450 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



and ordered the whole building to be de- 

 flroyed. The abbot only faved it by his 

 entreaties to the king, and paying him 

 down three hundred marks as fome re- 

 compence for the injuries that had been 

 done to him.* At the diflblution the re- 

 venues were valued, according to Speed, 

 at 58. 151. 4^/. and according to Dug- 

 dale, at 51. 131. 4</.f 



The 



* Powel's Hiftory of Wales, p. 287. Matt. 

 Paris, p. 311. 



t Tanner's Notitia Monaftica. It appears, from 

 the accounts in the Augmentation Office, that from 

 the 31. of Henry VIII. " the fite of the monaftry, 

 " with lands, tenements, and mills, at the rent 

 " of i> 15-r. 4//. The re&ory of Llanelltid at 

 " LS- I 3 J - 4^- The r e ^ry ^ Llanycryn 31^13. 

 ic 13^. 4</. The re&ory of Llanycreth at ^6. 18. ^d. 

 " and twenty-four cranriocks,)] and two hoppetts 

 " of wheat, ^10. 6s. 6d. were all then upon leafe 

 " to John Pewes. The other pofleffions there 



|j A cran.iock was an antient mcnfurc of corn. 



(C defcribed 



