1277. He invaded Wales, and compelled Llewellyn to submit to very humiliating terms.
1279. Statute of Mortmain passed; all lands granted to the church without the king’s licence were to be forfeited.
1282. Insurrection in Wales. Llewellyn surprised and slain in the valley of the Wye, near Builth (Dec. 11).
CONQUEST OF WALES.
1283. David, brother of Llewellyn, executed for high treason.
1284. Wales formally annexed to England by the Statute of Wales, enacted at Rhuddlan. Prince Edward born at Caernarvon. He was afterwards declared prince of Wales.
1290. The Jews, 15,000 in number, expelled from the kingdom.
1291. Edward, having been called in to decide the claims of several competitors for the Scottish crown, required the nobles and competitors to acknowledge him feudal lord of Scotland.
1292. He conferred the crown on John Baliol, who had indisputably the best claim.—Death of Roger Bacon, a Franciscan friar, a famous experimental philosopher, and the inventor of the magnifying glass.