Welsh Journals

earliest original document in the Gwent Record Office, in Gwent Local History, LXXXV, 47-9. H. Pierce discusses the life, career and Welsh connection of Sir Richard Pole, Henry VII's chamberlain, ante, XIX (2), 187-225. W. R. B. Robinson highlights the career of an early Tudor Marcher lord, Edward Sutton (d. 1532), Lord Dudley and Powys, in Montgomeryshire Collections, LXXXVI, 29-64; and traces Princess Mary's itinerary in the Marches of Wales between 1525 and 1527, in Historical Research, LXXI, 233-52. The likely sixteenth-, rather than the previously thought thirteenth-century origin and significance of a group of multi-headed stone capitals from sites at Aberffraw and Amlwch in Anglesey are discussed by F. Lynch, in Antiquaries Journal, 78, 439-52. P. R. Davis rediscovers the long-forgotten and rapidly deteriorating early sixteenth-century hall-house of Llettyrychen, in Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XXXIV, 20-4. R. G. Gruffydd revisits the printing and publication of the first book in Welsh, Sir John Pryce's Yny Lhyvyr Hwnn, in Welsh Book Studies, 1, 1-20. Sion Dafydd Rhys's Latin penmanship and intellectual humanism as expressed in his Welsh Grammar of 1592 (or Cambrobrytannicae Cymraecaeve Linguae Institutiones) is the subject of debate by G. Bowen, in Urn Cymru, XXI, 28-49 (in Welsh). J. R. L. Allen suggests that the timber setting and sub-rectangular digging excavated at Rumney Great Wharf, Cardiff, are related, date from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, and once formed a landing bay for heavy-borne cargoes, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, CXLV, 152-67. The arms and pedigree of the celebrated astrologer, mathematician and alchemist, Dr John Dee (d. 1608), are examined by N. de Bar Baskerville, in Trans. Radnorshire Soc., LXVIII, 34-52. The literary achievements of George Owen (d. 1613) of Henllys are discussed by D. Miles, in Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion, pp. 5-23. The lack of biographical detail on the pirate-cum-poet Sir Thomas Prys of Plas Iolyn (d. 1634) is lamented byW. D. Rowland, in Dwned, 4,125-44. Nesta Lloyd profiles the apparently unassuming Rhys Pritchard (d. 1644/5) of Llandovery who, despite collecting a host of other more prestigious titles,