Medievel Welsh laws and legal systems. (part 1)
Laws of Hywel also known as Welsh law, Was the legal system which applied to all of Wales throughout the Middle Ages until it was abolished by the Acts of Union in 1536, where Wales was annexed by England. Here is The introduction to the Book of Blegywryd version of the laws "Hywel the Good, son of Cadell, by the grace of God, king of all Wales... summoned to him from every commote of his kingdom six men who were practised in authority and jurisprudence... to the place called the White House on the Taf in Dyfed. ... And at the end of Lent the king selected from that assembly the twelve most skilled laymen of his men and the one most skilled scholar who was called Master Blegywryd, to form and interpret for him and for his kingdom, laws and usages." The Iorwerth versions, produced in Gwynedd, have exactly the same attribution of the law to Hywel and the council at Whitland as do the southern versions. It is more likely that Hywel's name was used to lend some form of “a