66 A TOUR ROUND N'CJKTH WALES. 



The value of it's revenues in the 26th of 

 Henry VIII. was according to Dugdale 

 150. js. 3^ and according to Speed 

 157. I5r. 2d. 



Not far from hence flood formerly a 

 ftrong fort, called Bafingwerk Cattle, built, 

 as Lord Lyttleton fuppofes, by one of the 

 Earls of Chefter.* In 1157, Henry II. 

 after his efcape at Euloe rebuilt this caftle, 

 which, in a former reign, had been demo- 

 limed, having firft cleared the pafles and 

 cut down the woods around it, which at 

 that time were impenetrable forefts.-f- This 



and Chron. Job. Bromton, p. 1048. Powel in his 

 notes on Gir. Camb. It. Camb. lib. II. c. X. 837, 

 and Bifhop Gibfon, in his additions to Camd. Flint- 

 fhire, agree in its being founded fo late as 1312. 



* Lyttleton's Hiftory of Henry If. vol. II. p. 72. 



t Matt. Paris, edit. 1684. p. 8r. M. S. chro- 

 nicle from Brutus to the end of the reign of Edward 

 IV. in the Library of St. Peter's College, Cam- 

 bridge. 



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