Home1815 Edition

MACHYNLETH

Volume 12 · 90 words · 1815 Edition

a town of Montgomeryshire in North Wales, 198 miles from London, and 32 from Montgomery. It is an ancient town; contains above 1100 inhabitants, and has a market on Mondays, and several fairs. It is seated on the river Douay, over which there is a large stone bridge, which leads into Merionethshire. It was here that Owen Glyndwr exercised the first acts of his royalty in 1402. Here he accepted the crown of Wales, and assembled a parliament; and the house wherein they met is now standing, divided into tenements.