Huw Pryce
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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And there are big differences in the Englishries.
They're organised more like English sort of manners.
They pay...
The tenants pay rents and perform services on an individual basis.
But say, if you take the Lordship of Hay, where there is actually a survey in 1340, we know that, well, first of all, the English and Welsh are listed always separately.
There's a very sharp ethnic distinction.
And secondly, the Welsh, who live in these scattered villas up in the Black Mountains, some of them as high as 2,000 feet up, that they pay a communal payment of
cattle every other year of 24 cows which is based on a sort of traditional Welsh payment so that's a nice illustration of the difference there whereas nearly all the names in the Englishry are English and you know they become a target of Owen Glyndwr later on for example.
Well, to some extent, I mean, there was a rural element to the English Rees in as much as that, like in a lot of other situations in Europe, you get peasant colonists coming in and clearing more land and trying to grow crops of a sort of more agrarian economy.
And they come in and do that.
or they're reclaiming land from the sea or whatever.
Whereas in the uplands, it's the Welsh.
And so that does have a certain amount of ongoing influence, though in the late Middle Ages, sometimes this changes.
For example, in Glamorgan, where the Normans had taken over the Vale of Glamorgan, the low-lying land, by the 15th century, there seems to be a movement of Welsh-speaking, of Welsh people into the lowlands there.
So the picture is very diverse, in fact.
I think the biggest change is that they are now faced with a much more stable situation.
I mean, in the 12th and 13th centuries, there'd been quite a lot of to-ing and fro-ing.
Welsh rulers had recaptured some of the areas, like Ceredigion in West Wales, which had initially been taken by the Marchans, and a lot of warfare, as well as intermarriage and all sorts of connections.
But anyway, it's been stabilised.
And I think that's important and gives them a greater opportunity perhaps to further develop their lordships and their power in them.
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