Welsh Journals

II. WELSH HISTORY AFTER 1860 Concentrating on west Wales in the period 1600-1750, Gerald Morgan makes a strong case for the value of women's wills in providing an unique insight into their lives, in Transactions of the Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion, pp. 95 -114. In a lavishly illustrated study, Donald Moore explores the changing motivations of artists who depicted locations in Glamorgan in the period 1600-1870, in Morgannwg, XXXVI, 7-38. A broad overview of social and cultural developments in seventeenth-century Monmouthshire is provided by G. W. J. Lovering, in Gwent Local History, 72, 9-34. The will of the Baptist, John Myles, is published and commented upon by B. G. Owens, in Traf. Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, pp. 15-28 (in Welsh). Leslie W. Barnard contends that Bishop George Bull (1634-1710) of St. David's was one of the most learned scholars of his age, but that his impact upon his diocese was slight, in Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical Hist., 9, 37-51. An assessment of the contribution of Baptist chapels to the religious make-up and architectural character of Llanelli and its environs is provided by D. Huw Owen, in Traf. Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, pp. 1 14 (in Welsh). An early unpublished essay on scurvy by the Catholic recusant writer, Gwilym Pue, OSB (fl. 1670), is discussed by R. Elwyn Hughes, Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical Hist., 9, 20-36 (in Welsh). Myths concerning the history of Wales contained in Theophilus Evans's Drych y Prif Oesoedd (1716) are located in the context of Welsh historiography during the period 1660-1710 by Medwin Hughes, in Y Traethodydd, CXLVII, 89-95 (in Welsh). The life and times of Jocelyn Sidney (b. 1692), last earl of Leicester, who lived at Laleston in the Vale of Glamorgan, are considered by Neville Granville, in Morgannwg, XXXVI, 39-68. Eirlys M. Barker scrutinizes the conflicting evidence concerning the life of Pryce Hughes of Llanllugan, an early promoter of Welsh emigration to America, in Montgomeryshire Collections, 80, 123-28. In a wide-ranging survey, J. Gwynfor Jones places early Methodism in its institutional, legal and social context, in Cylchgrawn Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 16/17 (1992-93), 49-99 (in Welsh); and Derec Llwyd Morgan analyses the historiography of the Methodist Revival, in Cof Cenedl, VII, 63-95 (in Welsh). Graham C. G. Thomas publishes the last two instalments of correspondence between George Whitfield (1714-70) and early Methodists and provides an index to the series, in National Library of Wales Journal, XXVII(3), 289-318, and (4), 431-52. A lively discussion of the thwarted ambitions of Catherine Chichester to improve her Cardiganshire estates between 1705 and 1735 is provided by Jill Barber and Derryan Paul, in Ceredigion, XI(4), 371-84.