502 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



reputed the ftrongeft and beft fortified cattle 

 in Wales : the Normans gallantly defended 

 it for many days, but the Welfh having 

 found means to undermine the walls, took 

 it by ttorm, and having put the garrifon to 

 the fword, levelled the fortrefs to the 

 ground. After many ttruggles, ineffectual 

 on the part of the Englim, it was not till 

 near four years after this event, that the 

 king was able to obtain a victory at all 

 decifive. Upon again taking this place, 

 the cattle was immediately rebuilt by the 

 Earl of Shrewfbury; but was after that 

 again deftroyed, though at what period is 

 not known. It appears that in 1221, 

 Henry III. in order, as the hiftorians fay, 

 to reftrain the predatory excurfions of the 

 Welm, marched againft them, and erected 

 a cattle here, which he granted to his 

 jufticiary, Hubert de Burgh, with two 

 hundred marks annually, and a greater 



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