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there with fufficient forces to check them, 

 This, however, certainly cannot have been 

 the cafe, for in 1063, three years before 

 William came to the crown, it was in the 

 pofleffion of GryfFydd ap Llewelyn, Prince 

 of Wales, for in that year it was attacked 

 and burnt by Harold, fon of Godwin Earl 

 of Kent, who was afterwards king of Eng- 

 land, in retaliation for fome depredations 

 committed by the Welfh on the Englifti 

 borders. The Welfh prince was apprized 

 of his danger but a moment before the 

 Englifh prefented themfelves at the gates, 

 and as the only means of efcaping the 

 hands of his enemies, threw himfelf with 

 a few of his attendants into one of his mips, 

 at that time ready in the harbour, and by 

 that means fortunately for himfelf got off,* 



* Matt. Wefim. 429. Annot. Poveli. Gir. Camb. 

 It. Camb. Lib. II. c. X. 873, Warrington's Hiftory 

 of Wales, 221. 



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