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iimphantly we conveyed to our camp. For tlie 

 scarcity of provision was then so great, that there 

 remained but one hogshead of wine in the whole 

 army, a bushel of corn being- sold for twenty shil- 

 lings, a fed ox for three or four marks, and a hen 

 for eight-pence; so that there liappened a very 

 lamentable mortality, both of man and horse, for 

 want of necessary sustenance of life."' 



Having undergone such miseries as are here de- 

 scribed, king Henry found his position no longer 

 tenable, and he accordingly retreated with his ar- 

 my, without having performed any of his inten- 

 tions, or having gained the least advantage. 



The succeeding prince of Wales, Llywelyn ab 

 Grufydd, in 1258, having successfully carried his 

 arms into Cheshire, caused king Henry a second 

 time to invade Wales with an immense army ; for 

 he had brought together the whole strength of 

 England: he advanced, without opposition, to 

 Dyganwy, but his further progress, and stay for 

 any length of time, was prevented by the skill of 

 Llywelyn, who had conveyed to the other side of 



' Mafli. Paris, quoted in W vnne's Histdiy of Wales, p. 266. 



