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Castles at the Latter Part of the Iwelfth Century. 109 extant family of that name ; Lingen, an early castle built by Turstine de Wigmore ; Lyonshall, an early D'Evereux castle ; Kingston, of which no trace remains ; Almley, reduced to its original mound ; Kingsland, reputed a Saxon seat ; Weobley, a Dc Lacy castle in the reign of Stephen ; Castle Frome, also built by the Lacys, and now a mound only. Asperton, a Grandison castle built on the edge of the Roman way, is now destroyed, as are Ellington and Mor- timer's Castle at Much Marcle. Of Huntingdon, on the Radnor border, a De Braose castle, the mound remains, as of Eardisley, called in " Domesday " a " domus defensabilis." Cubbington was a castle of the De la Fields, and Bredwar- dine of a family of that name who gave place to the Basker- villes. Whitney Castle stood on the Wye, as a little higher up did Clifford, of which the masonry was the work of Ralph de Todeni and his successor Fitz Pons, ancestor of the great house of Clifford, who hence derived their name. The Castelry of Clifford was held at " Domesday " by Roger de Lacy. Wilton Castle on the Wye, the seat of a well-known barony, was built by Longchamp in the reign of Henry I., and of that age were Pembridge and probably Tretire, a Fitz Warine castle now destroyed. Besides these there are others of which less is known ; Longtown or Ewias Lacy, built in part of Roman material ; Snodhill, probably Norman ; Twyford, and Urishay in Peterchurch, a De la Hay work ; Eccleswall and Castle Comfort reduced to their mounds ; the bank and ditches of the latter seen on a hill-side half a mile from Leominster, are the reputed remains of the palace of Werewald, King of Mercia, late in the seventh century. Mention is also made of Mouse Castle, near Hay ; Dorston, a Soler's castle ; Cusop, a mere tower ; Bransil, on the Wor- cestershire border, now a ruin ; Kinnersley ; Eaton Tregoz, a Baskerville seat in 125 1 ; Moccas, of which the moat remains; and Penyard, probably Norman. It is to be remembered that most of the castles in masonry in Hereford and Radnor were built upon earthworks of far earlier date. Brecknock, though a wild and mountainous and therefore strongly Welsh county, is penetrated both by the Usk and in some measure by the Wye, of which Bernard Newmarch and his invading followers well knew how to take advantage. The castles on the Wye being common to Radnor and Brecknock, have duly been enumerated. The strongest of them all, Builth, which played an important part in the local wars, was held by the Barons de Braose, the suc- cessors of Newmarch. Of masonry there remains but little, but the mound and annexed ditches and platforms are of a