Il8 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Ponfonby. It is fituated on the fouth 

 fide of the vale of Llangollen, and com- 

 mands a fine mountain-profpect. 



The vale of Crucis is indebted for it's 

 name to the crofs or pillar, which is in a 

 meadow near the abbey, by the fecond 

 mile-ftone from Llangollen, called the 

 Pillar of Elifeg ; though Buck has de- 

 rived it from a piece of the true crofs, 

 laid to have been given by the religious 

 of the abbey to Edward I.*, who, in re- 

 turn for fo great a favour, granted them 

 feveral immunities. 



^r This pillar is very ancient ; it appears 

 to have been creeled above a thoufand 

 years ago, in memory of Elifeg (the fa- 

 ther of Brochmail, Prince of Powys, 

 who was (lain in the battle of Chefter, 

 in 607) by Concenn or Congen, his 

 great-grandfon. The inscription is at 



* Matt. Weftm. p. 371. 



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