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him, replied with confiderable tartnefs, " You want 

 Ibme J}:)e€ps in it ? Well, well, 1 t\ill put you fomc 

 jheeps in it!" He foon dallied out the bottom of th<? 

 picture, and introduced the fea^ and feveral JhcepSy 

 (Ihips) fomc of whicli are reprefented as lying at 

 anchor. clofc to the rocks. 



There is a dungeon tx) this caftlcj as deep as the 

 walls are high : it is defcended by a flight of forty- 

 two fteps The building is on the whole low and 



heavy, and wants magnitude to give eonfequerice to 

 its appearance. 



History of Chirk Castle- 



The prefent ftrucVure was the work of Rogeir 

 Mortimer, the fon of Roger, baron of Wigmore, 

 founded on the fite of a very ancient fortrefs called 

 CiiJhU Crogen, 



John, earl of Warren, and Roger Mortimer, were 

 appointed guardians to the two fons of Madoc ap 

 Griffith, a ftrenuous partifan of Henry III. and Ed- 

 ward I. Thefe villains murdered their wards, and 

 appropriated the eftates to their own ufe. Mor- 

 timer's (hare in th-e robbery confifted of the lands at 

 Nan-heudwy and Chirk, which belonged to the 

 youngePi: boyr At the latter of thefe places he found 

 it politic to erect a place of defence. This he wa& 

 .fuffered to- enjoy with impunity till liis death, vv^hich 

 took place in the tov/er, after an imprifonment of 

 four years and a half, for the commilTion of fome 

 other crime^ The property was even fuffered to 



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