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An account book of J. F. Barham with S. L. Phillips, Son, & Co., bankers, Haverfordwest, 1822-1824.

Papers, [1300]-1936, from the library of Mrs Ethel Jones of Aberystwyth comprising material of Pembrokeshire interest, including estate rentals, farm accounts, correspondence relating to land tenure, rules of Milford Friendly Society and turnpike gate receipts at Haverfordwest; papers of or relating to the Goldwyer family of Marlborough and [?Bristol] which include a tour journal of 1799 and correspondence; together with miscellaneous accounts, legal precedents, correspondence and a volume of coats of arms, much of which material also relates to Pembrokeshire.

Material from the library of the Reverend John Lloyd, Brunant, Cayo, relating almost entirely to late eighteenth and early nineteenth century parliamentary elections for the county of Carmarthen and for the county of the borough of Carmarthen. They consist of poetry, including 'An Essay on the Characters &c. of the Governors of the Boro' of Carmarthen', 1789, 'From plain Truth addressed ... to the Cambrian Sappho' by Mrs. [Maria Justina] Cowell, 1802, 'The Carmarthenshire Parson and a Freeholder. A Dialogue' by [Lewis] Lewis, rector of Clovelly, 1802, etc.; a state of the poll for the hundred of Cayo in the Carmarthenshire election, 16 July - 2 August 1802; holograph and autograph letters, 1807, of Herbert Lloyd, Carmarthen, [Lord] Robert Seymour, Llandilo, and Danl. Price, Junior, Talley; addresses to the Freeholders of the county of Carmarthen by 'A Freeholder', 1807, and to Lord D[ynevor] by 'A Carmarthenshire Freeholder', undated; and printed matter including a poem entitled 'County of the borough of Carmarthen. November, 15th, 1796. The Independent Burgesses's Glory', 'Carmarthen Election Committee, April 5th, 1803. Extract from Mr. Adam's Speech at the Close of the Proceedings', addresses to the electors of co. Carmarthen by W[illiam] Paxton, 1803, 1806, R. Seymour, 1807, and [Sir] Willm. Mansel, Iscoed, 1807, and to the electors of Cardigan Boroughs by J[ohn] Vaughan, Crosswood, 1807, 'The recent Roman Catholic Concerns considered' ('Diweddar Negesau'r Papistiaid wedi eu hystyried') by 'A Protestant of Carmarthenshire' ('Protestant O Sir Gaerfyrddin'), etc.

The Daily Journal; or, the Gentleman's, Merchant's and Tradesman's Complete Annual Accompt-book ... 1788, with entries for the period 1811-1821 by [?John Hay, Pembroke], including records of daily weather conditions, memoranda of the building and launching of ships at Pembroke Dock and Milford, obituaries, polling returns at the Pembrokeshire and Pembroke parliamentary elections, 1812, etc.

Statements of accounts of receipts and disbursements (in one book by H[enr]y Rees), 1820-1824, on behalf of J. F. Barham in respect of the Trecoon estate.

Accounts and vouchers, 1820-1822, relating to the executorship of Thomas Phillips, vicar of West Haroldston and perpetual curate of Lambston, co. Pembroke. Among them are a statement of the proceeds of the parishes of Lambston and West Haroldston which the Reverend J[oh]n Andros, successor to Thomas Phillips, consents to share with the executors, and an estimate of sundry repairs required to be done at the chancel and glebe at Lambstone and Haroldstone. The papers are contained in a notebook from which all but one (dated 1771) of the manuscript leaves have been cut away. Written on the end papers of the notebook are London addresses of John Allen of Dale Castle and others.

An account book, 1810-1817, and vouchers, 1809-1818, of John Bateman, Haverfordwest, recording disbursements (wages, etc.) in respect of the farm of Llwynbedw, parish of Llan-y-cefn, co. Pembroke. The account book (NLW MS 11808iA) was originally used to record a few legal costs of the period 1780-1787.

An account book, with numerous insets, of Levi Griffiths of Rickeston and Pointz Castle, parish of Brawdy, co. Pembroke, 1836-1848, largely recording accounts with individual servants and tenants.

Weekly and quarterly poor rate assessments, and weekly payments, in the parish of St. Maries in the town and county of Hauerford west, 1613, 1630-1631, 1636.

Illustrated transcripts of a treatise and notes on heraldry. The volume bears the name of Miss Jane Goldwyer, 25 March, 1819. Inset are a poem describing the equipage of knights riding in procession to a joust, and a stanza by Bishop [Benjamin] Hoadley entitled 'On a Spring near Stourton'.

A journal of a tour of Wales undertaken from Bath by Dr. [ ] Robertson, in company with J. Goldwyer, between 24 June and 19 July, 1799. The tour comprised visits to Bristol, Caerwent, Caerleon, Newport, Caerphilly, Llandaff, Cardiff, Cowbridge, Llantwit [Major], St. Donats, Pyle, Margam, Aberavon, Baglan, Neath, Melincourt, Pont Neath Vaughan and the neighbouring waterfalls, Brecon, Builth, Rhaeadr (Rhayader Gowy), Devil's Bridge, Aberystwyth, Aberdovey, Towyn, Peniarth, Barmouth, Dolgellau, Bala (with an account of the stocking market), Llangollen, Llanfyllin (Llanvitlin), Welsh Pool, Montgomery, Bishop's Castle, Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Monmouth, Chepstow, Bristol, and Bath. Pasted on the flyleaf is the following inscription: 'My grandfathers' Dr. Robertson and J. Goldwyer's walking Tour in S. Wales in 1799 mentions Baglan. H. L. Goldwyer'.

Papers (case, answer, briefs, a translation of the Haverfordwest charter of 1609/1610, etc.) in two actions in Chancery by Hugh Fowler of the town and county of Haverfordwest, esq., 1721, and by James Cousins, in ejectment on the demise of Hugh Fowler, 1724, against the mayor, sheriff, bailiffs, and burgesses of Haverfordwest and John Perry, water bailiff of the same, defendants, touching the right of profits of an extension of the quay at Haverfordwest alleged to have been erected on part of ground in the possession of Hugh Fowler.

Legal precedents written in several hands and based largely on legal records of the early years of the reign of George II. Several of the documents recorded in the volume are of interest to co. Middlesex.

Legal precedents written in several hands and based on title-deeds and legal papers largely of the second and third quarters of the eighteenth century. The majority of the precedents are of Welsh interest, among them being a case relating to a wreck of a Danish vessel at Little Quay, co. Cardigan, 1757; title-deeds of the family of Williams of Penpont, co. Brecknock; and records relating to properties in cos. Montgomery, Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan. NLW MSS 11807D is dated 1765 and 1767 on the upper cover.

Thirteen holograph letters to Henry Goldwyer, Bristol, from George Gwyther, Custom House, Milford, 1840-1841 (6) (the recipient's rental and the proceeds of his Fox Hill and Woodland Collieries in Walton [West]) (with accompanying accounts), James Kealy, Dalkey, 1832 (the management of Dalkey and the market), John Owens, Little haven, 1840 (the unauthorised sinking of pits on property in the writer's occupation) (with accounts of culm landed), J. Rogers Powell, Haverfordwest, [1837]-1841 (4) (land in dispute at Walton, the recipient's rental at Walton), and John Prosser, Little Haven, 1840 (a request for a lease of a colliery at Walton); and six holograph letters from Richd. Rees, Hilton, to Henry Goldwyer and George Gwyther, 1840 (the working of the Fox Hill and Woodland Collieries in Walton) (with some accounts).

Miscellaneous letters:- W. H. Goldwyer, Bristol, to Walter Scott [aft. Sir Walter Scott], 1818 (comments on an enclosed copy of a portrait of Rob Roy), W. H. Goldwyer and [Mrs.] H. Goldwyer [from Bristol] to their son[s] Henry [and John] Goldwyer, Edinburgh, 1822 (personal, the progress of the recipients' medical studies, a Masonic display in Bristol, personal), Sibthorpe Bayly, Dublin, to Henry Goldwyer, Bristol, 1836-1844 (2) (Dr. Ashe's estate) (together with a draft reply, 1844), and Reginald Smith [from Bristol] to Henry Goldwyer, 1840 (a tribute on the recipient's resignation from the 'Commandery of the Nine Elect', greetings from the 'Sir Knights'); the autograph signature of Charles Dickens cut away from a letter; a copy by 'F. P. R.' of verses ('Hoffnung') by Frederick Heyne, with a French translation by 'My Father'; and two fragments of folios of a fourteenth century Latin manuscript and a fifteenth century English manuscript used as end-papers.

Miscellaneous letters:- Eunice Bellairs, Serampore, to [Emily] Phelps, Crawley, Sussex, 1856 (personal), Wm. Grey, Grays Inn, to Henry Rees, Haverfordwest, etc., 1811-1827 (2) (the action of Allen v. Gwynne), J. H. Harries, Trevaccoon, near Trevine, to Jas. Griffiths, 1847 (the receipt of a payment to the writer as a freeman of Haverfordwest), John James, Cov[en]t G[arde]n, London, to Wm. Evans, Haverfordwest, 1809 (a remittance of £30), Anne Gwynne to her brother 'Tom' Gwynne, Haverfordwest, undated (the occupation of land), [General Sir] Tho[mas] Picton, Carmarthen, to J. Philipps, Haverfordwest, 1815 (bills of exchange) (typescript copy), H. Res, Haverfordwest, to H. Goldwyer, Bristol, 1837 (a dispute concerning the title to a piece of ground [at Walton West] (together with the draft of a letter written two days previously by the recipient to the writer), and G. Starbuck, Priory Lodge, near Milford Haven, to the Reverend Frank Thomas, Harroldstone Glen, near Haverfordwest, 1853 (money matters); and a document in the hand of James Pugh, Horse and Jockey, Portfield, 1840, offering a sum of £8 for the lease of land at Portfield.

Miscellaneous letters, etc.:- [ ] to R. Bateman, Trevraner, 1702 (the composition of affairs and minds of all parties) (draft); J. Barlow, Pemboke, to Lord [ ], 1714 (Pembroke election); Jno. Laugharne, Pontvane, to the mayor, aldermen, and common council of Haverfordwest, 1722 (the vacant living of St. Mary); John Philipps, Norbiton Place, to Richard Knethell, Hook (the writer's colliery trade); Row[lan]d P[owell] Laugharne, Orlandon, to [ ] Marks, [17]63 (a bond); J. Allen, Rickeston, to John Gwynne, Lanstinnan, 1801 (money matters, personal); Thos. Glanfield, junior, Bounty Office, Dean's Yard, Westminster, to the Reverend J. [recte Thomas] Bateman, Dinas Parsonage, Fishguard, 1808 (enclosing a description of the estate purchased for augmenting the rectory of Llanychaeth); Margaret James to Jno. Evans, Goat Street [Haverfordwest] [1810] (money matters); John James, High Wycombe, to Wm. Evans, Haverfordwest, 1810 (rights of common in the lordship and parish of Manachlogddu); W. Morgan Meyler, Gloucester, to Jas. Meyler, Haverfordwest, 1829 (a claim to the estate of Richd. Meyler, M.P. for Winchester); D. R. and W. Rees, Stamp Office, Llandovery, to Wm. George, P[r]endergast, Haverfordwest, 1832 (an order for, and a request to advertise, Mr. Morrison's pills); ?N.E. d'Azeglio, Park Lane [London], to William Robertson, Mount Street [London], 1855-1858 (personal); J. Griffith, Castle Cenlas, Letterstone, to [ ], [18]84 (the building of a dairy); and W. H. Greene, Commercial Road [London] to [ ], 1890 (heraldic queries); and two telegrams to Wm. Vaughan James, solicitor, Haverfordwest, [18]83 (regulations affecting Irish cattle, a notice and a letter to Cardigan Urban Authority).

Miscellaneous papers including a draft case on the petition of John Barlow [of Slebech], esq., and others, freeholders of the county of Pembroke, to the House of Commons on behalf of themselves and of Sir Wm. Wogan [of Rickardston], one of the candidates, against Sir Art[hur] Owen [of Orielton], bart., the sitting member, 1700; the case of Lewis Wogan [of Boulston], esq., petitioner against Sir Arthur Owen, bart., sitting member for Pembroke [1712]; a sworn list of the names of freeholders in the parish of Fishguard, 1783; a declaration of Christianity and Protestantism made by Thos. John [Baptist minister, of Little Newcastle], 1795; a certificate of approbation of John Roberts, minister of the Baptist church at Llangloffan, made by members of the church to the Court of Quarter Sessions, 1812; a petition, undated, to the House of Commons for the continuance of the Acts (31, 52 Geo III) 'for amending widening and keeping in repair the Road leading from the Town of Haverfordwest through the Town of Fishguard to the Town of Newport in the County of Pembroke And also from the Town of Fishguard to the City of Saint David's in the said County ...'; the nominatino and appointment of Nicholas Roch of Cocheston, esq., to be sheriff of co. Pembroke, 1835; facsimiles of testimonials by the magistrates of co. Carmarthen and of co. Cardigan to Mr. Richard Kyrke Penson, candidate for the appointment of surveyor of co. Glamorgan, 1853; resolutions of a meeting of freeholders and ratepayers of the parish of St. David's, disapproving of a proposed Joint Lunatic Asylum to be built at Carmarthen for cos. Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke, together with a memorial to the Court of Quarter Session of the county, 1858; a warrant of appointment of William Francis Roth of Butterhill [near Haverfordwest], esq., to be sheriff of co. Pembroke, 1879 (duplicate); etc.

An amended copy of the rules drawn up, 1831, for the Royal William Friendly Society of Milford [co. Pembroke]. On p. 28 John Tidd Pratt, barrister-at-law appointed to certify the rules of savings banks, certifies, 15 February 1832, that he had corrected the rules in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Act of Parliament, and [ ] Rees, clerk of the peace, certifies that they had been confirmed at the Quarter Sessions for co. Pembroke held at Haverfordwest, 4 April 1832.