Welsh Journals

reconsider the orthography and phonography of Welsh in the early fourteenth century, in National Library of Wales Journal, 28, 419-62. M. L. J. Rowlands evaluates the structure and history of Monnow bridge and gate, Monmouth, the sole remaining medieval fortified bridge in Britain, where the gate tower stands upon the bridge, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 142, 243-87. R. R. Davies relates the experience of Denbigh during the revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr, in Denbighshire Hist. Soc. Trans., 43, 27-44 (in Welsh). D. J. Bowen analyses the poets of the gentry in fifteenth-century Wales, in Lien Cymru, 18, nos. 1 and 2, 53-89 (in Welsh). D. J. Bowen deals with the notable poet, Tudur Aled, in ibid., 90-103 (in Welsh). R. K. Turvey suggests that the date of birth of Sir John Perrot was November 1528, dismissing traditional arguments for 1527 or 1530, in National Library of Wales Journal, 28, 231-38. C. James examines the use made of medieval Welsh law as propaganda by the early Protestants, specifically in the pamphlet, Ban wedy i dynny attributed to William Salesbury, in Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, 27, 61-86. G. Williams surveys the varying responses to the Edwardian Reformation in Wales, emphasizing the authority of the Crown in being able to enforce major policy changes while stressing the need for more education, along with literature and instruction in Welsh, before the movement could really succeed, in Journal of Welsh Religious History, 2, 14-30. D. Huws surveys the production of Welsh books, 1250-1400, in National Library of Wales Journal, 28, 1-21 (in Welsh). M. Gray continues her edition of the 1563 returns from the Welsh dioceses to the archbishop of Canterbury, with Anthony Kitchin's return for Uandaff, in Journal of Welsh Religious History, 2, 31-95. I. Thomas comments on the contribution made by two Welshmen, Bishop Richard Davies and Gabriel Goodman, to the so-called 'Bishops' Bible' of 1568 and hence to the 'Authorised' English version of 1611, in National Library of Wales Journal, 28, 107-26. J. D. Evans looks at the career and reforms of Bishop William Bleddyn of Llandaff, in Gwent Local History, 76, 8-12. J. G. Jones assesses the significance of Rhys (Vicar) Pritchard (1579-1644) and his religious writings, in Y Traethodydd, 149, 235-52 (in Welsh). J. G. Jones presents a number of letters written by Sir John Wynn during his 'Grand Tour' of 1613-14, in Journal of the Merioneth Hist, and Record Soc., 12, 17-28.