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known in Dolgelle. I enquired for it in 

 vain as Kemmer Abbey, for the only name 

 it has there is Y Vaner. 



It was founded, according to Mr. Robert 

 Vaughan,* in the year 1198, by Meredith 

 and Griffith, Lords of Merioneth, and 

 fons of Conan ap Owen Gwynedd, Prince 



* Sketch of the hiftory of Merionethfhire, Camb. 

 Reg. I. 190. Tanner, the authority of Speed fays, 

 that it was founded about 1200, by Llewelyn, fon 

 of Gervafe (Jorwerth) ; but a note adds, that 

 " though he feems to have been a benefalor, and as 

 " Prince of North Wales, to have confirmed the 

 '* donations of others as well as his own, there 

 " doth not appear any great reafon to think him 

 " founder, nor is the time of the foundation clear; 

 " but it feems to have been in a flourifhing condi- 

 " tion in 1231, when in the wars of Henry III. 

 " with the Welfh, the Englifh would have burnt 

 " it, but the latter gave them three hundred marks 

 " to fpare it. This Llewelyn became Prince of 

 *' North Wales 1195, and died in 1240." Not. 

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