A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



building; and the Great Seflions are 

 held here, probably from the fituation 

 being more central than that of Den- 

 bigh. 



The church was originally conven- 

 tual, belonging to a houfe of Bon- 

 hommes, a fpecies of Auguftine monks ; 

 this was made collegiate in 1310, by 

 John, fon of Reginald de Grey, Lord of 

 the Cantred of Dyffryn Clwyd, who 

 having endowed it with two hundred 

 and five acres of land and feveral privi- 

 leges, eftablifhed here feven regular 

 priefls, one of whom was to ferve in the 

 chapel at the caftle. In this ftate it pro- 

 bably continued till the diflblution ; but 

 there is no valuation of it either in 

 Dugdale or Speed.* The apartments of 

 the priefls were joined to the church by 

 a cloifler, part of which is built up, and 



* Tanner's Noticia Monaftica. Dugdale's Monafticen, 

 HI. 58. 



now 



