[49] These lines were frequently repeated by Dr. Johnson, whose partiality to Inns is well known.
[51] “This celebrated person was uncle to King Arthur, and son of a Prince of Wales. After being seated in the see of St. David sixty-five years, and having built twelve monasteries; after having been exemplary in the piety of those days, this holy person died, at a most advanced period of human life; having attained, as it is said, to the age of one hundred and forty-six years. He was buried in the Cathedral Church of St. David; and many years after canonized by Pope Calistus the Second.”—Warrington’s History of Wales, vol. ii. p. 385.
[52a] To whose son a MS. to Elizabeth, quoted by Willis, p. 69, gives Owen’s monument.
[52b] Tan. Bib. Brit.
[52c] Tan. 720.
[53] This gentleman, I believe, is an inhabitant of Worcester.
[55] Lland, vol. v. p. 25.
[56] For a description of these Monuments, see Wyndham.
[58] It receives its name from coria, a hide, or skin.
[61] Itin. vol. v. p. 12.