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 26 Prerogatives whey^e e^erciseabie. [Ch.llL though dependent on the British Crown, have different and local laws for their internal governance, as for instance the plantations or colonies, the minor prerogatives and interests of the Crown must be regulated and governed by the peculiar and established law of the place. Though if such law be silent on the subject it would appear that the prerogative as esta- blished by the English law prevails in every respect: subject perhaps to exceptions which the difference between the con- stitution of this country and that of the dependent dominion may necessarily create. By this principle many difficulties which frequently arise as to the King's foreign prerogative may be readily solved, (a) This distinction being admitted, it becomes material to con- sider in what countries dependent on England, the English laws as such prevail. By ascertaining this we shall perceive to what countries the royal prerogative as such extend ; and how far they may be exercised therein. Wales was not completely conquered by England until the reign of Edward the first That sovereign abolished the line of their ^tient Princes; constituted his second son Edward Prince of Wales, (b) and reannexed the country by a kind of feudal resumption, to the dominion of the crown of England, (c) Edward the first treated the Welch territory as a conquest; and of his own authority and by virtue of his prerogative, made various regulations for its governance, (d) At last, however, in the reign of Henry 8. it was united to England, and was put and still remains on the same footing with respect to its rights, liberties and laws : {e) and all statutes made in England bind Wales also, though it be not specially named. (/) There- fore as the English laws extend to Wales, all his Majesty's prerogatives equally apply to both countries, (g) By the 18th article of the Union of England and Scotland, (a) See further, post. 32, &c. united- to another in such a manner as (A) See Hume. that one keeps its government and (c) 1 Bla. Com. 93, 94. Burr. R. states, and the other loses them, the lat- 850, 851. t^*" entirely assimilates with or is melted (rf) Cowp. R. 210. And see Barring- «lown in the former, and must adopt its ton on the Ancient Statutes, the Statute laws and customs. Puff. L. of N. and of Wales 12 Ed. 1. and Tomlin's note to N. b. 8. c. 12. s. 6. that statute. ' (/) 1 Bla. Com. 99. Burrow. K. {e) 27 Hen. 8. c. 26 ; see further, 853. 34 and 35 Hen. 8. c. 26. The gene-, (g) See Com. Dig. tit. Wales. ral rule is, that where one country is which