Welsh Journals

Thomas Jones analyses four medieval Welsh texts which purport to record the history of Wales from the Creation to the end of the thirteenth century, in Scottish Studies, XII, 15-27. J. Beverley Smith discusses the role of certain Welsh Dominicans in the crisis of 1277 and, in particular, the activities of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd ab Ednyfed Fychan, prior of Bangor, in Bull. Board of Celtic Studies, XXII, part 4, 353-57. Dafydd Jenkins struggles to substantiate the existence of Yr Ynad Coch, father of the eulogist of Llywelyn the Last, ibid., XXII, part 4, 345-46 (in Welsh). Ralph Maud tries to make of David, the brother of Llywelyn the Last, a proud Welsh hero moving 'with Ariel-like easefulness and poetic finesse', in Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion, part 1, 43-62. Gwilym Usher gives a translation of, and commentary on, Edward I's charter incorporating Beaumaris in 1296, in Anglesey Antiquarian Soc. and Field Club Trans., 1967, pp. 1-16. P. C. Bartrum discusses the value of some of the genealogies of Welsh uchelwyr contained in manuscripts written in the period 1475-1560, in Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion, part 1, 63-98. J. R. S. Phillips, in a summary of his University of London Ph.D. thesis, reassesses the role of Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, in the political tergiversations of the period 1312-24, in Bull. Institute of Historical Research, XLI, 241-44. E. J. L. Cole calendars an incomplete Radnor account for 10-11 Edward II, in Trans. Radnorshire Soc., XXXVIII, 39-43. R. Ian Jack calendars the register of the tenants of Roger, Lord Grey of Ruthin, compiled in 1324, in Denbighshire Hist. Soc. Trans., XVII, 7-53. A. D. Carr illustrates the role of the Welsh fighting man in the Hundred Years' War and the impact of the war on Welshmen, ante, IV, no. 1, 21-46. Gwilym Usher contributes a note on the pensions, most of them for life, which Richard II gave to 394 retainers in 1398-99 from the revenue of the Arundel lordships in north-east Wales, in Denbighshire Hist. Soc. Trans., XVII, 208-11. R. R. Davies investigates the crucial role of the Welsh squirearchy in supporting and opposing the Glyndwr revolt, in Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion, part 2, 150-69. J. E. Messham, using the records of the palatinate of Chester, sheds new light on the impact of the Glyndwr revolt on the county of Flint, in Flintshire Hist. Soc. Pubs., XXIII (1967-68), 1-34.