Common law and King's Bench, were written in Latin. The rolls were made up in bundles by law term: Hilary, Easter, Trinity, and Michaelmas, or winter, spring, summer, and autumn. They are currently deposited in the UK National Archives, by whose permission images of the rolls for the Courts of Common Pleas, King's Bench, and Exchequer of Pleas, from the 13th century to the 17th, can be viewed online at the Anglo-American Legal Tradition site (The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center). The doctrine of precedent developed during the 12th and 13th centuries, as the collective judicial decisions
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