Pool and Guildsfield, belong to Christ Church College, Oxford, ex Dono Henry the Eighth, fometime in Leafe to Sir Thomas Palmer, and now to the Earl of Powis. They once belonged to the Abbey of Ystrad Marchell, near Pool. About 1664, there were Ruins of two other Churches to be seen.* In the Valor of 1291, it is divided into Portio Rectories 12 Marc, Portio Madoc ab Llhywelyn 1 Marc, Portio Heylin 2 Marc, and Vicarii ejufdem 8 Marc. DR. MAGNUS, collated by Bishop War Robert Foulks, A. M. Rector of Llan-y mery-by Tanner 1741 William Brown, Rector of Newtown 1775, Prebendary of Myvod 1779, and Vicar of 1794 VICARS OF MOLD, IN WELSH, WYDD-GRUG. i.e. A confpicuous Mount.* Being an Abbreviation of the Norman Mount Hault or de Monte Alto, the Caftle formerly of the Barons of Mont-Hault. £10.0.0. This Church is dedicated to St. Mary, Sept. 8. The Impropriators of the Tithes were the Duke of Bridgewater and Robert Davies, Efq. of Gwyfaney, paying a Penfion of five Pounds a Year to the Bishop. It formerly belonged to Bisham Abbey.— Vide Willis' Paroch. Anglican. In this Parish are two Chapels, Tryddyn and Nerquis. The Bishop appoints to the former and the Vicar to the latter. There was formerly a Chapel called Kappel y Spon; a fmall Part of the Wall was ftanding in 1698-9. ab SHANDIN was Vicar about fixtytwo Years and glazed two Windows in the North Ile. John ab Howell ab Day, collated by Bishop D. ab Owen J. Wynne, Rector of Pen-nant Sine Cure 1537-by Bishop Warton He was probably of the Tower Family 1506 1537 in this Parish. * Camden. Ellis ab David ab Rhefe of Gwernafield, Rec tor of Llanarmon in Yale 1554, and Vi- Eufebius Thelwall-by Hughes 1565 1576 David Evans 1594 Rice Griffith, Vicar of Nant-llyn 1635, and Hugh Lloyd, A. M. Vicar of Llan-hafaph 1716-by Wynne He became Prebendary of Myvod before 1730, and funded the Offertory Money for many Years, with which he built the School Houfe at Mold, and endowed it out of his own Estate. Robert Lewis, A. M. Vicar of Pen-nant and Rector of Llan-Gynnog 1744, of Nannerch 1746, Corwen 1747-by Drum-mond 1717 1749 This Church is dedicated to St. Mary, Sept. 8. It is derived (as Edward Lhwyd of the Museum fuppofed in his MS. Travels through Wales in 1698-9) from the Welsh Word Nant, fignifying a Dingle, there being one from the Mill to the Cwm in this Parish, formerly called Nan-nerch. DAVID OWEN, collated by Bishop War lan 1556-by R. Davies 1560 Ellis Richard, Vicar of Llan-drillio in Rhôs VICARS OF NAN-NERCH. RICE WYNNE, collated by Bishop War Robert Lloyd, Vicar of Llan-hafaph 1614, Llanrwst 1619, Cwm 1625, Llan-dyffil 1711 1746 1747 1774 1779 1799 1537 1589 1589 1617 1629 1665 1675 1682 1686 1688 VICARS OF NANT-LLYN. £28.0.0 DISCHARGED. This Church is dedicated to St. Mordeyn, July 25. The Rectorial Tithes were appropriated to the ten Vicars as they were called in 1336, for celebrating Mafs in |