The National Library of Wales is exhibiting mi unrivalled collection of manuscripts of tlic lnws of Hywcl Dcla, ono ol tlio greatest of medieval Welshmen, who 1000 yoaxß ago peacefully united Wales and codified tho laws and customs'of Uh people. The oldest existing nianuncWpt ol: tho laws was -written ou vellum about A.D. H75-1200, in Lntin, and is illuwtrated throiiglioiit by crudo but gniphie coloured drawings depicting the Kiiiß and his chief officers—tlio judiip, tho chief Rroom, tho cook, and oUioih". A littlo Inter, about A.D. 1200, wmi'H the oldent manuHcripl of tho liiwh in tho Wolhli |n,nyiui(j;(\ known iih tho Llyvyr Dti or Wctm, or tliu iiliick Book of Chirk. I
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 109, 15 November 1928, Page 6
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112Untitled Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 109, 15 November 1928, Page 6
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