Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 181
... Welsh legislator , Hywel Dda or the Good . Yet for more than a hundred years English as well as Welsh law had operated in the Marches . The greatest of all the Cymric chieftains of central Wales - Llywelyn's rebellious vassal , Gruffyd ...
... Welsh legislator , Hywel Dda or the Good . Yet for more than a hundred years English as well as Welsh law had operated in the Marches . The greatest of all the Cymric chieftains of central Wales - Llywelyn's rebellious vassal , Gruffyd ...
Page 182
... Welsh law and custom in the Four Cantrefs so far as they were not barbarous or at variance with reason and the Ten Commandments . Yet this was just how they seemed to any Englishman trained in the royal courts . The officials of the ...
... Welsh law and custom in the Four Cantrefs so far as they were not barbarous or at variance with reason and the Ten Commandments . Yet this was just how they seemed to any Englishman trained in the royal courts . The officials of the ...
Page 187
... Welsh and Anglo - Norman law were now made one . A body of law , half English , half Welsh , and current throughout the six shires , took the place of the old law of Gwynedd and of the many contending laws around its borders . The Welsh ...
... Welsh and Anglo - Norman law were now made one . A body of law , half English , half Welsh , and current throughout the six shires , took the place of the old law of Gwynedd and of the many contending laws around its borders . The Welsh ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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