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en them places of Defence ; Mortimer 

 built the caftle of Chirk, and Warren 

 this of Holt ; but. he dying., the finifh- 

 ins: of it was left to his fon William.* 



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In the ^th. of Edward II. John Earl 

 Warren, the grandfon, having no iflue, 

 by a fpecial grant, gave this caftle, with 

 that of Dinas Bran, and the Lordfhip 

 of Bromfieldand Yale to the King; but 

 having foon afterdivorced his wife, he the 

 next year, obtained a regrant of the fame, 

 to himfelf and Matilda de Nereford, his 

 Miftrefs for life,, with remainders to his 

 two illegitimate children John and Tho- 

 mas, and their heirs ; but in want of fuch 

 iflue to return to the king. Matilda 

 was the laft furvivor, and therefore at 

 her death, in the 33. of Edward I II. thefe, 

 eftates all reverted to the crown. -f 



* Bowel's Hiftoryof Wales, p. 213. 

 + Dugdale, I. 81. lays, that the grant to the King was 

 made in the iSth. of Edward II. I have in ray pofleffion 

 copies of both the charters, the firft is dated in the 9th. of 

 X Edward II. and the other in the following year. 



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