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or entrances. On the wall are initials, 

 fuppofed to be thofe of fome one of the 

 Bulkeley family and his lady, who either 

 built or repaired it. And in the park of 

 Sir Robert Williams, about a quarter of a 

 mile diftant, is an antient crofs about fix 

 feet in height, the fhaft of which is cu- 

 rioufly ornamented with checquered work, 

 very neatly executed. The upper part of 

 it has been broken off. Thefe, no doubt, 

 belonged formerly to the monaflry. 



Not quite a mile from the more is Ynys 

 Seiriol, Seiriol's I/land,^ called now Prieft- 

 holme. It is fuppofed to have been once 

 an appurtenant to the monaflry, and there 

 are yet left in it the remains of a fquare 

 tower. The Welfh have yet a tradition 

 extant, that when the Lavan Sands was 



* Seiriol was the fon of O\ven Darnvyn, the fon 

 of Eneon Urdd, who chofe this place as a religious 

 retreat. He is fuppofed to have built a chapel here 

 about the year 630. Sec Rowland's Mona Antiqua, 

 p. 183. 



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