362 A TOUR ROUND NOUTH WALES. 



The remains of famed Kill-hart, fo faithful and good, 

 The bounds of the cantred conceal, 



Whenever the doe or the flag he purfued, 

 His matter was fure of a meal.* 



Here was a priory of Auguftine monks,-)- 

 of very antient foundation, for it was faid 

 by Anian, Bimop of Bangor, who lived in 

 the thirteenth century, to have been the 

 oldeft religious houfe in Wales, except 

 Bardfey.J In 1283 this monaftry was fo 

 much damaged by fire, that in order tfe 

 encourage benefactors to come forward 

 and contribute towards the rebuilding of it, 

 Anian remitted to all fuch, who fmcerely 

 repented of their fins, forty days of any 

 penance inflicted on them. The value of 

 the revenues at the diffolution, was, ac- 



* Jones's Mufical and Poetical Relics of the Wei fit 

 Bards, p. 75. 



t It was called the Abbey de Valle, S. Marias 

 Snawdonia. See Tanner's Notitia Monaftica. 



+ Rymer's Fcedera, II. 317. 



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