1^6 MOLD TO RUTHIN. 



About a quarter of a mile diflant there is a cele- 

 brated fpring called Ffynnon Dyfnog, The Well of 

 Dyfnog, There was on this fpot a bath, and formerly 

 a chapel dedicated to this Welfh faint. 



RUTKIN. 



J proceeded on my journey, and found the fce- 

 nery all the way to Ruthin, The Red Fort, extremely 

 beautiful. — This place, like St. Afaph and Denbigh, 

 is pleafantly fituated on a confiderable eminence 

 nearly in the middle of the Vale of Chvyd. At a 

 little diflance behind the town, the mountains feem 

 to clofe up the end of the vale. From difrerent 

 fituations in the outfl-drts of the town I had feveral 

 fine profpe£ts of the adjacent country. The little 

 river Clwj'd runs through this place, and is here 

 fcarccly three yards acrofs. — -Ruthin is a large and 

 tolerably populous town, having two markets in the 

 week, one on Saturday for meat, and the other on 

 Monday principally for corn. The county-gaol for 

 Denbighfhire is here : it is a neat and well-con- 

 ftruftcd building. 



The church was originally conventual, belonging 

 to a houfe of Bon-hommes, a fpecies of Auguiline 

 monks. It was made collegiate in 1310 by John, 

 the fon of Reginald de Grey, lord of Dyffryn Clwyd, 

 who endowed it with upwards of two hundred acres 

 of land, granted to it many privileges, and eflablifhed 

 feven regular pricfls, one of whom was to ferve the 

 chapel of the garrifon. In this ftate it probably 



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