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is left that from it's prefent (late it is im- 

 poffible to form any idea of it's ancient 

 iirength, as a place of defence. The 

 fite is very fmall, aixl being an a level 

 with the town muft have chiefly relied 

 for it's ftrengtb, on the deep and pcr^ 

 pendicular fides of it's trench. 



The lands about this place and at 

 Chirk, were, in the reigns of Henry III. 

 and the beginning of Edward I. the 

 property of Madoc ap GryiTydJ, who? 

 dying, left two fons both Minors.* Ed- 

 ward I. to whom Madoc had been an 

 adherent, gave the guardianfhip of one 

 of them, (who was to have for hisdivi- 



* Pennant's Tour, I. 21 -. Though Mr. P. Teems very 

 fatis r aftorily to have (hewn that thefe were the children of 

 Madoc and nor of GryfFydd, as is freq-ieiitly fuppofed, yet 

 fro n l.is general accuracy, I wonder that he fliould have 

 rdBpfe.l into the other opinion in the fame Volume, p. 28 

 and 297, wht-re he lays, they were the children of Gryffyud, 

 rhe father of this Madoc. Camden, p. 682, feems to have 

 made the f;me rniilake, he fays, John, Earl Warren, wus 

 guardian to ' Madoc, a Bririih Prince," 



