. The genealogist. thatRichard IKngenour or Ingeniator was the engineer or architect, whoreceived for his remuneration the very moderate fee of our, .shilling a also built the l>ee Mills and the v/eir at Chester, and was mayor ofthat city in 1304. The year after the erection of the castle (1278)Edward I. granted a market and fair to the town of Flint ; and six yearslater (1284), it received its tirst charter, by which it becnme a freeborough with the constable for the time being as mayor. The chartercontains the clause that Jews might not dwell within the l)orough at anytime; the bur
. The genealogist. thatRichard IKngenour or Ingeniator was the engineer or architect, whoreceived for his remuneration the very moderate fee of our, .shilling a also built the l>ee Mills and the v/eir at Chester, and was mayor ofthat city in 1304. The year after the erection of the castle (1278)Edward I. granted a market and fair to the town of Flint ; and six yearslater (1284), it received its tirst charter, by which it becnme a freeborough with the constable for the time being as mayor. The chartercontains the clause that Jews might not dwell within the l)orough at anytime; the burgesses were also to have a guild merchant with a fellowship,and no one wiio was not of that guild might exercise trade in the town,unless with the consent of the burgesses. In 1304 the castle sufferedseverely by a tempest, and a mil of works gives curious [)articulars as to therepairs reijuired in the bretische of the castle towards Colshulle, andalso in the hall, kitchen, and granary. Ewciowe iron was used for the. I ; NOTICES OF BOOKS. 63 door of the aforc>:aies of tliestructure of the ancient buildiny, which was in a ruined state even inShakespeares day, as may be inferred from the lines addressed byBolingbroke to Northumberland— Go to the rude ribs of that ancient cjistle,Through bnizen trumpet send the breath of parleyInto his ruined ears. ^Ir. Taylors fourth chajjter is, liistorically, the most interesting;-. Init the deposition of Kichard II. in Flint Castle is narrated in considerabledetail. And here, ^Iv. Taylor judiciously takes for his authority theHarleian MS. Xo. 1319, which contains the testimony of an eye-witnessof the event. l>y the courtesy of the author we are able to present toour readers an engraving [-sv^; frontgenealogist01selb
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