History of Llangollen and Its Vicinity: Including a Circuit of About Seven MilesSimpson, W. T. (Wilfrid Tord)
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History of Llangollen and Its Vicinity: Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles
Simpson, W. T. (Wilfrid Tord)
Llangollen (Wales)
{87} Wynne, p. 319. These rebellious practices of Glyndwr so
exasperated King Henry against the Welch people, that he enacted laws
which in effect took away all their liberties. They were rendered
incapable of purchasing any lands, or of being elected Members of any
county or borough; or of undertaking any office civil or military in any
town incorporate. No Englishman could be convicted of any crime against
a Welchman, but by an English judge and jury. An Englishman, by marrying
a Welch woman, was deprived of all his privileges as an English subject.
No Welchman could possess any castle or place of defence, or be supplied
with victuals or armour, without a warrant from the King or from his
Common Council. And further it was enacted that no Welchman should be
capable of undertaking the office of Justice, Chamberlain, Sheriff, or
other place of trust, in any part of Wales; notwithstanding any patent or
license heretofore given to the contrary. With other rigorous and unjust
laws, forbidding any Welchman from bringing up his children to learning,
or binding them to any trade or occupation. Henry V. at his succession
repealed these abominable laws.
{88a} Pennant, vol. p. 371.
{88b} Hollinshead. Wynne, p. 319.
{89} Cambr. Trav. Guide, p. 324.
{90} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 331.
{91} Wynne, p. 322.
{92} Wynne, p. 322.
{94} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 296.
{99} The above ladies referred to by the author are dead some years ago,
and Plas Newydd is now inhabited by two other ladies of high connections
and respectability, Miss Andrew, and Miss Lolly.
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