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turned and cut off accefs to the nearefl 

 part, they fuddenly rufhed upon them, and 

 aflailed them fo furioufly that they were 

 all, except Sir William Latimer, who, 

 from the goodnefs of his horfe, got back 

 again, either put to the fword, or driven 

 into the water and drowned. There pe- 

 rifhed in this encounter thirteen knights, 

 feventeen young gentlemen, probably of- 

 ficers commanding in the army, and above 

 two hundred foldiers.* 



I left the Holyhead road at Moel y Don, 

 and went about a mile to fee the grounds 

 of Lord Uxbridge at Plas Newydd, in 

 which I had been told there were fome 

 Druidical remains. Thefe I found; they 

 are two Cromleche behind the houfe. The 

 largeft is about thirteen feet long, twelve 

 broad, and the upper ftone, which is in 



* Powel's Hiftory of Wales, p. 372. Matt. Weft. 

 p. 370. who has miflaken the Menai for the Comvy. 

 Holinfhead's Chronicle, II. p, 281. 



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