Welsh Journals

Another pleasant volume of the National Library of Wales Journal, XXI, No. 1 (Summer 1979), featured articles by Francis Jones on 'Aberglasney and its Families', Emyr Wyn Jones on the 'selective historiography' of Bosworth Field and its importance for Welsh history, Gwyn Jenkins on the papers of Nassau Senior, and Wynford Davies on 'The Curriculum of the County Intermediate Schools', set up after the Act of 1889. Our sister journal, The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, XXVIII, Part II (May 1979) contained a substantial historical section, as usual. D. Huw Owen discussed the two foundation charters of the Borough of Denbigh and prints new evidence on the origins of the borough discovered in the Duchy of Lancaster records in the Public Record Office. J. Beverley Smith considered marcher regality as illustrated in Quo Warranto pro- ceedings relating to Cantrefselyf in the lordship of Brecon, 1349, and printed pleas before Humphrey de Bohun contained in the Duchy of Lancaster records. The geographer, Colin Thomas, analysed estates and the rural economy of north Wales, 1770-1850, with particular attention paid to the Bodrhyddan estate in the vale of Clwyd. Ceredigion, VIII, No. 3 (1978), the journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, appeared in early 1980. An attractive miscellany of articles included a discussion by Alun Eirug Davies on the impact of the new Poor Law in Cardiganshire, 1834-50; a vivid account by Marian Henry Jones of a meeting at Aberystwyth in 1850 on behalf of Kossuth and the abortive Hungarian revolution; and an illustrated list by A. O. Chater of inscriptions on bridges in Cardiganshire. An inscription of 1908 on the bridge at Dolybont over Afon Leri should be added to it. A shorter article celebrated Eleanor James, Cardiganshire's only female transportee to Australia, transported to brutal conditions in Hobart in 1823 for minor theft. ERRATUM ante, IX, No. 4 (December 1979), eight lines up: for 'Abercam' read 'Aberaeron'.