300 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Beaumaris. According to another manu- 

 fcript which defcribes it, the falary of the 

 conftable was forty pounds. Twenty-four 

 foldiers were allowed for the defence of it 

 and the town, at fourpence a day each. 

 They were commanded by a captain, whofe 

 annual pay was 12. i%s. 4^. and the 

 porter was paid 9. 2s. 6d. per annum. 



This caftle was extremely burthenfome 

 to the country, on account of the frequent 

 quarrels which took place betwixt the gar-? 

 rifon and the people of the country. 



From the time of Sir Rowland Ville- 



X 

 ville, alias Brittayne, the reputed bafe fon 



of Henry VII. and conftable of the caftle, 

 the garrifon was withdrawn till 1642, 

 when Thomas Cheadle, deputy to the 

 Earl of Dorfet, then conftable, put into 

 it men and ammunition. In 1643 Thomas 

 Bulkeley, Efq. foon afterwards created Lord 

 Bulkeley, fucceeded : his fon, Colonel Ri- 

 chard Bulkeley, and feveral gentlemen, 



held 



