[11c] We find Hugh Ravenscroft mentioned as Steward of the Lordships of Hawarden and Mold, about the year 1440. Thomas Ravenscroft, father of Honora, afterwards Lady Glynne, by his wife Honora Sneyd of Keel Hall, Staffordshire, was a Member of Parliament, and died in 1698, aged 28. There is a monument to him in Hawarden Church.
[12] Pennant learnt that the timber had been valued in 1665 at £5000 and subsequently sold.
[13] Between 1830 and 1840 the Norman Archæological Society visited the sites of all the Castles of the Barons who had gone over to England with William the Conqueror, and in none of them found any masonry older than the second half of the eleventh century.
[14] e.g. Mr. G. T. Clark and Mr. J. H. Parker, from whom this account is chiefly derived.
[16] The uncommon strength and tenacity of the ancient mortar used in the Castle was especially conspicuous in the Keep prior to the recent restorations. In one place an enormous mass of masonry remained suspended without other support than its own coherence and adhesion. For security this has now been underpinned.
[23a] In 1563 there were five bells. In 1740 they were sold and six new ones purchased from Abel Rudhall of Gloucester, at a cost of £628. They bear the following inscriptions, with the initials of the maker and the date 1745 in each case:
No. 1. Peace and good neighbourhood.
,, 2. Prosperity to all our benefactors.
,, 3. Prosperity to this Parish.
,, 4. I to the Church the living call,
And to the grave do summon all.