Rowland Lee, President of the Council of Wales and the Marches until his death in 1543, conducted one of his later enforcement sweeps through Montgomeryshire targeting persistent cross-border criminality. The county had long been notorious for cattle theft, kidnapping, and murder that the Marcher courts had proved unable to suppress. Lee sent armed parties into the hills to hunt down named offenders.
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