WREXHAM TO MOLD. I53 



Triumphant 



Hoflibus fufis fine fanguine ; 



Palma fide non vincus obtenta. 



M P. 



In vId\orIx Allelciaticoe memonam. 



N. G. 



MDCCXXXVI. 



The date of this battle feems to have been mif- 

 taken both by Mr. Griffith and Mr. Pennant, who 

 €ach fix it in the year 420. Matthew of Wefl- 

 minfter, from whofe work the preceding account is 

 extracted, fays exprefsly that it took place in 448, 

 and that Germanus and Lupus did not arrive in this 

 kingdom till about two years before this time*. 

 He mentions nothing of the Saxons having any {hare 

 in the bufmefs ; nor indeed does it appear very pro- ' 

 bable that they fhould, fmce their army was not 

 introduced by Vortigern till the foilomng year. 

 What has been faid, that the Saxons here engaged 

 might have been fuch. as came over on fome preda- 

 tory excurfion, prior to the invitation of Vortigern^ 

 can have httle validity when fuch evidence both di- 

 re6l and circumftantial is to be adduced to the con- 

 tYdiiry. The arrival of the Saxons prior to that 

 period, feems however of much lefs importance ia 

 the proof than the arrival of the bifliops, for they 

 evidently were not in the kingdom till tvrcaty-fr^ 

 years after the generally fuppofed time of the e\2nt. 



* Matt. Weft. 152 —r54. In Rymer, i. 443 , it is fald to 

 have taken pkce about tlie year 447. 



