Welsh Journals

for a villa, and that it is more likely to be a rural temple akin to that of the god Nodens at Lydney in Gloucestershire. However that may be, the site offers new and significant evidence of Roman- ized civil life within the mainly military zone of the Welsh frontier. NEWS FROM THE GLAMORGAN RECORD OFFICE. SINCE reporting last in the Newsletter of January, 1953, the collection of documents housed in the Glamorgan Record Office has increased considerably. Large collections of several thousand items and small deposits have been received, series already represented in the strong rooms have been added to, and new ground broken. Documents of several large Glamorgan estates have been transferred to the Office by the owners, agents or solicitors who held them. Mention of the more important of these will show the areas and periods covered. The large Blandy Jenkins of Llanharan collection includes deeds of mid-Glamorgan properties, 1343 and c. 1500-1900, estate papers, correspondence and a book of plans made c. 1840. Books and papers from the Plymouth estate office give detailed information on the building and development of Penarth and Grangetown in the second half of the nineteenth century. From the Wenvoe estate office have come deeds, 1666-1900, of the lands of the Thomas and later the Jenner families of Wenvoe Castle, in Wenvoe, Cadoxton and neighbouring parishes. There are two books of plans (including Barry Island) prepared in 1762 and 1798. The deeds of the Aubreys of Llantrithyd covering many Vale parishes, court rolls of the manor of Tallavan, 1695-1742, and a survey book, 1788, were deposited by the estate agent, and a further collection received from the estate's London solicitor. Another branch of the Aubrey family (later the Gough family) held Ynyscedwyn estate, with lands in Llangiwg, Cilybebyll, Ystradgynlais and Brecon town. Deeds, c. 1500-1850, and books of plans, c. 1800, have been deposited. A small collection of deeds and papers of the Pritchard family of Collenna, Llantrisant, was received from a Cheltenham solicitor, through the Gloucester- shire Record Office, and from a London solicitor we have the records of the Noel-Morgan family of Birchgrove and Llandough castle. Mr. Francis Tyrwhitt-Drake, whose family was awarded St. Donat's castle in the settlement which followed the death of the last Stradling, has placed on deposit the small amount of Glamorgan material which was at Shardloes. This includes a grant from Rhys ap Tudur to the monks of Neath, 1260, and letters to Sir