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One thousand two hundred and forty was
the year of Christ when 3

   
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prince of Walesx a man whose deeds it were
difficult to relatex died. And he was buried at
Aberconwy after assuming the habit of the
[Cistercian] Order. And after him ruled Dafyddx
his son by Joanx his motherx daughter of king
John.
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 [͙] the king gathered a host and came to
subdue the princes of Wales.
[͙] And he took hostages for Gwynedd from
Dafydd ap Llywelynx his nephewx against
Dafydd͛s restoring to Gruffudd ap
Gwenwynwyn all his rights in Powys and to the
sons of Maredudd ap Cynan all their rights in
Meirionnyddx and therewith summoning
Dafydd to London to the council and that he
bring along with him Gruffuddx his brother͙
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Wales at this time experienced a
cessation of arable and dairy farming and of
commercex and the inhabitants suffered from
want. They accepted English rule unwillingly;
their time honoured aristocratic pride fell into
decline; and the harps even of the churchmen
turned to mourning and lamentation.
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Walesx having lost its prince
Llywelyn [ab Iorwerth] and his two
sons [Dafyddx d.1246x and Gruffuddx
d.1244]x who succumbed to
premature deathx inclined towards
the laws of England and the rule of
its king.
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The following year Edwardx son of king
Henryx earl of Chesterx came to survey his
castles and his lands in Gwynedd. And then
the magnates of Walesx despoiled of their
liberty and reduced to bondagex came to
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known to him that they preferred to be slain in
battle for their liberty than to suffer
themselves to be trampled upon in bondage
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Letterx in which Llywelynx in order to obtain peace with
the king and to hold the lands and homages of Wales
as his grandfather Llywelyn [ab Iorwerth] had held
themx offers to do homage to the king for them and
willingly marry a certain niece of the king. Or he
would pay the king 11x marksx his queen 2x
marksx and his son Edward 3x marksx to be paid
over eighty years at £2 per annumx and would give
the king two commotesx namely Prestatyn and
Creuddynx within which the castles of Degannwy and
Diserth were builtx and would restore to the
Marchers lands in Wales occupied by him and his
men. Or he would pay £7 for a seven-year trucex
namely £1 per annum.
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13) Disputes between the prince and others

shall be settled according to the laws of the
March concerning matters in the March and
according to the laws of Wales [Hywel Dda]
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the king proposesx by the counsel of the 

and
magnates of the realm and of the whole community
thereofx to put an end finally to the matter that he
has now commenced of putting down the malice of
the Welshx as 3

   and other
Welshmenx his accomplicesx have so many times
disturbed the peace of the realm in the king͛s time
and in the times of his progenitorsx and they persist
in their resumed rebellionx and the king conceives it
to be more convenient and suitable that he and the
inhabitants of his realm should be burdened upon
this occasion with labours and expenses in order to
put down wholly their malice for the common good͙
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͙And then Roger Mortimer and

Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwynx and with
them the king͛s hostx came without
warning upon 3

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slew him and many of his host on the
feast day of Pope Damasusx the eleventh
day of the month of Decemberx a Friday.
And then all Wales was cast to the
ground.
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