Welsh Journals

A few other discrepancies between the manuscript and printed versions should be noted Memoirs.' MANUSCRIPT. p. 60. Griffith ap Gwyn Griffri. p. 68. drugtam. dryglam. y tarn y lann p. 69. liberatum divini. litteratum .d[omi]ni. Claremont. Carnot. p.73. less in sight. least in sight. The date of Owen Glyn Dwr's birth is given in the manuscript as May 28, A.D. 1354 with the words' some say 1349' added later by the same hand. Panton MS. 53 has 1354 changed to 1348 (reading' May 28 A.D. 1348 some say 1349 '). This dating tells against Ieuan Brydydd Hir's supposition that the history was com- piled by Robert Vaughan. Vaughan was committed to the year of the plague (y cornwyd), 1349.1 Panton MS. 53 differs from the other texts also in its list of Owen Glyn Dwr's children, naming only two legitimate slaughters, Elizabeth and Janet, though in the text references are made to marriages with Grey of Ruthin, Mortimer (dismissed as having no authority for it in Welsh writers), Scudamore, and Monington. N.L.W. MS. 14587 gives the following particulars of Owen Glyn Dwr's issue GRIFFITH, and 5 sons more who came all to be men & perished in their fathers warr without issue. ELIZABETH, w. of Sir John Scudamor of Kenchurch, Kt. JANE, w. of ye Lord Gray of Ruthin. JONET, w. of John Croft of Croft Castle. MARGARET, w. of Monington of Herefordshire. Base issue- JEVAN. 1 daugh[ter] marryed to the heire of Guernen. MYVANWY, wife of Llewelyn ap Adda of Trevor. GWENLLIAN, wife of Philip ap Rees of St. Harmon in Radnorshire. This list agrees with the pedigree given by Robert Vaughan in Peniarth MS. 287 except that Vaughan -names the five sons Madoc, Mred[udd], Thom[as], Jo[h]n, and D[avi]d, that he wavered between Lleuki and Elizabeth as the name of the Scudamore bride, and that Roger Monnington is a later addition in the manu- script. All versions agree on the details of the base issue. A later hand tried to find a daughter between Jane and Janet to marry Edmund Mortimer in N.L.W. MS. 14587. Even Pennant accepts the Grey of Ruthin alliance but pronounces the Mortimer marriage to be a mistake of the English historians. There is a close relationship between the texts of Panton 53 and N.L.W. 14587. The latter and the exemplar of the former belonged to Bishop Humphreys. With one of them he associated the name MThomas Ellis and this was the manuscript used by Thomas Carte and undoubtedly the original of Genealogical Account' printed by John Thomas. There are objections to Ieuan Brydydd Hir's tentative ascription of the history to Robert Vaughan though Ellis may have been indebted to him for much of his material. In any case Bishop Humphreys was in a better position to identify the actual compiler. The manuscript was afterwards in the hands of Edward Wynne, LL.D., D.C.L., of Bodewryd, chancellor of Hereford (d. 1755). At the foot of page 67 he added the note Concerning Owen Glendwr see more in Mr. Wynne's Edition of ye History of Wales, page 315 &c.' 1 Peniarth M.S. 287, p. 374. E. D. JONES.