412 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, fome- 

 time about 530;* and it is generally fup- 

 pofed, that Edward I. founded the prefent 

 fortrefs, upon the ruins of the old caftle ; 

 fome parts of which are yet diftinguimable 

 from the more modern work of that mo- 

 narch. 



It is evident there muft have been a 

 caftle here before Edward's time, for in the 

 year 1 1 60, during the reign of Henry II. 

 I find that one John Charlton, being pro- 

 tected by the king, imprifoned here three 

 of his wife's uncles, Llewelin, David, and 

 John.-f- 



Hugh de Wlonkeflow was, in 1283, 

 appointed by Edward the firft, conftable, 

 with a falary of a hundred pounds - y but this 

 falary appears to have been afterwards re.- 



* Vaughan's (ketch of the hiftory of Merioneth- 

 fhire in Camb. Reg. I. 191. 



t Towel's Hiftory of Wales, p^ 215. 



duced ; 



