'The King's Writ does not run here':
The Welsh Marcher Lordships
A talk by
Philip Hume,
The Mortimer History Society
The medieval Marcher Lordships were a region between England and Wales that, politically and administratively, didn't belong fully to either. Within each of the 50 lordships, the Marcher Lord had unique regal-like powers with their own laws, judicial powers, and ac…