within the Boroughs nor English Towns of Wales upon pain to forfeit the same purchases to the Lords of whom the same lands and tenements be holden as such estate which the said purchaser had in the same; nor that no Welshman shall be accepted Burgess, nor to have any other liberty within the Realm, nor within the Boroughs and Towns aforesaid.
Englishmen shall not be convicted by Welshmen in WALES.
It is ordained and stablished that no Englishman lieged to our Sovereign Lord the King be convict by any Welshman within Franchises or without, in any County Hundred or Court within the lands of Wales, of whatsoever Estate, but by Englishmen, and of the next venue, and people of good fame and not procured, nor that the English Burgesses which have married Welsh women have franchises with the English Burgesses.
AD. 1402]
Against Wasters, Minstrels, &c., in WALES.
Item, to eschew many diseases and mischiefs which have happened before this time in the Land of Wales by many Wasters, Rhymers, Minstrels and other Vagabonds; It is ordained and stablished that no Waster, Rhymer, Minstrel nor Vagabond be in any wise sustained in the Land of Wales to make Commorthies or gathering upon the Common people there.
Against Congregations in WALES.
Item, it is ordained and stablished that no congregations be made nor suffered to be made by the Welshmen in any place of Wales, for to make or take any Council, unless it be for an evident and necessary cause, and by license of the chief officers and ministers of the same Seigniory where such thing shall be done and in the presence of the same officers and ministers, upon pain of imprisonment, and to make fine and ransom at the King's Will.
