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Wynnstay 36, Q
Machlud Cyfraith Hywel
Welsh Law in Medieval Anglesey
Llawysgrif Pomffred
Plaints in Mediaeval Welsh Law
Yr Ail Lyfr Du o'r Waun
Archwilio Cymru'r Oesoedd Canol
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Ancient Laws & Institutes of Wales
Bibliography
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A - C
D - G
H - J
K - O
P - R
S - V
W - Z
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Lawyers and Laymen
The Welsh King and His Court
The Three Columns of Law
Early Irish and Welsh Kinship
Native Law and the Church
The Road to Judgement
The Legal Triads of Medieval Wales
Celtic Law Papers
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A: Peniarth 29
B: BL Cotton Titus D II
C: BL Cotton Caligula A III
D: Peniarth 32
E: BL Additional 14931
G: Peniarth 35
K: Peniarth 40
Lew: Peniarth 39
I: Peniarth 38
J: Jesus College, Oxford, MS LVII
L: BL Cotton Titus D IX
M: Peniarth 33
N: Peniarth 36B
O: Peniarth 36A
P: Peniarth 259A
Q: Wynnstay 36
R: Peniarth 31
S: BL Additional 22356
T: Harleian 958
Tim: Llanstephan 116
Tr: Trinity College Cambridge 1329
Llan: Llanstephan 29
Bost: LlGC 24029A
Ep: Peniarth 258
Mk: Bodorgan manuscript
U: Peniarth 37
V: Harleian 4353
W: Cotton Cleopatra A XIV
X: Cotton Cleopatra B V
Y: NLW 20143A
Z: Peniarth 259B
Colan: Peniarth 30
F: Peniarth 34
H: Peniarth 164
As: Peniarth 175
Mor: Peniarth 36C
Lat A: Peniarth 28
Lat B: Cotton Vespasian E XI 1
Lat C: Harleian 1796
Lat D: Rawlinson C 821
Lat E: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 454
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Laws of Country
Laws of Court
Test Book
Test Book Appendix
Ychwanegion/Additions
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19 Necessary Things in a Gorsedd
A case of court and church
A case of land and earth
A case on boundaries
A case on suretyship
A letter in a later hand
A man's means of getting goods
A plaint for land
Abettor
Absent theft
Accidental blows
Accidental fire
Accusing a man of handling stolen property
Accusing of theft
Accusing someone of thieving
Additional Officers
Additional on land
Age of the world
Agweddi
Appealing to God
Bestiality
Birth and rearing
Blinding by a branch
Blows
Bondsman with a manor
Bondsmen
Bondsmen and others
Bondsmen and renders
Book of Cynog
Book of Cynyr ap Cadwgan
Borrowing
Borrowing and pledges
Breaking co-tillage contract
Briduw
Bruises
Canones Wallici
Car-starting
Case of rape
Case of theft
Charter of Hywel Dda
Church land, Clerical law
Church law
Church protection
Claiming a foreigner
Claiming theft
Clerics
Closing sentence
Co-tillage
Coming of age
Compiling the law
Conspiracies
Contention
Contract
Corn Damage
Corpses
Court justice
Crime against the lord
Crosses
Customs
Cyhyryn canastr
Damwain
Damweiniau
Damweiniau I
Damweiniau II
Dead animals
Dead foreigner on a man's land
Dead testimony
Dead-house
Debts
Delays in law
Denial
Denial of goods
Denial of woodland and conspiracies
Denying a pledge
Denying a son
Denying galanas for frightening a woman
Denying joint land [Fragment]
Denying oaths
Denying stealing an animal
Deposits
Dirwy
Dispute and compurgation against a thief
Disputing
Division
Division of galanas
Ebediw (death duty)
Enclosure
Entitled land
Equality
Exchange
Family law
Fifteen lower officers
Fifteen thieves
Final division
Fire
Fire or hot iron
Fishing
Five keys of a justice
Footholder's dues to the king
Foreigners
Four bound Cases
Four keys of justiceship
Four men whose plaint is heard
Four necessities of justice
Galanas
Galanas and sarhaed
Galanas of the owner of a weapon
Giving a woman
Goods taken in war
Guarantor
Gwestfa and Dawnbwyd
Half sentence
Heading
Heavy blow
Heir of king's land
Holding a lawful session
Hosting
Hosting the king and his court
Houses
Hunting
Illegible text
Impounding
Injury to an animal
Innocent bystander
Interrogatories
Introduction
Introduction to the laws of country
Joint-heirs
Judgement
Judgement in court on the earth
Justice's duties
Keeping before loss
Killing and attacks
King's sarhaed
King's supper-giver
Land
Land case according to the Gwynedd method
Land case diagram
Land law
Land where killing occurs
Law of borrowing
Law of gold
Law of silver
Lawful animals
Lawful defence
Legal cases
Legal text
Liability to despoil
Loans
Lord's right to goods
Losing a case through a wrong word
Maer and Cynghellor
Maer and cynghellor
Maintainers
Manors and renders
Men who ought to be maintainers
Men whose testimony does not stand
Miscellaneous
Mother-right
Naw affaith carennydd
Needs of the edling
Negligence
Nine tongued-ones
Nines of law
Ninth days
Note on the origin of the manuscript
Notes in a later hand; not very legible
Oaths
Objecting to knowers
Objection
Objection before time
Office and privilege of a justice
Office of a justice
On anoddau
On arddelw
On augmentation
On bonds
On camlwrw
On claiming and pledges
On claims
On corn damage
On crosses
On dadannudd
On equal claims
On faulty oaths
On fore oaths
On judgement
On land
On law
On lawful periods
On losing goods
On maintainers
On mother-right
On oaths
On pleading
On relatives
On sessions
On setting boundaries
On summonses
On the court
On the king's goods
On theft
On theft, rape and surreption
On witnesses
Order of the Court
Other officers
Other things
Paying land for galanas
Personal names
Pets
Pigs and hunting
Pigs in woods and corn
Plaints
Pleadings
Pleadings on suretyship
Ploughing and co-tillage
Pope Anastasius
Practices of law
Privilege
Privilege of the court
Privileges of Arfon
Prologue
Prologue to laws of country
Protections
Proverbs
Provosts and galanas
Public wrongdoing
Punishments for galanas
Punishments for theft
Queen's sarhaed
Rape
Rape of women
Relics in a land case
Religious text
Rental
Rhingyll
Rhingyll's sarhaed
Rights of builders
Sarhaed and galanas of four countries
Sarhaed and value
Sarhaed, galanas and value
Set periods
Setting boundaries
Seven bishop-houses of Dyfed
Seven Keys of Justiceship
Seven women whose sons are not entitled to land
Six ways of losing land
Slave
Slaves
Special sessions
Stance in pleadings
Stating the extent of a claim
Status in a duel
Status of the court and poetry
Stay of sworn appraisal
Stealth killing
Summoning a man
Surety
Suretyship
Surreption
Swearing for land
Testing judges
Text in a different hand
The Elements of the Law of Hywel
The Heir-apparent
The king's company
The King's Officers
The Queen's Officers
The three books of law
The Twelves of Law
The Twenty-four Officers
The value of limbs
The words of the Seven Wise
Theft
Theft in absence
Theft present
Theft with denial and compurgation
Theft without denial and compurgation
Thieves, witnesses
Things of equal value
This is the law of the court
Three Columns of Law
Three cries
Three high courts
Three lawful agweddi
Three places a man should state the extent of his claim
Three places the law divides
Three reasons a man loses patrimony
Three secrets
Three strayings of law
Three things a man loses in pleadings
Three timbers
Time for court and church
Time for oaths
Time to answer
Triad collection
Triads
Triads - Extended Collection
Triads on fire
Triads on galanas
Triads on land
Triads on theft
Triads, justices and judging
Triads, various subjects
Twelve Unwise
Two important dates
Two men with no galanas
Unintentional acts
Unwritten law
Value of kilns
Value of medical treatment
Value of Wild and Tame
Values
Verdict and compurgation of the country
Violence in absence
Warranty
Warranty
Weapons
Where there ought to be maintainers
Witness on surety
Witnesses
Witnesses and testimony
Women
Wrong decision
Wrong judgements
Wrongful detention
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Abetment for theft
According to the men of Powys
Accusation
Agricultural work, with owner's permission
Agriculture
All bonds useable
Animals
Animals of the hunt
Argae terfyn, judgement
Bakeress
Banishment
Bees
Blood, exchange of goods
Bondsmen
Book of Cynog
Borders
Borrowing, admitting a killing, theft
Boundaries
Bruises
Buildings
Burning through wildfire
Butler
Camlwrw
Captain of the Household
Case for land
Cats
Cattle
Cattle and animals
Cattle and oxen
Chamber Doorkeeper
Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Chambermaid
Chandler
Chief groom
Chief Huntsman
Chief of song
Church and land
Church land and the king
Church land law
Claim of final division
Claiming a usable claim
Claiming church land
Claiming days
Claiming land
Claiming land through division
Claiming land, manors
Close
Coastal land law
Conspiracies, animals
Cook
Court Blacksmith
Court justice
Court Justice
Court justice - justice and judgement
Court officer
Court poet
Dadannudd
Damweiniau
Dawnbwyd (food renders)
Denial, accusation
Denial, oaths
Denial, wrong and animals
Denying a dog or a bird
Despoiling
Diofryd, riding
Dirwy, fighting, king's protection
Distain (apparitor)
Division of land
Division of patrimony and inheritance of land
Dogs
Doorkeeper
Dung maer
Eight packhorses of the king
Equipment, furniture, weapons
Evidence (nine tongued-ones)
Evidence of a justice
Evidence, excuses, despoiling
Exchange of property
Falconer
Falconer, huntsman
Falcons
Fines, harps
Fire
Footholder
Foreigners
Four men who have no refuge
Fours
Fueller
Gafael, forfeited life, claiming
Gaining and losing land
Galanas
Galanas, injuries
Geese
Geese and chickens
Geldable Land
Groom of the Rein
Gwestfa (food provision)
Gwestfa and dawnbwyd
Hall doorkeeper
Handmaid
Head of kindred
Head of kindred and noblemen
Hiring a horse
Horses
Horses (continued)
Hunting
Hunting rules
Introduction
Judgement in the absence of a party
Justice
Justice and judgement
Justice and judging
Keeping a guest
Killing animals
King and queen
King's bondsmen
King's equipment
King's right to liquor from all free manors
King's rights
King's rights on the commote
King's rights, the host
Land
Land and other
Land case
Land law, legal process
Land measurements
Land Ownership
Latin books
Launderess
Law closing
Law of a son
Law of the court
Lawful excuses
Lawful measurements and Dyfnwal Moelmud
Legal activity
Legal cases
Legal process, swearing
Lineage and Descent
Maer and cynghellor
Maer and Cynghellor
Mead Brewer
Mediciner
Method of dividing a township
Murder
Nine abetments of fire
Nine abetments of galanas
Nine abetments of theft
Nobleman's claim on bondsman's land
Officers arguing
Officers' rights
On a boundary claim
On claims, on theft
On fire
On knowers
On objection
Ordinary officers
Other rights
Payments
Pigs
Porter
Priest of the Household
Privilege through the mother
Procedure
Prologue
Prologue and explanation about laws of court
Prologue to fifteen lower officers
Queen's Chamberlain
Queen's Chandler
Queen's Chief Groom
Queen's Cook
Queen's Distain
Queen's doorkeeper
Queen's Groom of the rein
Queen's Priest
Rape
Ready-made clothing
Rhingyll
Right to sell land
Sarhadau
Sarhaed and augmentation
Sarhaed, galanas, worth
Secret sustenance, on plaints
Service for land
Setting boundaries
Shared land
Sheep and goats
Silentiary
Skins
Son with no heir
Stags
Stays of sworn appraisal
Sureties
Surety failing of goods
Surreption in absence
Taking over land
Teithi and values
Teithi of men and women
The Household
The king and his rights
The king's rights
Theft
Theft, male animal
Three indispensibles
Three men who get moveable goods
Three men who maintain land
Three men who may not be sold
Three men who may not bring plaints, Three goods without surety
Three men who ought not listen or answer
Three middle men
Three ownerships of land
Three precious things
Three services for the court priest
Three unlawful animals
Thri men who ought not stand in judgment, Three common things
Transferring land ownership
Trees
Trespass
Triad collection
Triads
Triads on cases and court order
Triads on land
Triads, legal cases
Two impediments
Unlawful men, wrongs, blows
Usability, breaking a vow
Value of horses
Value of limbs
Various plaints, triads
Watchman
Weapons, theft
Witnesses
Women and land
Women and suretyship
Women, animals
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Anomalous Laws
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The Latin Texts
Manuscripts
Language
Older laws
Tractates and Sections
Prologues
The Laws of Court
The Laws of Country
The Law of Women
Land Law
The Value of Wild and Tame
The Test Book
Suretyship
The Three Columns of Law
Triads
Plaints
Cynghawsedd
Damweiniau
Other sections
The Wider Context
Development and external influence
Lawyers and administration
The Church
The manuscripts
Descriptions
Index to the Manuscripts
Index to the Damweiniau
Texts and publications
Manuscript Texts
Wynnstay 36, Q
Machlud Cyfraith Hywel
Welsh Law in Medieval Anglesey
Llawysgrif Pomffred
Plaints in Mediaeval Welsh Law
Yr Ail Lyfr Du o'r Waun
Archwilio Cymru'r Oesoedd Canol
The Long and the Short of It
Ancient Laws & Institutes of Wales
Bibliography
Main bibliography
A - C
D - G
H - J
K - O
P - R
S - V
W - Z
Major works
The Welsh Law of Women
Lawyers and Laymen
The Welsh King and His Court
The Three Columns of Law
Early Irish and Welsh Kinship
Native Law and the Church
The Road to Judgement
The Legal Triads of Medieval Wales
Celtic Law Papers
Aberystwyth Studies
Welsh History Review
Unpublished Theses and Dissertations
Pamphlets on Welsh Law
Texts
Early texts
Modern texts
Tractates or sections
Others
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Acknowledgements
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