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and trembling fled on every fide. They 

 were nearly all deflroyed, fome falling 

 by the fword, and others perifhing in 

 the adjoining river. From this cir- 

 cumftance the vidtory has ever fmce 

 been called Victoria Alleluiatica. 



A pyramidal ftone column erected on 

 the fpot, in the year 1736, by the late 

 Nehemiah Griffith, Efq. of Rhual, com- 

 memorates the event in the following 

 infcription. 



Ad Annum 



4- 



ccccxx 



Saxoncs Pidiq. bellum adverfus 



Britones junftis viribus fufciperunt 



In hac regione, hodicg. MAES GARMON 



Appellata : cum in prasluim defcenditur, 



Apoftolicis Britonnm ducibus GERM A NO 



EtLuro, CHRISTUS militabat in caftris; 



ALLELUIA tcrtio repetitum exclamabant ; 



Hoftilc agmen tetrcie profternitur ; 



Truimphant 



Hoftibus fuGs fine fanguine ;- 

 Palma fide non viribus obtent.% 



M. P. 



! VICTORIA ALLELUIATIC^ memoriam. 

 M. c. 



MDCCXXXVI. 



Mr. 



