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Compare 1577 edition: 1 For the assurance of which articles and couenants the prince deliuered for hostages ten persons of the best in Wales, which he could get without imprison|ment, disheriting, or terme of deliuera [...]e, and of e|uerie cantred twentie persons,In oth to be rec [...]i [...]ed. of the best and most sufficient, to be chosen by such as the king shall send thither yeerelie, & shall from yéere to yéere he sworne vpon the euangelists, in presence of the bailiffes of the said Leolin, that whensoeuer the prince shall breake any of these articles, and vpon admonition dooth not reforme himselfe, they shall forsake him, and in all things, being vnto him open enimies, shall beare him deadlie hostilitie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Besides this, the prince shall (as farre as in him may lie) pacifie his brethren,Leolins bre|thren. of the which he had put two in prison, Owen and Roderike [...] the third na|med Dauid, escaping his hands, fled into England, and remained many yéeres with king Edward, who receiuing him into his seruice, made him knight in this warre,Dauid rewar|ded by king Edward. and gaue vnto him a castell at Denbigh in Wales, with lands to the yéerelie value of a thou|sand marks, in recompense of those possessions which he ought to haue had in Anglesey, the which (as be|fore is said) the king granted vnto Leolin for terme of his life, and after his deceasse to reuert vnto the king and to his heires.Dauid prefer|red in mariage Moreouer, he preferred Da|uid to the marriage of a iollie widowe, that was daughter to the earle of Darbie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The article concerning Owen.As concerning Owen, through the kings fauour he was deliuered out of prison, by force of the arti|cles concluded at this present by the commissioners, vnder this forme and maner: that vpon his being set at libertie, certeine persons appointed by the king should make offer to him, to choose whether he would first compound with his brother, and therevpon come to the king, and beseech him to allow the composition, or else to put himselfe vnder the safe kéeping of the king, till according to the lawes and customes of Wales, in the place where he did transgresse, iudge|ment should be giuen of the matter: and if he were acquit, then might he demand his heritage if he thought it so expedient: and which of these two waies he should choose, the same should be made firme and stable in the kings presence.

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