Welsh Journals

Welsh) and, in briefer compass, in Cof Cenedl, VIII, 37-68 (in Welsh); J. G. Jones undertakes the same task, in Trans. Hon. Soc. of Cymmrodorion, 1993, pp. 47-81. Thomas Kennedy briefly surveys the incidence of Catholic recusancy in Denbighshire, in Denbighshire Hist. Soc. Trans., 42, 27-36. John Davies assesses the considerable value of Carmarthen's 'Booke of Ordinaunces' (1581) for the study of the sixteenth-century town, in Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XXIX, 27-38. J. D. Evans analyses the will of William Bleddyn, bishop of Llandaff (1575-90), in Brycheiniog, XXIX, 105-10. Roger Turvey marks the fourth centenary of the death of Sir John Perrot, in Journal of the Pembrokeshire Hist. Soc., 5, 15-30. C. W. Lewis discusses the cultural interests and patronage of Sir Edward Stradling (1529-1609), in Ysgrifau Beirniadol, 19, 139-207 (in Welsh). Pamela Redwood and Jenny Barnes chart the history and owners, up to the nineteenth century, of Tyn-y-Llwyn farm, whose earliest part dates from the late sixteenth century, in Brycheiniog, XXVI, 53-104. RALPH A. GRIFFITHS Swansea II. WELSH HISTORY AFTER 1660 The role of banks in promoting the monetization of the early modern Welsh economy is considered by R. 0 Roberts, ante, XVI(l), 289-307. The marriage procedures and moral surveillance insisted upon by Quakers in Monmouthshire in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are reviewed by Richard Allen in Gwent Local History, 74, 3-10. He reproduces an order made at the Monmouth assize in 1673 regulating the cleaning of the town's streets, in ibid., 75, 27. The life and posthumous reputation of the Dissenting minister Samuel Jones (1628-97) of Brynllywarch is scrutinized by D. R. L. Jones in the Journal of Welsh Religious History, I, 41-65. The activities of Jesuits in Montgomeryshire between 1670 and 1873 are examined by T. G. Holt in the Journal of Welsh Religious History, I, 66-80. The complexities of the dispute between Bishop Lloyd of St Asaph and the lay impro- priators of the rectory of Llanuwchllyn during the 1680s are attended to by E. D. Evans in Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Soc, XI(4), 414-32. Sister Bonaventure Kelleher provides a provisional listing of theatrical performances in Brecon between 1699 and 1870, in Brycheiniog, XXV (1992-93), 79-84. D. W. Howell provides an overview of the agricultural community of Cardiganshire in the eighteenth century in Ceredigion, XII(l), 64-86. R. J. Moore-Colyer contends that the Welsh rural elite's passion for hunting and shooting game had positive ecological effects during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ante, XVI(l), 308-25. Dewi Jones writes on the local guides who escorted tourists on Snowdon in the