88 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES, 



yard, and flew fo great a number of his 

 men, that very few efcaped into the towers.* 

 It was afterwards repaired and fortified by 

 Henry II. who gave it to Hugh Beau- 

 champ j-f- notwithstanding which, in 1167, 

 whiift Henry was engaged in foreign affairs, 

 it was attacked by Owen Gwynedd and 

 his brother Cadwalader, afftfted by Ryfe 

 ap Gryffydd, and after a blockade of two 

 months, furrendered to them.J It muft, 

 not long after, have been delivered to the 

 Englifli, for about 1214, in the reign of 

 King John, it was attacked and taken, with- 

 out much oppofition, by the Welfh Prince 

 Llewelyn ap Jouverth, and is mentioned as 

 being the laft fortrefs which that monarch 



* Pennant, II. n. who quotes the Life of Gryf* 

 fydd ap Knyan, in Sebright MSS. 



t Matt. Paris, 81, Powel, 208. Peterhoufe, 

 MS. 



+ Po\vcl, 224, Lyttleton's Hiftory of Henry II. 

 Vol. II. 493- 



