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Attempts to recover concealed Crown lands in Gwent in the later sixteenth century are reviewed by Madeleine Gray, Monmouthshire Antiquary, V/3 (1985-88), 85-88. J. G. Jones discusses the privileges and responsibilities of gentility as mirrored in the work of Sir Philip Sidney and Welsh poets of the sixteenth century, in Lien Cymru, XVI, 212-24 (in Welsh). The career of William Morgan is examined in detail, and his significance as translator of the Bible assessed, by J. G. Jones in Llên Cymru, XVI, 238-72 (in Welsh). Judy Jones gives examples of wills of Monmouthshire origin proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury between 1560 and 1601, in Gwent Local Hist., LXXII, 28-35. E. H. Whittle discusses the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century gardens at Raglan Castle, in Monmouthshire Antiquary, VI (1990), 69-75. Evidence from three surveys is used by R. F. Walker to establish details of landholding and agricultural practices on the manor of Manorbier in the early seventeenth century, in National Library of Wales Journal, XXVII, 131-74. The political significance of the appointment of Ralph, Lord Eure to the constableship of Harlech in 1609, and that of similar appointments, is evaluated by Madeleine Gray, ante, XV, 481-93. David Longley reports on excavations at Plas Berw, near Gaerwen, Anglesey, chiefly of the house built by Thomas Holland in 1615, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, CXL, 102-19. Discoveries during excavations at Carmarthen which have revealed Civil War defences are described by Terrence James in Carmarthen Antiquary, XXVII, 21-30. The role of the ejected clergy during the Interregnum in confirming Welsh loyalty to the Anglican Church after 1660 is analysed by Philip Jenkins in Hist. Soc. Church in Wales Journal, XXVII, 51-59. The nature of Welsh Puritan thought as reflected in its literature is discussed by Medwin Hughes in Y Traethodydd, CXL VI, 127-34 (in Welsh). Details of the familial connexions of Jonett Jones (c. 1634-87) of Pentre-mawr, Llanenddwyn, are given by E. M. Hartley in Merioneth Hist. and Record Soc. Journal, XI, 169-81. Portraits of members of the Nanney family in the seventeenth century are evaluated by M. K. W. Cato in Merioneth Hist, and Record Soc. Journal, XI, 182-86. Aberystwyth RHIDIAN GRIFFITHS II. WELSH HISTORY AFTER 1660 Michael R. Lewis interprets the continuation of pilgrimages to St. Michael's Mount, Abergavenny, in the late-seventeenth century as evidence of Catholic vitality and devotion, in Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical Hist., 8, 51-54. The borough status of the town of Llanidloes from the fourteenth to the late- nineteenth century is documented by Murray Ll. Chapman, Richard Morgan and E. R. Morris, in Montgomeryshire Collections, 79, 11-27.