A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 9 



" Ireland and Germany, which by Chrift's 

 " affi fiance, and by the labour and conduit 

 " of mariners, repair hither and fupply 

 " them with all forts of commodities ; fo 

 " that being comforted by the grace of 

 " God in all things, we drink plentifully ; 

 " for thofe countries have abundance of 

 " vineyards." 



Upon the death of John Earl of Chef- 

 tcr, without ifTue male in 1237, Henry 

 III. took the Earldom, and all the pow- 

 ers annexed to it, into his own hands j 

 and foon afterwards granted to the city 

 its firft royal charter. 



In this city it was that the Welfh made 

 their final acknowledgement to the fove- 

 reignty of England in the year 1300, by 

 Edward of Caernarvon, Prince of Wales, 

 when the freeholders of the county did 

 homage and fealty for their refpective lands. 



Henry Duke of Lancafter, afterwards 

 Henry IV. in 1399 feized the city and 



caftle 



