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The parish is roughly the maenol, the district is the commote or the cantrev, the shire is the little kingdom like Ceredigion or Morgannwg which fought so sturdily against any attempt to subject it. The local councils were fortunate in the time of their appearance.
In each commote there were two kinds of people the free or high- born, and the low-born or serfs. These may have been the conquering Celt and the conquered Iberian. It was very difficult for those in the lower class to rise to the higher; but, after passing through the storms of a thousand years, the old dark line of separation was quite lost sight of.
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