The Tribal System in Wales: Being Part of an Inquiry Into the Structure and Methods of Tribal Society |
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Aberffraw acĩ aillts aliis alltud amobr Anglesey anñ ap Lauwarghe Black Death brenhin brothers Cadoc cªnnoč cantref carucates cattle CHAP chief of kindred chieftain cº13 iij conquest Court Cunedda Cymric cymwds cyvarwys Dauid demesne Denbigh described Dubricius eiusdm eosdm escheat evidence Extent of 1294 family holdings father free tenants galanas gauelt gavells Giraldus Cambrensis grandsons gwely hamlets ħt in bo iiij inferius Itm dicut qd kin and descent land lord Madok Maerdref Manor of Aberffraw nativi Penros porth Prince progenies ptič Pythle Record of Carnarvon redd ass rents Scanian Law second cousins share sons strangers in blood sunt tenet tion tref Trefcastell tribal custom tribal society tribal system tribe tribesmen Tywyn uchelwr vač Venedotian Code viij villa villani villata villein vilt Wales Wele Welsh tribal xiij
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Page 73 - ... silver and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us ? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
Page 73 - When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them ; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
Page 73 - And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had : and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
Page 47 - ... and the eldest is to choose, and each in seniority choose unto the youngest. If there be buildings the youngest brother but one is to divide the tyddyns, for in that case he is the meter; and the youngest to have his choice of the tyddyns; and after that he is to divide all the patrimony; and by seniority they are to choose unto the youngest; and that division is to continue during the lives of the brothers.
Page 46 - Three things, if possessed by a man, make him fit to be a chief of kindred: That he should speak on behalf of his kin and be listened to, that he should fight on behalf of his kin and be feared, and that he should be security on behalf of his kin and be accepted.
Page 48 - ... to the youngest son ; and though they should be pledged, they never become forfeited. Then let every brother take a homestead with eight erws of land : and the youngest son is to share ; and they are to choose in succession, from the eldest to the youngest.
Page 78 - ... as broad as his face and as thick as the nail of a ploughman who has been a ploughman for seven years.
Page 73 - ... property. The ordinary tribesman is to be looked upon, he maintains, as a little dairy farmer with separate homestead, chiefly engaged in making butter and cheese ; but with a car and yoke of oxen for carrying and ploughing, with corn crops growing on his five free erws, as well as corn in the bin. And thus his maintenance was not provided by his sharing in a common meal, or receiving doles in money or in kind from the common purse or produce of the kindred, but the result of his own labour and...
Page 48 - And if second cousins should dislike the distribution which took place between their parents, they also may co-equate in the same manner as the first cousins; and after that division no one is either to distribute or to co-equate.