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place betwixt himfelf and his Barons .* 

 And, about feventeen years afterwards, 

 it experienced a fecond difafter, in being 

 burned by Llewelyn ; but, in the reign 

 of Edward I. provifion was made againft 

 any future infults, by furrounding it 

 with walls "I". 



It has been favoured at different times 

 with many confiderable privileges from 

 it's lords ; but it was in the year 1406 that 

 it's moil extenfive charter was grants 

 ed by Thomas, Earl of Arundel, then 

 owner of the place. This gave to the in- 

 habitants many privileges which they 

 had not before enjoyed; the chief of 

 which were, that neither the lord nor 

 his heirs fhould confiscate or feize the 

 effects of perfons dying with or with- 

 out will in the corporation, and that 

 none of the inhabitants of the lordfhips 

 of Ofweftry, Melverley, Kinardfley,Eger- 

 ley, Ruyton, and eleven neighbouring 



* Powel. p. 275. i Ibid, p. 288. 



towns* 



