A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES* 



corations, give one more the idea of a 

 place of amufement, than of religious 

 worifhp. 



St. Mary's and St. Alcmund's, are 

 both remarkable for their handfome 

 fpires. The firft is faid to have been 

 founded by King Edgar ; and the other 

 by the heroine Elfleda. 



The church, which is faid to be the 

 mod ancient, is that of St. Giles, feated 

 on the fkirt of the fuburbs beyond the 

 abbey. In Boomfday it is called the 

 PariPn of the City ; and it is now annex- 

 ed to the church of the Holy Crofs, or 

 the abbey. 



Parliaments have been holden in this 

 town. The firft fummoned formally by 

 writ, met on the isth. of September, 

 1283, by which David, the brother of 

 Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, was tried 

 and condemned. Ke was the firft who 

 fuifered .the death of a traitor, in the 

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