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fons of Madoc ap Gryffydd,* and with 

 the tra<5l of land in which it is fituated, 

 was by him annexed to Flintfhire, in 

 which county it remained till Henry 

 VIII. feparated it, and added it to Den- 

 bigh fli ire. It was however not long af- 

 terwards reftored to it's proper county. 



Edward I. on the furrender of the 

 garrifon that David had left in it, be- 

 fiowed the caftle upon his Con fort, 

 Eleanor, from which circumftance it ac- 

 quired the name of Queen Hope.-f She 

 lodged here in her way to Caernarvon, 

 where the king had fent her to give to the 

 Welih, a prince, a native of their own 

 country. Not long after this time it ap- 

 pears to have been burntbyacafualfire.J 



Edward the fecond, in the firft year 

 of his reign, granted this caftle and Ma- 



* Carte's Hiftory of England, II, 193. 

 f Camden's Britannia. 

 Pennant's Tour, I. 4;^. 



nor 



