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A list of persons balloted, and substitutes, sworn and enrolled to serve as private militia men for the hundred of Llangyfelach, Glamorgan, 1760-1770; with a copy of a letter by L. Griffiths, 4 September 1817, on the deplorable situation of the Glamorgan farmers.

Certificates of the Contract for the Redemption of Land Tax in the County of Glamorgan, 1799 (together with related receipts, schedules etc.), related certificates and schedules, 1798-1819, and copies of the Poor Rate assessments for the parish of Llantwit Major for the years 1826 and 1834.

A table dealing with the commutation of tithes in Cadoxton juxta Neath, Glyncorrwg, Llangyfelach, Llantwit Lower and Bonvilston and Llancarfan in Glamorgan, together with particulars of certain tithe charges on the parish of St Peter's, Carmarthen.

(a) A notebook (8 pp., in Welsh) containing 'Trioedd y Lladron', twelve in number, 'o Lyfr Thomas Philip o Dreos', in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg, followed by 'Credo Wladwriaethol' written in another hand; (b) The Bardic Institutes in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg (in English): (i) '[The] Bardic Institution according to [the] Laws of Gruffydd ab Cynan'. A note at the end states that this is an abstract of the Institutes as given by Dr John David Rhys in his Welsh Grammar, 1593; (ii) 'The Bardic Institutes as Traditionally retained down to the Present Day, by the Glemorganshire Bards who assert, and believe that they are unalteredly the same with those of the Ancient British Bards and Druids'.

Forty-seven volumes of 'notae' or abstracts and extracts, principally of Monmouthshire interest, compiled from original records in both public and private possession. With the exception of letters and some insets they are all in the autograph of Bradney. Among the many private collections of title-deeds and documents from which the majority of these notes have been taken, in addition to those of Bradney himself, are those in the possession or custody of Albert Addams-Williams, Llangibby Castle; Garnet Edwin Bevan, Grosmont; S. C. Bosanquet, Dingestow Court; Alfred Bowen, Usk; Burleigh Cecil, Oaklands Park, Weybridge (Surrey); Mrs Morgan Clifford, Llantilio Crossenny; William Cooke, Hereford; the Reverend Henry Charles Davies, St Hilary, Cowbridge (Glamorgan); J. H. Davies, Cwrtmawr (Cardiganshire); Arthur Davies-Berrington, Pantygoitre, Llanfair Kilgeddin; the Reverend Edward Napleton Dew, Welsh Newton and Llanrothall (Herefordshire); Mrs Earnshaw, Court St Lawrence, Llangoven; Miss Charlotte Mary Evans, Nantyderi, Goytrey; Richard Feetham, Penrhos; G. C. Francis, solicitor, Chepstow; Frederick Gardner, solicitor, Newport; Illtyd Gardner, solicitor, Abergavenny; Mrs Gazzard, The Goitre, Grosmont; Isaac George, Llanfihangel-iuxta-Usk; Walter Gustard, Newport; G. E. Halliday, Cardiff; surveyor to the archdeaconry of Llandaff; Dom. J. Cuthbert Hedley, Roman Catholic bishop of Newport; Reginald Herbert, Clytha; John Harvey Hooper, Tutnall, near Worcester; Sir Henry Mather Jackson, Bart, Llantilio Crossenny; Mrs Newton Jackson, Blackbrook, Skenfrith; Gwilym Cristor James, Merthyr (Glamorgan); the Reverend Lemuel James, Ystradmynach (Glamorgan); Alfred Jones, Osbaston; Edmund Jones, Fforest Legionis, Pont-neath-Vaughan (Glamorgan); William Lewis, Tyhir, Pontypridd (Glamorgan); Sir John Lloyd, Dinas (Brecknockshire); --- Nesbitt, solicitor, Abergavenny; Illtyd Nicholl, The Ham, Llantwit Major (Glamorgan); the Reverend Andrew Pope, Upper Bishop, Ross (Herefordshire); Simon B. Preece, Llangattock Lingoed; James Gilbert Price, Abergavenny; the Misses Prothero, Moynes Court, Mathern; John Allan Rolls, 1st baron Llangattock, The Hendre, Llangattock Vibon Avel; Glen Taylor, Neath (Glamorgan); John Tyler, Maesderwen, Pontypool; Mrs Vinter, Moor, Clifford (Herefordshire); D. T. Newton Wade, solicitor, Newport; J. Maitland Watkins, solicitor, Usk; Thomas Watkins, solicitor, Pontypool; T. P. Holmes Watkins, solicitor, Pontypool; Messrs Watts, Watts and Co., colliery proprietors, Cardiff (Glamorgan); William Welch, Monmouth; Mrs Florence White-Spunner, Llanvapley Court; William Henry Smith Whitney, Grosmont; Messrs Williams and Tweedy, solicitors, Monmouth; T. B. R. Wilson, registrar of the diocese of Monmouth; and others. Additional sources include the papers of Thomas Wakeman, The Graig, Llantilio Crossenny, largely in the custody of the Society of Antiquaries, and transcripts of public and other records by William Dean, Ealing, London; Francis Green, St Davids; John Hobson Matthews, Cardiff; and others. This volume contains Chancery Proceedings, Proceedings of the Court of Requests and Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1329-1698, but principally of the reign of Elizabeth, relating to properties in Bettws Newydd, Christchurch, Dingestow, Dinham, Dixton, Grosmont, Gwernesney, Ifton, Llanddewi Rhydderch, Llanddewi Skyrrid, Llangattock Lingoed, Llangeview, Llangibby, Llanishen, Llantilio Crossenny, Llantilio Pertholey, Llanvapley, Llanvetherine, Llanwern, Mamhilad, Monmouth, Nash, Newport, Penbiddle, Penhow, Penrhos, Pen-y-Clawdd, Peterstone, Rockfield, Rumney, St Brides Wentloog, St Lawrence, St Mellons, St Woolos, Skenfrith, Staverny, Tregaer, Usk, Wonastow, etc., and in Glamorgan and Herefordshire; and miscellanea, including the 'compotus' of the sheriff of Monmouthshire, 1675-1676, and deeds relating to Graig Farm, parish of Grosmont, 1697-1902, and Cilfeigan, parish of Llanbadoc, 1881.

Extracts from the Book of Heirs (1-22 Elizabeth), abstracts of inquisitiones post mortem for Glamorgan (Henry VIII - Charles I), extracts from subsidy rolls for the western hundred of Glamorgan (34 Henry VIII), an abstract of a survey of Dinas Powis (8 Elizabeth), notes on the lordship of Gower (1093 - 1182) and materials for a history of parishes in the lordship, together with Llangyfelach, Llanguicke and Llansamlet.

A note-book possibly in the hand of the Reverend John Evans, Baptist minister, best known as John Evans, Abercannaid, Merthyr. The contents consist entirely of sermon notes, 1827-1829 and undated. Inset are loose items, including a note addressed by D. Rhys Stephen, from Abertawy, to the Reverend John Evans, [18]31 (accompanying a copy of a three-stanza hymn by John Morris, headed 'Hymn dduwiol a gyfansoddwyd i'r Parch. Mr. Davies, Alltwen'), and further sermon notes, [18]44 and [18]67, bearing the initials 'J.E.'., or the signature 'John Evans'.