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twelve and fifteen feet in thicknefs, are 

 nearly entire. Within, the houfes are very 

 irregular, but by no means bad. The 

 church, faid to have been the conventual 

 church belonging to the monaftry, is a 

 mean-looking building. I obferved in it a 

 few modern monuments belonging to the 

 family of the Wynnes, formerly of this 

 place $ and, amongft others, the following 

 iingular infcription on the tomb of a Mr. 

 Hookes : 



" Here lyeth the body of Nicholas 

 " Hookes, of Conwy, Gent, who was the 

 " forty-frft child of his father, William X 

 " Hookes, Efq. by Alice his wife; and 

 " father of twenty-feven children , who 

 " died the 2oth day of March, 1637." 



the intermediate curtains of the walls with long and 

 crofs bows and other manual weapons ; for few of 

 them were large enough to contain the projectile 

 machines of thofe times. 



There 



