15S A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



fcripts in the poffeflion of Sir John Sebright 

 and Sir Roger Moftyn, of Gloddaeth, fays, 

 that it was built within the fpace of one 

 year, by the labour of the peafants and at 

 the coft of the chieftains of the country, on 

 whom the conqueror had impofed that hate- 

 ful tafk.* The revenues of the Archbi- 

 fhopric of York, which was then vacant, 

 were applied towards defraying the ex- 

 pences.-f- 



The reafon why the Queen was brought 

 here to bring forth the prince was, that 

 fince the Welfh remembered but too keenly 

 the oppreffions of the Englifh officers who, 

 in former reigns, had been placed over 

 them, they flatly told the king that they 

 were determined never to yield obedience 

 but to a prince of their own nation -, and 

 Edward, perceiving them refolute, thought 



* Pennant's Tour, II. 215. 



t Grofe's Antiquities, VII. p. 8. 



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