[1] They within aduertised Hugh de Burgh, the lord chéefe iustice (to whome the castell belonged by the kings late gift) of the exploit and enterprise attemp|ted by their enimies, with all possible hast: wherevp|on the king at request of the said Hubert leuied [...] power, and came to raise the siege. But the Welsh|men hearing of the kings approch,The king with an armie commeth to the succour of them [...] the castell. fled awaie like sheepe, so that comming to the castell, he found no re|sistance: howbeit, for so much as he saw the foresaid wood to be troublesome and an annoiance to the said castell, he willed it to be destroied. True it is, that the same wood was verie thicke and rough, and fur|ther it conteined also fiue leagues or fifteene miles in length: yet by such diligence as was vsed, the same was wasted, stocked vp, and quickelie rid out of the waie by fire and other means, so that the coun|trie was made plaine a great waie about.