$4 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



have been then totally fubdued. It contains 

 alfo many curious particulars with regard 

 to the cuftoms which prevailed in Wales 

 previous to Edward's conqueft, fome of 

 which were retained, others altered, and 

 fome entirely abolimed, by this ftatute.* 



Edward I. at Rhyddlan, affembled the 

 barons and chief men of Wales, to inform 

 them that he had appointed for them a 

 prince, fuch as they had long exprefled a 

 defire to have, a native of their own coun- 

 try, one who could not fpeak the Englifh 

 language, and whofe life and conduct had 

 been hitherto irreproachable. On their ac- 

 clamations of joy and promife of obedience, 

 he inverted in the principality his own fon 

 Edward, afterwards Edward II. an infant, 

 who had not long before been born at Caer- 

 narvon. -j- 



* See Statutes at large, f Stow's Annals, 203. 



After 



