398 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



ftable, with a falary of a hundred pounds, 

 put of which he was to maintain a gar- 

 rifon of thirty flout men, a chaplain, fur- 

 geon, carpenter, and mafon.* 



Sir Howel y Fwyall, a defcendant of 

 Colwyn ap Tangno, one of the fifteen 

 tribes of North Wales, was conftable of 

 this caflle.-f- This valiant officer attended 

 the Black Prince in the battle of Poi&iers, 

 where, with only a pole-ax, he performed 

 fuch brave and heroic adls J that the prince 



beftowed 



* Sebright- MSS. quoted by Mr. Pennant, II. 

 192. 



t He was alfo conftable of Chefter Caftle. 



It is very generally believed in Wales, that Sir 

 Howel y Fwyall, though only on foot himfelf, took the 

 French King prifoner, who was mounted on horfe- 

 back. This circumftance is fully accounted for in 

 a MS. given to the Lord Treafurer Oxford, by 

 Mr. Hugh Thomas, and now depofited in the Bri- 

 tiih Mufeum. 



" Sir 



