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II. Welsh History after 1660 The nature of nonconformity in the detached part of Flintshire in the late seventeenth century is discussed by Geoffrey Nuttall, with special reference to Philip Henry's diaries, in Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion, 1997, 5-27. The duke of Beaufort's Tory progress through Wales in 1684 is recounted by Molly McClain, ante, XVIII (4), 592-620. Pembrokeshire politics in the first age of party (1688-1727) are discussed by P. D. G. Thomas, in National Library of Wales Journal, XXX (I), 1-14. The history of Llanmihangel Place, near Cowbridge, and its family during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is discussed by H. M. Thomas, in Morgannwg, XLI, 8-37. The life of Lady Mary Herbert (1685-1775), the eldest daughter of William, second marquess of Powis, is related by Martin Murphy, in Montgomeryshire Collections, 85, 87-100. Griffith Jones and the Circulating Schools are evaluated by R. L. Brown, in National Library of Wales Journal, XXX (I), 27-49. R. O. Roberts provides an outline of religion and education in the Pentir and Rhiwlas areas, near Bangor, between 1750 and 1900, in Transactions of the Caernarvonshire Historical Society, 58, 69-111 (in Welsh). P. D. G. Thomas gives an account of political fighting between the Whigs and the Tories in Carmarthen in the mid-eighteenth century, in Studia Celtica, XXXI, 231-8. C. S. Briggs offers a history of the development of gardening and landscape, with reference to the estates of the Tywi Valley and Carmarthenshire, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XXXIII, 88-105. The plan to curb the growth of royal influence by investigating the Crown revenue in Wales in 1778 is discussed by P. D. G. Thomas, ante, XVIII (3), 430-49. The development of Uanfyllin as a market town and the 1789 Llanfyllin Market House Act are described by M. LI. Chapman, in Montgomeryshire Collections, 85, 23-49.