Welsh had more legal status after Acts of Union than thought, lost National Library treasure trove reveals

They are not called the "Acts of Union" unless you mean the laws which joined England and Scotland. What you are talking about are the "Laws in Wales Acts". Please be better than perpetuating the propaganda that this was a voluntarily entered into 'union', rather than an annexation.

The Church in Wales did not exist in C16,then it was four bishoprics of the Church of England.

Those are important documents that reveal a very significant and previously unknown historical fact. Inevitable, when you think about it. I wonder if church (not chapel) services initially accommodated the Welsh language in the same way.

Absolute poppycock!. I know my history. If Welsh had more legal status after the Act of Union, why then was it illegal to speak Welsh in the House of Commons Chamber? And even today in 2022 only English & Norman French are favoured. The article refers to these Welsh language documents found at the National Library proves as new relationship between the Welsh language and English law. It's in the description. English law. Not England & Wales as propagated today. Those documents although written in Welsh had no legal status in Welsh law only English. And why? Welsh law was illegally removed when England annexed and removed our laws of Hywel Dda legal system, a system older than England. And as others have highlighted. This is article is perpetuating a falsehood to suit it's narrative whilst ignoring historical truth that after the Act of Union between Scotland & England in 1707 then later Ireland in 1800, in Wales no judge or solicitor could practice through the medium of Welsh as it was illegal. Those will were drawn up by Welsh speakers families as highlighted not anyone practising law as they would be prohibited from practising law. Read an excerpt take from the Act of Union Wales 1535-1542: "That all Justices, Commissioners, Sheriffs, Coroners, Escheators, Stewards, and their Lieutenants, and all other Officers and Ministers of the Law, shall proclaim and keep the Sessions Courts Hundreds Leets Sheriffs Courts, and all other Courts in the English Tongue; and all Oaths of Officers, Juries and Inquests, and all other Affidavits, Verdicts and Wager of Law, to be given and done in the English Tongue; and also that from henceforth no Person or Persons that use the Welch Speech or Language, shall have or enjoy any manner Office or Fees within this Realm of England, Wales, or other the King's Dominion, upon Pain of forfeiting the same Offices or Fees, unless he or they use and exercise the English Speech or Language." This was no Union but an Act of Rape. No one should condone the ethnic cleansing of a native people & culture by rewriting & whitewashing history. It's something Hitler would have been proud to put his name to.