Y Cymmrodor. v. XIV. 1901.

4 English Lazu in Wales and the Marches.
pointed sheriffs for Ang-lesey, Carnarvon and Merioneth,
the old inheritance of the Princes of Gwynedd, for Flint,
parcel of the Palatinate of Chester which was fìnally
annexed to the Principality of Wales temp. Edward II,
and for Carmarthen and for Cardigan and Lampeter,
i.e. Llanbadarn, by Aberystwyth. To Carnarvon, Merio-
neth and Flint, certain cantreds and commotes were
assigned, of the others it was merely stated that they
should have their present metes and bounds. The three
South Wales districts included a part of West Carmar-
thenshire which had been obtained by the princes of
North Wales after the extinction of the Welsh princes
of the South, and nearly the whole of the present county
of Cardigan, the only Welsh county which represents
an ancient territorial division, and the only part of Wales
in which the Welsh had succeeded in driving back the
Lords Marcher. The territory comprised in this Statute
remained for centuries what was known to English law as
" Wales", ruled by Eng-lish law as modified by the Statute,
and was, until the death of Arthur Tudor, the son of
Henry VII, granted by Charter (as was the Earldom
of Chester) to each heir apparent " and to his heirs Kings
of England"; nevertheless, the charters to towns were
granted by the king- and not by the Prince of Wales.
The Prince was solemnly invested with the chaplet ring-
and sceptre ; to this day the eldest son of the sovereign is
born Duke of Cornwall, but he is created Prince of Wales
and Earl of Chester. All the rest of Modern Wales not
subject to the Statute was the " Marches", over which the
King was, by 3 Edward I, cap. 17, proclaimed Sovereign
Lord, and which, by 28 Edward III, cap. 2, was declared
to be attendant on the Crown of Eng-land as heretofore,
and not on the Principality of Wales, and under the same
term were included the forty-four Lordships which were