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CONWAY AND ITS CASTLE.
eminence in all kinds of learning raifed him by the favour of
King James, firfl: to the Deanery of Sarum, and then to that of
Weftminfter.” “ At one and the fame time,” fays the epitaph,
“ he was the moft intimate favourite of and privy counfellor to
that great king, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and
Bifhop of the fee of Lincoln, whom Charles I. honoured with
the archiepifcopal mitre of York. He was thoroughly verfed
in all fciences—a treafury of nine languages—the very foul of
pure and undefiled theology—an oracle of political tact—the
very acme and ornament of wifdom His converfation
was fweetly engaging—his memory more tenacious than
human He expended in magnificent edifices the fum
of ^20,000 In thofe lamentable times which followed,
being worn out with the things which he faw and heard, when
by fury of the rebels he could no longer ferve his king nor
his country, having lived fixty-eight years, on the 25th of
March, which was his birthday, with ftrong faith in Chrift and
ftedfaft allegiance to the king, he moft devotedly refigned his
foul to God, dying of a quinfy .... a.d. 1650.”
The town of Conway was taken by Cromwell’s army in
Auguft, 1646, their vidtory being fignalifed by the murder of
the Irifli inhabitants, who were barbaroufly tied back to back
and thrown into the river. The warlike archbifhop, however,
met with better treatment when, on the furrender of the caftle
in the following November, he received a pardon from the
parliament, and, having been wounded at Chefter, retired from
military life.
At the reftoration, the caftle was granted by King Charles II.
to the Earl of Conway, who as if to render it henceforth in-
capable of fervice either to royalift or republican, ordered it
to be difmantled, and the timber, iron, and lead, of which it
was deprived, were (hipped to Ireland for the repair of the
CONWAY AND ITS CASTLE.
eminence in all kinds of learning raifed him by the favour of
King James, firfl: to the Deanery of Sarum, and then to that of
Weftminfter.” “ At one and the fame time,” fays the epitaph,
“ he was the moft intimate favourite of and privy counfellor to
that great king, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and
Bifhop of the fee of Lincoln, whom Charles I. honoured with
the archiepifcopal mitre of York. He was thoroughly verfed
in all fciences—a treafury of nine languages—the very foul of
pure and undefiled theology—an oracle of political tact—the
very acme and ornament of wifdom His converfation
was fweetly engaging—his memory more tenacious than
human He expended in magnificent edifices the fum
of ^20,000 In thofe lamentable times which followed,
being worn out with the things which he faw and heard, when
by fury of the rebels he could no longer ferve his king nor
his country, having lived fixty-eight years, on the 25th of
March, which was his birthday, with ftrong faith in Chrift and
ftedfaft allegiance to the king, he moft devotedly refigned his
foul to God, dying of a quinfy .... a.d. 1650.”
The town of Conway was taken by Cromwell’s army in
Auguft, 1646, their vidtory being fignalifed by the murder of
the Irifli inhabitants, who were barbaroufly tied back to back
and thrown into the river. The warlike archbifhop, however,
met with better treatment when, on the furrender of the caftle
in the following November, he received a pardon from the
parliament, and, having been wounded at Chefter, retired from
military life.
At the reftoration, the caftle was granted by King Charles II.
to the Earl of Conway, who as if to render it henceforth in-
capable of fervice either to royalift or republican, ordered it
to be difmantled, and the timber, iron, and lead, of which it
was deprived, were (hipped to Ireland for the repair of the