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Thefe, and other enormities, were found in the 

 fubfequent reign flill to be pracrifed, and an act of 

 parliament was palled ftill further to reflrain the 

 Wellh in their outrages. This, however, feems to 

 have had Httle effed, except for the moment, for 

 ihey foon relapfed into their former habits. 



Even in a itatute of fo late a period as the year 

 1536, it is declared that " the people of Wales, and 

 the marches of the fame, for long time pad, have 

 .continued to commit divers thefts, murders, rebel- 

 lions, burnings of houfes, and other heinous mif- 

 demeanors, which feem deeply rooted in this people, 

 as not likely to ceafe unlefs by fevere correction and 

 punilhment.'* In confequence of the difficulty of 

 putting an end to th,efe outrages by lefs powerful 

 means, an a6t was pafTed in the following year, by 

 which the principality of Wales was declared to be 

 thenceforth *' incorporated, united, and annexed to 

 the realm of England :" that all the natives fhould 

 €njoy the rights and privileges of Englifhmen : and 

 that the laws, ordinances, and (latutes of England, 

 and none other, fhouid for ever afterwards be ufed 

 as the laws, ftatutes, and ordinances of Wales. — By 

 this aO; four new Wehn counties, and one new 

 Englifii county, were created, namely, Brecknock- 

 fhire, Radnorfhire, Montgomerylliire, Denbighlhlre^ 

 and Monmouthfliire, 



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