6S NEWTOWN TO MONTGOMERY. 



In the year 1092, a few of the Norman barons 

 that were fettled in the Marches, were allowed to 

 wreft all the territory they were able from the 

 Welili, on condition that they fliould hold it as 

 tenants, in capiie, under the crown. Roger de Mont- 

 gomery, earl of Shrewfbury, entered Powifland, and 

 took pofifeffion of this place, then called Tre-feld- 

 wyn, or Baldwyri s Tozvn, from its having been 

 built, and fortified with a caflle by Baldwyn, heu- 

 tenant of the Marches to William the Conqueror. 

 The earl did homage to the king for thefe polfef- 

 fions, fortified the place afrefh, and called it, after 

 himfelf, Montgomery*. 



Montgomery Castle. 



The caftle is fituated on an eminence on the 

 north fide of the town, and appears to have once 

 been a grand and majeflic building. It is, however, 

 at prefent fo much demolifhed, that it is impoflible 

 to trace its extent with any degree of accuracy. It 

 flood on a rock precipitous on one fide, and fo ele- 

 vated as to overlook all the immediately adjacent 

 country. The prefent remains confifl of a fmall 

 part of a tower at the fouth-weft angle, and a few 

 low and fhattered walls. In this tower I obferved 

 feveral fmall holes, fimilar to thofe I have mentioned 

 as found in the walls of the Roman fort at Segon- 

 tium near Caernarvon 5 and thefe ferved more clearly 



*■ Powell, 152. Matt. Wtftm. III. Camden, In. 531. 



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