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Nineteenth-Century Receptions of Medieval Welsh Law Nineteenth-century receptions of medieval Welsh law Huw Pryce, Bangor University [email protected] J. E. Lloyd, Early Welsh Agriculture (Bangor, 1894). Aneurin Owen (ed. and trans.), Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales (Record Commission, London, 1841). Frederic Seebohm, The English Village Community (London, 1883). Cf. idem, The Tribal System in Wales (London, 1895). Hywel D. Emanuel, ‘Studies in the Welsh laws’, in Elwyn Davies (ed.), Celtic Studies in Wales: A Survey (Cardiff, 1963), 73–100. Owen Jones, Edward Williams and William Owen [Pughe] (eds), The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales (3 vols, London, 1801–7). William Wotton and Moses Williams (eds), Leges Wallicae (London, 1730). William Probert, The Ancient Laws of Cambria (London, 1823). Triads of Dyfnwal Moelmud. D. Peter, Hanes Crefydd yng Nghymru (Carmarthen, 1816; 2 nd edn, Colwyn, 1851). J. H. Parry, The Cambrian Plutarch (London, 1824; 2nd edn 1834). Peter Roberts, The Chronicle of the Kings of Britain . (London, 1811). Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig (10 vols, Denbigh, 1854–79; 2 nd edn 1889–96). John Jones, The History of Wales (London [1824]). William Warrington, The History of Wales in Nine Books (2 vols, London, 1791; 4th edn, Brecon, 1823). Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), Hanes Cymru (Crughywel, 1842). B. B. Woodward, The History of Wales (London and New York, 1853). Gweirydd ap Rhys, Hanes y Brytaniaid a’r Cymry (2 vols, London, 1872–4). Jacques Cambry, Voyage dans le Finistère (3 vols, Paris [1799]). Gabriel Peignot, Tableau de moeurs au dixième siècle ou la cour et lois de Howel-le-Bon, roi d’Aberfraw de 907 a 948 … (Collection des anciens Monumens de l’Histoire et de la Langue françoise, vol. 11; Paris, 1832). Ferdinand Walter, Das alte Wales. Ein Beitrag zur Völker-, Rechts- und Kirchen-geschichte (Bonn, 1859). Cf. Thomas Krause, ‘Ferdinand Walter (1794–1879) and Welsh legal history’, in Noel S. B. Cox and Thomas Glyn Watkin (eds), Canmlwyddiant, Cyfraith a Chymreictod: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Dafydd Jenkins 1911–2012 , Welsh Legal History Society, vol. 11 (Bangor, 2011), 174–80. Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State ([1884] Penguin edn, Harmondsworth, 1985). William F. Skene, Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban , Vol. III (Edinburgh, 1890). Huw Pryce and Gwilym Owen, ‘Medieval Welsh law and the mid-Victorian foreshore’, Journal of Legal History , 35/2 (August 2014). Lord Mostyn and Sir John Hanmer, Dee estuary, Englefield, Flintshire. William Bulkeley Hughes, Cemaes, Anglesey: Attorney General v. Jones (1861–4). Thomas Mohr, ‘Salmon of knowledge’, Peritia , 16 (2002), 360–95. Custom of building a shack in one night ( tŷ unnos ). Ceffyl pren (literally, wooden horse). Cavour (1861). Patagonia (1863). Hywel Dda lodges of Odyddion (Oddfellows) and True Ivorites. David Powel, The Historie of Cambria (London, 1584). R. J. Derfel ( Y Traethodydd , 1855). Anon., ‘Hanes Hywel Dda, ei Gyfreithiau Enwog, a’i Amserau Nodedig’ [copy in National Library of Wales in collection of 44 essays owned by J. H. Matthews, who signed and dated fly-leaf: ‘Cardiff. 1889’]. .
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