54 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



the Dee; " It is ploughed grownd now 

 " where the abbey was by the fpace of a 

 " good walfche myle ; and they plough 

 " up bones of the monkes, and in re- 

 " membraunce were diggid up pieces of 

 " their clothes in fepultures. The ab- 

 " bey ftoode in a faire valley, and Dee 

 " ran by it. The compafs of it was as 

 " of a walled towne, and yet remain eth 

 " the name of a gate called portb bogan, 

 " by the north ; and the name of ano- 

 " ther caullid portb clays, by the fouth. 

 " Dee fince chaunging the bottom run- 

 " nith now through the mydle betwyxt 

 < thefe 2. gates, one being a mile dim*. 

 " from the other; and yn this grounde 

 " be ploughid up foundations of fquarid 

 " ftones, and Roman money is founde 

 <f there." 



This place appears alfo to have been 

 the fite of Boyium or Bonium, a famous 



* Dimidium, 



Roman 



