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any other author which has led me fo far 

 back. 



Jorwerth Drwndwn, or Edward with 

 the broken nofe, the eldeft fon of Owen 

 Gwynedd, made this Caftle the place of 

 his refidence for many years. On the 

 death of his father this prince claimed the 

 crown of Wales his hereditary right, but 

 was unanimoufly rejected, and only on ac- 

 count of the blemim in his face, fo whim- 

 fical and indecifive was, at that time, the 

 mode of fucceflion. Upon being thus re- 

 pulfed from the throne, he retired to this 

 fequeftered fpot, where it is faid his fbn 

 Llewelyn the Great, who began his reiga 

 in the time of Richard I. was born.* 



If Dolinchalan Caftle is, as I fuppofe, 

 the fame with this, GryfFydd ap Tudor, in 

 the reign of Edward I. had, as conftable, 



* Warrington's Hiftory of Wales, and Wynne's 

 Memoirs of the Gwydir Family in Harrington's 

 Mifcel. 359. 



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