A topographical dictionary of Wales, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, with historical and statistical descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties; and a map of Wales ..and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishopricks, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municipal corporationsWith an appendix, describing the electoral boundaries of the several boroughs, as defined by the late act . n of the latter nobleman, Edward III. bestowed iton Roger Mortimer,
A topographical dictionary of Wales, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, with historical and statistical descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties; and a map of Wales ..and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishopricks, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municipal corporationsWith an appendix, describing the electoral boundaries of the several boroughs, as defined by the late act . n of the latter nobleman, Edward III. bestowed iton Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, who being a fewyears after attainted of high treason, the seigniory ofDenbigh was granted by the same monarch to WilliamMontacute, Earl of Salisbury; but it was soon restoredto the family of Mortimer, in which it remained untilconveyed by marriage to Richard Duke of York, on theaccession of whose son Edward to the throne of En-gland, it became vested in the crown. Queen Elizabeth,in the sixth year of her reign, granted it to her favourite,Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at the same timecreating him Baron Denbigh ; but on the attainder ofthis nobleman, the title and estates reverted to thecrown. In 1696, William III. issued a patent, underthe great seal, conferring on William Earl of Portlandthe lordships of Denbigh, Bromfield, and Yale, withoutregard to the tenures of persons then occupying variousparts of such estates, by compositions, rents, royalpayments, and services to the crown, or to the Prince. 1 ; . R V 0 X .V // / ,, -I DEN DEN of Wales, on whom it had been usually settled for hissupport: but the Welsh landholders, aware that suchan unqualified grant would encroach upon their libertyand property, and form a dangerous precedent, appliedto their representatives to state their grievances beforeparliament; and the Commons, after due deliberation,presented a petition to the king, from the whole House,earnestly requesting him to recall his grant of theabove
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