NEWTOWN TO MONTGOMERY. 6g 



to convince me that they were all originally formed 

 for no other purpofe than to reft in them horizontal 

 poles, for the fupport of the fcaftolding ufed in the 

 ereftion. Some of thefe are near fix feet deep. 

 This fortrefs feems to have been defended by four 

 folTes, cut in the rock, each of which had formerly 

 its drawbridge. 



History of Montgomery Castle. 



I have already remarked that Tre-faldwyn, or, 

 as it was afterwards called, Montgomery, was built 

 and fortified with a caftle during the reign of Wil- 

 liam the Conqueror, by Baldwyn, lieutenant of the 

 Marches; and that in 1092, the place was fortified 

 afrefh as the property of Roger de Montgomery, 

 earl of Shrewfbury. In the following year, the Welfh 

 muftering all their force, rofe in arms, feized and 

 ranfacked the caftle *. William Rufus marched 

 with an army to the relief of the Englifh, retook 

 and repaired the caftle ; but, in his encounter with 

 the Welfh, having loft a great number both of men 

 and horfes, he was compelled to return into England 

 to recruit his forces f. Montgomery caftle was at 

 this time believed to be the ftrongeft fortrefs in 

 Wales, and the Welfh, after William's retreat, again 

 commenced an attack upon it. The Norman fol* 



* Leland's Colle£lanea, ii. 314. 



t Powd, 153. Matt. Paris, p. 15. Matt. Weftm. 17. Ho- 

 linflied, ii. 20. 23. 



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