298 " A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Between each of the Gothic pilafters is 

 a narrow window, and behind fome of them 

 are fmall clofets gained out of the thicknefs 

 of the wall. 



The caflle was built by Edward I. about 

 the year 1295, fometime after he had 

 founded thofe of Caernarvon and Conwy, 

 in order to fecure more firmly his pof- 

 feffions in this ifland. He at the fame 

 time changed the name of the town from 

 A- Bonover, as it was then called, to Beau- 

 maris, a name derived from the French, 

 indicative of it's pleafant fituation in a low 

 ground.* From this, and it's being near the 

 bay, he had an opportunity of forming a 

 great fofs round it, and of filling it with 

 water from the fea. He alfo cut a canal 

 in order to permit veflels to difcharge their 

 lading beneath the walls; and even fa 

 lately as within this century, iron rings 



* Holinftied's Chronicle, II. 294. Stow's An- 

 nals, p. no. 



remained 



