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un rhyw Iarll, Siarter i Howel ei vab, ar dri pharsel ar ddeg o dir, yr hwn mae ei hiliogaeth yn ei veddu ym mraint uchelwyr wrth y Siarter honno; ac am y tri pharsel ar ddeg hynny, yr oedd tri pharsel ar ddeg o venig y ardraeth arno.'

BETTWS GWERVYL GOCH.

The church of Bettws Gwervyl Goch was built by Gwervyl Goch, daughter of Prince Cynan, Lord of Meirionydd, son of Owain Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, who reigned from 1137 to 1190. She was the sister of Maredydd ab Cynan, Lord of Neuadd Wen, Coed Talog, and Llysin, in Upper Powys, who bore quarterly gules and argent, four lions passant countercharged. She married Iarddur ab Bod, and lies buried in the church.2

David ab Rhys ab David ab Llywelyn3 of Bettws Gwenllian, d. of Rhys ab
Gwervyl Goch.
Tudor.

Thomas ab David of Bettws. Elizabeth Lloyd, sister of Owain Glyn.

David Lloyd, 1594.Alis, d. of Ffoulk Salusbury.

Robert.

Elizabeth, ux. David Huw.

David ab Madog ab Belyn ab-Margaret, d. of David of Bettws Gwervyl

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Gôch, son of Rhys ab Gwilym of Llysan.

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Rhys ab
Ieuan.

Jane. Alis. Janet.

1 Cae Cyriog MS.

2 Lewys Dunn, vol. ii, p. 17. See also Arch. Camb., April 1877,

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DERWEN ANIAL, IN THE CWMWD OF COLEIGION AND CANTREV OF DYFFRYN CLWYD.

The parish of Derwen Anial contains the two townships of Dyvanedd and Ysceiviog. In the parish church is a handsome screen and rood-loft of the fifteenth century. In the churchyard is a cross nine feet and a half high, with canopied niches, filled with various figures, carved in alto relievo. The pedestal on which it stands is a cube, the sides of which are two feet six inches, to which there is an ascent of (now) two steps, making the height of the whole thirteen feet six inches. The work belongs apparently to the thirteenth century.

"At Cevn Vynydd in this parish there appears to have been a capella with right of sanctuary. A witness living in 1863 remembered the ruins of the church having been pointed out to him by his father, the walls at that time being two or three feet above the ground. A spot near the present plantation of Cevn Mawr had at the same time been pointed out as a sanctuary for criminals charged with lesser offences, who were free from arrest so long as they remained within its limits."

This parish abounds with springs of excellent water, one of which, called Ffynnon Sarah, is in great repute for its efficacy in the cure of cancers. Those dreadful diseases, stone and gravel, are totally unknown to those inhabitants who are natives, and some who have removed hither from other situations have been completely cured.2

1 History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, by the Rev. D. R. Thomas, M.A. Cf. Arch. Camb., 1864, p. 331.

2 Carlisle's Topographical Dict.

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(Harl. MSS. 1969-2299.)

Jenkyn ab Ieuan of Derwen Anial, ab Madog ab Llolo of Plas y Llolo in Derwen, ab Llewelyn ab Madog ab Llewelyn of Aelhaiarn and Derwen Anial, ab Ithel ab Heilin ab Eunydd. See Archæologia Cambrensis, July 1876, pp. 180, 181.

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John of Derwen Catharine, dau. of John ab Robert ab Ieuan ab Einion Anial.

Llwyd.

Gwenllian, ux. Lewys ab Rhys Wynn of Derwen Anial.

LLANELIDAN IN THE CWMWD OF DOGVEILIN AND CANTREV OF DYFFRYN CLWYD.

The parish of Llanelidan contains the townships of Llanelidan, Nantelwyd, Bryneyme, Trewyr, Bodlowydd, and Garth Neuadd. Piers Roberts, in his Diary (Tyn y Rhyl MS.) has a note, that "on the road from Ruthin to Corwen are Erw'r Benglog and Rhyd y Crogwr, in the township of Llanelidan. A bishop of Bangor gave the township to one Iorwerth ab Cadwgan free, but the tenants to be vassals; and they disobeying, he beheaded one on the plough-bear in Erw'r Benlog, and hanged

another in Rhyd y Crogwr, while a third fled for sanctuary." A deed in the Rhûg MS. at Peniarth records the purchase of Banhadlawn Undiawn by the monks of Ystrad-Marchell from the sons of Iorwerth ab Cadwgan and his coheredes in Llanelidan. The parish of Llanelidan contains 5,109 acres.

There is a circular hill in this parish called Caer Ddineu, about half a mile perhaps in circumference, which lies in the townships of Trewyr and Bodlowydd, but there are no remains of earthworks to be seen there at the present time. Some few years ago there was a large number of Roman coins and some few rings found accidentally in a dingle near this place. In the parish of Llanvair Dyffryn Clwyd, on the summit of a rock called Craig yr Adwy, a great part of which is in this parish, there are the remains of some ancient entrenchments extending in the form of a crescent, and terminating at each extremity in an abrupt precipice; the area of this camp is about seven acres.

PENBEDW AND LLANELIDAN.

Belyn, fourth son of Madog ab Llolo Alson, d. and heiress of Llewelyn ab

[1 Llewelyn

of Llanelidan.

of Plas Ꭹ Llolo.

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Ieuan of Llanelidan,
ancestor of Thomas
ab Robert ab Gruff-
ydd ab Ieuan ab
Belyn of Llanelidan.

Rhirid Ddu ab Gwyn ab Howel.

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Piers of

Thomas Margaret, d. and heiress of Gruffydd ab Harri of Llys Dinhynydd, in the parish of Cilcain in Tegeingl, ab Ieuan ab Rhys ab Ieuan ab Ithel ab Ithel Y Gwr Têg ab David ab Ithel, Parson of Llaneurgain, ab Ithel Vychan ab Ithel Llwyd ab Ithel Gam, Lord of Mostyn, ab Maredydd ab Uchdryd, Lord of Cyveiliog. Azure, a lion passant argent, for Ithel Gain.

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THE LORDSHIP OF PENLLYN.

Prince Cadwgan, the second son, by a daughter of the Lord Picot de Say of Stoke Say, of Bleddyn ab Cynvyn, Prince of Powys, was Lord of the cantrev of Penllyn; the cantrev of Cynan, which contained the comots of Mawddwy and Cyveiliog; the cantrev of Meirion, which contained the comots of Tal y Bont, Pennal, and Ystym Aner; the cantrev of Arwystli, which contained the comots of Uwych Coed, Is y Coed, and Gwarth Rynion or Reinion; and Lord also of Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywy, in South Wales. This prince, called by Camden "the illustrious Briton", bore or, a lion rampant azure, and resided at Nannau, from which circumstance he has

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