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 potestatem vitae, &c. like petty kings, which are abolished by the stat. 27 Hen. VIII. c. 26. and 1 Edw. VI. c. 10. In old records the lords marchers of Wales were styled Marchianae de Marchia Walliae. See 1 et 2 P. et M. c. 15.