Abbeys and churches of Shewsbury
- NLW MS 4709C
- File
- c. 1840
A history, compiled c. 1840, possibly by Edward Edwards, of the abbey of St Peter and St Paul, the vicarage of the Holy Cross and several churches, all in Shrewsbury.
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Abbeys and churches of Shewsbury
A history, compiled c. 1840, possibly by Edward Edwards, of the abbey of St Peter and St Paul, the vicarage of the Holy Cross and several churches, all in Shrewsbury.
A register, 1647-1649, giving particulars of the sale of episcopal lands in England and Wales, including the dioceses of St Asaph, Bangor, St Davids and Llandaff.
An index to Brecknockshire wills
An index to wills, mainly of Brecknockshire interest, at the Hereford District Registry and elsewhere, compiled by H. J. T. Wood, a member of a family connected with Gwernyfed, Brecknockshire.
A manuscript containing a terrier of lands, 1616, in Cheshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, together with memoranda involving money owing and lent, etc.
Prison Recollections of D. M. Lewis
Atgofion teipysgrif David Morris Lewis yn dwyn y teitl 'From Prison to Prison', yn ymwneud รข'i yrfa yng ngharchardai Wakefield, Wandsworth, Amwythig, Abertawe, Dartmoor, Caerloyw, Canolfan Gadw Brynbuga ac Albany, Ynys Wyth, 1937-1971. / Typescript recollections of David Morris Lewis entitled 'From Prison to Prison', relating to his career in the prison service at Wakefield, Wandsworth, Shrewsbury, Swansea, Dartmoor, Gloucester, Usk Detention Centre and Albany, Isle of Wight, 1937-1971.
Part of Idris Davies manuscripts
Miscellaneous prose pieces by Idris Davies, [1930s]-[1940s], comprising an essay entitled 'Teify Side' (ff. 1-3); drafts of a memoir entitled 'A Schoolboy During the Great War' (ff. 4-17); 'Portrait of an Old Welsh Miner' (ff. 18-29); fragment of a novel or short story (ff. 30-4) and draft of the beginning of a novel (ff. 35-9); five brief, surrealistic prose pieces (ff. 40-51); letter to the News Chronicle about a Fascist demonstration in Trafalgar Square, 1937 (ff. 52-7); Holiday in a Mining Valley (ff. 58-73); a Welsh version of 'A Schoolboy During the Great War' (ff. 74-84); and copies of two prose pieces published in Comment, 19 September 1936 and 23 January 1937 (ff. 85-6).
Posters and election addresses relating to the general election,
Part of Lord Temple-Morris Papers,
Letter, posters and election addresses for Norwood during the 1970 general election.
Part of The Alun Hoddinott Archive,
Letters, 1954-1994, relating to commissions and performances of works at the Cheltenham Festival, including the first public performance of the Clarinet Concerto (Opus 3), 1954.
Cheltenham Festival.
Part of Dr Joseph Parry Manuscripts,
The score of an orchestral overture in D Major (No. 1), by Dr Joseph Parry, dated London, 9 October 1869.
Joseph Parry.
Volume 4 : [Experiments in Grass Cultivation].
This album contains 72 b&w photographs relating to plots and experiments into grass and clover cultivation and related topics.Captions on the reverse of many of the photographs indicate they were taken in Drownboy field, Jealott's Hill, Berkshire.
Untitled
Black & white & col photographs of Gomer Lewis' studio, his (and possibly other artists) artworks.
Lewis, Gomer, 1921-
Album bound in black leather with gold tooling and slightly damaged. Includes commercially and privately produced photographs, many of Lancaster and the north west of England. Of particular note are images of the Yarlside Iron Mines, street scenes in Preston (Lancashire), Lancaster Quay Commissioners trip 188-, River Thames after a University boat race, numerous views of Downing Hall, Flintshire and grounds, some being snowscenes.
A manuscript armorial of English and Welsh families entitled The nomenclature or Heralds Alphabett of Surnames, L-Z (vol. II), with additional notes by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King at Arms. Painted coats-of-arms have been affixed to the manuscript at relevant points throughout the work.
Le Neve, Peter, 1661-1729
A manuscript armorial of English and Welsh families entitled The nomenclature or Heralds Alphabett of Surnames, A-K (vol. I), with additional notes by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King at Arms. Painted coat-of-arms have been affixed to the manuscript at relevant points throughout the work.
Le Neve, Peter, 1661-1729
Part of Kyffin Williams Archive
Papers, 1973-2004, relating to the Royal Academy of Arts, including minutes of the General Assembly, 1976-1977.
Letters and papers re. a projected book by Dylan Thomas about the streets of London,
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953
A manuscript containing a copy made by J. T. Evans, rector, of the register of baptisms, 1680-1707, for the parish of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.
Evans, J. T. (John Thomas), 1869-1940
Part of Peniarth Manuscripts Collection
A handbook of English law containing the following books: 'premier livre des personels plees'; 'Ie secunde des condiciouns de vileins'; 'Ie livre des disseisines'; 'Ie livre de mort dauncestre & primes de intrusiouns'.
The text is incomplete.
Descriptio Angliae et Genealogiae Regum Angliae
Part of Mostyn Manuscripts
Two tracts - (a) a description of England, in fifteen chapters, compiled in 1445, beginning 'tractatus iste compendiose extractus de diversorum historiographorum diversis ... describit Angliam ... '; (b) a genealogical chronicle in the same hand projected from Adam to Brutus and from Brutus to Henry VI, but in execution brought only to Edward I, with a continuation in a sixteenth century hand to Henry VIII (1518). The pattern of this genealogical chronicle is that of the Promptuarium Bibliae attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis. The text begins 'Adam in agro damasceno ...' (cf. Thomas Jones, Y Bibyl Ynghymraeg (Cardiff, 1940), p. xiii) and has lines added for the Saxons, kings of Britain, princes of Wales, the different divisions of Saxon England, kings of England, princes of Demetia, princes of Venedotia, &c.
'Scrapiana', or cuttings from newspapers, both Welsh and English, collected by Charles Ashton. The cuttings, ranging from 1884 to 1890, are from Y Dydd, Gwalia, Cambrian News, Liverpool Daily Post, Tit-bits, Y Drych, The Welsh Farmers' Gazette, Liverpool Weekly Mercury, Wellington Journal, Y Llan, Oswestry Advertizer, and the Montgomeryshire Express.
Charles Ashton (compiler).