A TOUR ROUND NORTH WAlES. 6l 



The other which is more light and 



fimple, fays only, 



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Here lies interred beneath thefefiones 

 The heard, the fkfh and eke the bones 

 Of Wrexham Clerk old Daniel Jones. 



He died in the year 1668. 



The prefent church, except the tower 

 was finifhed before 1472, the former 

 building having been deftroyed by fire, 

 and the tower, from the date that is up- 

 on it does not feem to have been com- 

 pleted till the year, 150$. In 16*47, du- 

 ring the civil wars, it was for fome time 

 made a prifon, in which feveral of the 

 Committee men were confined by the 

 Parliament's foldiers, who had mutined 

 for want of pay.* 



At Wrexham there is a noted annual 

 fair, held in the month of March, 

 which lafts nine days, and is frequented 

 by traders from almbft all parts of the 



* vVhitelock,'s Memorials, p. 243. 



kingdom. 



