92 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



After the furrender of Rhyddlan Caftle 

 to the Welm in the reign of King John, 

 they feem to have had poffeffion of it for 

 many years, for the firfl time I fee any 

 thing of it afterwards is in the reign of 

 Edward I, when, upon the refufal of 

 Llewlyn ap Gryffydd to do homage to Ed- 

 ward at Chefter, that monarch, at the head 

 of an army, marched into Wales; and 

 amongft others took this caftle, obliging 

 the prince to come to terms. He then 

 fortified it and placed in it a ftrong garri- 

 fon.* Llewelyn knowing of how much 

 confequence this place was, and how dan- 

 gerous it was to his intereft whilft it re- 

 mained in the hands of an enemy, in the 

 year 1281, in conjunction with his brother 

 David, made a mofl vigorous attack upon 



* Matt. Weftm. 370. Tho. Walfmgham, 6. Ho- 

 linflied's Chronicle, II. 278, 279. Towel's Hiftory 

 of Wales, 334. 



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