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it a neceflary policy to have her removed, 

 though in the depth of a fevere winter, 

 from the Englifh court, to this place, and 

 thus, if poffible, delude them into that obe- 

 dience which he fuppofed it might be diffi- 

 cult to retain by mere force. By this means 

 he, in a mort time, by afFenting to their 

 demands for a prince of their own, reduced 

 the whole country to his will. 



This place appears either to have fuffered 

 very little from the calamities of war, or 

 very few events have been given to pofterity. 

 In the year 1 294, in an infurrection of the 

 Welfh, headed by Madoc, one of the chief- 

 tains of the country, it was fuddenly attack- 

 ed during the fair, and after the furrender, 

 the town was burned and all the Englifh 

 found in the place cruelly murdered.* 



* Henry de Knyghton, 2502. Tho. Walfingham, 

 26. Holinfhed's Chronicle, II. 273. Stow's An- 

 nals, 206. 



When 



