36 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



" other furled, and to have a convoy to 



" Wem or Nantwyche."* 



The royalifts retained it till after the 



furrender of Chefter in 1 645, when on the 



1 7th of Feb. O. S. it was vigoroufly be- 

 fieged by the parliament's forces under 

 General Mytton, and on the i6th of March 

 following was furrendered to them.-f- On 

 the 22d of December the parliament, on 

 account of fome difturbances amongft their 

 foldiers in north Wales, ordered this and 

 four other caftles to be difmantled. J Thefe 

 orders extended only to the rendering of it 

 Untenable; it's farther destruction was ef- 



* Rufhworth's Collections, part IV. vol. II. p. 

 301. 



t Rufhworth's Hiflorical Colle&ions, part IV. 

 vol. I. p. 21. Whitelock's Memorials of Englifh 

 Affairs from the beginning of the reign of Cha. I. 

 to the reftoration of Cha. II. 192, 197. 



Whitelock's Memorials, 231. 



feded 



