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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
Having had some conversation with your Lordship last summer with regard to Caerphyli (or Sengenneth Castle), and having afterwards travelled very much, at my leisure, round the sea coast of Wales, I take the liberty of troubling you with such observations as have occurred to me in relation to these venerable ruins, of which there is such a profusion in the principality.
page 285 note [a] Fuller, in his account of the holy wars, expressly mentions the building of many fortifications, in Asia by the Christians: “ And now (fe. anno 1192) the “ Christians began every where to build; the Templars fortified Gaza; King Ri-“chard repaired and wailed Ptolemais, Porphyra, Joppa, and Alkalon.”b. iii. c, 2. See alfo B. iv. c. 8: where elegance in Richard's buildings in Palestine is mentioned. Fuller's authority for this seems to be Willelmus Tyrensis, who was Treasurer to a subsequent Crusade, and Archbishop of Tyre.
page 286 note [b] See his Animadversions on Sir Edward Coke's IVth Inft. pag. 57.
page 290 note [c] This king had a Clericus Operationum Castrorum. See the lately printed petition to parliament, Ist Edw. II. as also the calendar of ancient Charters, p. 83 10 Edw. I. It is also remarkable, that none of Edward the First's castles seem to have been even attempted by the Welsh.
page 290 note [d] See Powel's History of Wales, p. 278 and 271.
page 291 note [e] “So well founded is the conjecture, that Edward the First built what now remains of the present castle of Caerphily, that Mr. Miller of Warwickshire, one of the best architects and antiquaries now living, pronounced it the work of that prince several years ago, before it was known that Caerphily and Sengenneth were the same, and when this vast structure was generally esteemed a Roman work.”
The late Bishop of Carlisle was so obliging as to add this confirmation of my conjectures, since the letter had the honour of being communicated to the Society of Antiquaries.
page 291 note [f] See Gale, vol. III. p. 112.
page 292 note [g] See Archaeologia vol, II. p- 2. as also Humphrey Llwyd, “ Practer Caer-“phily antiquiffimum quod opus Romanorum praedicant” Commentariolum.
page 292 note [h] Leland makes the following memorandum at p. 108 of the 7th vol. of his ltinerary, “Remember to conclude with a promise to write a book in Latin of the “ king's edifices, as Procopius did of Justinan the Emperor.”