Welsh Journals

ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED MAINLY IN 1965 I. WELSH HISTORY BEFORE 1660. H. D. Emmanuel offers an appreciation of the late Rev. A. W. Wade-Evans's contribution, original, energetic and tendentious, to the study of early Welsh history, in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1965, part 2, pp. 257-71. G. W. O. Addleshaw surveys briefly the organisation of religious life, especially the clas churches, between Conway and Dee during the Dark Age, 400-1100, in Province, XVI, no. 1, 14-21. Ceri W. Lewis discusses the impact of Norman influences on the organisation of the Welsh Church, and in particular considers the aims of Bishop Urban of Llandaff as displayed in Liber Landavensis, in Lien Cymru, VII, parts 3 and 4 (1963), 125-71. D. J. Cathcart King and C. J. Spurgeon list twelve small mottes, which were placed in private hands in the early middle ages for the defence of the vale of Montgomery, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, CXIV, 69-86. T. T. Birbeck gives a brief description of the architecture and history of Caldicot castle from the early twelfth century to 1613, when it was 'ruinous and decayed', in Presenting Monmouthshire, XX, 27-30. D. J. Cathcart King re-examines the ambush of Henry 11's army at Coleshill in the Perfeddwlad in 1157 by the forces of Owain Gwynedd, concluding that it was no victory for the Welsh, ante, II, no. 4, 367-73. L. A. S. Butler assembles material relating to the Augustinian priory of St. Kinmark, near Chepstow, in Journal of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, XV, 9-19. P. C. Bartrum edits a Welsh tract relating to the descendants of the Lord Rhys (d. 1197), in The National Library of Wales Journal, XIV, no. 1, 97-104. J. Beverley Smith identifies Penlle'r castell as a fortress built in the mid-thirteenth century in the disturbed frontier zone between the lordship of Gower and the commote of Iscennen, in Morgannwg, IX, 5-10. D. J. Cathcart King presents some evidence to justify identifying the tower remains on Mynydd Illtud as a mid-thirteenth-century castle built by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, in Brycheiniog, XI, 151-53.