A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 29 



Before the attack was made, the Go- 

 vernor pulled down the fteeple and part 

 of the body of the church, which flood 

 without the walls, left the enemy mould 

 make ufe of it to annoy them from 

 thence.* 



On the spth. of the fame month the 

 king's forces, confiding of about three 

 thoufand foot and fifteen hundred horfe, 

 under the command of Colonel Marrow, 

 Governor of Chefter, attempted to re- 

 take it, but Mytton fending to Sir Tho- 

 inas Middleton for affiftance ; upon his 

 coming up, the king's troops were at- 

 tacked, and completely routed. -f Some- 

 time after the death of the king, the caf- 

 tle was demolifhed. 



Ofweftry and it's hundred, were part 

 v of Wales at the making of Domesday 



A 



They were taken out in 8. Edward I. 



* Mr. Edwards's MSS. quoted in Pennant's Tour, I. 271. 

 Whitelock's Memorials, p. 93. 



t Rufh worth's Hiftorical Colledions, Part III. Vol. II. 

 P- 7 44. 745- Whitlock, p. 94. 



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