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Friars, but on the condition that only two 

 of them fhould be Welfhmen.* 



At the diflblutionr, Henry VIII. fold the 

 convent and it's pofTeffions to one of his 

 courtiers. They afterwards became the 

 property of a family of the name of White, 

 (now extinct) who built here a good Man- 

 fion. It is at prefent the property of Lord 

 Bulkeley. The flone coffin of the Princefs 

 Joan now ferves as a watering trough for 

 horfes.-|- 



Near this place, in the year 819, a fe- 

 vere battle was fought betwixt the Welfh 

 and the Saxons under their leader Egbert, 

 who had invaded the ifland, and given it 

 then, for the firft time, the name of Angle- 

 fea. The Saxons feem to have proved 

 victorious ; but they were foon afterwards 

 difpofTeffed of it by Merfyn Frych, the 



* Tanner's Notitia. Pennant, II, 248, who 

 quotes the Sebright MSS. 

 t Pennant, II. 247. 

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