152 WREXHAM TO MOLD. 



to the word given them by the priefts on the field 

 of battle, and to repeat it with energy through the 

 whole army. When the forces were prepared for 

 the critical onfet, that was to decide the important 

 fate of the day, Germanus pronounced aloud Al- 

 leluia ! The priefts repeated it thrice, and it was 

 afterwards taken up by the voices of the whole 

 army, till even the hills reverberated the found. 

 The enemy, confounded, affrighted, and trembling, 

 fled on every fide. The Britons purfued, and left 

 few alive to relate the difmal iiory. Moll of them 

 fell by the fword, but many threw themfelves into 

 the adjoining river, and periflied in the flood *» 

 This victory has been called by all the hiftorians 

 Vidoria Allehiiatka. — A pyramidal flone column, 

 erected on the fpot in 1736 by Nathaniel Griffith, 

 efq. of Rhual, commemorates the event in the foU 

 lo\^ang infcription ; 



Ad annum 



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Saxones Pictique bcllum adverfus 



Britones junftis viribus fufclperunt 



In hac regione, hodieque Maes Garmon 



Appellata: cum in pijellum defcenditur, 



Apoftolicis Britonum ducibus Gtnnnno 



Et Lupo^ Christus militahat in cailiis ; 



Alleluia tertio repetitum exclamabant, 



Hodie agmen teirovc pioilernitur ; 



* The river is at prcfent fo very fliallow, that it would fcarcely 

 drown a dog : this battle might have taken place during an 

 cverflowing of the water in confequcnce of heavy rains. 



Trium* 



