RUTHIN TO LLANGOLLEN. 17I 



ever, afterwards feparated from his wife, he obtained 

 a regrant of the eftates to himfelf, and his miflrefs, 

 Matilda de Nereford, for life, with remainder to 

 their children. Matilda was the laft furvivor, and 

 therefore on her death, in the thirty-third year of 

 Edward III., they reverted to the crown. — ^Not long 

 afterwards they were given to Edward Fitz Alan, 

 earl of Arundel ; and from him they feem to have 

 followed the fuccefllon of the lords of Bromfield *. 



In 1390, Caflell Dinas Bran was the habitation 

 of Myfanwy Vechan, a very beautiful and accom- 

 plilhed female, a defcendant of the houfe of Tudor 

 Trevor. She was beloved by Howel ap Einion 

 Lygliw, a Welih bard, who addrelTed to her an ode 

 full of fweetnefs and beauty f : 



'Mid the gay towers on ftccp Din's Branna's cone, 

 Her Hoel's bread the fair Myfanwy fires, 



Oh ! harp of Cambria, never had thou known 

 Notes more meUifluent floating o'er the wires. 



Than when thy bard this brighter Laura fung. 



And with his ill-llarr'd love Llangollen's echoes rung. 



Thus confecrate to love in ages flown, 



Long agfs fled, Din's Branna's ruins (hew, 



Bleak as they (land upon tluir ftcepy cone, 

 The crown and contrail of the vale below. 



That fcreen'd by mural rocks with pride difplays 



Beauty's romantic pomp in every fylvan maze. 



At what period this caftlc was demolilhed, we 

 have no information. Churchyard, who vifited it 



* See the account of Holt caftle. f Pennant, i. 298. 



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