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lings, and thus led to Chefter from whence 

 after a night's reft they were fent to Lon- 

 don.* 



From this time I meet with nothing re- 

 lative to Flint Caftle till the civil wars of 

 the reign of Charles I, when it was garri- 

 foned for the King, after having been re- 

 paired at the expence of Sir Roger Moftyn, 

 who was appointed Governor.-)- In 1643 

 it was beiieged by Sir William Brereton and 

 Sir Thomas Middleton, and was defended 

 by the Governor till all the provilions, even 

 to horfes, failing, he furrendered it upon 

 honourable terms. It muft afterwards have 

 been taken by the royalifts, for in Auguft 

 1646, it appears to have been furrendered 

 to Major General Mytton, J and in Decem- 

 ber of the fame year, it was, with Hawar- 



* Pennant's Tour, I. 50. 



t Carte's Hiftory of England. Pennant's Tour, 



1.47- 



J Whitelock's Memorials, 221. 



den 



