118 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



abled to hold out till the water again retired, 

 and the army came over to their relief.* 



In 1399, Richard II. in his return from 

 Ireland, having landed in Wales, heard that 

 the Duke of Lancafter had prepared im- 

 menfe forces againfl him, and defpairing in 

 the ftrength of his own army, in company 

 with about a dozen of his friends, flole in 

 the night to Conwy, where he hoped to be 

 more fecure ; this, however, he fcarcely 

 found the cafe, for he was mortly after- 

 wards drawn from thence by the infinu- 

 ating treachery of the villain Percy. -f- 



Richard III. in the firil or fecond year of 

 his reign, granted " to Thomas Tunftall, 

 " Efq. the office of Conftable of the Cartel 

 " of Con way, with the Captainmip of the 

 " Towne of Con way, -and to have under 

 " under him the number of twenty-four 



* Hen. dc Knyghton de event. Angl. 2471. 

 t Stow's Annals, 322. Carte's Hiftory of Eng- 

 land. 



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