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but obtained his ranfom by the payment 

 of two hundred hawks.* It fuffered along 

 with the cathedral of St. Afaph about 

 1247, in the wars betwixt Henry III. and 

 the Welih.-}- In 1402 it was burnt down 

 in the rebellion of Owen Glyndwr (who 

 threatened to deftroy all the cities in Wales) 

 and remained in ruins upwards of ninety 

 years, when the choir was rebuilt by the 

 Bifhop, Henry Denne, J but the tower and 

 nave were, according to an infcription 

 over the weft door, built at the expence 

 of Bifhop Skeffington in 1532. This fee 

 met with a ftill more cruel ravager than 

 Owen Glyndwr in the perfon of Bifhop 

 Bulkeley ; who not only alienated many of 

 the lands belonging to it, but went fo far 

 as even to fell the bells of the church. 



* Powell, 265. Wynne's Hiftory of Wales, 231. 

 t Matt. Paris, 642. 



+ Willis's Survey, 62. Camden's Brit. II. 549. 

 5 Fuller's Worthies of Wales, 19. 



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