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was to be paid by the servile townships (Villis servilibus); if the former had no Bragawd, they were to supply a double quantity of Cwrwf; the relative value is thus distinctly marked. Wotton renders the former word cerevisia aromatitis; the latter cerevisia vulgaris; but vulgaris he marks as an epithet added to explain the original text. According to Mr. Owen, Bragawd or Bragget, is a very different liquor from ale, being made of the wort of ale, and mead fermented together; Cwrw is certainly at present good, clear, substantial ale, worthy of honorable and grateful mention from all who have drank it; a far better liquor than bragget can be; though this indeed is a matter of taste, and bragget would be the costlier beverage. I am inclined to think that Cwrw would not have been thus disrespectfully regarded in the Welch laws, had it been the same liquor then which it is now. Perhaps it was not fined.