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NOTES 1 G(went) R(ecord) O(ffice) Monmouthshire County Council Minute Book No. 15 p49. 2 J. H. Thorpe KC, Cardiff Extension Bill 1937: Minutes of Proceedings before the Select Committee of the House of Commons G.R.O. C.MB.73 p6 (Mr. Thorpe was Counsel for the promoters of the Bill). 3 Sir Henry Mather Jackson, Western Mail 7 April 1937 p6 c4. 4 J. D. Griffith Davies, 'Monmouthshire: Wales or England' The Monmouthshire Review 1.2 (April 1933) pl37. 5 'AJH' Notes and Queries 13th Series 1.26 (29 December 1923) p516. 6 Arthur Mee ibid 29 (19 January 1924) p54. 7 David Williams A History of Modern Wales (John Murray, London, 2nd Ed 1977) p33. 8 William Rees The Union of England and Wales (Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion Reprint U.W. Press 1937) p83. 9 ibid pp83-4. 10 'An Act for Laws and Iustice to be Ministered in Wales in Like Fourme as it is in this Realm [of England]' ibid p81. 11 1 ibid p82. 12 Gwynfor Evans 'The 1536 Act of Incorporation and the Welsh Language' Planet 68 (April/May 1988) p54. 13 Rees op. cit. p88. 14 Ivor Bowen (ed.) The Statutes of Wales (T. Fisher Unwin, 1908) pplOl-33. 15 ibidpWl. 16 /b/dpl33-5. 17 ibid pi 35-9. 18 ibid p136. 19 Rees op. cit. p77. 20 Edward Owen (ed.) A Catalogue of Manuscripts Relating to Wales in the British Museum (Cymmrodorion Record Series 4, London 1900) 1 p88. 21 See H. S. Milman The Political Geography of Wales (Tenby, 1860; Reprinted from Arch. Camb.) esp. Supplementary Letter to Ed. Arch. Camb. p4. 22 Rees op. cit. p73 and idem A Survey of the Duchy of Lancaster Lordships of Wales 1609-13 (Board of Celtic Studies of University of Wales History and Law Series XIII, Cardiff 1953) p xxiv. 23 Rees Union pp70 and 82. 24 Bowen op. cit. ppl69-72. 25 'Wales under the Commonwealth (Monmouthshire Letters)' Old Wales ed. W. R. Williams II (Talybont 1906) p79. 26 Bowen op. cit. pp 172-9. 27 Quoted by Alan Roderick 'A History of the Welsh Language in Gwent' pt. Gwent Local History 50 (Spring 1981) p23. 28 ibid p23. 29 ibid p29. 30 A Description of England and Wales VI (London 1769) p208; repeated verbatim in Camden's Brittania ed. Richard Gough II (London 1789) p482. In 1785 the same view was expressed by Francis Grose in The Antiquities of England and Wales (Monmouthshire abstract, Newport Central Library). 31 J. S. Cockburn A History of English Assizes 1558-1714 (C.U.P. 1972) pp23nl, 36n5. 32 P.R.O. C66/801/m. 3d [I am grateful to M. Evans, P.R.O., for drawing my attention to this]; For list of counties in Oxford Assize Circuit see List and Index Soc. 6.