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papers here. Nevertheless, it incorporates a valuable study of the wording of writs and other documents, which fairly appraises Stubbs's concept of the Model Parliament of 1295. However, there is a rather high number of typographical errors in this article. Elsewhere, the number is reasonably low, although 'chose' sometimes appears for 'choose', 'discrete' for 'discreet', and (once) 'showed' for 'shown'. The tautology 'great magnates' recurs throughout the volume. The reference to beer and sandwiches at No. 10 may mystify future generations of students (p. 224), and 'the "jet- setting" international aristocracy' of the 1240s and 1250s may not strike everybody as a felicitous anachronism (p. 231). Naturally, in such a long book, there are a few statements which raise a quibble. For example, when it is said in the article on Ralph de Neville and the chancellorship that 'in 1215 Magna Carta limited the operations of royal government without seeking to control the king's choice of ministers' (p. 61), the author's intended contrast between 1215 and 1244 is lessened not only by clauses 45 and 50 of the 1215 charter, which was only one part of the Runnymede settlement, but also, very probably, by the fact that the justiciarship changed hands at Runnymede. And the origin of the friction between the old justiciar (Peter des Roches) and the new justiciar (Hubert de Burgh) may have been that change in office in John's reign, pre-dating their 'contest to control the young king', which is Dr Carpenter's choice of the origin of the friction (p. 46, in the article on Hubert de Burgh's fall). Also, Henry Ill's dismissal of a later justiciar (Hugh Despenser), in 1261, occurred in June rather than in July (p. 205). Finally, it should be mentioned that Wales does not figure prominently in this volume, although Edward I allegedly spent £ 120 on Lampeter castle in 1278 (p. 417). R. MALCOLM HOGG Lampeter NATIONAL REDEEMER: OWAIN GLYNDWR IN WELSH Tradition. By Elissa R. Henken. University ofWales Press, Cardiff, 1996. Pp. xii, 250. £ 12.95. As the Stone of Scone, the coronation stone of the kings of Scotland and the great symbol of Scottish independence, was being delivered to Scotland after its long exile in England, it seemed inevitable that there should be a revived interest in similar nationalist markers in Wales. Significantly, the Welsh turned to Owain Glyndwr, the redeemer hero of this book and the great symbol of Welsh resistance. Recently the Owain Glyndwr Society was formed, its main aim being to discover Glyndwr's last resting place and to