Welsh Journals

II. WELSH HISTORY AFTER 1660 An account of the estate records of Cwrt Ceidrim, Llanedi, from 1659 to 1938 is set out by Susan Beckley, in Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XXV, 83. M. A. Faraday introduces, and comments on, the hearth tax returns of 1670 for Radnorshire and reproduces the lists for Rhayader, Cefnllys and Colwyn hundreds, in Trans. Radnorshire Soc., LIX, 29-58. St. Asaph diocese notitiae concerning Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant parish in 1681 are published in Montgomeryshire Collections, 77, 184-88. Derrick Pratt discusses Denbighshire society, based on the account of the duke of Beaufort's progress through north Wales in 1684, in Clwyd Historian: Hanes Bro Clwyd, 22, 26-36. David Davies supplements his account of David Lloyd RN (c. 1643-1723), in Maritime Wales, 12, 27-28. The history of Llandough Castle, near Cowbridge, and its occupants from the fifteenth century until 1929 is provided by Hilary M. Thomas, in Morgannwg, XXXIII, 7-36. A short account of the Meyrick family of Bodorgan from medieval times down to 1960 is set out by Tomos Roberts and the late George Meyrick in Trans. Anglesey Antiquarian Soc. and Field Club, pp. 15-23. Ruth Bidgood traces the history of members of two families named Lawrence, at Builth and Abbey Cwm Hir and at Abercneiddon Llanynis, between c. 1720 and c. 1850, in Trans. Radnorshire Soc., LIX, 90-115. David Lewis Jones introduces and edits an earlier, less moderate account by the Catholic John Stevens of Welshpool of the response in north Wales to the Glorious Revolution, in National Library of Wales Journal, XXVI(l), 27-31. G. H. Jenkins details the contribution to Welsh cultural and religious life of the sermons and publishing ventures of the dissenter Stephen Hughes (1622-88), in Y Cofiadur, 54, 3-23 (in Welsh). The all-too-brief missionary career of Robert Jones (1686-1711) of Anglesey, chaplain under the East India Company in Madras, is noted by E. D. Evans, in Trans. Anglesey Antiquarian Soc. and Field Club, pp. 95-98. An archaeological and historical account of the eighteenth-century turnpike road between Machynlleth and Derwenlas is provided by James Barfoot, in Montgomeryshire Collections, 77, 73-80. Details of the rural trade of beekeeping and skepmaking in mid-eighteenth- century Denbighshire are offered by William Linnard and Eva Crane, in Denbighshire Historical Soc. Trans., 38, 5-17.