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it, but the Englifh army approaching, they 

 were forced to retire to their faftneffes 

 amongft the mountains in Caernarvon- 

 mire.* 



Shortly after this it was taken by Ryfe, 

 fon of Maelgon, and GryfFydd ap Mere- 

 dith ap Owen,-)- though it feems as if they 

 had abandoned it foon afterwards on the 

 arrival of the king, who appears to have 

 reiided here in 1283, for it was in this 

 year that he held a parliament here, in 

 which was paffed, amongft other flatutes, 

 that called the Statute of Rbyddlan. This 

 ftatute contained a fet of regulations made 

 by the king in council for the government 

 of Wales, which the preamble ftates to 



* Tho. Walfmgham,9. Holingfhed's Chroru II. 

 280. Matt. Weft, p. 370, fays, that they took, and 

 afterwards demolifhed it, which could not poffibly 

 have been the cafe. 



t Grofe's Antiquities. 



have 



