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make a hide of land and viij hides make a kiiii>hls 

 ffee."^ 



In the first year of the reign of queen Mary, 

 John Herle was appointed to the constableship of 

 Conwy castle and stewardship of the abbey of 

 Bardesey. A copy of his commission is inserted 

 in the Appendix.^ 



In 1607, the town was almost depopulated by 

 the plague, and numbers of people were buried in 

 the streets, their bones are frequently found there, 

 when making sewers, and also without the town 

 walls. About forty years ago the lower half of 

 the high-street was repaved, and considerably 

 lowered, when a vast number of skeletons were 

 discovered lying side by side the whole way; 

 many of the bones were of very large dimensions, 

 and some of the jaw-bones are said to have ex- 

 ceeded a span in the distance of the extremities. 

 The pestilence was observed to break out heie 

 within three weeks of the time it appeared in Lon- 

 don ; and it must have reached this place so soon 

 owing to the connection of the inhabitants with 

 England. 



2 Editor's unpublished MS. ^ id. 



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