Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . ing-VVERK, dated 1240, whereby he gave to that abbey the churcheof Halliwelle with the chapel of Colsul. Mr. Pennant says thatFlint must have been the site of this chapel. Mr. Thomas, in hisHistory of the Diocese of St. Asaph, seems to infer that, because thechapel is mentioned in conjunction with Holywell Church, and thefact that Flint Church in latter times was appendant to Northop,Colsul chapel must have been situate within the present town-ship of Coleshill in Holywell parish; but
Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . ing-VVERK, dated 1240, whereby he gave to that abbey the churcheof Halliwelle with the chapel of Colsul. Mr. Pennant says thatFlint must have been the site of this chapel. Mr. Thomas, in hisHistory of the Diocese of St. Asaph, seems to infer that, because thechapel is mentioned in conjunction with Holywell Church, and thefact that Flint Church in latter times was appendant to Northop,Colsul chapel must have been situate within the present town-ship of Coleshill in Holywell parish; but at this period parochialdivisions had not been made. The district was undoubtedlyknown as Coleshill, and being contiguous to Holywell, and boththe church and chapel being in the immediate neighbourhood ofBasingwerk, the Prince would naturally grant each of them to theabbey, which would doubtless provide both of them with monasticvicars chosen from its own fraternity. For reasons hereafter givenwe venture to think that the site of the present parish church ofFlint is that of the ancient capclla dc Colshul. CHAPTER II. FLINT CASTLE BUILT AND THE TOWN FOUNDED ANDCREATED A BOROUGH BY EDWARD L We now approach an important era in the history of III. died on the i6th November, 1272. His son Edward at the time returning home from a Crusade in Palestine; butsoon after his coronation he inaugurated his reign by immensepreparations for a vigorous attack upon Llewelyn ap Gryffyth,Prince of Wales, and his hitherto unconquerable people. It isnot our province to dilate upon the war between the two princes,and the ultimate subjugation of Wales; suffice it to say that, inJuly 1277, the English monarch summoned all his vassals to takethe field and meet him with their retainers at Chester, fromwhich city he issued a proclamation commanding all persons inCheshire that possessed ;/^20 per annum to attend him there,to be made knights at their own expense. From a MS. in theHarleian
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