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FOR the first time since its initial appearance in 1960, the WELSH HISTORY REVIEW is no longer under the editorship of Professor Glanmor Williams. More than anyone else, Professor Williams was the architect of this journal, and he has directed its course for nine successive issues. During that time, he has amply fulfilled the pledge he gave in the first editorial in 1960 that the WELSH HISTORY REVIEW would provide contributions at once satisfying to the academic specialist and palatable to the general reader interested in the history of Wales. No one knows better than the present editor how much this journal owes to Professor Williams's meticulous standards, his scholarly integrity, his energy and initiative. Its success (reflected in the fact that it now appears twice a year) owes almost everything to his inspiration. At last, a host of other obligations, both within the academic world and in public life beyond it, has forced him to relinquish the editorship. It is a comfort to his successor, however, that Professor Williams has bequeathed a journal so flourishing, and also that, as a member of the History and Law Committee of the Board of Celtic Studies, he will retain a close relationship with the WELSH HISTORY REVIEW in future years. It is appropriate that the present number should include an article by Professor Williams, itself a major contribution to the study of the Reformation in Wales. It is perhaps appropriate also that this should originally have been delivered as a memorial lecture to our late colleague and friend, William Greenway, who was himself connected with early issues of the WELSH HISTORY REVIEW. EDITORIAL K.O.M.