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36 A.D. 1402]

It is ordained and established that no Welshman be made Justice Chamberlain, Chancellor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Steward, Constable of Castle, Receiver, Escheatour, Coroner, nor Chief Foresters nor other officer, nor Keeper of the Records nor Lieutenant in any of the said offices in no part of, nor of the Council of any English Lord, notwithstanding any patent made to the contrary with this clause ('non obstante quod sit Wallicus natus) except Bishops in Wales; and of those and other whom the King our Sovereign Lord hath found his good and lawful liege people he will to be advised by his Council.

A.D. 1402]

For the more sufficient custody of the Land of, and to the intent that a man may have the better knowledge of the condition of the people there; it is ordained and stablished that the Garrisons of the Castles and Walled Towns there be purveyed and stored sufficiently of valiant English persons, strangers to the Seigniories where the said Castles and Towns be set, and not of any man mixed of the said parties or Seigniories in or the Marches of the same; until the said Land of  be otherwise justified and appeased for the time to come.

A.D. 1402]

It is ordained and stablished that no Englishman married to any Welsh woman of the amity or alliance of Owain ap Glendour, Traitor to our Sovereign Lord, or to any other Welsh woman, after the rebellion of the said Owain; or that in time to come marrieth himself to any Welsh woman, be put in any office in, or in the Marches of the same.