S6 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



gained the Lordfhip of Hope, but that 

 of Mold was loft to them for ever.* 



About a mile weft of Mold, not far 

 from Rhual, the feat of the Griffith fa- 

 mily, is a place which to this day retains 

 the name of Maes Gannon, the field of 

 Garmon or Germanus, where in Eafter 



week 44,8, was fought a moft celebrated 

 j" 

 T battle, between the joint forces of the 



t Picls and Scots, againft the Britons, 

 headed by the Bifhops Germanus and 

 Lupus, who had but two years before 

 been fent into this kingdom. Previ- 

 ous to their engagement, Germanus in- 

 ftrucled them to attend to the word he 

 gave and repeat it throughout the army. 

 Accordingly when the forces approached 

 he pronounced ALLELUIA, the priefls 

 repeated it thrice, and afterwards the 

 voices of the whole army echoed forth 

 the facred found. The hills reverbera- 

 ted the cry, and the enemy affrighted 



* Pennant's Tour, I. 426. 

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