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nor to John de Cromwell, on condition* 

 that he Ihould repair the caftle, at that 

 time in a ruinous (late.* Some years 

 afterwards they were given to Sir John 

 Stanley .-f 



Hope received it's firft -charter from 

 Edward, the Black Prince, in the year 

 1351, who ordered that the conftable 

 of the caftle for the time being, fhould be 

 the may or, who wasi after taking the facra. 

 merit, to fvvear on the Holy Evangelifts 

 that he would preferve the privileges of 

 the burgefles granted in the charter, and 

 that he would chufe out of them on 

 Michaelmas-day, annually, two bailiffs. 

 Molt of the .other advantages granted 

 in the charters of thofe times were ad- 

 ded ; all which were afterwards confirm- 

 ed by Richard the Second. Caer- 

 gwrle and Hope, in conjunction with 



* Dugdale's Baronage, II. 44. t Pennant, I. 435. 



4 Flint, 



