7 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Gryffydd Maelor, one of the Welfll 

 Chieftains.* 



Caergwrle Caflle, was one of the gifts 

 of Edward I. to David, bother of Llew- 

 elyn, laft prince of Wales. Whilft he 

 pofleffed it, Roger de Clifford, Jufiiciary 

 of Chefter, mofl unjuflifiably cut down 

 his woods, and endeavoured to feize on 

 his property; but this he was prevented 

 from doing by the king, to whom feveral 

 complaints had been made. When Da- 

 vid took up arms, with his brother, 

 againft the Englifh Monarch, he left a 

 garrifon of fome ftrength in the caftle, 

 but in the year 1282, after a fortnight's 

 fiege, jt was furrendered to the King.-f 



This caftle was excepted from the 

 grant which Edward made to John, 

 Earl Warren, of the lands of one of the 



* Powel's Hiftory of W^les, p. ir. Owen Gwynedd, 

 was Prince of Wales from 1137 to 1169. 

 t Powel,p. 3$o. Camden's Britannia. 



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