go A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



but its fituation very pleafant. In the 

 civil wars, it was accounted fufficiently 

 ftrong to be garrifoned for the King, but 

 it was taken by Sir William Brereton, 

 in April 164,5.* 



From Northop, I retraced my former 

 route through Holywell and St. Afaph 

 towards Denbigh. My reafon for doing 

 this was, that when I before vifited 

 thefe places, I had not been fo accurate 

 in my Journal as I wiflied ; I therefore 

 made this fecond vilit, that I might 

 complete it, which I did, and confolida- 

 ted it's contents into my former defcrip- 

 tion of them. 



The walk from St. Afaph to Den- 

 bigh,^ I did not find by any means fo 

 pleafant as I had expected, from it's ly- 



* Whitelock's Memorials, p, 142. 

 f The county of Denbigh, is about 40 miles long, 20 

 broad and 1 30 in circumference. It contains about 4 10,000 

 seres of land, and 38,000 inhabitants; is divided into 18 

 Hundreds and 57 parifhes, a.nd has five market towns. 



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