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 240 CAERNARVON CASTLE. town of Caernarvon, 1)2/. 8s. 6hd. : and clivers masons, quarryers, smiths, and small workmen, working with overlookers about the works of the wall, from 9th Oct. anno 12th (1284), to the 18th Nov. anno 13th (1285), 1574?. lis. Ihd. ; and making the wall by task work, loll. 2s. 6d. ; and delivery of stone by sea to Caernarvon from divers places, from 15th Jan. anno xiii. (1285) to 14th Oct. the same year, 440/. Os. Od. ; and in stone, brush-wood, and sand for the same works brought to the Castle, 140/. 5s. i^d.; and for payment of divers workmen {hottarii) in the King's pond at Caer- narvon, with their overlookers, from the 6th of May, xiii., to Nov. 11th. (siii.), 121/. 7s. 5d. ; and in boards, rafters, nails, and glass windows, bought for the works of the Castle, G/. 8s. 4t/.," making, with other entries, a sum total of expenditure upon the building and the walls, during this first year of the King's possession of Wales, of 303G/. 19s. 5hd. During the same period Master Richard the engineer, and Henry de Oxford, carpenter, received 100/. for carpentry in the Royal Hall at Conway ; part of the wall in that town was built by task-work, at a cost of 472/. 10^, Ad., and altogether the expense amounted to 3313/. Is. 2d. for works carried on simultaneously with those at Caernarvon.^ It was also in the same year that the Castle of Harlech was commenced, and a charge of 18/. Gs. 6d. occurs betwixt the 27th of May and the 4th of November for operations on the fosse in the rock of that castle, besides other sums expended on the works there, to the amount of 205/. Is. 5^d. Criccaetli Castle was likewise repaired at the same time, and 48/. 8s. 9^d. expended hi its restoration. The works gradually proceeded from the 13th year of Edward I. till the 18th, when we find an entry on the Liberate Roll of an allowance to Richard de Abbindon, late Chamberlain of Carnarvan, of 5/. 3*-. 6d., which he had paid to William de 8eymes, William de Moekes, and Ernald, brother of the said William de Seymes, who were sick at Carnarvan in the 12th year, and 8.^. paid to Alice de Derby for the care of them. Also 10.9. expended in the purchase of a cloth-of-gold to cover the body of the said William deceased ; 14*. Id. paid to the Friars of Bangor for oblations, &c. at his funeral : also 4/. 19s. paid to Philip ab Howel, and twenty Welshmen stopping with him at Carnarvan, and awaiting their passage to Ireland in the 13tli year, and 15*. paid for freight of the vessel taking them to that kingdom. " The Corpus Comitatus, an official re- .James de St. George, owe 5li]i)L 14.s-., cord of the sheriff's accounts of the li'th roceivcil by thciii from Master WiUiani K(lvar<l r., and the only one of the nature de Luda for the woi'ks of the Castle of that has hitherto been discovered, states Couway. that John dc Aundover clerk, and master