Y Cymmrodor. v. XIV. 1901.

38 English Law in Wales and the Marches.
In Statutes
17 E. 2. Statutum de prerogata Regis wherein
to the wordes Marchie Wallie is added
by way ot' restraint to the generalty of
the worde, vbi breve regis non currit.
26 H. 8. Cap.6. Eastall, 1
Wales 25. Thereisone
place w/w'ch mencneth of Lords/irpps
Marchers & Marches of Wales.
18 Eliz. Cap. 18. RastaW, Bridges 3, Justices of
peace in ye Counties of Grloucesíer &
Monmouth not following the direccn
of the Statute are to be sued for penalties
before the counsell in theMarches.
ffor the equivocacn that the other side would euade by,
that it shold signifie sometimes lords/iips Marchers w/*ich
were as the batable ground. It is true, sometimes it is so
taken but vmproperlie for that they all laie in the Dominion
and principalitie of Wales which. extendeth to
Seaverne & Dee. But there is an Impossibilitye that in
the Statute of 34 H. 8 it shold be so taken, bycause that
these Lords/w'pps Marchers were by 27 H. 8 extincted &
made shire ground, part thereof beinge allotted to England
and part to Wales, so that in 34 H. 8 there were no
Marches but the Counties Marchers.
Besides the word Marches was individuum Vagum,
varieing as the boundes of the principalitye of Wales
varied in reputacn or as the enemye wonne or lost, for
whatsoeuer bordered vppon the Enemy was the Marches.
Hereford Cittye was reputed in Wales.
cf "
1 Richard 1 1
17 Johawwis y Regis vide fol. 1
11 H. 3 J
E. 1 Pleas of the Crowne held in Vrchinfeild in the
countie of Hereford before the sheriff as not within the
statute of Magna Charía cap. 17, fol. 6.
Diuers citties & townes in those partes commanded to
be walled for defence of them selves & those partes from
the enemye.
1 William
Rastell's Collection in English of the Statutes from
í) Henry LIL to 2.'3 Elizabeth, arranged under alpliabetical head-
ings (lö81). The references in the text are to fols. 496 and 46.
2 Confer.