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 her writing, including "Brothers" (1983), where parallels with her own ancestry are obvious: it follows four generations of a family which flees Russia for South Wales. As only a couple of her 25 novels have a Welsh setting she does not fit the narrower definitions of Welsh writing in English. Amongst more recent Welsh writers in English, Niall Griffiths is notable for his novels "Grits" and "Sheepshagger", which portray a grittier side to Welsh literature; and Malcolm Pryce who has writing a number of humorous send ups of "noir" such as "Aberystwyth Mon Amour". Both of these writers were born