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excepting fmallnefs. It is whifpered, that thefe female 
anchorites, as they have advanced in life, have difcovered 
no fmall curiofity to know what is paffing in the world 
they left twenty years ago with inviolable refolutions of 
perfect feclufion.” 
A kind of coarfe woollen, called fmall cloth, is the ma¬ 
nufacture of this neighbourhood. It is indeed entirely 
manufactured in the parifli of the Glynn. Small cloth is 
about ■>- of a yard narrower than what is called Itrong 
cloth ; its length is the fame. This cloth is ul'ed chiefly 
for dying ; fome is indeed fent off in its native or white 
ftate ; but all that is dyed is, or ought to be, of this kind ; 
the reafon of which is, that the coarfer fort of the high- 
country cloth abounds with long white hairs, incapable 
of taking the dye, called hemps. This fabric is made of 
the coarfer part of the very long wool that grows round 
Ofweftry. Of this wool the finer part is converted into a 
fort of flannel called OJweflry flannel, in fubftance between 
a common Wellh flannel and a web; its breadth is f 
of a yard. Ofweftry is the market for this article, as well 
as for fmall cloth. The purpofes to which thefe cloths 
are applied abroad are many and various. The clothing 
of the Haves in the Welt Indies and South America cre¬ 
ates a large demand ; (lockings are faid to be made of 
them in Germany and other parts of the continent; and 
the emprefs of Ruflia at one time clothed part of her troops 
with them. 
LLANHARN'. See Llaugharn. 
LLANNERCHYMEDD', a market-town, in the county 
of Anglefey, North Wales. Market on Wednefdays; 
fairs, 5th of February, 25th of April, 6th of May, and 
Thurfday after Trinity. This town owes its fupport 
principally to the neighbourhood of the Parys mountain. 
The petty fefiions are held here. 
LLANNERIL'LO, a town in Merionethfliire, North 
Wales,.five miles ealt of Bala; with fairs on February 25, 
July s, Aug. 28, and Nov. 14. 
LLA'NOS, a town of Mexico, in the province of Me- 
choacan : 100 miles north-north-eaft of Mechoacan. 
LLA'NOS de ALME'RIA, a town of Spain, in the 
province of Grenada, on the coaft of the Mediterranean : 
twenty miles weft-fouth-weft of Almeria. 
LLA'NOS de MAN'SO, or Yapizla'ga, a province 
of South America, in the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres,of 
great extent, fituated to the fouth of the Vermejo River. 
This country was called Llanos de Manfo, or the Plains of 
Manfo, from a captain of that name, who in 1556 under¬ 
took to build a town ; but, when he thought himfelf in 
perfect fecurity, he, with all his attendants, was murdered 
by the Indians ; of whom there are feveral nations. The 
country is but little known. 
LLANRHAI'DAR, a town in Denbighfhire, North 
Wales, near which is a natural cafcade of Rhaidr river ; 
with fairs on May 5, July 24, Sept. 28, and Nov. 8. Wil¬ 
liam Morgan, D.D. an eminent divine, and the perfon 
who firft tranflated the Bible into Wellh, was vicar here, 
till tranflated to the fee of Llandaff by queen Elizabeth 
in the year 1595. The reCtory is a finecure in the patro¬ 
nage of the bilhop of St. Afaph. 
LLANRW'ST, a market-town and parilh, fituated in 
the vveftern extremity of the hundred of Uwch Dulas, and 
county of Denbigh, North Wales. The town is watered 
by the river Conway, over which, at this place, is a noble 
bridge of three arches, built by the celebrated Inigo Jones 
in the year 1636. The market is onTuefdny, (Crutwell’s 
Gaz. marks it Wednefday;) and there are five fairs in the 
year. Here are held the petty feflions for the hundred, 
Mr. Burke calls this “the molt charming fpot in Wales.” 
In the town is a good market-hall, and a richly endowed 
free-fchool. A fmall trade is carried on in harp-making, 
and it is the centre of all the bufinels of . the populous 
vale in which it ftands. The church is fuppofed to have 
been built in 570, and is dedicated to St. Grwlt, who was 
a bilhop of London about the year 360. In this church 
is fome curious carved work, faid to have been brought 
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from the neighbouring abbey of Maenan. Adjoining to 
it ftands a chapel, ereCted by fir Richard Wynne, after a 
defign by the architect already mentioned. Here are a few 
monuments in honour of the Wynne family, which de- 
ferve the attention of the curious. They are braffes, each 
containing, befides the ir.fcription, a portraiture of the 
perfon to whofe memory they were engraved. An ancient 
monument of Howel Coytmor has been lately removed 
from the church to this place. Near it is a large (tone 
coffin, fuppofed to be that of prince Llewelyn aplerwerth, 
who was denominated Llewelyn the Great. The high 
road from Sbroplhire to Holyhead paffes through the town. 
The fairs here are on April 25, June 21, Aug. 9, Sep¬ 
tember 17, and December 11. It is 1 5 milei well of Den¬ 
bigh, and 209 north-weft of London. 
In the neighbourhood ftands Gwydw-houfe, an ancient 
manfion, confifting of an extenfive pile of buildings, of ir¬ 
regular appearance, but fuffi.cient to denote the great opu¬ 
lence and fplendourof its former poffeffors. Immediately 
behind the houfe the ground rifes rapidly to the foot of the 
perpendicular cliffs which form the wellern boundary of 
the valley. All this fpace is now' covered with fine plan¬ 
tations of different kinds of trees. Half-way up the rock, 
on an irregular plain of nearly five acres in extent, are 
the remains of a terrace, and handfome domeliic chapel, 
in the pointed ftyle of architecture. 
About a mile from the town, at the hamlet of Mayne, 
is a fpring in high repute for its medicinal virtues. Five 
miles to the fouth.ealt lies the ancient nunnery of Gwyth- 
win, where St. Winefrid is faid to have been buried. The 
box which contained the relics of this faint is (till pointed 
out to ftrangers; but her chapel on the fouth-fide is to¬ 
tally demolilhed. The church-yard contains four upright 
Hones, one of which is in the lhape of a prifm, and bears 
an infcription now illegible. North of Llanrwft, at the 
diltance of three miles, the abbey of Msenan formerly 
flood : its fcite is now occupied by a large old houfe, 
built out of the ruins. 
LLANRW'STED, a village in Cardiganfhire, near 
Aberyffvvith ; remarkable for having near it two druidical 
fepulchres confifting of two upright (tones, one of which 
when perfect mealured eleven feet in height above the 
ground, and five feet fix inches in breadth. 
LLANSAD'WIN, a fmall town in Caermarthenlhire, 
South Wales ; with a fair Oct. 5. 
LLANSAN'NAN, a town in Denbighfliire, North 
Wales; with fairs April 25, June 21, Augult 9, Sept. 17, 
and December r 1. 
LLANSANFRA'ID, a village in Monmouthlhire, be¬ 
tween Hardwick Chapel and Ragland Caftle. 
LLANSTEPHAN', a village in the county of Caer- 
marthen, South Wales, feated beneath a hill, in a woody 
vale; whence the lituation is peculiarly piCturelque and 
interefting. Here is a well, called St. Anthony’s, which 
formerly was in high eftimation for its medicinal virtues. 
Here was formerly a caftle, now in ruins. It is fituated 
on an eminence, on the vveftern fide of the entrance of the 
navigable river Tywi, orTowy. Its broken walls enclote 
a large area; and, furnillied with feveral encircling earthen 
ramparts, appear to have pofiefied confiderable ftrength. 
This caftle is faid to have been built by the fons of Uch- 
tred, prince of Merionethfliire, A. D. 1138. There is a 
handfome modern houfe on the hill on which the caftle 
(lands. The chief trade is coals. It is fix miles north-weft 
of Kidwelly, and 232 weft-north-welt of London. Lat, 
51. 48. N. Ion. 4. 25. W. 
LLANSTEPHAN POINT', 3 cape on the fouth coaft 
of Wales, in the Briftol Channel, at the mouth of the 
Towy. 
LLANTIL'IO GROS'SENNY, a village in Monmouth- 
fiiire, near the river Trotliy, north-eaft of Abergavenny. 
.LLANTRIS'SENT, [in the Britifh, « Church of Three 
Saints.”] An ancient borough-town of Glamorganlhire 5. 
which, in connection with Cardiff, Cowbridge, Swanfea, 
Rougher, Abe^avoa, Kenfig s and Neath, lends one member 
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