}S A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



came into the houfe of York, and fo to 

 the crown*. 



In the reign of Henry VI. Denbigh 

 Caftle appears to have been feized by the 

 Yorkifts; for in Dugdale I find that the 

 King, in the year 1459, granted to Jaf- 

 per, Earl of Pembroke, and the Duke 

 of Bedford, a thoufand marks, to be 

 paid out of the lordfhips of Denbigh 

 and Radnor, in confideration of their 

 fervices in recovering it from the hands 

 of his adverfaries.-f 



In 1563 Elizabeth beftowed the caf- 

 tle and lordfhip on her favourite Robert 

 Dudley, Earl of Leicefter, J who raifed 

 the rents from two to nine hundred a 

 year, and arbitrarily inclofed feveral of 

 the wafte lands. This caufed an infur- 

 reclion, for which two of the infurgents 

 were executed at Shrewfbury : the 



* Dugdale's Baronage, I. 151. i Ibid, 11.241. 



j Camden, p. 680, who has given us an account nearly 

 of all the above dcfcents. 



Queen, 



