8 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



was carried on even by the Saxons to a 

 great height) in horfes and cheefe. The 

 imports were chiefly fpices and other lux- 

 uries of the Eaft, procured either from Ve- 

 nice or afterwards from Pifa and Amalphi ; 

 Cloth from Flanders ; Linen from Ger- 

 many ; reliques and other articles, fuel for 

 fuperftition, from Italy - y wine from France 

 and Spain ; and furs, whale-bone, fea- 

 thers and other articles from the northern 

 regions. 



Lucian* a jolly Monk, who flourimed 

 about the time of the conqueft, fpeaks of 

 {hips " coming from Gafcoign, Spain, 



" men unmindful even of the affection of the 

 " brute creation ! delivering into flavery their re- 

 " lations, and even their very offspring." beta, 

 S. Wulfftan in Anglia Sacra, quoted in Pennant's 

 Tour, I. 134, 135. Wulfftan was Bifhop of Wor- 

 cefter, and died in the year 1095. 



* See an extradl from his writing in Gibf. 

 Camd. 559. 



Ireland 



