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thirty-two thoufand marks,* reflored to 

 him four cantreds, which in the wars he 

 had been deprived of.-j- 



On an inquifi ion taken on the reverfal 

 of the attainder of Roger Mortimer, Earl 

 of March, in 1345* that Earl was found 

 to have been poflefled of this caftle at the 

 time of his death. It continued in the 

 family till, along with thofe of Denbigh 

 and Dolforwyn, it pafTed by marriage 

 with Anne, the fitter of the late Earl, 

 into the houfe of York.J 



Lord Herbert, of Cherbury, in his life, 

 written by himfelf, fpeaks of it as having 

 been the habitation of his grand-father, 

 and great grand-father, who held it for the 

 crown, as fbwards of the caftle, and of 



* " Triginta duo millia llbrarum fterlingorum 

 Regi conceflit." Matt. Paris, p. 851. 

 t Matt. Paris, p. 857. Matt. Weftm. p. 347. 

 1 Dugdale's Baronage, I. 147, 148, 150. 



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