Laws of The Country
The laws indicate that Welsh society was divided into three classes: the king (rhi), the landed gentry or free landowners (breyr or bonheddig), and the peasantry (taeog). A fourth class was the alltud, people from outside Wales who had settled there. Most of the payments due by law varied with the social status of the person concerned.
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