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per day,amoiintinii' in the year to £714. I6s. \0d.^ 



The following letter, written probably in 1404, 

 gives us the name of Henry de Scharisbrec, as 

 lieutenant of Conwy castle ; and, with the other 

 two, is valuable, as furnishing us with some histo- 

 rical accounts of a period, of which our records 

 are extremely scanty. 



■ 3 From a MS. iii old French, preserved in the British Museum. 

 MS. Cotton. Cleop. F. Ill, fol. HI, which was written in Glyn- 

 dwr's time ; it sliews that the Welsh castles were not at this time 

 very extensively garrisoned, and it furnishes the actual state of 

 many of them. Caernarvon had John Bolde for its constable, with 

 twenty men at arms and eighty archers : the annual maintenance 

 amounted to £900. 6s. Sd. Crukkith castle liad Roger dc Accon 

 for constable, with six men at arms and fifty archers : annual 

 maintenance £416. 14*. 2d. Hardelagh had Dycon de Mascy for 

 constable, with ten men at arms and thirty archers : yearly main- 

 tenance £389. 6s. 8d. These were the castles in North Wales be- 

 longing to the Prince : the total of their charges amounting to 

 £2421. 3*. 4(/. Denbigh castle belonged to the earl of March, 

 and had been granted to Henry Percy : Beaumaris also belonged 

 to Henry Percy, with the Isle of Anglesea. Of these castles Mons' . 

 de Rutland, with thirty men at arms and a hundred and twenty 

 archers, kept Denbigh, at an annual expense ef £1672. 185. 4d. : 

 John de Pulle, with fifteen men at arms and a hundred and forty 

 archers, kept Beaumaris, at the yearly expense of £988. lOv. lOd. 

 The castles which belonged to the Prince, as Chamberlain of Ches- 

 ter, were Rudhlan and Flint. Of Rudhlan Henry dc Conewey 

 was constable, who kept it with nine men at arms and forty archers, 

 at an expense of £422. 15*. lOd. Of Flint, Nicholas Hauberk was 

 constable, with foTir men at arms and twelve archers : expense, 

 £146 per annum. Rllis' Original Letters, vol. 1. second series. 



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