Cylchgronau Cymru

lists all documented Cistercian sites in Wales, and is arranged by the religious houses to which the property belonged, The county, parish and grid reference are given. Each section ends with a resume of the economic resources of the abbey, including appropriated churches, keyed to the relevant maps (nos 22 and 63), and a bibliographical reference to printed works on the economy of the house. The amount of information provided by this volume is immense. One feature which might disappoint researchers, however, is the lack of detailed manuscript references in the inventory, which those wishing to go back to original sources will regret. It is generally only when a site is described in detail in the notes to the illustrations that a full reference to source material is given. To take one instance: the inventory lists twenty sites associated with the economic assets of the abbey of Strata Florida (nos 132-51, pp 56-9), but identifies the documentary sources for only three. Manuscript references are given only in the case of sites treated in the notes to the illustrations, namely Mefenydd (where a reference is made to National Library of Wales MS Cwrtmawr MS 873D), Celynog, and Nant Bau (NLW tithe apportionment and records in the Public Record Office, London), and in the economic survey of Strata Florida's granges, based on Cwrtmawr 873D. The reader would have been helped by fuller references in the inventory section, and by a list of manuscript sources in the bibliography. Dr Williams has produced for us a handsome volume and a comprehensive study of the lands and other economic resources of the Welsh Cistercians which is much welcomed. Janet Burton Lampeter J Daryll Evans, Clergy of the Ancient Parishes of Gwent. Publish- ed by the author, Panteg 1991. 120pp. ISBN 0 9510498 4 4. £ 5.00. This is a splendidly produced publication and clearly a labour of love. It is worth five pounds of anyone's money. A friend of mine exclaimed that it is only a list of clergy but it isn't a "little list" and many of them have been greatly missed. On close inspection many clergymen who served with distinction in some of these parishes have been missed from the lists compiled by Dr Evans perhaps because of the vagaries of the computer. Dr Evans's achievement in compiling these lists should not be underestimated. He has compared and updated the three previous lists of clergymen for the county since none takes us beyond the beginning of the present century. The bibliography appended to the lists of parish priests is a