are defcended the race of the Pellyns, 

 he placed in the tenement of Garth. He alfoe placed Gruffith ap 

 Tudor, a Denbighihire man, in Rhiw Goch ; as likewife Jevan 

 David ap Ednyfed, an Abergeley man, (who felled, in one day, 

 eighteen oakes, towards the building of a parte of Penanmen- 

 houfe), in Bwl'ch y kymid. Laftly, he placed Robert ap Meredith 

 in Berthios, whofe fonne John ap Robert was dayry-man there, . 

 untill the beginning of my time. 



In Ddanhadog he found- Rys ap Robert, a tall flout 'man, who 

 being originally (as they fay) a Vaynoll Bangor p man borne, and 

 a freeholder, killed a man there, forfook his land, and fled thithen . 

 Rytharch and Richard ap Rys ap Robert were my fathers foflers ; : 

 and from the faid Richard ap Rys ap Robert is lineally defcended 



p So called from being near Bangor, to diftinguim it from other places 

 tearing that name. 



Humphrey 



