IS A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Betwixt Welfh Pool and Guilsfield, a> 

 village about four miles to the north of 

 it, flood the Abbey, called by Tanner, 

 Yflrat Marchfejj founded by Owen Ce- 

 veiliog, in the year 1170, and dedicated 

 by him to the Virgin Mary*. Whether 

 any remains of this houfe now exift, I 

 cannot fay, as I did not vifit the place. 

 It's revenues at the difiblutjon, in the/ 

 26th Henry VIII. were eftimated by 

 Dugdale at 6%. 14$, set, and by Speed 



at 73- is. $d. 



About fix miles from Welfh Pool I 

 pafTed a groupe of three lofty moun-, 

 tains, called the Breiddin or Vreiddin 

 Hills, The higheft and moft conical of 



* It was called alfo Strata Marcella, Alba domus de 

 Strat-Margel, vail. Crucis or Pola. It is fuppofed by fome 

 to have been built by Madoc ap Griffith Maelor; but it 

 apears that he was only a benefadtor to it. In the beginning 

 of the reign of Edward III, the Welih monks were removed 

 from hence into Engliih abbeys, and Englifh monks were 

 placed here, and the abbey was made fubjed to the vifita- 

 tion of the abbot and convent of Buildwas in Shropfhire. 

 'fanner' i Not, Man* 



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