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WALES. [unspec Wales] (Book Wales)
ANGLESEY.
1. Holy-Head or Caer-Guby.
S. Chebius who flourished about A. D. 380. founded a little Monastery here. But this being destroyed, here was afterward a College of Prebendaries,a 1.1 whose yearly revenues at the Dissolution amounted to 24l. per an. Dugd.
BRECKNOCK-SHIRE.
1. Brecknock.
A Priory of Benedictines subordinate to Battel Abby: it was built by Bernard de New∣march (temp. Hen. I.) to the honour of St. Iohn the Evangelist, and endowed at the Suppression with 112l. 14s. 2d. per an. Dugd. 134l. 11s. 4d. Speed.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 319.
2. Brecknock.
A College of 14. Prebendaries, translated hi∣ther by King Hen. VIII. from Aberguilly in Caer∣marden- shire.