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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



HIE SECOND TERRACE. 



Crown by a marriage with Hawyse, the last representative of 

 the princely house of Wenwynwyn, who brought all her 

 Powysland possessions to her English husband's hands. Many 

 a time did he raise men for service against the Scots, but 

 himself surrendered in arms against the King at Boroughbridge 

 in 1 122. 



This Sir John Charlton was the builder of the present 

 Powis Castle, which has gone through many a change since 

 his time. It is not, as a castellated structure, very spacious 

 or remarkable in construction, but it is an excellent example of 

 the military architecture of the early fourteiMith century, with 

 four massive 

 round towers. 

 Within, there 

 has been 

 much modern- 

 isation, but 

 externally 

 the feudal 

 character is 

 w e \\ main- 

 tained, and 

 the embattled 

 building on 

 the left of the 

 approach to 

 the keep is 

 an unusual 

 example of a 

 great hall. 

 The Jacobean 

 entry, which 

 has been 

 attached to 

 the Edwardian 

 keep, is very 

 striking, and 

 has a peculiar 

 effect, anJ 



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there is much work of the same class within, all dating 

 from the early occupation of the Herberts, to whom the castle 

 came in Elizabeth's reign by purchase from the Greys, who 

 had received it in marriage with the heiress of Edward Lord 

 Powys. The gateway referred to was erected by William, 

 first Earl of Powis, so created in 1674, who became Marquis 

 of Powis in 1687, and was outlawed in 1689 as a follower 

 of the Stuarts. 



James created him Marquis of Montgomery and Duke of 

 Powis, after the Revolution of 1688, but these t ties were 

 never recognised in England. The Royal Commissioners had 



decided that 

 the famous 

 stronghold 

 should share 

 the fate of 

 many another 

 castle after 

 t li e Civil 

 W a rs , but 

 upon the 

 owners giving 

 pledges that 

 it should 

 never be em- 

 ployed to the 

 prejudice of 

 the Parlia- 

 ment or Com- 

 mon wealth, 

 the order was 

 revoked, and 

 only the out- 

 works were 

 demolished 

 and a few 

 breaches 

 made in the 

 walls. Nearly 



