A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 415 



mit. The idea, however, proved ground- 

 lefs, for Dafydd ap Ifan ap Einion, a 

 ftaunch and valiant friend to the houfe of 

 Lancafter, held out in this caftle till 1468, 

 near nine years after the coronation of 

 Edward, who, at laft, feeing his refolution 

 not to yield till he was abfolutely forced to 

 it, found it neceflary to fend into Wales a 

 large army againft him, under the com- 

 mand of William Herbert, Earl of Pem- 

 broke, who, with incredible difficulty, 

 marched his men over the heart of the 

 Britifh Alps to attack him. The Earl 

 belieged the caftle, and it was furrendered 

 at difcretion on the I4th of April, 1468, 

 when Sir Richard Tunftal, Sir Henry Bel- 

 lingham, Sir William Stoke, with about 

 fifty other gentlemen, were taken prifoners 

 and committed to the Tower of London.* 



Sir 



* MS. Chronicle in the Library of St. Peter's 

 College, Cambridge. Stow's Annals, p. 421. 



Camden's 



