IfO RUTHIN TO LLANGOLLEM. 



from the fortrefs, would be no eafy matter to decide 

 at the prefent day : Mr. Edward Lhwyd, a juftly 

 celebrated antiquary, who lived upwards of a cen- 

 tury ago, confiders the former to have been the 

 cafe. 



Callell Dinas Bran was the principal refidencc 

 of the lords of Yale, and probably was founded 

 by one of them. — In the reign of Henry III., 

 Griffith ap Madoc rcfided here. He had married 

 the daughter of James lord Audley, by which 

 his affedions were alienated from his own coun- 

 try ; and he took part with the Englifh againft the 

 Welfh prince. This induced a perfecution, which 

 compelled him to feek for fecurity in this aerial 

 retreat, and confine himfelf to the walls of his caflle.^ 

 The Welfh writers fay that grief and fhame, not 

 long afterwards, put an end to his life*. — His fon 

 pofTeifed the property ; and, after his death, the 

 guardianfhip of his tAvo children was given by Ed- 

 ward I. to John earl of Warren, and Roger Morti- 

 mer. In the account of Holt caflle, I have ftated 

 that the iniquitous guardians caufed the boys to be 

 murdered, and then feized the eftates to their own 

 ufe. Caflell Dinas Bran was part of Warren*s fhare 

 m the plunder f. 



In the ninth year of Edward II., the grandfon of 

 the earl of Warren having no iiTue, furrendered 

 this and. other fortrefi'es to the king. Being, how- 



* Povvel, T94, Pennant, i. 216. 297. 

 ■f- Gibfoii's Camdc-n, ^82. 



ever. 



