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Rages, Professor Sayce remarked, was destroyed by the Mongols c. 1270. It is identified (Arch. Camb., 1867, p. 355) with Edessa (see also Mas Latrie, col. 2028, ed. 1889), and a fortunate reference

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is given to the Registers of Urban IV, where is to be found the request by the Pope made 1263, to the Patriarch of Antioch, for a title to be accorded to the already consecrated Bishop William Freney of the Order of Preachers. That his See was in partibus infidelium may explain the absence of a pallium, the symbol of archi

episcopal jurisdiction. It is possible that he was a member of the same family as Gilbert de Fresnoy, who in June, 1221, came to start the Order in England.

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Near this slab is another, having, within a quatre-foil, a cross raguly, with a shaft proceeding from below so as to form the whole into a sepulchral cross. By the side of the shaft a sword indicates the profession of the deceased. The inscription, much mutilated, reads [HIC IACET EDVARDVS. CVIVS A'I'E PROPICIET[VR DEVS].

DE BRIDELTON

Incised Slab, Rhuddlan Priory (Photograph by Mr. J. D. Polkinghorne, 1911)

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In the wall on the E. side of the farmyard is the figure of a Knight of the thirteenth century. There is no inscription, and the stone is much worn away.

Above a doorway is a sculptured stone with inscription upside down HIC IACET MABLII.

It may be mentioned that this ancient Abbey was sold by auction in 1910, with a farm of 108 acres. Bidding was brisk, and at £4250 the property was bought by Mr. Conwy Bell, agent for the adjoining Bodrhyddan estate.

The carriages commenced the return journey well within the time arranged, reaching Abergele shortly after 1.30.

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After luncheon, the Cambrians drove to Rhyd y Foel, in the Dulas valley beyond Cefn yr Ogo, and thence climbed up to Pen y Corddyn, which had been so ably described by Mr. Willoughby Gardner in his lecture the previous evening.

On the spot he explained that the excavations made several years ago were for the investigation and preservation of the fortress, and,

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