7O A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



married to Sir Gerard Uiefleet, and the 

 other to William Beauchamp, Lord of 

 Abergavenny. The fhare of the latter 

 defcended by a daughter to Nevil, Lord 

 Abergavenny. 



After this they must have efcheated 

 to the crown, for they were granted by 

 Henry VII. to Sir William Stanley, on 

 wriofe execution, Henry not only re- 

 fumed the Lordfhip of Bromfield and 

 Yale, but feized all his vaft effects, 

 which in plate and money, to the value of 

 more than forty thoufand marks, (the 

 plunder of Bofworth-field ) were taken 

 in this caftle.* 



Henry VIII. gave this Lordfhip to his 

 natural fon, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of 

 Richmoqd. He enjoyed it but a fhort 

 time, dying about two years after he 

 had received it, at the age of feventeen. 



Fuller's Worthies of Wales, p. 34. Pennant's Tour, 

 I. 2:8.2:9. 



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