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tliately brought to London to confume this wretched 

 friar. To the flake on which he fufFered was affixed 

 the following elegy : 



David Darfcl Gatlieren, 

 As Hiyth the Wclflimen, 



Fetched outlawes out of Jiell. 

 Now is he come, with fpere and fhield, 

 III harnes, to burne in Smithfield, 



For in Wales he may not dwell. 



And Foreft the friar, '' 



That obftinate lyar, 



That wilfully Hiall be dead, 

 In his contumacie, 

 The gofpcl dothe deny 



And the king to be fupreme head*. 



At Llanfawr, The Great Village, two miles front 

 Bala, is the fuppofed place of interment of 



The Welsh Bard, Llywarch Hen, 



Who flouriflied in the feventh century. He was 

 nearly allied to the WeKh princes, and to his bardic 

 charafter united that of a warrior. His whole life 

 was fpent in a feries of viciffitudes and misfortunes, 

 and he died about the year 670, at the great age 

 of a hundred and fifty years. Somewhat more than 

 a century ago an infcription was found upon the 

 wall, near which his remains were fuppofed to have 

 been depofited : this wall is now covered with plaf- 

 ter. — Not far from hence there is a circle of ftones 



* Halle's Chrohicle, ccxxxiii. 



called 



