28 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



having forgotten the favours which had 

 been fo lavifhly conferred upon him by 

 Edward I. after his reconciliation with that 

 prince, furprized and took this cattle, and 

 in it Roger de Clifford, Jufticiary of Chef- 

 ter, cruelly maflacrmg all who refitted.* 



This and other things, committed by 

 thefe two princes, were the caufe of a war, 

 which at laft ended in the total fubjection 

 of North Wales to the Englifh. The un- 

 grateful David, after the death of Llewelyn, 

 being taken by the king, fuffered for his 

 offences in a fevere and mofl exemplary 

 manner ; his fentence was, to be drawn by 

 a horfe to the place of execution, as a trai- 

 tor to the king, from whom he had re- 



* Matt. Weftm. 370. Hen. de Knyghton apud 

 Hiftorias Anglicans Scrptores, X. Lib. III. p. 2464. 

 Powel's Hiftory of Wales, 337. Holinfhed's Chro- 

 nicle, II. 280. Stow's Annals, 200. M. Weltm. 

 and Hen. Knyghton place this infurre&ion in the 

 enfuing year. 



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