54 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



to the Derby family. The lords, refentful 

 of the indignities their order had experi- 

 enced in the late troubles, began with an 

 attempt to obtain reparation to one of the 

 greateft fufferers. In December, of the 

 fame year, they fent down to the commons 

 a private bill for reftoring to Charles Earl 

 of Derby all the manors, lands, &c. which 

 had belonged to his late father. This was 

 ftrongly oppofed, and the bill was laid afide, 

 without ever coming to a fecond reading. 

 The Earl was then glad to compound for 

 the property of this place, and granted it 

 to Serjeant Glynne and his heirs,* in one 

 of whom, Sir Stephen Glynne, it yet re- 

 mains. 



In the civil wars of the laft century, this 

 caftle was early poffeffed by the parlia- 



* Pennant's Tour, I. 99, who quotes Drake's 

 Parliamentary Hiftory, and an account communi- 

 cated to him by the late Sir John Glynne. 



ment, 



