Welsh Journals

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION (Studies presented to S. B. Chrimes) Edited by H. Hearder and H. Loyn. Pp. 250. 1974. £ 5.00 plus 70p postage The work of the eighteen historians who have contributed to this volume provides a fairly even spread of British history from Anglo-Saxon days to the twentieth century, but with a slightly greater emphasis on the fifteenth century, the century on which Professor Chrimes himself has worked most intensely. THE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE 1541-1689 Compiled and edited by J. R. S. Phillips. Pp. 441. 1975. £ 8.00 plus 70p postage This volume is an attempt to identify the Justices of the Peace from their first recorded appearance in Wales in 1541 until the year 1689. They form a detailed guide to the politically active and socially significant members of the gentry in the counties of Wales and Monmouthshire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. LIST OF WELSH ENTRIES IN THE MEMORANDA ROLLS 1282-1343 Edited with an introduction by Natalie Fryde. Pp. 134. 1974. £ 2.00 plus 55p postage This book extends to the Exchequer class of the Medieval period the work already done by the Board of Celtic Studies in making the sources relating to the history of Wales in the Public Record Office more available. MENTAL DISORDER IN EARLIER BRITAIN Basil Clarke. Pp. 335. 1975. £ 10.00 plus 70p postage An account of the processes adopted for dealing with madness and personal stresses from the time of the early Celtic societies and the Roman administration through the Celtic, Anglo- Saxon, later Medieval and Renaissance periods to the seventeenth century. Catalogues and further details may be obtained from GWASG PRIFYSGOL CYMRU UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 6 GWENNYTH STREET, CATHAYS, CARDIFF CF2 4YD