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262 CAERNARVON CASTLE, of Bristol Castle. There is an account, on the same record, of this (their guardian's) charge for their joint maintenance at 3d. a day each from the Feast of St. James, in the 12th year, to that of St. ]Iichael the year following, being 10/. 15^., together with 2l. Ss. id. which he had expended for them in robes, hnen, shoes, and other necessaries; besides 10/. 156'. paid for the wages of three servants guarding them at 2d. per day each.* In the two following years there are similar entries for their maintenance ; but on the Liberate Roll of the 16th of Edward I. the tenor of the contents is changed, and we are informed that, on the Feast of St. Gregory the Pope, Llewellyn died in his confinement. The notices tlience- forwarcl continue, in the former manner, relative to the weekly expenses of the surviving brother's incarceration. We have the cost of his maintenance given with the same regularity, and that of his clothing, even down to Is. paid for a pair of shoes.^ He outlived in prison his first keeper, and was still detained in solitary restraint, probably till death itself ended a state of misery even less supportable than this final termination of his sufferings. It is certain, indeed, that he languished in his dungeon for one and twenty years, as a memorandum on the -Clause Rolls, after this lapse of time (33 Edward L), orders the Constable of Bristol Castle " to keep Owen, son of David ap Griffin, more secure for the future, and to cause a wooden cage, bound with iron, to be made, to put him in at night." These are plain and expressive facts, proclaiming a social condition of brutality and barbarism, from which higher notions of justice have exempted modern political offenders, whilst they suggest abundant reasons for thankfulness that in our own day the maxims of political wisdom, and the dignity of offended legislation, can be blended together without offering such outrages to the natural claims pre- sented by the unfortunate for mercy and compassion. There was, it is true, nothing unusual in the infliction of these judicial modes of punishment ; they almost seem to be sanctioned by the institutions of the age, and to be the spontaneous consequences of personal hatred or fear, and so far the inhumanity appears to be less reprehensible. Yet we ' Liberate Roll., 13 Edw. L •' Liberate Roll, 20 Edvv. L