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had been fent by his father to rid the coun- 

 X try of Sirigi, a chieftain of the Irifh Pi&s, 

 who having a fhort time before landed in 

 Anglefea, and routed the inhabitants, was 

 about to fettle there. He was attacked at 

 this place, near which he had fecured his 

 fleet, and the young and heroic prince flew 

 him with his own hand, and routing his 

 forces, drove them entirely out of the 

 ifland.* Mr. Pennant -j- is of opinion, 

 from the mafonry of the walls, that it 

 claims a far higher antiquity than the 

 above : he thinks it has been a Roman fort. 

 The church, which is dedicated to St. 

 Gybi, is a handfome embattled edifice, 

 built in the form of a crofs, and is fuppofed 

 to have been once a college, but the name 



* Rowland's Mona Antiqua Reft. p. 147. Carte's 

 Hiftory of England, I. 187. 

 t Tour in Wales, II. 277. 



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