or Lords-Marchers, were those noblemen that lived on the marches of Wales or Scotland; who, in times past, according to Camden, had their laws, and postulam vitae, &c. like petty kings, which are abolished by the stat. 27 H. 8. c. 26. and 1 Edw. 6. c. 10. In old records the lords marches of Wales were styled Marchianae de Marchia Walliae. See 1 z P. & M. c. 15.