Identifier: countiesofenglan01ditc (find matches)
Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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efused, to do homage, and Edward marched
against him, and, with the co-operation of his brother
David, effected his submission. As the result, however,
of the attempt to introduce English law and custom
into Wales, rebellion again broke out under the joint
leadership of Llewelyn and David, the latter having
forsworn his allegiance to the king. Edward determined
once for all to crush the turbulence of Wales, and he
succeeded. Llewelyn fell in an obscure skirmish near
Builth, and a few months later, in June, 1283, David
was betrayed into the king's hands, and sent in chains
to Shrewsbury. Here a Parliament was called to consider
his case, and he was sentenced to be executed with
various marks of barbarity. This Shrewsbury Parlia-
ment is, however, chiefly famous as marking a great
step in constitutional government. For the first time
representatives of the Commons took part in the delibera-
tions by legal authority. During its session in Shrewsbury
the king probably stayed at Acton Burnell with his friend
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K. M. R.

WHITTINGTON CASTLE

300 Shropshire

and chancellor, Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells,
and when the Parliament had dealt with David, its
meeting was adjourned to Acton Burnell itself, where
it passed an important statute dealing with the recovery
of debts. Edward followed up the subjugation of Wales by
the erection of a large number of border castles, of which
the ruins of many still survive. These served the double
purpose of overawing the Welsh and protecting the
English, who were encouraged to settle among them, and
their ruins are an abiding memorial that the power of
Wales as an independent nation was permanently crushed.
The century which followed the death of Edward I.
was comparatively uneventful to Shropshire, but in 1403
it again came into notice. Political affairs were at the
time in a very unsettled condition. The Scots were
causing trouble in the north, and Owen Glyndwr was in
rebellion in Wales, while the tenure of the crown by
Henry IV. had on it the taint of usurpation.

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