WIGMORE, (Herefordshire) near the Lug, 3 m. from Richard's-Castle, had in the Saxons time a castle, in a waste piece of
ground, which was in the tenure of Ralph de Mortimer, one of the 260 valiant Kts. that came from France with Will. the
Conq. and ancestor of the Mortimers, who came to be Es. of March. Hugh Mortimer, Ld. of this T. and castle in the R. of
Hen. II. held it out against him, but was forced to surrender it. To this place Prince Edward, son to Henry III. fled from
his keepers at Dover-Castle, to which he was committed after the battle of Lewes. This Lp. and castle came afterwards to
the Plantagenets family, by the marriage of Richard D. of York with the Mortimers heiress, The abovementioned Ralph
founded an abbey here.