504- A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Welfh upon his arrival raifed the fiege and 

 fled.* 



In -1231 a party of Welfhmen, having 

 made an excurfion into the lands adjoining 

 the caftle, was intercepted by the Englilh, 

 and many of them were brought prifoners 

 into it, and beheaded. Llewelyn the great, 

 in revenge for this injury, affembling a great 

 force, laid wafte all the Englifh borders. 

 During the general confirmation, Hubert 

 de Burgh evacuated the caftle, and it was 

 feized by the Welfh, who burned it to the 

 ground, and fhortly after attacked and 

 deftroyed fome others in fouth Wales. -f- 



In the year 1268, in a conference at this 

 place, a peace was eftablifhed betwixt 

 Llewelyn ap GryfFydd and Henry III. who, 

 upon that prince's paying him a fine of 



* Powell, p. 284, 285. Matt. Paris, p. 295. 

 Carte's Hiftory of England, II. 357. 

 t Powel, p. 287. Matt. Paris, 311. 



thirty* 



