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tion that Sir William Vaughan was col- 

 Ie6ling forces about Denbigh for the 

 King, with the intention of relieving 

 Chefter, then befieged, fent General 

 Mytton and Colonel Jones, with four- 

 teen hundred horfe and a thoufand foot, 

 againft him : Vaughan, with two thou- 

 fand men, was attacked ; and, after a 

 moft fpirited defence, was routed, with 

 the lofs of about a hundred men killed 

 and near three hundred taken prifoners.* 

 In 1646, the caftle was in the hands 

 of the Royalifts; and Colonel William 

 Salifbury, commonly called Blue Stock- 

 ings, was the governor. It was befieged 

 by Mytton in July, but did not furren- 

 der till November, and then on honour- 

 able terms.'f After the reiteration of 

 Charles II.it is faid to have been blown 

 up. 



* Whitelock's Memorials, p. 179.- -Rulhworth's Hifto- 

 rical Coll. Part IV. Vol. 1. p. 136. 

 t Whitelock, p, zi6, 226. 



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