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in Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, pp. 35-51; and he discusses the literary works of Lewis Morris composed for the entertainment of William Vaughan, the squire of Nannau and Corsygedol, in Journal of the Meirioneth Historical and Record Society, XIII (1), 31-42. Cynfael Lake discusses popular literature in Wales in the eighteenth century, in CofCenedl, XIII, 69-101 (in Welsh). E. H. Douglas Pennant gives a history of the Penrhyn estate and its owners, from 1760 to 1997, in Transactions of the Caernarvonshire Historical Soc, 59, 35-54. The life and work of Ann Griffiths and Mary Jones are discussed by E. W. James, in Lien Cymru, 21, 74-87 (in Welsh). Ian Donnachie relates the history of Robert Owen's Welsh childhood from 1771 to c. 1781, in The Montgomeryshire Collections, 86, 81-96. D. E. Davies discusses the relationship between the Bardism and Uni- tarianism of Iolo Morgannwg, in The Journal of Welsh Religious Hist., 6, 1-12. The Anterliwtiau ofTwm o'r Nant are examined by Cynfael Lake, in Lien Cymru, 21, 50-73 (in Welsh). Iolo and Menai Roberts discuss the role of William Owen (Pughe) as a map- maker, in National Library ofWales Journal XXX(3), 295-322 (in Welsh). The working lives of two artisans in the Nantlle slate-quarrying area of north Wales in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century are told by D. Rh. Gwyn, in Uafur, 7 (3 and 4), 51-65. Conrad Davies tells the story of the building of Paxton's Tower, a monument to the exploits of Lord Nelson, in the Tywi valley, in The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XXXIV, 44-53. Pen-portraits of some Pembrokeshire sea officers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are given by Lawrence Phillips, in The Journal of the Pembrokeshire Historical Soc., 8, 49-69. The history of the Towy Works, the oldest surviving business in Carmarthen, from 1795 to the present, is narrated by Edna Dale-Jones, in The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XXXIV, 54-66. Mark E. Jones relates the history of the Court of Great Sessions and analyses the reasons why it was abolished in 1830, ante, 19 (2), 226-64. The life and work of the Revd Harry Longueville Jones (1806-70) are analysed by Huw G. Williams, in CofCenedl, XIII, 103-33 (in Welsh).