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Over the South door of* the church 

 of Llangadwaladr, in Anglefea, is yet 

 remaining a ftone, having on it the fol- 

 lowing infcription, in which thefe letters 

 feem to have been ufed : 



CATAMANUS REX SAPIENTISSMUS* 

 OPINATISSIMUS OMNIUM REGUM. 



This Catamanus, or Cadvan, was the 

 grandfather of King Cadwaladr, and 

 died in the beginning of the feventh 

 century : he is faid to have been buried 

 in the I fie of Bardfey, where many of 

 the Britifli Princes and Nobles were 

 interred. But by this infcription it 

 fhould feem that he was bqried in this 

 place, where his grandfon afterwards' 

 built the church, and endowed it as one 

 of the fancluaries of the ifland, 



* The letter i it omitted, 



The 



