Cymry A Confederation of Tribes AD 577 Welsh Tribal law.
Cymry A Confederation of Tribes Classes recognized in Wales. See Cymry Confederation for full definition. The Cymry and their Churches by D.D. Jones The main classes recognized by the Welsh Laws may be stated to be : (i) the royal class, consisting of the King or Kings or territorial lord, and their entourages ; (ii) the ' boneddig ' or free-born class, the men of lineage, consisting of the ' uchelwyr ', the married freemen, and the unmarried freemen ; (iii) the ' aillt ' or ' taeog ' class, whose freedom and rights were considerable, but not so wide as those of the freemen ; (iv) the ' alltud ' class, men of foreign blood resident in the country ; and (v) the ' caeth ' or bond-servant class, the slaves of other systems of law. Classes recognized in other systems. In the Fragment on Ranks in the early Anglo-Saxon Laws (c. I) it is said, ' It was whilom, in the Laws of the English, that people and law went by r...