74 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Afaph, or Haflaph, an eminently good and 

 pious man, to be his fucceffor. From this 

 perfon both the. church and place received 

 their names ; he died in 596, and was 

 buried in the cathedral.* 



In the Norman times, and efpecially 

 about the reign of Henry I. there was fo 

 great a devaluation of this part of the coun- 

 try that no Bimop could dwell here ; -J- from 

 this circumftance it is no wonder that Hen- 

 ry of Huntingdon,;}; in that part of his 

 hiftory which ends at the year 1135, fays 

 of Wales, that there remained in it three 

 bimoprics, one at St. David's, another at 

 Bangor, and a third at Glamorgan, not 

 mentioning this. Even Galfrid Arthur, 



* Tanner's Notitia. 



t Stubbs de Pont. Ebor. p. 1718. Quoted in Col- 

 lelanea Curiofa, by John Gutch, I. 262. 



+ Hi.ft. Henrici Huntingd. apud Camdeni Script, 

 poft Bedam. 



or, 



