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Title: Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ... with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families Year: 1872 (1870s) Authors: Nicholas, Thomas, 1820-1879 Subjects: Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, Reader Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Text Appearing Before Image: their posterity mightthe better keep those lands so acquired, . . . the said lordships and lands so conqueredwere ordained Baronies Marchers, and had a kind of palatine jurisdiction erected in everyof them, and power to administer justice unto their tenants in every of their territories,having therein courts with divers privileges, ... so that the writs of ordinary justiceout of the kings courts were for the most part not current amongst them. 74 BRECONSHIRE. It is manifest the Lords Marchers in Brecknockshire were not behind thtir compeers inother parts in avaihng themselves of this licence granted by their suzerain, and in oppress-ing to the utmost the miserable people placed under their power. And they were frequentlysufferers for their excesses. Arbitrary and oppressive law led to lawlessness and reprisal.The lord dared not move about without his troop of soldiers as a body-guard ; and with allhis precautions, he was occasionally waylaid and cut down, or pierced from a distance by

Text Appearing After Image: CkICKIIUWEL C.VbTLE. ■ In the days when outrage occupied the hour,When Law and Justice bent the knee to Power,When chieftains safety was the moated wall,The heros helmet, and the crowded hall. the swift arrow. Giraldus Cambrensis in his Itinerary alludes to a tragedy of this sortwhich was perpetrated in the woody glen of the Gronwy, not far from Crickhowel, a shorttime previous to his visit—a tragedy which, in that case, was the fruit of oppression, not ofthe poor, but of a neighbouring Welsh owner of land. From thence we proceeded, he says, through the narrow woody tract called the bad pass of Coed Grono, leaving the noble monastery of LaniJioni^ inclosed by itsmountains, on our left. ... It happened a short time after the death of King Henry I.that Richard de Clare, a nobleman of high birth, and Lord of Cardiganshire, passed this wayon his journey from England into Wales, accompanied by Brian de Wallingford, Lord ofthis province (Abergavenny), and many men-at-arms. At the passag

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