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- 1795-1796. (Creation)
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Documents, including several copies and drafts, 1795-1796 and undated, of the Company of Proprietors of the Glamorganshire Canal Navigation, relating especially to a petition for An Act to Amend an Act of the Thirtieth Year of His present Majesty, for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from Merthyr Tidvile, to and through a Place called The Bank, near the Town of Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, and for extending the said Canal to a Place called The Lower Layer, below the said Town. They include the printed Act, 1796; notices and minutes of the Company; a letter to the Company from Cha. Hassall; and letters to John Wood, Cardiff, law clerk to the Company, from Edwd. Barwell, Abingdon Street [London], Rd. Crawshay, Cyfa[rth]fa, etc., W. Taitt, Cardiff, Benjamin Hall, Landaff, C. Brown, Cardiff, W. Richards, Abingdon Street [London], and Tho. Key, St. Fagans.
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English.
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The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 11910E.
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- Glamorganshire Canal Navigation. Company of Proprietors -- Records and correspondence (Subject)
- Hassall, Charles (Subject)
- Wood, John, legal clerk (Subject)
- Barwell, Edward (Subject)
- Crawshay, Richard, 1739-1810 (Subject)
- Taitt, William, of Cardiff (Subject)
- Hall, Benjamin, d. 1825 (Subject)
- Brown, C., Cardiff (Subject)
- Richards, W., London (Subject)
- Key, Thomas, St Fagans (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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November 2009.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971);