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CONWAY AND ITS CASTLE.
was obliged to content himfelf with fait meat and coarfe bread,
and to drink water fweetened with honey. At length the
waters fubfiding, the troops crofled, and the Welfh difperfed
to their mountains. The Chriftmas of that fame year was
fpent by Edward and his queen with great feftivity at the new
caftle of Conway.
Eleven years afterwards, Edward of Carnarvon, the firft
Prince of Wales, held a court at Conway, when Einion, Bifhop
of Bangor, and David, Abbot of Maenon, near Llanrwft, did
homage j and, on afcending the throne, this Edward ftill
further increafed the privileges of the burgeffes.
In 1399, Conway was the fcene of one of thelaft adts in the
tragedy of the unfortunate Richard II. An account of this
event has been preferved in a narrative, in rude verfe, pre-
ferved in the library of the Britifh Mufeum, entitled “ An
Account of the Treachery of the Earl of Northumberland,
and the taking of his Majefty Richard II., his progrefs from
Conway to Rhuddlan, Flint, and Chefter. By an Eye-witnefs.”
This curious and interefting old document, which formerly
belonged to Charles of Anjou, Earl of Maine and Mortaine,
was tranflated into Englifh profe, in 1824, by the Rev. John
Webb, and publiihed in the twentieth volume of the
Archaeologia. Charles Knight has alfo included portions of it
in his “ Half-Hours with the Belt Authors,” from which
work we give the following extracts.
The author, however, it muft be firft premifed, was a
French knight, who came over to London in the fpring of
1399, accompanied the unfortunate Richard in his expe-
dition to Ireland, and remained in perfonal attendance upon him
until he was brought prifoner to London. “ I loved him
fincerely,” he fays, “ becaufe he heartily loved the French.
He gave molt largely, and his gifts were profitable. Bold he
CONWAY AND ITS CASTLE.
was obliged to content himfelf with fait meat and coarfe bread,
and to drink water fweetened with honey. At length the
waters fubfiding, the troops crofled, and the Welfh difperfed
to their mountains. The Chriftmas of that fame year was
fpent by Edward and his queen with great feftivity at the new
caftle of Conway.
Eleven years afterwards, Edward of Carnarvon, the firft
Prince of Wales, held a court at Conway, when Einion, Bifhop
of Bangor, and David, Abbot of Maenon, near Llanrwft, did
homage j and, on afcending the throne, this Edward ftill
further increafed the privileges of the burgeffes.
In 1399, Conway was the fcene of one of thelaft adts in the
tragedy of the unfortunate Richard II. An account of this
event has been preferved in a narrative, in rude verfe, pre-
ferved in the library of the Britifh Mufeum, entitled “ An
Account of the Treachery of the Earl of Northumberland,
and the taking of his Majefty Richard II., his progrefs from
Conway to Rhuddlan, Flint, and Chefter. By an Eye-witnefs.”
This curious and interefting old document, which formerly
belonged to Charles of Anjou, Earl of Maine and Mortaine,
was tranflated into Englifh profe, in 1824, by the Rev. John
Webb, and publiihed in the twentieth volume of the
Archaeologia. Charles Knight has alfo included portions of it
in his “ Half-Hours with the Belt Authors,” from which
work we give the following extracts.
The author, however, it muft be firft premifed, was a
French knight, who came over to London in the fpring of
1399, accompanied the unfortunate Richard in his expe-
dition to Ireland, and remained in perfonal attendance upon him
until he was brought prifoner to London. “ I loved him
fincerely,” he fays, “ becaufe he heartily loved the French.
He gave molt largely, and his gifts were profitable. Bold he