Description
In the Middle Ages, the Welsh Marches constituted a region distinct from the Kingdom of England. and the Principality of Wales. Sovereignty in the Marches belonged to the English crown, but the kings writ did not run in the lands of the Welsh Marcher Lords who until 1536 had royal rights of Jurisdiction and appointed their own justices. This volume contains the first study of the sessions in eyre or Great Sessions held in the Welsh Marcher Lordships in the periods Between Glyn Dw’rs, Rebellion and the Union of England and Wales in 1536. Among the documents printed is the text of assize rolls of the Great Sessions which took place in a Marcher Lordships of South Wales.




