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have been done before 1191, for in that 

 year the Welfh rifing and committing 

 many depredations in the marches, Hu^ 

 bert Archbifhop of Canterbury, in the 

 abfence of the king (Richard I.) who 

 was gone on the Crufade to the Holy 

 ]and,haitened here with alargearmy and 

 befieged the caftle. It was not however 

 till the garrifon had perceived that the 

 befiegers had undermined their walls, 

 that they would furrender, and even 

 this, though the enemy had three men 

 to their one, they did upon the moil ho- 

 nourable terms. The Archbifhop now 

 fortified it afrefh,and placed in it aftrong 

 garrifon ; 'but a very fhort time after- 

 wards it was again attacked by the 

 Welfh, who again obtained it, on the 

 fame conditions on which they had fur- 

 rendered it.* 



* Powd, p. 248. Roger Hovedon, 775-. Stow's An- 

 flals, p. f6j. Hovedon and Stow relate that this event took 

 place in 1 197. 



Before 



