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 ticular thing and the decision suitable in every case. Then all the archbishops, bishops, abbots and priests rose up together, and assumed their robes, and leaned on their croziers with crosses and candles, and by common consent excommunicated those who should violate those laws, and likewise blessed those who should keep them.

Preface to Peniarth MS. 29.

Heuel da uab Kadell teuyhauc Kemry oil a uelles e Kemry en kam arueru or kefreythyeu, ac adeuenus atau uy guyr o pop kemud en y tehuyokaet e pduuar en lleycyon ar deu en scolecyon. Sef achaus e uennuyt er escleycyon rac gossod or lleycyn dym a vey en erbyn er escrftur Ian. Sef amser e doythant eno e Garauuys, Sef amser achaus e doyant e Garauuys eno urth delehu o paup bod en yaun en er amser glan hunnu, ac na guenelhey kam en amser gleyndyt. Ac o kyd kaghor a kyd synedycaeth e doython a doytant eno er hen kefreythyeu a esteryasant a rey onadunt a adassant y redec a rey a emendassant ac ereyll en kubyl a dyleassant ac ereyll o neuuyt a hosodassant. A guedy honny onadunt e kefreythyeu a uarnassant eu cadu, Heuel a rodes y audurdaut uthunt ac a orckemenus en kadarn eu kadu en craf. A Heuel ar doythyon a uuant y kyd ac ef a ossodassant eu hemendyth ar hon Kamry holl ar e nep eg Kemry a lecrey heb eu kadu e kefreythyeu. Ac a dodassant eu hemendyt ar er egnat a kamero dyofryt braut ac ar er argluyt ay rodhey ydau ar ny huypey teyr kolhouen kefreyth a guerth guellt a dof a pop pedh reyt y dynyaul aruer arnau.

Howel the Good, the son of Cadell, prince of all Cymru, perceived the Cymry abusing the laws, and summoned to him six men from every cymwd in his principality, four of them of the laity and two of the clergy. The reason that the ecclesiastics were summoned was lest the laics should insert anything contrary to Holy