Welsh Journals

ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED IN 1960 I. WELSH HISTORY BEFORE 1536 F. G. Cowley contributes a note on the discovery of the body of St. David in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, XIX, part I, 47-8. Brian Evans describes a grant of privileges made in 1380 to the town of Wrexham by Richard Fitzalan II, earl of Arundel and lord of Bromfield and Yale, ibid., pp. 42-7. R. W. D. Fenn discusses St. Dyfrig's contribution to the expansion of Christianity in south-east Wales and traces the adoption of the Dyfrig tradition by Llandaff at the end of the eleventh century in Province, XI, no. 1, 22-5; no. 2, 60-7. W. Greenway outlines the careers of some fourteenth-century arch- deacons of Carmarthen in The Carmarthen Antiquary, III, part 2, 63-71. W. Greenway describes the election of David Martin as bishop of St. David's in 1293 in Journal of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, X, 9-16. W. Greenway suggests that Thomas Bek's objections to Archbishop Pecham's visitation of St. David's in 1284 should be viewed against the background of opposition aroused among the bishops of the province of Canterbury by archiepiscopal policy in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, XI, no. 2, 152-63. W. Greenway examines the influence of crown and papacy on episcopal elections at St. David's between 1305 and 1417 in Church Quarterly Review, CLXI, 436-48. C. N. Johns gives an account of the continuance of Celtic monastic communities in North Wales after the Norman Conquest and their eventual re-constitution as houses of Augustinian Canons in Transactions of the Caernarvonshire Historical Society, 21, 14-41. Francis Jones traces the medieval antecedents of some of the old families of south-west Wales in Ceredigion, IV, no. 1, 1-18. Ceri Lewis suggests modifications of Professor C. N. L. Brooke's views on Liber Landavensis in Morgannwg, IV, 50-65. C. A. Ralegh Radford examines the early history of Tretower Castle and Court in Brycheiniog, VI, 1-50. G. Usher comments, in the light of recent research, on the development of the Marcher lordships, especially between 1282 and 1536, in Transactions of the Denbighshire Historical Society, 9, 189-93.