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Welh prince, who after fome bloody con- 

 tentions entirely cleared his country of thofe 

 invaders.* 



Two miles north of Friars is the priory 

 of Penmon, which confifts at prefent of 

 very little more than the ruinous refectory 

 and part of the church. This was a priory 

 of Benedictine monks, dedicated to St. 

 Mary, and endowed, if not founded, by 

 Prince Llewelyn ap Jorwerth, before the 

 year 1221. In the 26th of Henry VIII. 

 the revenues were valued at 47. 15^. 3^. 

 in the whole, and 40. 17^. gd. clear. -f- 



Near Penmon is a well, furrounded with 

 a wall, and Jftone feats, having two doors 



* Rowland's Mona Antiqua, p. 172. 



t Tanner's Notitia. It was befides Penmon, 

 called Glannach, St. Syriol, Prceftol, and Prieft- 

 holme; in the latter names it feems to have been 

 confounded with the neighbouring iiland, called 

 Prieftholme, where the priory is fuppofed to have 

 had pofiedions. The Welfli now frequently call 

 Penmon, Llcnach. 



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