404 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



name from a large flone in the church- 

 yard, called Maentwrogt the ftone of Tu- 

 rog, a Britim faint, who lived about the 

 year 6 1 o, and was the writer of Tiboeth, 

 a romantic record belonging to St. Beuno, 

 and formerly kept in the church of Clynog, 

 in Caernarvonshire.* Dr. Edmund Prys, 

 Archdeacon of Merioneth, who was of 

 fome celebrity as a Welih poet, was retor 

 of this place, and is buried here. 



In this parim are the fmall remains of 

 Mur Caflell, now called Tommen y Mur, 

 where the kings of England ufed to encamp 

 when they came againft North Wales. -f- 



I left Maentwrog, and enquiring the 

 road to Harlech, proceeded on my jour- 

 ney. At the diflance of about half a mile, 



* Jones's Welfli Bards, p. 14. 



t Sketch of the Hiftory of Merionethfliire, by 

 Mr. Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, in the Cambrian 

 Regifter, I. 191. 



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