Now this was the first hooking of horses to the rope of the crane which was ever done either in Wales or England.

Subsequently I had plenty of leisure and rest instead of toiling amidst other carriers." Leaving Ale Fowlio he took up his abode nearer to Denbigh, and continued carrying wood.

Several of his horses died, and he was soon in difficulties, and was glad to accept an invitation from certain miners of the county of Flint to go and play them an interlude.

As he was playing them one called "A Vision of the Course of the World," which he had written for the occasion, and which was founded on, and named after, the first part of the work of Master Ellis Wyn, he was arrested at the suit of one Mostyn of Calcoed.

He, however, got bail, and partly by carrying and partly by playing interludes, soon raised money enough to pay his debt.