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ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED IN 1961 I. WELSH HISTORY BEFORE 1536 D. J. Cathcart King and J. Clifford Perks trace the early history and describe the site of Penrice castle, Gower, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, CX, pp. 71-101. E. J. L. Cole tentatively identifies the Domesday manor of 'Bernoldine' on the Welsh border as Barland, in the lordship of Radnor, in Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, XXXI, pp. 20-2. Brian Evans contributes notes on the privileges of the medieval borough of Wrexham and Owain Glyndwr's raid on Ruthin in 1400 in Transactions of the Denbighshire Historical Society, 10, pp. 236-41. W. Greenway examines the effect of papal patronage on the cathedral chapter of St. David's and the collegiate chapters of Abergwili and Llanddewibrefi between 1305 and 1417 in Church Quarterly Review, CLXII, pp. 33-49. W. Greenway describes the election of John of Monmouth as bishop of Llandaff in 1297 in Morgannwg, V, pp. 3-22. Geraint Gruffydd and Huw Parri Owen contribute a further note on an early seventh-century inscription containing the earliest reference to St. David in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, XIX, part III, pp. 231-2. G. R. J. Jones reassesses early economic and social organization in Wales in the light of recent settlement studies, ante, pp. 111-32. William Rees reviews the crises affecting the de Braose family and the lordship of Gower in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries in Archaeologia Cambrensis, CX, pp. 1-29. I. J. Sanders prints documents relating to the borough of Lampeter in the early fourteenth century in Ceredigion, IV, pp. 136-45. Eileen A. Williams provides, along with a brief account of the career of Giraldus Cambrensis, a bibliography of the printed editions of his works and the literature on his life and works in National Library of Wales Journal, XII, pp. 97-140. Glanmor Williams discusses the fortunes of the religious houses of Carmarthenshire in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in The Carmar- then Antiquary, III, pp. 138-51. Glanmor Williams gives an account of the careers of Richard Whytford, a Bridgettine of Syon and friend of More and Erasmus, and Richard Gwent, employed by Cromwell and Cranmer in enforcing the royal