6* A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



who unfortunately fell into his hands, to be 

 maffacred in cold blood ; tKe women them- 

 felves fcarcely efcaping his fury.* 



The memory of this tragical event has 

 been carried down to pofterity by a ballad, 

 fuppofed to have been compofed foon after 

 the battle, called Morfa Rhyddlan, the air of 

 which is moft tenderly plaintive.^ 



The caftle is of red ftone, nearly fquare, 

 and having fix towers, two at each of two 

 oppofite corners and only one at each of the 

 others. One of thefe was called Twr y 

 Brenin, the Kings 'Tower. The whole was 

 furrounded by a double ditch on the north, 



* Towel's Hiftory of Wales, 20. Matt. Paris, 

 bita duorum offarum, 976. Warrington's Hiftory of 

 Wales, p. 105. 



t See this air amongft the fpecimens of Welfli 

 mufic in the fecond volume of this work. It is the 

 general opinion in Wales, that this air was compofed 

 thus early, but from its conftrudlion it appears to me 

 to be of a much later date. 



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