Hello everyone and welcome back to the History of England, episode 79, Conqueror and

Stakesland.

Last week, we left Louisville returning sadly to Wales, crushed by Edward Zamas and basically

reduced back to his heartlands in Gwyneth. Would he knuckle under and play the long game

again or plan for a vault?

It's quite probable in fact that Cluelin tried to knuckle under and sit it out. His letters

to Edward remained submissive, he kept up his repayments, and this time it wasn't him

that started the fight.

However, things did become pretty intolerable for Cluelin and many of the Welsh.

English domination was back, and suddenly, Cluelin's impositions didn't seem so bad at all.

English officialdom, especially in the form of Reginald DeGrey as the justicia of Chester

was brutal.

Welsh lords who had worked loyally with Edward nonetheless found their castles removed.

Daffod was an embittered man in particular, he'd expected to get Gwyneth not two poxy

cantrefs.

Particularly painfully, time and again the Welsh would deny their own laws, and forced

to face judgement under English laws, as all those English prejudices and feeling

of superiority came into play.

Daffod was outraged.

Let the law of Wales be unchanged, like the laws of other nations, he told Edward.

New towns were established in the shadows of the castles occupied by royal garrisons.

These were peopleed by purely English settlers.

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