MOLD TO RUTHIN. I59 



lii the civil wars the caftle was retained by the 

 royalift party till February 1645-6: it was then 

 attacked, and, after a fiege of near two months, 

 was furrendered to general Mytton. Colonel Mafon 

 Was made governor ; but in the fame year it was 

 ordered by the parliament to be difmantled. 



