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tt^iVt. This bell was probably brought here 

 from tiie abbey of St. Werburgh in Chester at the 

 dissolution. John Burchenshaw was made Abbot 

 in 1493 ; about twelve years after, he was displaced 

 on account of some faction, but he was re- instated 

 in 1530, where he continued until his death in 

 1535. This bell is rung with a wheel of thirty 

 feet in circumference, and is generally used to toll 

 for church service and funerals. The steeple is 

 about sixty five feet high. The living is a vicarage in 

 the gift of the Plasisav family, now represented by 

 Sir David Erskine, Bart. A moiety of the tithes 

 is annually distributed among the poor of Aber- 

 conwy, and the three parishes of Creiddyn; this 

 impropriation is a bequest of Serjeant Owen, an 

 extract from whose will is inserted in theAppendix. 

 The parish of Aberconwy is of no great extent; on 

 the south it is bounded by the river Gyffin, which 

 separates it from the parish of the same name ; on 

 the south west the boundary leaves the river be- 

 tween Bryn y gunog and Hendre, and crossing 

 the town mountain it descends to the sea through 

 Savn Cristian, where it touches the parish of 



Dygyvyichi. 



