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of their incurfions, and of their itealiiig cattle, and 

 other property, fometimes to a very great amount. It 

 was in confequence enafted that, in any cafe where 

 reftitution was not made within feven days, it was 

 hiwfid for the perfons thus aggrieved, to arrefl: any 

 Welflimen who came vv^ith cattle or goo'ds for fale 

 from the diilricl where the offenders refided. Thefe 

 were to be detained till full fatisfaclion had been 

 made. — From this time, for the fpace of three years, 

 110 Englifliman was allowed to be convifted at the 

 fuit of any WeKhman in Wales, but by Englifli 

 juflices, or by the judgment of whole-born Englifli 

 burgeffes. 



By an ad of parliament two years fubfequent to 

 the above, it v/as "directed that no Englifh burgefs 

 who married a Welfh-woman fliould have franchifes 

 with the Englifh burgeiles ; and all fuch perfons 

 were prevented from holding any office in Wales, 

 or in the marches. — This ftatute declares that the 

 Welfli harpers, who are here denominated " wafters, 

 rymers, minflrels, and other vagabonds," had moved 

 fedition, provoked loofenefs among the Welfli, and 

 greatly impoverifhed them ; it was therefore ordained 

 that they be no longer " fuftained to make comor- 

 thies, or gatherings on the people there." — No 

 WeKhman was allow^ed to wear arms, or to bring 

 any arms or victuals into any of the Welfn town^, 

 without efpecial licence for the purpofe. Nor could 

 a Welfhman have any houfe of defence ; but all the 

 Yv^clfl) cables and other fortreifjs v\^ere directed to 



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