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Dynan's lands in Herefordshire, and hence were at bitter feud with him. 

 Water de Lacy with Arnold de Lisle attacked the castle in great force, but 

 they were driven off with much slaughter, and through the bravery of young 

 Fulke Fitz Warine they were both taken prisoners. 



Fulke Fitz Warine, a boy of gentle Lineage, had been placed in the family of 

 Joce de Dynan when only seven years old, according to the custom of those 

 times, to be educated in the practice of knightly experience, and at the time of 

 this attack he had reached the age of eighteen and fought for the first time. The 

 prisoners were confined in the "Pendover " tower (which has not kept its name 

 to these days), and were kindly treated with a view doubtless of another rich 

 ransom, being visited by the ladies of the household — one of them "a very gentle 

 damsel " named Marian de la Brufere (Marian of the heath), smitten with the 

 courtly mien of Arnold de Lisle, aided their escape through one of the windows 

 of the tower by means of towels and napkins fastened together. 



An interval of peace occurred after some time, and Fulke Fitz Warine was 

 married with great ceremony to Joce de Dynan's daughter Hawyse. After the 

 festivities were ended Joce de Dynan with his household left to spend some time 

 at " Hertland " with the bridal party, having entrusted the castle to the care of 

 thirty trusty knights and seventy good soldiers "for the fear of the Lacy and 

 other people." 



The frail Marian remained on plea of illness, and no sooner were they all 

 gone than she invited her lover Arnold de Lisle to visit her in the castle, promising 

 to admit him by the same window, from which she had contrived their escape. 

 Arnold informs Walter de Lacy, and they agi-ee to attempt to take the castle. 

 Arnold ascends by a rope ladder, which he leaves at the window for one hundred 

 of his men, well armed, to ascend after him. The guards in the night are thrown 

 from the walls, the knights and soldiers slain in their beds, and the Dynan gate 

 thrown open to admit the rest of de Lacy's soldiers. Marian, at daybreak, hears 

 the shouts of the victors, and learning the treachery which had been enacted, she 

 seizes Sir Arnold's sword and thrusts it through his body, and breaks her own 

 neck by jumping from the window. 



Joce de Dynan was at Lambourne when these tidings reached him. He and 

 the Fitz Warines immediately assembled their friends and dependents and came 

 with about seven thousand men to recover his castle, which had been thus lost by 

 treason. They took up their quarters, says the history, in the castle of Caynham, 

 situated on a hillock about a league from the present town of Ludlow, " then 

 very old and the gates rotten." The siege was carried on with great activity, and 

 many men were slain in the sorties of the garrison on the site of the present town 

 of Ludlow. The besiegers at length made a fire of bacon and greese at the gate- 

 way, which burnt so fiercely that it not only destroyed the triple door of the 

 gateway tower, but also the tower itself, and Joce became master of the outer 

 ward of the castle. 



Walter de Lacy, finding himself very hard pressed, sent for assistance to the 

 Welsh Chieftain, Jorwerth Drwydrwn ( Jorwerth with the broken nose), who at 

 once invaded the marches with twenty thousand Welshmen, ravaged the country, 



