24 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



the memory of perfons living within his 

 time ; but no part of it appears to have 

 been in exiflence when he was at the 

 place in the reign of Henry VIII. Some 

 have fuppofed, from the name, and 

 other circumilances, that this monaf- 

 tery was at Whitchurch ; but it is evi- 

 dent that this could not have been the 

 cafe, from Leland's having made his en- 

 quiries reflecting it upon the fpot, and 

 fo foon after it wasdeftroyed. 



On an artificial mount, at the outfide 

 of the town, are the poor remains of the 

 Caftle, being but a little more than a con- 

 fufed heap of broken walls and mortar. 



This caftle, according to the Welfh. 

 hiflorians,was founded in 114,8, by Ma- 

 doc ap Meredith ap Bleddyn, Prince of 

 Powys*. But the Englifh records place 



* Powel, p. 201. Ldand, in Itin. V. 37, gives Come 

 colour to this; for he fays " Madocus, filius Meredoci, 

 *' Princeps P >inae caftrum, ut aiunt pofuit. Extat turris in 

 caftro nomine Madoci." 



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