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Payments to a serving maid,

Two lists describing and evaluating articles of clothing and material for making up into clothes, etc., which, with sums of money, had been received by Ellin [?subsequently] wife of George gruff[ydd] ap d[avi]d ap m[ered]? edd, serving maid of Ieu[a]n ap Rees ap Dauid [of Wigfair, ob. ?circa 1610], as part of her wages whilst in the service of the said Ieuan. The first is in Welsh and is headed 'Taledigaethe i Ellin vawr oi chyflog gen Ieu[a]n ap Rees ap Dauid sydd yn Ca[n]lyn'. The second is an incomplete English version of the Welsh list and is described as 'A trwe and p[er]fe? ict note of such thinges as Ieu[a]n ap Rees ap Dauid, def[endan]t at the sute of George gruff[ydd] ap d[avi]d ap m[ered]?edd & Ellin his weif, paid to the said Ellin for her waiges at such tymes as she the said Ellin served the said def[endan]t as his servant mayed ? are following'.