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coffin was removed to Llanruft, a town 

 about twelve miles difiant. In this abbey 

 was alfo interred Conan ap Owen Gwyn- 

 edd,* wrapped in the habiliments of a 

 monk, which, in thofe fuperftitious days, 

 was deemed a coat of mail proof againft 

 every power of Satan.-(- 



Edward I. upon building the caftle and, 

 fortifying the town, removed the religious 

 of this convent to Maynan, in Denbigh- 

 fhire, a place about three miles up the river, 

 where he had founded for them another 

 abbey, referving to the monks all their 

 former lands and privileges. He alfo re- 

 ferved to them the prefentation of their 

 conventual church at Conwy, now made 

 parochial, provided they found two able 

 and worthy Englishmen as chaplains, and a 

 third a Welfhman, for the benefit of thofe 

 who did not underfland Englim. One of 



* He died in the year 1200. t Powel, 225. 



the 



