8 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



bury ; from hence through the eaflern 

 limits of Montgomery fhire,comprehend- 

 ing all that county, part of Radnorshire 

 and Brecknockfhire; then turningNorth- 

 ward, it included part of Merioneth- 

 fhire, the wholeof Denbighfhire, except 

 the Lordfhips of Denbigh and Ruthin, 

 and from thence it went in a fouth eaft- 

 erly direction, taking in Molesdale, 

 Hopedale, and Maelor in Flintshire.* 



This divifion of Powifland Henry I. 

 who had by conqueft obtained it from 

 the Welfh, gave about the year 1110 to 

 Cadwgan ap Bleddyn ap Cynoyn, a 

 renowned Briton, who began to ere6l a 

 Caftle with the intention of refiding 

 here, but before it was finifhed he was 

 treacheroufly murdered by his nephew 

 Madoc.-f At what time, or by whom it 

 was completed is not known, it muft 



* Pennant's Tour, I. 212. 



4 Pond's hiftory of Wales, p. 1 70. 



4t have 



