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of courfe amongft fo many, fome truly 

 ridiculous. 



Adjoining upon the church-yard is a 

 piece of ground unconfecrated, which fome 

 gentlemen of Montgomery have made into 

 a court, where they play at the game of 

 fives againft the church. 



The town owes it's name of Montgomery 

 and Mons Gomerici to Roger de Mont- 

 gomery, Earl of Shrewfbury, who in 

 1092 entered Powifland, and took this 

 place, then calledTre-faldwyn, or Baldwin's 

 Town, from it's having been built and 

 fortified with a caftle by Baldwyn, lieu- 

 tenant of the marches to William the 

 Conqueror. The Earl fortified the place 

 afrefh, and called it, after his own name, 

 Montgomery.* 



The 



* Powel's Hiflory of Wales, p. 152. Camb. Brit, 



III. 531. Mat. Weftm. p. III. fays, " that when 



Henry III. ere&ed here a new caftle in 1221, it 



K k 2 "was 



