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carl of March, to hold to himfelf and his heirs on 

 the fervice of a knight's fee *. His fon was attainted 

 of high treafon, but afterwards, on the reverfal of 

 the attainder, it was reflored to the family in the 

 perfon of his grandfon. By the marriage of Anne, 

 the filler to the laft earl of March, with Richard 

 Plantagenet, earl of Cambridge, this, and fome other 

 Welfh caftles, became the property of the houfe of 

 York, and thence defcended to the crown f. 



Thefe are all the memoranda of any importance 

 that I have been able to colled; refpeding this for- 

 trefs. 



How it firfl took the name of Dolforwyn, or The 

 Meadow of the Virgin, cannot now be afcertained. 

 Circumflances would, however, induce one to fuf- 

 peft, that it had fome allufion to the llory of Habren, 

 or Abren, the daughter of Locrine, fon of Brutus, 

 the firft king of Britain, by Effyllt, a daughter of 

 the king of Germany, whom he had taken captive 

 in his wars againfl the Huns. Previoufly to the 

 taking of this female he had efpoufed Gv/endolen, a 

 daughter of Corineus, one of the heroes who had 



* Dugdalc's Baronage, ii. 5. and i. 142. Stowe's Annals, 

 200. A kmghi's fee was defined to be fuch an inheritance, as 

 \voiild maintain a knight with convenient retinue for a year : 

 in the time of Henry III., this was edimated at the trifling fum 

 of fifteen pounds. By a llatute paffed in the reign of Ed- 

 ward II., it was raifed to twenty, and afterwards to forty pounds. 

 Sir Edward Coke fays, that a knight's fee contained twelnse tloiu- 

 lunJi, or .'"<x hundred and eighty acres. 



f - Dugdak's Baronage, i. 148. 



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