The magna carta and Wales
We have all seen people trying to use the Magna Carta to bend the law in their favour. It obviously never works but what if it did?, what would that mean for Wales? Although mostly overlooked, the Magna Carta does mention Wales. Here is what it says. A.D. 1215] Magna Charta. Clauses 56, 57, and 58, relating to Wales. " 56. If we have dispossessed or removed any Welshmen from their lands, or franchises, or other things, without legal judgment of their peers, in England, or in Wales, they shall be immediately returned to them; and if a dispute shall have arisen over this, then it shall be settled in the borderland by judgment of their peers, concerning holdings of England according to the law of England, concerning holdings of Wales according to the law of Wales, and concerning holdings of the borderland according to the law of the borderland. The Welsh shall do the same to us and ours. " 57. Concerning all those things, however, from which any one of the Welsh shall h