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Manufacture of cloth and flannel -- Fine screen and ugly modern church -- Sir John Pryce -- Aberhafesp Church -- S. Mark's Eve -- Bed of an ancient lake -- Caersws -- Legend of Swsan -- Obligations of a chieftain -- How a tribe would increase -- How to reduce the difficulty of providing land -- Llanwnog -- S. Gwynnog -- Consequences to his family of the publication of the letter of Gildas -- View from Llanwnog -- Llanidloes Church -- Richard Gwynn -- Chartist riots -- Poetical description of them -- Robert Owen -- Henry Williams -- Richard Davies.
NEWTOWN is new in every particular except in its manufacture, and that of cloth and flannel was old enough in Wales, if we may judge by the spindle-whorls and shuttles found in camp and cairn; but the business once spread over the Principality is now concentrated at Newtown.