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in the neighbourhood, which was foruieily in tlic* 

 possession of the abbey, and the boundaries at 

 present agree witli those named in Llywelyn ab 

 lorwerth's charter of 1 198. The corporation had 

 by the king's grant a large territory, which by 

 leases and other modes has dwindled to a very in- 

 considerable portion, and most of it totally alien- 

 ated from the town. The town mountain, tiie 

 morva, morva bach, twthil, one or two farms, a 

 few gardens, and some plots of ground about the 

 town, are still in their possession, but the leases 

 of some of them have not yet expired. The mill 

 at Gyffin is also their property ; they had formerly 

 two mills on this stream, which are now destroy- 

 ed ; the lower mill, called the velin hell, or salt 

 water mill, was built immediately under the castle, 

 where the Sarn bridge is at present, and portions 

 of the piles are still visible ; this had a malt mill 

 attached to it ; the upper mill was considerably 

 higher up, above the modern mill at Gyffin, at a 

 place called Pen y velin, below Hendre- Two 

 officers were duly appointed and sworn to keep 

 the accounts of the mills, who were called mill- 

 wardens, or the stewards of the mills.' 



1 See in tlic Appendix the stewards' acroutifs for flie year 1531. 



