Wales

the want of preaching ministers in very many places both of England and Wales;

and shall also seal and issue forth, and send abroad several and respective writs to the several and respective sheriffs of the several and respective counties, cities and boroughs of England and Wales, and to the Constable of the Castle of Dover, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, or his lieutenant for the time being, and to the Mayor and Bailiffs of Berwick upon Tweed, and to all and every other o …

nor shall be any Justice of Peace, nor use nor execute the office of a Justice of the Peace by virtue or colour of any statute, commission, charter or otherwise within the kingdom of England or dominion of Wales;

The King changed his plans, and prepared to lead his troops to Wales instead of France.

John’s daughter, Joan, and the King of Scots, each independently warned him that his English barons were prepared to revolt, under shelter of the Pope’s absolution from their allegiance, and either to slay him or betray him to the Welsh.

The small wars with Wales and Scotland formed sufficient drain on the resources of English magnates without their being summoned to fight in Maine or Gascony.

[149] that the qualifications of jurors have been repeatedly changed, and made to vary from a freehold of ten shillings yearly, to one of “twenty pounds by the year at least above reprises.

and jurors in Wales to have similar estates of the realm of six pounds a year,—4 and 5 William and Mary, ch.

And that in every county within the dominion of Wales every such juror shall then, have, within the same, eight pounds by the year, at the least, above reprises, in manner aforesaid.

A thick mist of feudal law hid the ancient constitution of Irish society from English observation, and led to unfounded doubts respecting the authenticity of the laws of Wales.

whereas in Wales one cannot have a glass of beer with one's Sunday sandwich.