What is the meaning of the phrase ‘Gwlad y Menig Gwynion’ and where can I find further information?
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The phrase ‘Gwlad y Menig Gwynion’ refers to the custom of giving a pair of white gloves to an assize judge when there were no cases to be tried at a particular assize. Because this seemed to happen in Wales quite often, the country then became known as the land of white gloves.
Further information may be found here:
· ‘The Legal History of Wales’ by Thomas Glyn Watkin
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780708320648 / 0708320643
· ‘‘Hen Wlad y Menig Gwynion’: Profiad Sir Gaerfyrddin’ by Russell Davies
‘Cof Cenedl VI’, pp. 135-159. Gwasg Gomer, 1991.
· ‘Hanes Cymru / A History of Wales in Welsh’ by John Davies
London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1990. ISBN: 0713990112
· ‘Legal Wales: Its Past, Its Future’ by Thomas Glyn Watkin
Cardiff: Welsh Legal History Society, 2001 (Volume 1). ISBN: 0954163702
· ‘A Modern Legal History of England and Wales, 1750-1950’ by A. H. Manchester
London: Butterworth, 1980. ISBN: 0406622647 / 0406622639