A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. g 



Denbigh, with lands to the value of a 

 thoufand marks per annum, in recom- 

 pence for lands in Anglefea which ought 

 to have belonged to him, but which the 

 King had fecured to Llewelyn for life.* 



After the death of Llewelyn, David 

 intending to take the crown of Wales, 

 immediately fummoned the Welfh to 

 appear in Parliament at Denbigh ; -f- 

 but, not long after this event, being 

 taken prifoner by the Englifh, he was 

 executed for high treafon. 



The King now granted this lordfhip 

 to Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, who 

 began the caftle, and fortified the town 

 with a flrong wall ;J but hisfon having 



* Tho. \Valfingham, p. 7. Holinfhcd's Chron. II. 279. 



t Hen. de Knyghton, p. 246$. 



" Dauyd yt was ye p"nces broyer of Walys yorouge pryde 

 *' vveude haue ben p A nc<" of Walys after his broy'rs dethe Sc 

 " upon yat he feme after Walfshemen to his p"lement at Dyne- 

 " begge a^d follyche made Walys rife agene ye kynge and 

 f ' bc^anne to rncnce wrrre a^ene ye kynge." MS. in the 

 Library c-f St. Peter's Ccll-gt, Cambridge. 



J Stowe's Annal?, p. 203. Speed's Maps, Ch. XII. 

 fol 11. >' 



