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of North Wales. The monks were of the 

 Ciftertian order, and the abbey was dedi- 

 cated to St. Mary* Mr. Lewis Morris, a 

 man well acquainted with the hiftory and 

 antiquities of his country, fays *' it was 

 " firft founded by fome monks, who fo- 

 *' journed there (as Mr. Robert Vaughan 

 tf of Hengwrt exprefTes it in his Remarks 

 ** on Sir William Dugdale's Monafticon) 

 te from Cwm hir Abbey, in Radnorshire. 

 " It feems," continueth he, " it was a 

 " colony of monks they fent away, as 



" bees do when the hive is too full."* 



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* Letter of Mr. Lewis Morris to his brother 

 Mr. William Morris, of the Cuftom Houfe, Holy- 

 head, Anglefea, in Camb. Reg. II. 493. This 

 feems in fome meafure, to account for Dugdale's 

 miftake In confounding this abbey with that of 

 Combehire, or Cwm hir, in Radnorfhire, to which 

 indeed the Parcolude Annals make it a daughter 

 abbey. See Tanner's Not. Monaflicn, and Dug- 

 dale's Monafticon Angl. 



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