Welsh Journals

FOREWORD That the fourth issue of The Pembrokeshire Historian follows the third in quicker succession than No. 2 (1966) succeeded No. 1 (1959), or No. 3 (1971) its predecessor, is largely due to the financial support received from the Welsh Church Fund Committee of the Pembrokeshire County Council. It is hoped that this support will continue so that we shall be able to publish the journal annually. The present number maintains the high standard of previous issues. Dr. Brian John contributes the findings of a survey that he car- ried out on the linguistic divide between the Welshery of north Pembrokeshire, and the south which has been largely anglicised for close on a thousand years. Dr. John is a distinguished Haverfordian who is now a lecturer at Durham University. His published works include studies on the effect of glaciation in north Pembrokeshire. Emeritus Professor E. G. Bowen has long been regarded as one of the most popular lecturers in Wales and his talk to the Society on the little ships that used to inch into creeks around the Pembrokeshire coast up to the last war was no different. H. A. Lane is a visitor to the county whose idea of a holiday is to rummage among the tithe maps and documents relating to the his- toric parish of Carew. Major Francis Jones, Wales Herald of Arms Extraordinary, has contributed to previous issues treatises on the old Pembrokeshire houses of Rickeston and Scotsboro (No. 2) and Llanrheithan (No. 3): to these he now adds Cilciffeth, the eyrie of the Lloyds, and of Dafydd Ddu before them, above the Gwaun Valley. He also adds a fascinating note on William Messenger of Uzmaston, a minstrel in the household of the Earl of Wiltshire. DILLWYN MILES, Editor.