Cylchgronau Cymru

I. Thomas provides an exhaustive study of William Morgan's translation of the Old Testament into Welsh from Hebrew, in National Library of Wales Journal, XXIII, 209-91 (in Welsh). E. J. L. Cole and M. A. Faraday continue their publication of the abstracts of wills from the archdeaconry of Brecon in the 1580s, in Montgomeryshire Collections, LIV, 32-37. Three early modern poems and the tunes to which they were set are discussed by B. Rees, in Bull. Board Celtic Studies, XXXI, 60-73 (in Welsh). D. Evans publishes a late-sixteenth-century poem to a caged white blackbird by the Glamorgan poet Sils ap Sion, in National Library of Wales Journal, XXIII, 329-33 (in Welsh). G. C. G. Thomas prints two documents from the Great Sessions papers of 1602 and 1604 which refer to the Renaissance lexicographer, Sir Thomas Wiliems of Trefrew (Denbighs.), ibid., pp. 425-27. J. G. Jones concludes his analysis of the poets' depiction of the gentry in Merioneth society, c. 1540-1640, in Journal Merioneth Hist, and Rec. Soc., IX, 390-419. The poems of Watcyn Powel of Pen-y-fai (c. 1590-1655) are published by D. H. Evans, in Studia Celtica, XVIII/XIX, 171-215 (in Welsh). M. Ll. Chapman provides an account of the early-seventeenth-century drover, Edward Pugh of Trewern, in Montgomeryshire Collections, LXXII, 29-36. The structure of the house of Aberbran Fawr in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is examined by A. M. Selwood, in Brycheiniog, XXI, 21-27. F. Jones surveys the history of the house and families of Llechdwnni, Carms., from the middle ages onwards, in The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XX, 29-49; and he explores the history of the Lloyds of Hendre and Cwmgloyn, Cemais, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, in National Library of Wales Journal, XXIII, 334-56. The structure and changing fortunes of Newtown house, near Brecon, 1582-1725, are described by E. G. Parry, in Arch. Camb., CXXXIII, 136-46. The career and writings of the well travelled Welshman, James Howell (1594-1666), engage the attention of V. Powel, in The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XX, 51-58. D. G. Lloyd Hughes discusses the foundation of Pwllheli Free Grammar School, and its relationship with Botwnnog Grammar School during the Commonwealth, in Trans. Caernarvonshire Hist. Soc., XLV, 37-41 (in Welsh). D. W. Smith commences a survey of Berriew in the seventeenth century, in Montgomeryshire Collections, LXXII, 7-28. HUW PRYCE Bangor