A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. \'Z\ 



and flung into the river.* For his late 

 fervices the parliament granted the Arch- 

 bifhop a general pardon, and a releafe from 

 all his fequeftrations. 



After the reftoration. a grant was made 

 of this fortrefs, by the king, to Edward 

 Earl of Conwy, who, in 1665, ordered all 

 the iron, timber, and lead to be taken down 

 and tranfported to Ireland, under the pre- 

 tence that it was to be ufed in his majefty's 

 Service. Several of the principal gentlemen 

 of the country oppofed the defign, but their 

 remonftrances were over-ruled, and this 

 noble pile was reduced nearly to its prefent 

 condition.-f- It is now held from the crown 

 at an annual rent of fix (hillings and eight- 



* Whitelock's Memorials, 219, 228. Rufh- 

 worth's Hiftorical Collections, part IV. vol. 1.297. 



t Pennant's Tour, II. 319. See nlfo a copy of a 

 X>ettcr in the Appendix to the fame volume, p. 478. 



pence, 



