NEWTOWN TO MONTGOMER.Y. 71 



In the year 1231, a party of Welfhm^ having 

 made an excurfion into the lands adjoining the 

 caftle, they were intercepted by the Englifli, and 

 many were taken prifoners, and beheaded. Prince 

 Llewelyn ap lorwerth, in retaliation for this injury, 

 affembling an enormous force, laid wafte all the 

 Englifh borders. During the general conilernation, 

 Hubert de Burgh evacuated the caftle ; it was im- 

 mediately feized by the Welfli, who fet fire to and 

 deftroyed it, and fhortly afterwards attacked and de- 

 molifhed fome of the caftles in South Wales *. 



In a conference held at Montgomery, in the year 

 1268, a peace was eftabhfhed betwixt Llewelyn ap 

 Griffith, then prince of North Wales, and king 

 Henry III. That prince paid down a fine of 32,000 

 marks, and in return received four cahtreds, or 

 hundreds, in Wales, which during the wars he had 

 loftf. 



From an inquifition taken on the reverfal of the 

 attainder of Roger Mortimer, earl of March, in the 

 year 1345, it appears that he had been pofleiTed of 

 Montgomery caftle at the time of his death. It 

 was in confequence reftored to the family, and paiTed, 

 with his other caftles and property, by the marriage 

 of Anne, the fifter of the laft earl, into the houfe of 

 York, and thence to the crown |. 



• Powel, 287. Matt. Paris, 31 1. 



f Matthew Paris fays, " Triginta duo mi'Uia I'lhrarum flerltn- 

 gorum regi conceflit." p. 857. Matt. Weft. 347. 

 X Dugdale's Baronage, i. J47. — 15©. 



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