This Monarch, Through Divine Mercy (For God Is More
Desirous Of The Conversion Than The Destruction Of A Sinner),
Received
Many other admonitions and reproofs about this time, and
shortly before his death; all of which, being utterly incorrigible,
he
Obstinately and obdurately despised, as will be more fully set
forth (by the favour of God) in my book, "de Principis
Instructione."
Not far from Caerdyf is a small island situated near the shore of
the Severn, called Barri, from St. Baroc {84} who formerly lived
there, and whose remains are deposited in a chapel overgrown with
ivy, having been transferred to a coffin. From hence a noble
family, of the maritime parts of South Wales, who owned this island
and the adjoining estates, received the name of de Barri. It is
remarkable that, in a rock near the entrance of the island, there is
a small cavity, to which, if the ear is applied, a noise is heard
like that of smiths at work, the blowing of bellows, strokes of
hammers, grinding of tools, and roaring of furnaces; and it might
easily be imagined that such noises, which are continued at the ebb
and flow of the tides, were occasioned by the influx of the sea
under the cavities of the rocks.
CHAPTER VII
The see of Landaf and monastery of Margan, and the remarkable things
in those parts
On the following morning, the business of the cross being publicly
proclaimed at Landaf, the English standing on one side, and the
Welsh on the other, many persons of each nation took the cross, and
we remained there that night with William bishop of that place, {85}
a discreet and good man.
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