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and soon arrived to raise the siege of the castle of Dynan. Joce de Dynan, and 

 his son-in-law, Fulke Fitz Warine, fought the invaders with great bravery, but 

 they were over-powered by numbers, and were at length compelled to retire to 

 Caynham, where they themselves were besieged for three days. Unable to 

 procure provisions, and without hope of assistance, they sallied out on the fourth 

 day from the ruined fortress to force their way through their enemies. After 

 killing many Welsh and Irish, they were completely surrounded, and Joce de 

 Dynan, with most of his knights that were not killed, were taken prisoners, and 

 committed to the dungeons of his own castle (c. 1165). Fulke Fitz Warine made 

 a desperate attempt to rescue his father-in-law, but was himself wounded, and 

 with difficulty escaped and joined King Henry at Gloucester. It may be briefly 

 added that the King received him with great favour, and commanded Walter de 

 Lacy to set free Joce de Dynan. He did so, and Joce joined his son-in-lavi' at 

 the Royal Court, then retired to Lambourne, where he died in peace shortly 

 afterwards. On his death the King confirmed the right of Fulke Fitz Warine to 

 the castle of Dynan, and the dependent honour of Corvedale, and afterwards 

 made him Warden of the Marches (c. 1176). 



The "Romance of the Fitz Warines" tells much more of the great deeds of 

 Fulke Fitz Warine, but it may not now be followed further. The town and 

 church of Ludlow soon began to be built by the mound, which Mr. Wright 

 supposes gave the town its present name. The castle became Ludlow castle, 

 though the name Dynan exists yet in the modern Dinham, the name by which 

 the district in which the castle is placed is still called. The leading historical 

 facts in the " Romance of the Fitz Warines " are generally believed in, supported 

 as they have been in so many instances by other testimony after facts well au- 

 thenticated ; and if it may be depended upon here, buildings existed within the 

 entrenchments of Caynham at the beginning of the 12th century. The Normans 

 were great castle builders, and no Anglo-Norman writer, at so early a period, 

 would employ the name of " Castle " to simple entrenchments. The buildings, 

 moreover, must have been of considerable antiquity since they were " very old 

 and the gates rotten." The name Caynham is Saxon in derivation, being derived 

 from the small brook the " Cay," on which it is situated, and the Saxon " ham," 

 thus meaning literally " the home or dwelling on the Cay," and the inference 

 becomes therefore all the stronger that Caynham camp had a castle, long before 

 the Conquest — a castle which was the entrenched residence of some Saxon ruler, 

 long before the time of Earl Morcar, in whose possession Domesday Book states 

 that it had then been. Leland notices the castle, and writes thus : — " Kainsham 

 or Kensham castle, dene down, stood within two miles of Ludlow on a hill top." 

 It was probably built of wood, which will explain its total disappearance. It 

 belonged, (says Camden) to the Mortimers, and the Church to Wigmore abbey. 



The camp as we see it to-day occupies the summit of a hill which forms part 

 of a broken ridge extending from the Clee hill. The chief measures 2G0 yards in 

 length by 140 yards in width, comprising an area of about seven acres and a half. 

 A deep embankment separates this from the western portion, which measures in 

 the continued length CO yards, with a width of 100 yards, adding about another 



