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Updated: June 10, 2025
The grant of the wool tax enabled Edward in fact to deal with the great difficulty of his realm. The troubles of the Barons' war, the need which Earl Simon felt of Llewelyn's alliance to hold in check the Marcher Barons, had all but shaken off from Wales the last traces of dependence.
«§ 778. Je traversai d'abord des couches des grès qui étoient la continuation de celles dont je viens de parler, § 776. Je trouvai ensuite des bancs d'une espèce de poudingue grossier, dont le fond étoit ce même grès rempli de cailloux arrondis. Quelques uns de ces bancs se sont décomposés, et les eaux out entraîné les parties de sable qui lioient les cailloux, en sorte que ceux-ci sont demeurés libres et entassés exactement comme au bord d'un lac ou d'une rivière. Il étoit si étrange de marcher
The four cantreds, Edward's old patrimony, were ceded to him; and though he promised to surrender many of his conquests, he was allowed to remain in possession of great tracts of land in Mid and South Wales, in the heart of the marcher region. Substantially the Welsh prince was recognised as holding the position which he claimed from Montfort in the days of the treaty of Pipton.
Its immediate effect had been indeed rather to lighten insistence almost to provoke a reaction; as if their topic had dropped by its own weight and as if moreover, for that matter, Marcher had been visited by one of his occasional warnings against egotism.
"Are you afraid?" "Did I tell you I was at Naples?" "No, you said nothing about it." "Then I don't know. And I should like to know," said John Marcher. "You'll tell me yourself whether you think so. If you'll watch with me you'll see." "Very good then."
Behind the wagons a small cheap band came blaring forth a funeral dirge, and behind the band, upon men's shoulders, came eleven coffins, in which were those dock victims who had died in the last few days. This section had its banner too, and it was marked, "Our Dead." But at one point, late in the afternoon, some marcher just ahead of me suddenly started to laugh.
Gloucester's later conduct proves the wisdom of Leicester's precautions. In the spring Parliament of 1265 he openly charged the Earl with violating the Mise of Lewes, with tyranny, and with aiming at the crown. Before its close he withdrew to his own lands in the west and secretly allied himself with Roger Mortimer and the Marcher Barons.
As I am now, I think I could keep up with the best marcher in the regiment but, with the weight of the clothes and pouches, a hundred and twenty rounds of ammunition, and my rifle, it will be a very different thing; and I shall be desperately tired, by the time we get to the end of the day's march. "Now it is twelve o'clock, and time to turn in, for we march at five."
It is never safe to make fun of an army ready to fight; and these "Jews" and "grenadiers" who were to guard the crucified Christ and his mother were carrying, unsheathed in their hands, all the varieties of sword known from the dawn of history to the present time, beginning with the heavy cavalry saber of the ordinary marcher, to the slender, delicate rapier of the drum-major.
Gradually the marcher lordships passed by lapse into the royal hands, and even from the beginning there were regions, such as Montgomery and Builth, which knew no lord but the king. All this was, however, an indirect result of the Edwardian conquest.
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