12 BEDDGELERT TO HARLECH. 



take my life inftead of that of the Welfh captain : if 

 you do not, I will moft afluredly replace David in 

 his caftle, and your highnefs may fend whom you 

 pleafe to take him out again." The king knew too 

 well the value of a hero like fir Richard, to carry 

 his denial any further *. David ap Ivan was par- 

 doned, but his friend received ho other reward for 

 this perilous fervice f. 



In the civil wars at the conclufion of the reign of 

 Charles I., Harlech caftle was the lad in Noith 

 "Wales that held out for the king, being furrendered 

 in March 1647, ^^ general Mytton, on honourable 

 terms. At this time- Mr. William Owen was the 

 governor, and the garrifon confifled but of twenty- 

 eight men {. 



The town of Harlech was made a free borough 

 by Edward I., who confirmed to it feveral grants of 

 lands and other emoluments. 



Mephitic Vapour. 



In the winter of 1694, this neighbourhood was 

 much alarmed by a kind of fiery exhalation, which 

 came from a fandy and marfliy tract of land, called 



* Among other a6ts of hcioifm in fir Richard Herbert, it is 

 well known that lie twice cleared his way in fafety, through a 

 great Norman army, with only a battle-ax in his hand. 



f Wynne, 398. Slowe, 421. Carte, ii. 775. Life of lord 

 Herbert, 8. 



J Whitelock, 243* 



Morfa 



