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J. H. Davies, Cwrt Mawr, papers

  • GB 0210 JHDAVIES
  • Fonds
  • 1323-1947 (mainly [1890]-1940)

General correspondence, 1890-1926, of J. H. Davies; correspondence and papers, 1793-1940, relating to members of the Davies family of Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho; papers, 1872-1926, relating to J. H. Davies's professional activities and interests, including a substantial group of records, 1900-1910, deriving from the activities of the Welsh Hospital in South Africa; correspondence and papers, 1896-1926, accumulated by J. H. Davies on various subjects and issues in which he was involved; papers, notes, transcripts of documents, drafts of articles and books etc., [?1890]-[?1926], accumulated by J. H. Davies during the course of his academic and antiquarian researches; stray deeds and documents, and correspondence files, 1323-1924, accumulated by J. H. Davies, together with miscellaneous deeds and documents, and other stray items, 1830-[c. 1920], mainly of Aberystwyth interest; papers and correspondence, 1658-1907, relating to other individuals acquired by J. H. Davies, namely Gwilym Cowlyd, 1658-1907, William Davies, 1822-1855, John Rees, 1844-1867, the Richards family of Darowen, [?1818]-[?1848], and the Rev. William Thomas, 1869-1877; and miscellaneous materials, 1753-1947, accumulated by J. H. Davies or by his family following his death.

Davies, J. H. (John Humphreys), 1871-1926

Leaf from a mediæval Bible,

  • NLW MS 23791F [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
  • File
  • [mid 14 cent.]

A leaf from a manuscript Bible in Latin, copied in England around the middle of the fourteenth century, comprising part of the seventh chapter of the book of Esekiel and the beginning of the eighth, which is marked by an illuminated and decorated initial.

St. Asaph Diocesan Records

  • GB 0210 STASAPH
  • Fonds
  • 1350-2015

Records relating to the administration of the diocese of St Asaphs and Dean and Chapter of St Asaphs Cathedral, comprising episcopal registers, bishops' transcripts, marriage bonds and affidavits, and chapter act books, as well as records relating to: the ordination, appointment and resignation of clergymen and other individuals; the licensing of curates and other individuals; the licensing and consecration of land and buildings; faculty papers; dilapidations and sequestrations; augmentations, the creation of new parishes and boundary changes; episcopal revenues and accounts; parochial returns; deeds; consistory courts; visitations; correspondence; and miscellaneous volumes and papers, including terriers and documents relating to episcopal elections.

Two addtional boxes of faculties relating to parishes within the St Asaph Diocese were deposited February 2006.

Confirmations, 2004-2006 relating to parishes within St Asaph Diocese were deposited April 2006.

A collection of twenty-three boxes containing faculty and consecration papers relating to the St Asaph Diocese were deposited September 2007.

One box containing copies of confirmation registers listing persons in St Asaph Diocese, 2003-2007, were deposited October 2007.

Confirmations registers for parishes within the St Asaph Diocese, 2008-2010, were deposited March 2011, and confirmation registers for parishes within the St Asaph Diocese, 2009-2011, were deposited January 2012. Further confirmation registers for 2012 within the St Asaph Diocese were received December 2012.

Confirmation registers 2012-2013 for parishes within the St Asaph Diocese were received November 2013, and for 2013-2014 in October 2014.

Confirmation registers 2014 for parishes within the St Asaph Diocese were received January 2015.

Confirmation registers 2015 for parishes within the St Asaph Diocese were received July 2015.

Church in Wales. Diocese of St. Asaph

Llawysgrif Boston o Gyfreithiau Hywel Dda

  • NLW MS 24029A.
  • File
  • [1350-1425]

A manuscript of the second half of the fourteenth century containing a Llyfr Blegywryd version of the Laws of Hywel Dda, with main text close to that of BL, Cotton, Titus D ix (siglum L). The manuscript was written by four scribes: scribe A (ff. 1-93), scribe B (f. 93), and the more cursive hand of scribe C (ff. 93 verso, 100-101 verso). Scribe D, of the early 15 cent. (f. 97), was responsible for the extraneous section of quire 12 (ff. 94-99), possibly part of another manuscript. This section includes the prayer Emyn Curig (ff. 98-99 verso).
The main text of folios 1-93 (to ln. 6 of f. 93) was transcribed line-for-line for Moses Williams, 'o lyfr William Philips o Aberhodni', in NLW, Llanstephan MS 75, when all but two leaves were present in the manuscript (ff. 7 & 17 being already lost).

A transcript of the present manuscript is available on the Welsh Prose (Rhyddiaith Gymraeg) 1350–1425 project website, and is available online at http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.cardiff.ac.uk/en/ms-home.php?ms=Bost5 (viewed December 2012)

Harrison deeds and documents

  • GB 0210 HARDEEDS
  • Fonds
  • 1357-1978

The first group of documents deposited in 1976 comprises: deeds and documents, 1357-1963, including deeds relating to the Jones family of Llanloddian and Llandysilio, and the Harrison family estates in the counties of Denbigh and Montgomery, 1504-1912; the Pugh of Llanerchydol estates; the Naylor-Leyland estates in co. Montgomery, 1706-1965, including the estates of Pugh of Brynllywarch, Kerry and the Leighton estate; Naylor family (Liverpool deeds), 1694-1850; Guilsfield and Manafon, 1727-1898; Llandysilio and Llandrinio, 1721-1864; Trefnanney estate (mainly the Rocke and Mytton families), 1709-1908; miscellaneous estates, 1618-1919, (mainly Welshpool, Guilsfield and Castele Caereinion, co. Montgomery, and a few co. Merioneth deeds); the Pennant and Glanhafren estates, co. Montgomery (Pryce Buckley and Andrews families), 1642-1955; Dugdale family (Llanfyllin and Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant, co. Montgomery), 1788-1874; Morris family of Pentrenant, Churchstoke, 1600-1823; Walton family (Cwmllecoediog estate, parish of Mallwyd, counties of Merioneth and Montgomery, and some co. Lancaster material, 1662-1910; Walton family (co. Lancaster, with a few from co. York), 1796-1918; miscellaneous deeds from co. Montgomery, 1543-1901; Pryce family, Cyfronydd estate, 19th century-1929; miscellaneous small groups (Baxter, Glyn and Vaughan families), 1674-1922; John Williams of Plas Tanyrallt, co. Caernarfon, and Vownog, Llanfyllin, co. Montgomery, 1683-1858; miscellaneous deeds, co. Salop, 1546-1915; miscellaneous deeds in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland, 1438-1917; miscellaneous papers (mainly relating to public matters in co. Montgomery, including highways, savings banks, canal shares, the 1847 Montgomery Boroughs election, 17th century newsletters), 1687-1886; legal and monorial documents, 16th c. -18th c.; miscellaneous documents (wills, bonds, receipts, appointments etc.), 1589-1942; Troughton family, co. Warwick, including records relating to the coal and iron mines, 1614-1906; printed latter, mainly sale catalogues, 1767-1910; miscellaneous deeds and documents, mainly relating to co. Montgomery, 17th c-20th c; Naylor-Leyland correspondence, 1907-1917.

The second group, deposited and listed in 1980, comprises documents deriving from p. Forden, co. Mont., 1654-1856, many relating to the Lloyd family; further deeds and documents, 1722-1922, mainly deriving from properties in Forden, co. Mont.; documents relating to p. Chirbury, co. Shrop, 1725-1919, some concerning the Humphreys family; miscellaneous documents, 1679-1847, relating to co. Mont., mainly in p's Montgomery and Llandysul; deeds and documents, 1694-1926, concerning properties in p's Kerry and Llandysul, co. Mont., some relating to the Bank House Estate; documents, 1610-1845, concerning property at Churchstoke and Montgomery, co. Mont.; deeds, 1715-1853, relating mainly to properties in p. Kerry, co. Mont., some deriving from the Turner family estates; deeds, 1656-1867, relating to properties in p's Churchstoke and Castle Caereinion; deeds and documents, 1709-1862, concerning the Trewern and Varchwel estates, mainly in p's Buttington and Llanfair Caereinion; deeds, 1739-1913, concerning properties in p's Llandrinio and Llanllwchaearn, co. Mont., etc.; deeds and documents, 1611-1885, relating to properties at Welshpool; deeds and documents, 1762-1916, relating to properties in p's Llandinam, Manafon, Berriew, co. Mont.; documents, 1792-1955, relating to the Leyland-Naylor estates, and to the Harrison family, 1839-1947; deeds and documents, 1637-1891, from numerous parishes in co's Mont. and Shrop; miscellaneous deeds and documents, 1357-1936, from a large number of p's in co. Mont.; deeds and documents, 1625-1892, relating to properties mainly within Guilsfield and Welshpool, co. Mont.; miscellaneous papers, 1546-1931, mainly concerning the Morris family of Pentrenant, many concerning the p. of Churchstoke, co. Mont.

The supplementary group deposited in 1991 comprises deeds and documents, 1673-1963, relating to properties in p's Welshpool, Manavon and Berriew, co. Mont.; deeds and documents, 1859-1946, relating to properties in p's Welshpool, Berriew, Churchstoke, Llanfair Caereinion etc.; deeds and documents, c.1727-1929, relating to properties at Llanfechan, Llangynniew, Berriew, Llansaintffraid, Guilsfield, Welshpool etc., some relating to the Glanhafren estate; documents, 1683-1858, relating to properties in a large number of parishes in co. Mont.; correspondence and papers relating to Thomas Jones of Llantysilio, 1787-1836, to Major Robert J. Harrison, Llantysilio Hall, Llangollen, 1810-1841, and miscellanea, 1704-1872; legal papers, 1823-1833; and miscellaneous legal and financial papers, 1685-1912, of Montgomeryshire interest.

The fourth group, deposited in Sept. 2000, comprises deeds and documents, 1775-1978, relating to properties in p's Berriew and Guilsfield and in the town of Welshpool, all co. Mont.

Harrisons (Firm)

Horae

  • NLW MS 17520A [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
  • File
  • [1390s]

Book of Hours, mainly of Sarum use, with calendar. The volume has associations with the Caernarfon district.

Ashburnham Welsh Estates Records,

  • GB 0210 ASHHAM
  • Fonds
  • 1392-1968 (predominantly 1600-1925)

Deeds, rentals, estate receiver's accounts, surveys, valuations, correspondence, maps and plans of the Ashburnham estate in Breconshire, Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire, 1392-1968 (predominantly 1600-1925); sale catalogues and related papers, 1900-1923, deeds of the Mellington Hall estate in the parishes of Churchstoke and Mainstone in Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, 1753-1937, mortgaged by Samuel Rankin Heap to the trustees of the Ashburnham estate in 1923; manorial records and related papers of the manors of Cantref Selyf, 1650-1810, Talgarth, 1650-1826, Bronllys, 1661-1757, and Crickadarn, 1743-1809, all in Breconshire, and especially of the manor of Pembrey in Carmarthenshire, 1663-1922 (including papers relating to rights of shipwreck); accounts of collieries in Pembrey, 1714-1852 (mainly 1795 onwards), and papers relating to Pembrey tithes, colliery, port and harbour, and foreshore rights and wrecks, mainly 18-early 20 cent.

Ashburnham family, Earls of Ashburnham

Puleston family records

  • GB 0210 PULESTON
  • Fonds
  • 1394-[19 cent.]

Estate and family records of the Puleston family of Emral, Flintshire, [14 cent.]-[19 cent.], comprising deeds relating to the Puleston estates mainly in Flintshire and Denbighshire, 1394-1849; judicial proceedings, 1546-1791; rentals and surveys, 1485-1786; estate accounts, bills and other financial papers, 1568-1847; manorial records, mainly for the manor of Shocklack, Cheshire, 1461-1788; business correspondence, 1551-1816, mainly 1770s-1790s; and deeds, legal papers and correspondence relating to the Irish estates of the Parry family of Dublin and the Price family of Bryn y Pys, Denbighshire, relating mainly to premises in Dublin, 1485-1795, including papers of John Parry, bishop of Ossory.

Puleston family, of Emral

Noyadd Trefawr estate records

  • GB 0210 NOYAWR
  • Fonds
  • 1395-1914 (predominantly 1530-1860)

Estate and family records of Parry, later Webley-Parry, later Webley-Parry-Pryse, of Noyadd Trefawr, Cardiganshire, including Noyadd Trefawr and Gellidywyll deeds, 1396-1868, rentals of the Noyadd estate, 1778-1860, and Noyadd estate correspondence, 1808-1902, personal papers of Thomas Lewes, post-1747-[c. 1781], including notes on Saxony compiled 1776-1778 during Sir John Stepney's mission to Dresden, 1776-1782, and Dol-gwm deeds, 1590-1703.

Webley-Parry family, of Noyadd Trefawr

St Davids Diocesan Records

  • GB 0210 STDAVIDS
  • Fonds
  • 1397-2005.

Records relating to the administration of the diocese of St Davids and Dean and Chapter of St Davids Cathedral since 1397, comprising episcopal registers, bishops' transcripts, marriage bonds and affidavits, and chapter act books, as well as records relating to: the ordination, appointment and resignation of clergymen and other individuals; the licensing of curates and other individuals; the licensing and consecration of land and buildings; faculty papers; dilapidations and sequestrations; augmentations, the creation of new parishes and boundary changes; dissenters' meeting houses and Roman Catholic chapels; episcopal revenues and accounts; Brecon Collegiate Church; parochial returns; deeds; consistory courts; visitations; correspondence; and miscellaneous volumes and papers, including terriers and documents relating to episcopal elections.

Church in Wales. Diocese of St. Davids

Horae.

  • NLW MS 23731A [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
  • File
  • [15 cent., first ½]

A book of Hours, of unidentified Use, in Latin with a few rubrics in Catalan, [first half of the fifteenth century], from Catalunya or the Pyrenees, containing Calendar (ff. 1-11 verso), Gradual Psalms (ff. 12-27), the Hours of the Virgin, the Mass of the Virgin (ff. 80-6 verso), the Office of the Dead (ff. 87-140), the Penitential Psalms (ff. 141-56), and Litany (ff. 156-66 verso).
The Calendar includes many saints whose cult was particularly important in Spain and Catalunya, including Agatha, Eulalia (of Barcelona, Feb. 12, and [?of Merida], Dec. 10), Baudelius, Quiteria, Justa and Rufina of Seville, Abdon and Senen of Cordoba, Laurence, Felix of Gerona, Theccla, patron of Tarragona, Callistus, patron of Seville, Cecilia, Barbara; similarly the Litany includes Just and Pastor of Alcala de Henares, Cyricus, Theccla and Eulalia; others, such as Radegunde of Poitiers, Tropimus of Arles and Rufus of Avignon mentioned are associated with south and western France. Prayers to St Eulalia are also included in Lauds (f. 51 verso) and Vespers (f. 74 verso). Rubrics by hand I in Catalan on ff. 85 verso-86 verso crossed out, but mostly legible, confirm provenance in the paísos catalans.

The Strata Florida slates

  • GB 0210 STRAFLO
  • Fonds
  • [15 cent.]

Thirty-five inscribed slates from Strata Florida Abbey, Cardiganshire, dated to the fifteenth century. Many of the slates are broken fragments with the inscriptions consequently often being incomplete; all are irregular in shape. The inscriptions comprise both text, the majority being in Welsh with examples of Latin and English, and pictures, comprising zoomorphic and anthropomorphic forms, geometric shapes and patterns, as well as other indefinite markings. The majority of the slates are inscribed on one face only, with eleven bearing inscriptions on both sides (SF 1, 3, 5-7, 15, 19, 22, 24, 28-29).
The five slates SF 13-14, 23, 25-26 are all broken fragments of one original slab (along with other still missing sections); with the exception of SF 13 the fragments can be joined up into one larger piece. SF 13-14 and 26 contain parts of a single epitaph, incised in large outline letters, which together appear to read: 'Hic ia[cet] ...es ap ... [a]p ll[ywelyn] [mona]chus'. SF 33 and 35 are also two fragments of a single slate.

NLW Minor Deposits

  • GB 0210 MINDEPS
  • Fonds
  • [1400x1420]-1998

This is a numbered series currently (August 2006) reaching 1615. The deposits included in it are minor in the sense that they consist of single items, or small groups of documents or papers where the group has been treated as a single item. There is one medieval missal, a few literary manuscripts, a large number of registers and other records from chapels, and much else.

The Merthyr Fragment

  • NLW MS 21972D [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
  • File
  • [15 cent., first ¼]

Three surviving folia of a lost manuscript in Middle English, written by a professional scribe during the first quarter of the fifteenth century, containing parts of the ‘Nun’s Priest’s Link' and 'Nun's Priest's Tale’ from Geoffrey Chaucer’s 'Canterbury Tales'. Textual contents: f. l recto, VII2784-2820 (B2, 3974-4010) and 'Here endeth the p(ro)loge and bygynneth the tale'; f. 1 verso, VII2822-2860 (B2, 4012-4050); f. 2 recto, VII3021-3058 (B2, 4211-4248); f. 2 verso, VII3060-3098 (B2, 4250-4288); f. 3 recto, VII3184-3222 (B2, 4374-4412); f. 3 verso, VII3223-3262 (B2, 4413-4452).
The folia were formerly tipped in at the back of a copy of Dr John Davies’s Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Dictionarium Duplex (1632). Linne R. Mooney has suggested that the Merthyr Fragment may be in the hand of Adam Pinkhurst; see Alexandra Gillespie and Daniel Wakelin (eds.), The Production of Books in England 1350-1500 (Cambridge, 2011), p. 199n.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

Panton Manuscripts

  • GB 0210 MSPANT
  • Fonds
  • [15 cent.]-[19 cent., first ½]

Manuscripts and papers formerly owned by Paul Panton of Plas Gwyn, Anglesey, mainly of Welsh antiquarian, historical and literary interest, including the manuscripts of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd); papers of Paul Panton, senior, and Paul Panton, junior; and manuscripts of, or relating to, antiquarian and literary figures such as William Williams, Beaumaris, Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, and Thomas Pennant.

Panton, Paul, 1727-1797, collector.

Neuadd Wen Manuscripts,

  • GB 0210 MSNEUADD
  • Fonds
  • [15 cent.]-[1920x1930]

Manuscripts from the library of Sir Owen Morgan Edwards (1858-1920), mostly belonging to the nineteenth century, and consisting of original copy of published material in the form of essays, short stories, original and translated poetry, collections of proverbs, etc.; also included in the collection are account books, sermons, diary entries, miscellaneous papers on various literary topics, and autograph letters of well-known Welsh figures.

Edwards, Owen M. (Owen Morgan), 1858-1920

Gwynfryn Manuscripts

  • GB 0210 MSGWYNFR
  • Fonds
  • [15 cent.]-1901

A collection of manuscripts formerly belonging to William Basil Jones (1822-1897), bishop of St Davids, comprising a fifteenth-century digest of commentaries on the Psalms; transcripts of letters from Griffith Jones, Llanddowror (1683-1761) (etc.); and poetry of the Rev. Samuel Phillips, Radnorshire (etc.).

Jones, William Basil, 1822-1897

Edwinsford Estate Records

  • GB 0210 EDWORD
  • Fonds
  • 1411-1863

Records of the Edwinsford estate of the Williams, later Williams-Drummond, family in Carmarthenshire, including deeds, 1411-1860; manorial records, 1500-1744, including records of the manor of Talley, 1551-1744, and Caio, 1500-1734; estate correspondence, 1580-1863, (mainly post 1700), estate and household accounts, 1654, 1670-1903, and rentals, 1707-1843; deeds relating to the Llether Cadfan estate, 1474-1760, and Court Derllys estate, 1563-1805, both in Carmarthenshire.

Williams-Drummond family, of Edwinsford

Hensol estate records

  • GB 0210 HENSOL
  • Fonds
  • 1429-1789

The archive consists almost entirely of title deeds of the Hensol estate, 1419-1789, almost all in Glamorgan.

Talbot family, Earls Talbot

E. Williams collection of Welsh deeds

  • GB 0210 EWIAMS
  • Fonds
  • 1437-1823

Deeds acquired by E. Williams of Hove, relating to premises in Brecknockshire, 1564-1823; Cardiganshire, 1663-1778; Carmarthenshire, 1437-1790; Caernarfonshire, 1437-1822; Denbighshire, 1507-1743; Flintshire, 1469-1761; Glamorgan, 1612-1775; Merionethshire, 1616-1762; Monmouthshire, 1491-1795; Montgomeryshire, 1636-1773; Pembrokeshire, 1645-1797; and Radnorshire and Herefordshire, 1543-1786.

Williams, E., of Hove

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