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of it's founder is not known.* It was 

 founded before 1291, becaufe it is rated in 

 the Lincoln taxation. The number of 

 prebendaries is not known ; there were at 

 leaft twelve, that number being mentioned 

 in the Penfion Lift in 1533. The reve- 

 nues at the difTolution were valued at 

 twenty-four pounds.-)- This college was 

 granted in the yth of James I. to Francis 

 Morris and Francis Phillips. It afterwards 

 became the property of Rice Gwynne, Efq. 

 who, in 1648, beftowed on Jefus College, 

 Oxford, the great tythes for the mainte- 

 nance of two fellows and two fcholars,J 

 and fince that time the parim has been 

 ferved by a curate nominated by the college, 



* Mr. Pennant from the Hiftory of Anglefea, 

 p. 29. fays " Maelgwyn Gwynedd, who began his 

 " reign in 580, is faid to have founded a college 

 " here." 



i Tanner's Notitia MonafUca. 



J Tanner's Notitia. 



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