74 HISTORY OF 



all their lands and privileges, and granting them 

 the township of Maenan with several other parcels 

 of land in lieu of what they had at Conwy ; they 

 enjoyed in addition several new immunities, and 

 they were exempted from all taxes, tolls, and 

 duties whatsoever, and the presentation of their 

 conventual church, which he now made parochial,* 

 was granted them on condition that they appointed 

 two Englishmen as chaplains, and the third a 

 Welshman, for the benefit of those who were un- 

 acquainted with English. One of the Englishmen 

 was to be perpetual vicar, to be named by the 

 convent on every vacancy, and to be presented by 

 the diocesan. These privileges were secured by 

 his first and second charters, dated from Caernar- 

 von ; and Pope Nicholas also by his bull autho- 

 rised the translation." At the dissolution, the re- 

 venues of this abbey were, according to Dugdale, 

 £162. 155.; and according to Speed, £179. 10*. 

 lOd. The last abbot was Richard Kyflin, who 

 had a pension of twenty pounds a year.^ In the 

 fifth year of Elizabeth, the abbey was granted to 

 Elizeus Wynne in the possession of whose de- 



5 Ayloffc's Rotuli WallijT?, 91. 

 " Sec the (luce in the Appendix. 

 ^ [*rnnant's Tour in Wales. 



