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Edward Mansell's account of the state of the church in Glamorgan during the Interregnum is published by P. Jenkins, in Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical Hist., V, 73-79. M. Hughes presents a detailed analysis of the relationship between the typological interpretation of history and Puritan spirituality in Morgan Llwyd's Llyfr y Tri Aderyn, in Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion, 1988, pp. 47-58 (in Welsh); and the significance of Morgan Llwyd's Lly>hur ir Cymru Cariadus is assessed by G. Thomas, in Ysgrifau Beirniadol, XIV, 152-64. HUW PRYCE Bangor II. WELSH HISTORY AFTER 1660 An outline of the mineral exploitation of the Grosvenor lands at Halkyn between the late seventeenth and early twentieth century is provided by C. J. Williams, in the Annual Report of the County Archivist of Clwyd, pp. 22-24. The importance of lime to agriculture and the costs of its preparation and carriage in south-west Wales, are assessed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, ante, 14 (1), 54-77. The role of the ports of Cardiff and Swansea in shipping Welsh wool during the 1760s is described by Mary McKenzie in the Annual Report of the Glamorgan Archivist, pp. 21-22. Stephen Hughes concludes an account of water power in industry by describing the sites of water wheels at and around Landore from the late eighteenth century, in Melin, 4, 23-37. A variety of short articles and extracts about the history and antiquity of the community at Cefn, Holywell, are set out in Cofio'r Cefn, 19 (1987). F. A. Barnes provides an account of landownership and occupation in the parish of Llanynghenedl which is especially detailed for the period 1600-1776, in Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Soc. and Field Club, pp. 31-114. Ruth Bidgood traces the descent of the Price family of Dolmenyn, Llanfechan, between 1722 and 1806, and speculates on the links with the Price baronets of Jamaica, in Brycheiniog, XXII (1986/7), 63-70. An account of the Williams family of Killay from the mid-eighteenth century is provided by Brian Little, in Gower, XXXIX, 30-43. R. E. Davies sketches the history of the Williams family, owners of the Abercamlais estate, and notes social and economic aspects of the estate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in Brycheiniog, XXII (1986/7), 71-77. The discussion by M. Ll. Chapman of the occupiers and property of Trewere Hall, Buttington, includes an account of the post-1660 period, until the late twentieth century, in Montgomeryshire Collections, 76, 31-106. Notitiae of St. Asaph diocese continue with details of Llanmeurig in 1686, in ibid., p. 132.