Welsh Journals

poetry from Ben Johnson in praise of Barbara Gamage whose virtue was evidently a rare quality in those days. Mr. Charles F. Shepherd contributes a collection of notes on the village and church of Bonvilstoh, and includes a list of thirty-five variant spellings of the name. Readers may like to try their hand at thinking up a few more I Miss Maude Gunter's essay on the manor of Llanblethian is a valuable survey which ends characteristically in a series of queries, and a plea for further work. Finally, in this group, Mr. Aeron Price writes far too briefly on the churches of Llangan, St. Mary Hill and Llansannor. One could have wished for more about some of the in- cumbents of these churches, even at the expense of sparing us some of the architectural details of the buildings. Slightly apart from this group there is a highly diverting and informative outline of the history of the Thomas family of Wenvoe. It is hoped that future numbers of Morgannwg will contain articles on the leading Glamorgan families. In the meantime, this short account by Mr. Denning whets the appetite. The remaining few essays fall into a different category. Three are by acknowledged scholars. Dr. F. J. North concentrates a great deal of information into his article on the geology of the Vale, succeeding where so many fail in conveying highly technical matters in a style intelligible to the layman. Mr. Gwynedd 0 Pierce's article, likewise, on some place-names is highly readable, despite the technical nature of his material, and will be of great value to the amateur historian in the future. It is greatly to be hoped that his unpublished work on place-names, to which many of the contributors to these volumes appear to be indebted, will soon be published. Dr. Hywel D. Emanuel writes authoritatively on the vexed question of the associations of St. Cadoc with Llancarfan, his account of the hagiographical tradition involved being based on some acute textual criticism. Finally, the editor-and whom more fittingly,writes a kind of tribute to the historian of the Vale, David Jones of Wallington whose papers now in the Free Library at Cardiff no local historian can ignore. Mr. Williams's short appreciation captures the essence of that delightful character for whom piety for his beloved Vale was more than a mere sentimental attachment. In a category of its own is the photographic survey of Glamorgan, also contributed by the editor. Its appearance makes one wonder whether this Society, in association with the Glamorgan Record Office, might not organise a public appeal for photographs of a county whose face is constantly changing, so that historians of the future might have in one convenient collection, a photographic record of its past appearances. The Garden of Wales is a splendid achievement, and while congratulating its editor and its contributors, we look forward with impatience to the next volume. I.G.J. OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED THE current number of the Welsh History Review (Vol. i, Number 3, 1962) contains much that is of interest to Glamorgan historians. In addition to a note by G. W. Keeton on the redoubtable Judge George Jeffreys (1644