4 A TOUR ROUND NOUTH WALES. 



them in the attitude of prayer, fell upon 

 them, and without mercy flew upwards of 

 twelve hundred.* 



Sometime after this Chefter appears to 

 have again got into the pofleffion of the 

 Britons, but about 828 it was finally wreft- 

 ed out of their hands by Egbert, who 

 annexed it to the Saxon crown. 



* Chronicon Saxonicum, edit. 1662, p. 25. 

 Hiftoria ecclefiaftica gentis Anglorum a venerabili 

 Beda, 1643, II. c. 2. p. in, 112, 113. Flores 

 hiftoriarum per Matthasum Weftmonafterienfem, 

 1570. p. 206. Commentarioli Britannias defcrip- 

 tionis pagmentum au&ore Humfredo Lhuyd, 1572. 

 Britannicarum Ecclefiarum antiquitates, Jacobo 

 Uflerio. 1639. p. 132. Fuller's Church Hiftory, 

 1655, p. 63. Tanner's notitia monaftica. Row- 

 land's Mona antiqua rcftaurata, 1766, p. 152. 

 The Saxon Annals, Beda and Mr. Pennant place 

 this battle in 607, Ufher in 613, but the others 

 in 603, which appears to have been the true date 

 of the event. See a letter of Mr. Wynn of Llan 

 Gynhafal upon the fubject in the Cambrian Regifter, 

 vol. II. p. 521. 



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