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CHEPSTOW CASTLE.
ftretching from one tower to the other.” “ I never faw
Conway,” replied my friend ; “ that is interefting.”
But we need not repeat all our remarks. I will now awhile
draw from more extenfive fources than the guide-book the
chief particulars of the hiftory of this caftle. There have
not been wanting thofe who have attributed the original
CHEPSTOW CASTLE.
ftruifture to the Romans, fimply becaufe a few Roman bricks
are vifible in the walls of what is called the chapel. It may
have been fo ; but the Britons at leaft had a caftle here, which
they called Caftell Gwent, or Cafgwent, as the town was called
by the Saxons Chepeftowe, or place of trade. But the
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CHEPSTOW CASTLE.
ftretching from one tower to the other.” “ I never faw
Conway,” replied my friend ; “ that is interefting.”
But we need not repeat all our remarks. I will now awhile
draw from more extenfive fources than the guide-book the
chief particulars of the hiftory of this caftle. There have
not been wanting thofe who have attributed the original
CHEPSTOW CASTLE.
ftruifture to the Romans, fimply becaufe a few Roman bricks
are vifible in the walls of what is called the chapel. It may
have been fo ; but the Britons at leaft had a caftle here, which
they called Caftell Gwent, or Cafgwent, as the town was called
by the Saxons Chepeftowe, or place of trade. But the
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