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the border shires-Chester, Salop, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester were in former days very largely staffed by Welshmen; one recollects e.g. the series of Welshmen who ministered to Stoneway chapel at Bridgenorth. English Congregationalism has indeed drawn on Wales at all times. There were the 'founding fathers' Walter Cradoc and Morgan Llwyd. Then again came Richard Davis at Rothwell (the Welshman to whom Dr. Jones allots more space than to any other compatriot) and his successor, Mathias Maurice. One passes on to Thomas Morgan at Morley, Edward Williams at Rothesham and Carr's Lane, Caleb Morris at Fetter Lane, Thomas Jones ('of Swansea') in Camden Town, David Thomas at Stockwell, and so to the late Dr. Elvet Lewis at Hull and in London. All these men, and not a few other Welshmen, are named in Dr. Jones's copious index; and on turning up the reference one finds succinct footnotes; at the end of the book is a most useful bibliography. Dr. Jones deserves our thanks, and our congratulations upon a book which has very obviously involved a great deal of work. And remembering his previous contributions in Welsh to the study of Welsh Congrega- tionalist history, we shall all look forward to the publication of a volume on the history of his denomination in his own country. R. T. JENKINS. Bangor. Ymneilltuaeth. Gan R. Ifor Parry. Gwasg Gomer, 1962. Pp. 198. 10s. 6d. EIN Hymraniadau ANNEDWYDD, 1662-1962. Gan Gwynfryn Richards. Gwasg yr Eglwys yng Nghymru. Pp. 69. 6s. These two books, the one by a churchman, the other by a Congrega- tionalist, are representative of the more substantial works with an historical interest, to emerge from the Tri-centenary commemorations of 1962-the one commemorating the Prayer Book of 1662, the other the ejections which the publication of that work necessarily involved. These were not the only works to appear, of course. One might mention Pris Ein Rhyddid, by Trebor Lloyd Evans (Gwasg John Penry), various lectures, such as those broadcast by the bishop of Llandaff, the Rev. Daniel Jenkins, and Professor Emeritus A. H. Dodd, published under the title 1662: Three Talks (Church in Wales Publications) or the presidential address given before the Congregational Union of Wales by the Rev. Dr. E. Lewis Evans, Y Ffydd a'u Daliodd Hwy (Gwasg John Penry). In addition, there have been writings of a more ephemeral kind in the denominational magazines, and we can expect some of the lectures given to learned societies to be published in due course. Taken together, the list is not very impressive, and those of us who had hoped for a symposium by Welsh historians along the lines of that splendid book edited by Geoffrey F. Nuttall and Owen Chadwick, From Uniformity to Unity, 1662-1962 (S.P.C.K., 1962), have been disappointed. After all,