Welsh Journals

The careers of three Elizabethan bishops of St. Asaph, Richard Davies, Thomas Davies, and William Morgan, and their part in advancing the cause of Protestantism, are examined by J. G. Jones, Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical Hist., VII, 17-40. Social changes in Anglesey and the position of the gentry between the Acts of Union and 1603 are examined by J. G. Jones, Anglesey Antiquarian Soc. and Field Club Trans., 1990, pp. 22-57. In a special tribute to C. A. Gresham, the Caernarfonshire Historical Society prints his extensive discussion of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir and the great Eifionydd feud, which includes an analysis of the composition of the History of the Gwydir Family, Caernarfonshire Hist. Soc. Trans. LI, 23-133. Sources used by Henry Salesbury and John Davies in the preparation of their Welsh dictionaries are discussed by M. T. Burdett-Jones, and the anonymous Welsh-English-Latin dictionary, Jesus College MS. xvi, is attributed by her to Henry Salesbury, National Library of Wales Journal, XXVI, 241-50, 353-60. G. W. Owen analyses the millenarianism of Morgan Llwyd, in Y Traethodydd, CXLV, 100-6 (in Welsh). Aberystwyth RHIDIAN GRIFFITHS II. WELSH HISTORY AFTER 1660 Variations in local demographic patterns in late Stuart Montgomeryshire are analyzed by David Jenkins, in Montgomeryshire Collections, 78, 73-113. Another extract from the Radnorshire hearth tax return for 1670 is published by M. A. Faraday, in Trans. Radnorshire Soc., LX, 66-89. D. D. Morgan explores the background to the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 and its translation into Welsh, Traf Cymdeithas Hanes y Bedyddwyr. pp. 19-34 (in Welsh). E. Rowlands describes how, after 1690-93, parliamentary representation in Radnorshire fell under the sway of the Harley family, ante, 15(1), 21-33. An outline of the Coytrahen estate in the Llynfi valley between the late seventeenth and the early twentieth century is provided by D. R. L. Jones in Morgannwg, XXXIV, 39-77. A brief note on the Baptist chapel built in 1703 in the 'Welsh Tract' in Pennsylvania is published in Traf. Cymdeithas Hanes y Bedyddwyr- pp. 18-19 (in Welsh).