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Vortigern, upon fome predatory excur- 

 fion, can hold good, when fuch evidence 

 both dire6l andcircumftantial is brought 

 againft them. The arrival of the Sax- 

 ons prior to that period, feems of much 

 lefs importance in the proof than the 

 arrival of the Bifhops, which certainly 

 appears to have taken place in 446, twenty 

 fix years after the generally iuppofed 

 time of the event. 



CHAP. VI. 



FROM MOLD TO RUTHIN. GWYSANNEY 



DENBIGH CASTLE FINE VIEW 



WHITCHURCH VALE OF CLWYD 



LLANRHAIADR WELL CHURCH IN- 

 SCRIPTION RUTHIN GAOLCHURCH 



AND CASTLE. 



NOT far from Mold, I patted at a little 

 di fiance Gwyfanney, the feat of the 

 family of Davies. The houfe is ancient, 



but 



