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comments on major historical problems like 'the gentry', its effective hatchet-work on the reputation of Sir Edward Coke, and its enjoyable comic interludes, this book is much more than an administrative biography, and no review can fully describe its depth and richness. PENRY WILLIAMS New College, Oxford COPPER MOUNTAIN. By John Rowlands. Llangefni, for Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 1966. Pp. 203. 20s. EARLY INDUSTRY IN Flintshire. By M. Bevan-Evans and W. Hugh Jones. Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden, 1966. Pp. 33. 5s. Copper Mountain is the first publication in a new series of Studies in Anglesey History to be produced by the Anglesey Antiquarian Society. This results from a decision taken by Anglesey County Council in 1962 to commission a successor to Angharad Llwyd's History of the Island of Mona, 1833. In a foreword, the marquess of Anglesey declares the level aimed at for the series to be a blending of the scholarly with the readable. Mr. Rowlands, in this first offering, has set a good standard, producing an eminently readable book from a postgraduate thesis, a task beyond the wit of many. A second 'vital object of the series' mentioned by Lord Anglesey is 'the provision of source material for those who wish to conduct further research'. This object is not realized. This is by no means a criticism of Mr. Rowlands, who offers an excellent bibliography and is, if anything, over-generous with footnotes. His book is not planned to provide source material but to convey the results of his own research. Moreover, Mr. Rowlands is not the first to have charted these particular waters, and he has clearly been inhibited by the publication of J. R. Harris's biography of Thomas Williams of Llanidan, The Copper King, in 1964. Consequently, the balance of Mr. Rowlands's book is weighted heavily towards the period after the death of Thomas Williams in 1802, even though the palmier days of copper mining in Anglesey were now over. Instead of Thomas Williams, the central figure of Mr. Rowlands's book is a Cornishman, James Treweek, who is described as being second in importance only to Williams in the history of the copper industry in Anglesey. Treweek, though guilty of self-interest, nepotism and anti- Welsh practices, was in many ways the saviour of the industry in these less prosperous years, and his death in 1851 is seen as marking the end of an era. Copper Mountain, however, is not solely a history of Parys Mountain and its mines, for Mr. Rowlands is much concerned with the