The History of the Gwyder Paniiltj. (Woodfall and Vertables, lOsivestry.)—Sir
John Wynne, who flourished about 1600 A.D., and was one of King James's baronets, wrote this history of his family, while the present and former-editors have enriched it with introduc- tion, notes, itc. There are curious little pictures in it, as this :—
"Howell ap Madog Vychan, haveing most valiantly fought out with his people, received his deadly wound in the head. Being dnune, his mother, being present, clapped her hand on his head, meaning to ward the stroke, and had half her hand and three of her fingers cut off at the blowe. David Llwyd Griffith Vychan, my uncle, told me, that his father, dwelling at Curnstrallyn, in Evioneth, hearing of the affray, but not of his cosen's death (for Howell ap Madog Vychan out- lived the fray certaine dayes), sent him, being a child, to see how 'his mien did ; and he, coming to Berk-in, found him layd in his bed, and his wounded men, in great number, lying in a cocherie, above the degree in the high table, all in breadth of his hall, all gored and wallowing in their owne blood. He likewise saw the gentleman's milch kine brought to the hall doore, and their milk carried out from their kine to the wounded men, by them to be druncke, for the re- storing of their blood."
Welsh history, it will be seen, is amazingly like that of the Irish, who, it will be remembered, make their first appearance in regular his- tory in the person of a regulus domestiea seditione pulses. The gentlemen, it should be known, were relatives.
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