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ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED IN 1959 1. WELSH HISTORY BEFORE 1536 R. Allen Brown includes Welsh castles in a list of castles of the reigns of Henry II, Richard I, and John, in English Historical Review, LXXIV, 249-80. E. J. L. Cole collects notices of some priests of the Welsh border between 1463 and 1545 in Journal of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, IX, 23-31. J. W. James criticizes recent interpretations of the evidence of the Book of Llandav, ibid., pp. 5-22. G. Penrhyn Jones discusses the Black Death and other aspects of the medical history of Denbighshire in Transactions of the Denbighshire Historical Society, VIII, 40-67. T. Jones Pierce studies social origins in medieval Cardiganshire in Ceredigion, III, 265-83. W. H. Morris describes the Glyn Dwr revolt in Kidwelly in The Carmarthen Antiquary, III, 4-16. Robert Richards gives an account of the Cistercians and Cymer Abbey in Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society, III, 223-49. Olrheinia Glyn Roberts hanes cynnar teulu'r Tuduriaid yn Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1959, tt. 9-37. I. J. Sanders discusses the development of trade and industry in medieval Cardiganshire in Ceredigion, III, 319-36. WILLIAM GREENWAY. Swansea. II. WELSH HISTORY SINCE 1536 G. M. Griffiths prints a sequence of St. Asaph episcopal acts, 1536-58, in Journal of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, IX, 32-69. Ceir disgrifiad o gyflwr yr Eglwys fedifal ac o'r anawsterau yn wynebu'r Diwygiad Protestannaidd yng Nghymru gan Glanmor Williams yn Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1959, tt. 5-17. Glanmor Williams describes the growth of the Reformation in Pembrokeshire down to 1553 in The Pembrokeshire Historian, I, 6-16. Brian Howells analyses the social characteristics of the Elizabethan squirearchy in Pembrokeshire, ibid., pp. 17-40. Lionel Williams studies the exploitation of Cornish copper, and copper-smelting at Neath, 1583-87, as an instance of regional inter- dependence, in Morgannwg, III, 3-20.