Calendar of Ancient Correspondence Concerning Wales. Board of Celtic Studies, University of Wales, History and Law Serie No. II.

Aus dem Nachlass von Michael Richter. Mit Besitzvermerk auf Vorsatz. Beiliegend: Richters handschriftliche Notizen und Exzerpte -- Brosch�re �ber William Stubbs vom selben Autor wie das Buch. - Aus dem Vorwort: "The documents calendared in this volume are part of one of the large 'Special Collections' in the Public Record Office, the collection now called 'Ancient Correspondence', but formerly known as 'Royal and Historical Letters'. The whole collection amounts to sixty-two volumes, most of which contain some two hundred letters apiece. A list of the contents of vols, i-lviii was published by the Public Record Office in 1902 under the title List of Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and Exchequer (P.R.O. Lists and Indexes, No. xv). Since that date vols, lix-lxii have been added, and a certain number of additional documents have been inserted into some of the volumes preceding vol. lix. All these additions are recorded in those copies of the List which are on the reference shelves of the Public Record Office. Many individual documents from among the Ancient Correspondence have been published in extenso in such collections as Rymer's Foedera (especially in the edition of 1816) and Shirley's Royal and other historical letters illustrative of the reign of Henry III (Rolls Ser., 1866); many have also been sporadically printed as pi�s justificatives in historical articles and monographs. The collection as a whole, however, is still but imperfectly known to scholars, as there exists no comprehensive and systematic calendar of all the documents. As the production of such a calendar, however desirable, seems at present to be scarcely possible, the one immediately practical way of helping to open up the collection is that scholars with special interests should each attack it from his own point of view. The History and Law Section of the Board of Celtic Studies therefore decided to undertake the publication of a calendar of those documents in Ancient Correspondence which concern Wales. The present volume is the result. �"