506 A TOUK ROUND NORTH WALES, 



the hundred of Cherbury, in which it was 

 reputed to lie.* 



In the civil wars of the reign of Charles 

 I. Lord Herbert was made governor, but 

 he did not declare himfelf either for the 

 King or the Parliament, till the arrival of 

 their army, under the command of Sir 

 Thomas Middleton, in 1644; he, how- 

 ever, then upon a treaty, permitted them 

 to enter the caftle. Soon after this tranf- 

 aclion, Lord Byron advanced with the 

 king's army, confifting of about four thou- 

 fand men, which obliged Middleton to 

 flee to Ofweftry, leaving Lord Herbert 

 and all his foot foldiers in the caftle. The 

 royal forces now laid fiege to it; but Sir 

 Thomas, having been joined by Sir John 

 Meldrum, Sir William Brereton, and Sir 

 William Fairfax, returned with about three 



* Life of Lord Herbert, p. 5. quoted in Pennant's 

 Tour, II. 371. 



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