Miscellanies . ns flood in equall degree of kindred one to ano-ther, viz. cozen germans removed; which hard dealing muftneeds pull downe a kindred. It cannot be otherwife alfoe, butthat Friwlwyd was by the fame Queene, or by the Juffice WillSutton or others, who dealt hardly with the gentrie of thefe partsin thofe days, taken from the pofterity of Gruff, for it is parteof the principalitie to thefe daies, although the record provingthis happened not to fall into my hands. quid de eorum hasreditate fuerit faciendum. Refponfum eft quod pti-net ad Juftic ordinare de ballivis JnM utilitati domini


Miscellanies . ns flood in equall degree of kindred one to ano-ther, viz. cozen germans removed; which hard dealing muftneeds pull downe a kindred. It cannot be otherwife alfoe, butthat Friwlwyd was by the fame Queene, or by the Juffice WillSutton or others, who dealt hardly with the gentrie of thefe partsin thofe days, taken from the pofterity of Gruff, for it is parteof the principalitie to thefe daies, although the record provingthis happened not to fall into my hands. quid de eorum hasreditate fuerit faciendum. Refponfum eft quod pti-net ad Juftic ordinare de ballivis JnM utilitati domini melius viderit expedire. There are very fine tranferipts of thefe Petitions prefented to the Kingat Kennigton. in N 47 6 of the Harleian MSS. which is a large Folio,containing chiefly a moft complete extent or furvey of the counties ofAnglefey, Merioneth, and Carnarvon, made in the 26th year of Edwardthe Third. The date agrees except in. the difference of 3 2d year of Ed-ward the Third inftead of the 33d. 4 But. &3 £; 0 <a si c W o d. SQ chai H cm or .r~i Ho ao 9 [ 373 1 But to recurre to the offspring of Gruff ap Cariadog, and theirfucceffion, vvith the eftate and condition they lived in from timeto time unto this day ; it being my purpofe to treat thereof. Outof the three brethren, David, Meredith, and Howell, who ex-changed, as above is remembred, with the Earle of Lincolne, thepofterity onely of Howell doth remaine in credite snd mew intheir countrey, the pofterity of the other two being by divifionand fubdivifion of gavelkind (the deftruftion of Wales) broughtto the eftate of meane freeholders, and foe haveing forgotten theirdefcents and pedigree, are become as they never had been. Ifyou afke the queftion why the fucceffion of Howell fped betterthan the pofterity of the other two brethren, I can yeald no otherreafon, but Gods mercy and goodnefs towards the one more thanthe other, as God fayd in the booke of Mofes, I will have mercy on whome I will have mercy, for they


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