Plea rolls records were passed to the treasury at the Exchequer. During 1288–1731, non-current records, plea rolls, files of fines, and writs were transferred from the court to the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer; and thence, eventually, to The National Archives at Kew. The Plea Rolls for the Courts of Common Pleas and King’s Bench are in bundles by law term: Hilary, Easter, Trinity, and Michaelmas, or winter, spring, summer, and autumn. They are in Latin, though some items, such as indentures and direct quotations in cases of defamation, are in English. Most of the plea rolls have not been
Welsh literature in English literary success; though gradually, beginning in 1937, Welsh writing in English received encouragement from Welsh-based literary and critical journals, initially "Wales", published by Keidrych Rhys in three intermittent series between 1937 and 1960. Next came the "Welsh Review", published by Gwyn Jones, first in 1939 and then between 1944 and 1948. (See also "Life and Letters Today", which between 1938–50 contained works by and about many Welsh writers in English.) An early work of the first wave of Anglo-Welsh writers was "The Withered Root" (1927) by Rhys Davies (1901–78) from the Rhondda Valley. While he probably wrote more fiction about