123:. The sessions met twice a year in each county, administering English law but in English language, excluding much of the population from direct access. Of the 217 judges who sat on its benches in its 288 years of existence, only 30 were Welshmen and it is likely only a handful of the latter members of the higher gentry additionally spoke the native Welsh, in continued exclusion of the native culture and population.
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