292 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



The mines have increafed the value of 

 lands of the parifh from about 1400. to 

 5000. a year and upwards ; the number 

 of houfes from two hundred to a thoufand 

 and upwards, and the population from 

 about nine hundred to feven or eight thou- 

 fand.* 



About two miles eaft of Amlwch, and 

 not far from the coaft, is the village of 

 Llanelian. The church is of very antient 

 foundation, being originally founded about 

 the year 540 by Elian Cannaid, the Bri- 

 tifh Hilary, to whom Cafwallon law-hir 

 had given many lands and franchifes about 

 this place, which I understand are held 

 in his name by the freeholders of them to 

 this day.-)- It is rather a handfome build- 

 ing, and contains portraits of St. Elian 



* Letter to the Bifhop of Bangor, Appendix, p. 57. 

 t Rowland's Mona Antiqua Reftaurata, p. 156, 

 183. 



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