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Title: Wanderings and excursions in North Wales
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Roscoe, Thomas, 1791-1871
Subjects: Wales, North -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : C. Tilt, and Simpkin and co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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have been sent, and upon proceeding towards thespot, they discovered, pierced by one of their random arrows,another adherent of the lawless men who had planned the murder.But public enemies as they were, it was remarked that theseRed-hands were always held in particular regard by the heads of thefamily by whom they were commissioned. Thus Howell, havingascertained that Jevan and his friends were preparing to attend theassizes at Caernarvon, sent to a famous outlaw, David ap Jenkin,his relative, requesting of him the small favour of storatiing Jevanshouse in his absence, and seizing all his foemans Red-hands, tohang them up in a row before the door. David was too polite todecline the invitation; and being a man of approved valour, holdingmidnight assassination in contempt, he made his attack early in themorning. Roused by the alarum, the inmates summoned theconcealed outlaws of their clan to their assistance; and to setthe example, Jevans wife, who had stuck so fast to the horses tail,
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WANDERINGS THROUGH NORTH WALES. 209 not a whit daunted, began by emptying the boiling wort—for, hkea good housewife, she was already superintending the brewing—uponthe heads of her assailants. Then mustering the dairy-maids withtheir churn staves, they joined the men in giving the Howellitesa warm reception. Spite of the breaches at length made in thebuilding, the Jevanites, incited by the valour of the ladies, held thebesiegers at bay until, rumours of the attack having spread, someadherents of the family, commanded by little Robin ap Jnco, madea diversion in the rear of the enemy. A sharp contest ensued; andRobin threatening to put every Howellite to the sword when hisreserve should arrive, his adversaries prudently sounded a retreat. Penmorfa lies at the head of some marshy meadows, not farfrom the Traeth Mawr, under the frowning aspect of Moel Hebog,which separates it from the Vale of Beddgelert; but it presents fewfeatures of attraction. In the church is a small monument inte

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