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to denote a person of book learning who was able to read and write, a pupil or a person employed to make fair copies of documents or a scribe. For the various meanings of 'clerk' see A. J. Simpson and E. C. S. Wiener (eds.), The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edn. (Oxford, 1989), iii, 313-14. 102 AB Wales 4/11/1/13. 103 See E. P. Roberts, 'Marwnadau Telynorion', 89-90, 101-2. 104 The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1018. 105 See pp. 18-19 and note 58. He is named in 'Marwnad Gwyr wrth gerdd' by Siôn Tudur, composed 1574-80 (E. P. Roberts, Gwaith Siôn Tudur, i, 555-7; ii, 502); an elegy was also composed in his honour by Wiliam Cynwal (Bangor MS (Mostyn) 4, p. 222). See also E. P. Roberts, 'Marwnadau Telynorion', 82, 86-7, 110-11. 106 Ibid., 86-7, 91, 110. This interpretation assumes that Lewis Morris's interpretation of pricio is correct. See also Harper, present publication, 161. 107 AB MS 13167-B (1674) was later in the Llanofer library; AB MS 4710 (1676) came to the hands of John Parry (Bardd Alaw?), the harpist. The material is not copied in the same order. Llywelyn ap Maredudd's cywydd is to be found in AB MS 13167, p. 302 and AB MS 4710, p. 462, and there is another copy in AB MS 9169, p. 29. 108 AB MS Cwrtmawr 6-B, pp. 95, 97. 109 The link between Gruffydd Robert and Roger Morys is noted by Thomas Evans of Hendreforfudd in AB MS Llanstephan 34 (G. J. Williams, Gramadeg Cymraeg Gruffydd Robert, vi, lxxi, lxxv, lxxxi-lxxxv, xcix). The use of italic script to denote conversation is clearly seen in AB MS Cwrtmawr 530-A, pp. 1-16. The Renaissance orthography begins after p. 10, although earlier pages are in the same hand. 110 Englynion composed in a challenge between Simon Thelwall, William Mostyn and Sir Rhys Gruffydd of Penrhyn sometime before 1580 use the term crwth andffidil interchangeably (AB MS 1553, p. 759). I am grateful to Bethan Miles for this reference. 111 The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1018. 112 AB MS 17116-B (Gwysaney 28), fo. 75. His name also appears in AB MS Peniarth 147, p. 203 and in Roger Morys's manuscript, AB MS Peniarth 169, p. 253.