A TOtJR, ROUND NORTH WALES. 2T 



Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicefter, and 

 Llewelyn, Prince of Wales;* and it was 

 in the year following that Montfort obliged 

 his captive monarch, Henry III. to make 

 an abfolute ceffion to the priricd, not only 

 of this fortrefs, but of the fovfereignty of 

 all Wales. -f- Very foon after this time it 

 muft have been deftroyed -, for I rind that 

 Llewelyn, in 1267, reftored to Robert de 

 Monthalt the whole of his lands at Hawar- 

 den, at the fame time reftraining him from 

 building a caftle there for thirty years. \ 

 It feems however to have been rebuilt 

 fometime before the expiration of this 

 period ; for in the night of Palm Sun- 

 day, the 22d of March, 1281, David* 

 Lord of Denbigh, brother to Llewelyn, 



* Carte's Hiftory of England, II. 151. He 

 quotes Annales Ceflrenfes. 



t Rymer's Foedera, I. 814. Carte's Hiftory of 

 England, II. 156. Pennant's Tour, I. 95. 



Rymer's Fosdera, I. 845. 



having 



