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palace is a large and convenient building, 

 and the deanry ftands due weft from the 

 cathedral, on the oppofite fide of the Elwy, 

 which runs under the bifliop's garden. 



Kentigern, Bimop of Glafgow, being 

 driven from Scotland by the perfecutions of 

 one of the princes of that nation, fled for 

 fafety into Wales. He was here patron- 

 ized by Cadwallon, uncle to Maelgwn 

 Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, who 

 gave him this place for a refidence, where 

 he founded an epifcopal feat and monaftry, 

 about the year 560, and became himfelf 

 the firft bifhop.* Being, fometime after- 

 wards, recalled into Scotland, he nominated 



* Tanner's Notitia Monaftica. Carte's Hiftory 

 of England, I. 211, 21 2. Speed fays Kentigern 

 founded the monaftry, but that Malgo (Maelgwn 

 Gwynedd) made it into an Epifcopal See. See his 

 Cat, of Religious Houfes. 



Afaph, 



