70 HISTORY OF 



ABBEY OF ABERCONWY. 



Llvwelyn ab loRvvERTH, piiiice of Noi'th Wales, 

 founded here a Cistercian abbey, and by his char- 

 ter he endowed it with a very great extent of ter- 

 ritory in Arvon, Denbighshire, and Anglesey ; he 

 also assigned the limits of the land where it stood, 

 and those in Creiddyn, which seem to agree with 

 the modern liberties of the corporation ; he also 

 gave it Friwlwyt,^ Kwin, Redenocuelen, Nankall, 

 Kellmeoc, Bodgedwyd, Voelas Keirnauc, and 

 Llanvair-Ryt-Castell, Llynkemer, Llethwedkryn- 

 llwyn; the boundaries of which are severally nam- 

 ed, and were granted for ever ; besides these, he 

 gave them great privileges and immunities. They 

 had a perpetual exemption from keeping men, 

 horses, dogs, or hawks for the prince's service, 

 and from giving entertainment to himself, or any 

 other lay person on pretence of custom ; they had 

 liberty to choose their own abbots without the in- 

 terference of himself, or any layman ; all wrecks 

 upon their lands belonged to them, and if any of 

 their vessels were wrecked on the prince's lands, 

 they recovered the same ; they were likewise to be 



'■> In Evionvdd. Arvnu. 



