Y Cymmrodor. v. XIV. 1901.

30 English Laiv in Wales and the Marches.
increased by a provision non-suiting a plaintiff who ob-
tained less than £50 debt or damasres in a Court outside
the Principality. The Courts were given various powers
to extend their jurisdiction and were empowered to hear
niotions and petitions in law and equity in London when
the Courts were not sitting in Wales.
After the Act of Union several statutes were passed as
to the adniinistration of law in Wales, others were especi-
ally extended to Wales, until, by 20 George II, cap. 42, it
was declared that the word " England " in any future
Act of Parliament shall be deemed to comprehend the
Dominion of Wales. At length the opponents of the
local judicature gained their cause; by the 11 George IV,
and William IV, cap. 70, the Court of Great Sessions was
swept away, two ne^y circuits of the English judges for
Chester and Wales were established, Wales became entirely
subject to the courts of Westminster, and the Act of
Union was completed.
It was reseiwed for another generation to uìido the
work of Edward Plantagenet and Henry Tudor, and to
inaugurate an era of separate legislation by
Sunday Closing Act, 1881.
the Welsh
For the subject of this essay reference is made to
the following works :—
Archceologia Cambrensis, III, iii, 84, and vi, 34 ; IV, viii, 249,
and xii, 137 and 186.
Bacon's Worha (Spedding ed.), vii, 567.
Baronia de Keineys.
Burrow's Reports, iv, 2,456.
Cambrian Quarterly Magazine, 1829.
Camden, Britannia, s.r. " Shropshire". Additions.
Carte, General History of Englanâ, iii, 794.
Cawdoi-, Earl, Letter to Lord Lyndhurst, 1828.