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than previous volumes. Mr. William Greenway continues his investiga- tions of the ecclesiastical history of the Welsh dioceses in the later Middle Ages with an article on the election of John of Monmouth as bishop of Llandaff, 1287-97. The main interest of the article, however, lies less in John of Monmouth himself than in a general account of the diocese of Llandaff in the thirteenth century and in the impact upon it of papal centralization. Dr. W. S. K. Thomas contributes a pleasant account of the social scene in Tudor and Jacobean Swansea, based largely on his researches for his doctoral thesis. Mrs. Fay Williams provides a most useful account of the Quakers in Glamorgan between 1654 and 1900, together with a consideration of some of the factors which account for their relative failure to take root in the county. It is fortunate that the records of the Glamorgan Quakers have now been largely deposited in the county record office in Cardiff. There are also accounts of archaeological excavation in the county by Dr. Savory (on mesolithic remains) and by Mr. Leslie Alcock (on excavations at Castle Tower, Penmaen, Gower). There are the usual helpful accounts of recent acquisitions at the county record office and at the Central Library, Cardiff. As is customary in Morgannwg, the book reviews are extensive, pungent, and numerous. The contents of the Transactions of the Radnorshire Society lack nothing in variety. The most substantial contribution is an account by Mr. A. D. Powell of the Powell descent from Llewelyn Crugeryr and the princes of Deheubarth. Mr. E. J. Cole provides extracts from the Herefordshire Probate Records, while Mr. W. H. Howse notes some interesting nineteenth-century papers discovered in a house at Presteigne. Geoffrey and Lorna Williams give an illustrated account of flint implements discovered at Old Forest Farm, Clyro. Finally, a useful addition is a list compiled by Mr. Ll. Hooson Owen of Radnorshire men (or rather men with Radnorshire connections, sometimes tenuous) contained in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. KENNETH O. MORGAN. Swansea. II. NORTH WALES In the Anglesey Antiquarian Society Transactions for 1960, Mr. E. Cockshutt has a very unusual but useful article giving a detailed topo- graphical description of the prosperous Parys and Mona copper mines, the basis of much of the island's former prosperity. He achieves a remarkable degree of success in his efforts to describe 'the nature and use of some of the many buildings whose shells and foundations cover the mountain to illustrate the method of working the mines, and to shed some light on problems of management and labour in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries'. Mr. Leonard Owen follows up his recent articles in the Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion with a more