300 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



' twene King Henry's men and bym, 

 " that he fhould with life departe the 

 " reaulme never to returne. If they 

 " had taken King Edward there debel- 

 " latumfui/et.*" 



In September 1645, this caftle muft 

 have been in a tolerable ftate of repair, 

 for Charles I. after his retreat from 

 Chefter, lodged here in a tower, which 

 is ftill called the King's Tower. About 

 a month fubfequent to this, the armies 

 of the King and parliament had a def- 

 perate engagement near Denbigh. Sir 

 William Brereton having had inform a- 



* Mr. Pennant (Vol. II, p. 41 ) feems to have miftaken 

 this pafTage, for he fays, " Leland relates a particular of this 

 " fortrefs which I do notdifcover in any hiftorian : he fays 

 " that Edward IV. was befieged in it ; and that he was per- 

 " mitted to retire, on condition that he (hould quit the 

 " kingdom for ever." The expreflion " It was paftid by- 

 " twene King Henry's men and hym" appears to have re- 

 lated not to any agreement between Edward and the army of 

 Htnry, but to the concerted agreement betwixt Henry and 

 his own rcen, either before, or while they attacked the 

 place; and the next pafTage, "//'they had taken, &c." 

 fe-ms to clear up every doubt. 



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