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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 105 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAY , a See also:

market See also:town and See also:urban See also:district of See also:Breconshire, See also:south See also:Wales, on the See also:Hereford and See also:Brecon See also:section of the Midland railway, 1642 m. from See also:London, 20 M. W. of Hereford and 17 M. N.E. of Brecon by See also:rail. Pop. (1901), 1680. The See also:Golden Valley railway to Pontrilas (184 m.), now a See also:branch of the See also:Great Western, also starts from Hay. The town occupies rising ground on the south (right) See also:bank of the Wye, which here separates the counties of Brecknock and See also:Radnor but immediately below enters See also:Herefordshire, from which the town is separated on the E. by the See also:river Dulas. See also:Leland and See also:Camden ascribe a See also:Roman origin to the town, and the former states that quantities of Roman See also:coin (called by the See also:country See also:people " See also:Jews' See also:money ") and some pottery had been found near by, but of this no other See also:record is known. The Wye valley in this district served as the See also:gate between the See also:present counties of Brecknock and Hereford, and, though Welsh continued for two or three centuries after the See also:Norman See also:Conquest to be the spoken See also:language of the adjoining See also:part of Herefordshire south of the Wye (known as Archenfield), there must have been a " burh " serving as a Mercian outpost at Glasbury, 4 M. W. of Hay, which was itself several See also:miles See also:west of See also:Offa's Dyke. But the earliest See also:settlement at Hay probably See also:dates from the Norman conquest of the district by See also:Bernard See also:Newmarch about to88 (in which See also:year he granted Glasbury, probably as the first fruits of his invasion, to St See also:Peter's, See also:Gloucester). The See also:manor of Hay, which probably corresponded to some existing Welsh See also:division, he gave to See also:Sir See also:Philip Walwyn, but it soon reverted to the donor, and its subsequent See also:devolution down to its See also:forfeiture to the See also:crown as part of the See also:duke of See also:Buckingham's See also:estate in 1521,=was identical with that of the lordship of Brecknock (see BRECONSHIRE).

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castle, which was probably built in Newmarch's See also:time and rebuilt by his great-See also:grandson See also:William de Breos, passed on the latter's See also:attainder to the crown, but was again seized by de Breos's second son, See also:Giles, See also:bishop of Hereford, in 1215, and re-taken by See also:King See also:John in the following year. In 1231 it was burnt by See also:Llewelyn ab Iorwerth, and in the Barons' See also:War it was taken in 1263 by See also:Prince See also:Edward, but in the following year was burnt by See also:Simon See also:Montfort and the last Llewelyn.

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