Molmutine Laws
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The Molmutine Laws were the laws said to have been instituted over the
new codes instituted by Hywel Da.[4] Hywel was said, however, to have retained Dyfnwal's units of measurement
.
Legendary accounts
History of the Kings of Britain
British Trojans
as the original source of many of Dyfnwal's laws, including one allowing the reign of queens.
Welsh triads
The Molmutine Laws are among the texts said to have been "discovered" by the
triads
and include:
- There are three tests of civil liberty: equality of rights, equality of taxation, freedom to come and go.
- Three things are indispensable to a true union of nations: sameness of laws, rights, and language.
- There are three things free to all Britons: the forest, the unworked mine, the right of hunting.
- There are three property birthrights of every Briton: five British acresof land for a home, the right of suffrage in the enacting of the laws, the male at twenty-one, the female on her marriage.
- There are three things which every Briton may legally be compelled to attend: the worship of God, military service, the courts of law.
- There are three things free to every man, Briton or foreigner, the refusal of which no law will justify: water from spring, river, or well; firing from a decayed tree; a block of stone not in use.
- There are three classes which are exempt from bearing arms: bards, judges, graduates in law or religion. These represent God and His peace, and no weapon must ever be found in their hands.
- There are three persons who have a right of public maintenance: the old, the babe, the foreigner who can not speak the British tongue.
- There are three things free to a country and its borders: the roads, the rivers, and the places of worship. These are under the protection of God and His peace.[7]
See also
References
- ^ ISSN 0304-4181.
- ^ .
- ISBN 978-90-04-48765-9, retrieved 2024-01-03
- ^ Bartrum, Peter Clement (1993). A Welsh Classical Dictionary, people in History and Legend up to about A.D. 1000. National Library of Wales.
- ISSN 1949-0755.
- .
- ^ Morganwg then claimed that "In this law originated the term 'The King's Highway.'"
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