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the Englishmen was perpetual vicar, who, 

 on every vacancy, was to be named by the 

 convent, and prefented by the diocefan.* 



Plas mawr, the great manfion, is an an- 

 tique-looking houfe, built, in the year 1585, 

 by Robert Wynne, Efquire, of Gwydir. 

 On the houfe are the letters I.H.S. X.P.S. 

 and over the gateway, the Greek words 

 Ave%, otTTs^t bear, forbear. The apart- 

 ments are ornamented in a rude fUle, with 

 uncouth figures in ftucco. 



The caftle of Conwy was erected in the 

 year 1283 by Edward I. who, at the fame 

 time, built the walls of the town, and re- 

 paired feveral of his other caftles in Wales, 

 in order to guard againft the infurrections 

 of Llewelyn, which for fome years before 

 had been very frequent. It was built upon 

 a fpot which had formerly been fortified by 

 Hugh Earl of Chefter, in the time of Wil- 



* Dugdale's Monafticon, I. 921. 



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