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the former, and then the falary was fixty 

 pounds for both. The conftable and cap- 

 tain had twenty-four foldiers allowed them 

 for the defence of the place at the wages 

 of fourpence a day each. Certainly this 

 flight garrifon could only be eftablifhed for 

 peaceful times !* 



In the year 1644 Caernarvon Caftle was 

 feized by Captain Swanly for the parlia- 

 ment, who at the fame time took four 

 hundred prifoners and a great quantity of 

 arms, ammunition, and pillage. -f- It muft 

 however have been very foon afterwards 

 retaken, for in May, 1645, I find it amongft 

 the caflles which were fortified for the 

 king.;}; Lord Byron was then the gover- 

 nor, but on the caftle being befieged by 



* Pennant's Tour, If. 216. 

 t Whitelock's Memorials, 87. 

 + Rufhworth's Hiftorical Colledions, Part IV. 

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