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The joys and sorrows of the Virgin Mary as represented in medieval Welsh and Irish poetry are discussed by Andrew Breeze, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, XIX, 41-54. P. K. Ford examines the use of blindness, dumbness and ugliness as themes in Irish narrative poetry, and draws parallels with Welsh evidence. Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, XIX, 27-40. R. K. Turvey uses pipe roll evidence to elucidate costs and operations at Llandovery Castle in the twelfth century, Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XXVI, 5-11. Excavations of the outer precinct of Tintern Abbey, which have revealed an aisled guest hall of possible thirteenth-century date, and a smithy, are reported by Paul Courtney, Medieval Archaeology, XXXIII, 99-143. R. Sharpe locates in a Lambeth Palace Library MS. miracula relating to Llandegley church in Radnorshire, and prints the Latin text with translation, Bull. Board of Celtic Studies, XXXVII, 166-76. D. R. Morgan recreates the topography of medieval Brecon, suggesting an outer enceinte enclosing both castle and priory on a site earlier than that of the present town, Brycheiniog, XXIII, 23-41. Lawrence Butler reviews excavations carried out during the 1980s at Dolforwyn Castle, Powys, the last castle built by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd. Current Archaeology, X, 418-23. Some early evidence for the port of Kidwelly is included in W. H. Morris's general account of the port's development, Carmarthenshire Antiquary XXVI, 13-18. Derrick Pratt prints the text, in English translation, of an incomplete receiver's account for the Lordship of Chirk in 1329-30, and discusses its contents and significance, Denbighshire Hist. Soc. Trans., XXXIX, 5-41. The presence of silver, and locked chests of uncertain content, at Llanthony Abbey in the fourteenth century, prompts J. D. P. Graham to suggest that the abbey was wealthier than is often assumed, Brycheiniog, XXIII, 43-45. Ralph Griffiths surveys the evidence for the history and importance of medieval Cardigan, concluding that its period of greatest prosperity came before the mid-fourteenth century, Ceredigion, XI, 97-133. Examples of ships at Welsh ports, and the various kinds of ships in use in Wales during the middle ages, are discussed by K. L. Gruffydd, with special reference to examples from contemporary literature, Cymru a'r Môr, XIII- 44-60 (in Welsh). The part played by the shire of Pembroke in the Glyndwr rising is examined by R. K. Turvey, who concludes that there was no mass support