Mr. Lloyd holds the barony of Kemes, in the county of Pembroke, which was erected into a Lordship Marcher by Martin de Tours, one of the companions of William I.
In 1536 it was grouped with a whole series of petty lordships marcher and the lordship of Builth to form the county of Brecknock with Brecon as the county town, and the place for holding the county court.
But the extension of the English borders in South Wales by the conquests of the lords marcher as far as Pembroke and Cardigan deserves a word of notice.
In 1163 he had completed the conquest of South Wales; the marcher lords were now in possession of the greater part of the land; the surviving Welsh princes did homage for the rest.
When Simon turned the native Welsh prince Llewelyn against the marcher barons, he gave great offence; he was accused of sacrificing Englishmen to a foreign enemy.
But poor Marcherat this hour judged the common doom sufficient.
If she was old, or almost, John Marcher assuredly was, and yet it was her showing of the lesson, not his own, that brought the truth home to him.
Marcher flattered himself the illumination was brilliant, yet he was really still more pleased on her showing him, with amusement, that in his haste to make everything right he had got most things rather wrong.
I think," poor Marcher returned, "that all sides are the same to me.
Precisely," Marcher interposed--"quite as if it were too delicate a matter for us to make free with.
There came in fact a moment when Marcherfelt a positive pang.
Marcher softly groaned, as with a gasp, half spent, at the face, more uncovered just then than it had been for a long while, of the imagination always with them.
The squad marcher reported to Captain Albutt, who was their instructor for the afternoon.
At the order of the marchereach cadet fell back to the lines of his own mount.
There is, however, no contemporary evidence for the existence of the Marcher lordships before the end of the 12th century.
The castle afterwards passed into the hands of the Fitz Alans, great lords-marcher on the Welsh border.
Pas Marcher à pas de géant = To put on one’s seven-league boots.
Brother Bethuel could be heard bringing Marcher around the house.
Arrangements had been made for a delegation from the Boston Central Labor Union but when the time came the sole marcher to appear was the president, who courageously marched alone carrying the banner of the union.
Each marcher wore a picturesque long brown woolen cape.
At the Marcher Vieux beyond our expectation we saw one of the fellows eat the Viper head and all.
We have also just seen that in order to represent the trot the marcher at the back had to anticipate by a half-step.
Arrived in the section room, the section marcher causes the cadets to take their seats in the order of their names on the roll, and then hands them over to the instructor.
Sidenote: Edward] He was roused into action again by news of the shameful indignities which the Marcher Lords had offered to the body of the great Earl before whom they had trembled so long.
Roger Mortimer, the most powerful of the Marcher barons and a deadly foe to the Despensers, had taken refuge in France; and his influence over the queen made her the centre of a vast conspiracy.
In the first flush of victory, while the doom of Simon was as yet unknown, Edward had stood alone in desiring his captivity against the cry of the Marcher Lords for his blood.
Before its close he withdrew to his own lands in the west and secretly allied himself with Roger Mortimer and the Marcher Barons.
In spite of the opposition of Roger Mortimer and the Marcher Lords success seemed to be crowning this bold stroke of the peace party when the Earl of Gloucester interposed.
The troubles of the Barons' war, the need which Earl Simon felt of Llewelyn's alliance to hold in check the Marcher Barons, had all but shaken off from Wales the last traces of dependence.
Here the Lord Marcher of Kemaes held his court in almost regal state, exercising practically unlimited control over the lives and property of his newly-conquered vassals.
We now enter upon that portion of Pembrokeshire distinguished from earliest times by the name of Kemaes, a district that was constituted a Lordship Marcher by the Norman invaders of Wales.
He is much more frequently spoken of as the great marcherthan as the great fighter of the Confederate armies, and it is commonly said that he had an especial genius for being always on time.
And yet General Lee himself said in the presence of a distinguished officer from whose lips I heard it, that Jackson was by no means so rapid a marcher as Longstreet, and that he had an unfortunate habit of never being on time.
Thieves’) Marcher dessus, to prepare a robbery, or “lay a plant.
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