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Fifty-three files of unbound material accumulated by Bradney during the preparation of A History of Monmouthshire and containing press and proof copies, transcripts and abstracts of, and extracts from, manuscripts, deeds and documents, holograph and autograph letters, pedigrees and genealogical notes, press cuttings, etc., generally arranged under parishes. Much of the material is in the autographs of friends and official copyists. This volume contains extracts from Feet of Fines, Chancery Proceedings, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Patent Rolls and Crown Book, 1306/7-1587; letters, 1922-1928; and genealogical notes relating to the family of Kemeys of Mathern, Cefn Mabli, etc., including extracts from the parish registers of Mathern, 1568-1624, and of Little Birch (Herefordshire), 1790-1845, and draft pedigrees; and a list of wills of persons of the name of Herbert, Lewis, Walter and Moryce, 1558-1689.

One of thirty-nine volumes containing copies and abstracts, in the autograph of Bradney, of wills and administrations, principally of Monmouthshire interest, among the ecclesiastical probate records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury preserved at the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House, London and among the ecclesiastical probate records preserved at the District Probate Registries at Llandaff, Hereford and Gloucester, together with holograph and autograph letters to Bradney and miscellaneous notes, draft pedigrees and other insets in the autographs of friends and official searchers. Several of the volumes are indexed. This volume contains wills of the family of Walter, etc. from various sources, 1502-1840.