Delete Time Machine backup of external HD?

I had an external hard drive with about 500GB of data that I had backed up with my Time Machine hard drive, but now I no longer have the drive and don't need the backup. How do I delete the backup from my Time Machine hard drive? I tried going into the "Latest" folder and deleting the folder that had the name of the volume I got rid of, but it wouldn't allow me to delete it.

While in Time Machine, press the key combination shift-command-C. The front window will show all backed-up volumes. Select the one you whose backups you want delete. From the popup menu with a gear icon in the toolbar, select
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