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Llangibby Castle estate records, including court rolls of manors in Monmouthshire, 1262-1911, Glamorgan, 1675-1739, Gloucestershire, 1427-1595, and Somerset, 1609-1691; title deeds, mainly Monmouthshire, 1217-1930, and correspondence, mainly 18-19 cent.; important letters and papers relating to the civil war in Monmouthshire; and manuscripts aquired by the family, including drafts and copies of Modus Tenendi Parliamentarum and Observata Parliamentaria by Henry Elsynge, junior (1598-1654), clerk to the House of Commons, together with minutes of the House of Commons, 1624-1626, calendar of the Journal of the House of Lords, 1647-1768, copies of the Journals of the House of Commons, 1547-1701, index to parliamentary proceedings, temp. Edward III-Edward IV, and, 1724-1743, civil war tracts, the journal of the missionary Dr Joseph Wolff, 1832, 'Prif Achae holh Gymru Benbaladr' in the autograph of Sir Thomas Wiliams, Trefriw, 1578-1609, a seventeenth-century collection of Welsh poetry by the principal 'cywyddwyr'; a memoir of Richard Robert Jones ('Dic Aberdaron', 1780-1843) in his own autograph; English sermons and miscellaneous notes by Rev. Edmund Jones, Pontypool, a sermon notebook of Rev. Philip Henry (1631-1696), the eminent Nonconformist divine, a survey of the lands of Henry, earl of Pembroke, in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, 1570, and a survey of lands in the lordship of Usk, 1619; pedigree rolls of Sir Roger Williams of Penrhos, Monmouthshire, compiled by Thomas Jones ('Twm Siôn Catti'), 1591, and of the Williams family of Llangibby Castle, probably compiled by Sylvanus Morgan.

Letters from various correspondents including J. A. Bradney (ff. 45-60), Thomas Eborall Cooke (ff. 111-114) and Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff (ff. 19, 115-124).

A draft tract entitled 'Proofes drawne from authorities and other reasons why Cadelh prince of Southwales was the eldest sonne of Roderic the greate (kinge of Wales) and that he and his issue after him had a superioritie over the rest of Wales and his two bretheren and the descendantes from them' by, and in the autograph of, Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. The substance of this tract was subsequently incorporated in Vaughan's British Antiquities Revived (Oxford, 1662). The volume contains both the arguments and answers set forth by Vaughan and therefore differs considerably from Peniarth MS 277 which contains only the arguments.
Pasted inside the front cover is a short description of the volume in the form of a cutting from Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge’s Sale Catalogue of the Mostyn Library (1919), p. 22.

Letters from various correspondents, including John Frost, the Chartist leader, 1839 (ff. 75-76).

Letters from various correspondents, including Arthur Machen (ff. 62-82).

Letters from various correspondents, including [Sir] Thomas Phillips of Newport and Llanellen (ff. 27-44).

A transcript, [18 cent., second ½] (watermark similar to Churchill, no. 317, dated 1770), of a summary account of the revenue and expenditure of the French Treasury, mainly for the year 1675 but compiled in 1678 by Gédéon Berbier du Metz, garde du Trésor royal, for king Louis XIV.
It includes incomes from ordinary taxes deducted in the généralités (ancient French tax dominions) on woods, bridges, roads and Paris duties, from the 'Cinq Grosses Fermes', gabelles and other indirect taxes, royal farms and 'Parties casuelles' (incomes related to the selling of public charges), from extraordinary taxes in Pays d'états (free-tax French lands) and Church 'don gratuit' and levies, and from the selling of annuities, 1674-1677 (ff. 4-65 recto); expenses from king's rolls and gifts, 1674-1678 (ff. 66-80 recto); with a total sum for the year 1675 (f. 80). The original summary account is believed to have been destroyed during the French Revolution.

Transcripts of 'awdlau', 'cywyddau' and 'englynion' by Aneirin, Bedo Phylip Bach, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Ieuan Ddu, Dafydd Benwyn, Dafydd Emlyn, Dafydd Llwyd, Dafydd Mathew, Dafydd Nanmor, Edwart Huw, Griffith Thomas, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Guto'r Glyn, Gwilym ap Ifan Hen, Harri ap Hywel, Harri ap Rhys, Karry Lewys, Huw Dafydd Robert, Huw Llyn, Huw Pwnnal, Hyds Grydd, Hywel Dafydd, Hywel Swrdwal, Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, Ieuan Brydydd Hir, Ieuan Ddu ap Dafydd ap Owen, Ieuan Deulwyn, Ifan Tew Brydydd, Iolo Goch, Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Lewis Môn, Lewis Morgannwg, Llywelyn ap Gutyn, Llywelyn ap Hoel ap Ifan ap Gronwy, Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen, Maredudd ap Rhys, Matho Brwmphidi[sic], Morys Llwyd William o Fôn, Syr Owen ap Gwilym, Rhisiart Fynglwyd, Rhys ap Harri, Rhys Deganwy, Rhys Goch Eryri, Rhys Syr Rhys o Garna, Sion Cent, Sion Mawddwy, Sion Phylip, Syr Sion Teg, Sion Tudur, Tomas Brwynllys, Tomas Edward, Tomas llawdden, Tomas Vychan, Tudur Aled, Wiliam Cynwal, Wiliam Dyfi, Wiliam Egwad and Wiliam Llyn. On ff. 15a-16a is a transcript of 'Ymddiddan Arthur a'r Eryr'. Six of the seven unnumbered folios at the beginning contain a list of contents by, and in the autograph of Lewis Morris, who has also supplied or augmented the titles of some of the poems and added copious marginal notes to explain the text and correct some errors of transcription. Sections both at the beginning and at the end of the volume were lost before it was bound in its present form. The volume also includes translation into English, made by J. K[yrle] F[letcher] of the list of contents compiled by Lewis Morris. The original pagination indicates that 48 folios are wanting at the beginning. The revised pagination is in the autograph of Lewis Morris. Most of the folios were at one time mutilated at the edges, but many have been repaired and the missing text supplied by Lewis Morris. This volume was formerly in the possession of Sir Bernard Bosanquet, Justice of the Common Pleas (died 1848), and was one of sixteen Welsh manuscripts from the Dingestow Court Library offered for sale by Messrs Sotheby in July 1916. It was purchased by J. Kyrle Fletcher, Newport, on behalf of Albert Addams-Williams, Llangibby Castle. Inserted in the volume are a short description of the Welsh manuscripts at Dingestow Court, in the form of a cutting from Messrs Sotheby's sale catalogue and a letter, 18 July 1916, from J. Kyrle Fletcher to Captain Albert [Addams]-Williams, giving an account of the sale. It appears from this letter and from the notes he has written in the margin of the cutting that Mr Kyrle Fletcher was under the mistaken impression that this volume was in the autograph of Llywelyn Sion of Llangewydd. Paper 7 un-numbered folios, ff.1-177; 191x128; full Russia with blind tooling, damaged at the spine.

Transcript of the Journal of the House of Commons 16 January 1620/1-18 December 1621. Paper; pp. 1-355 (118 twice); 369 x 231; full calf with gilt ornamentation and blind tooling.

A collection of twenty-one sermons by, and in the autograph of, the Rev. Micah Thomas, first Principal of the Abergavenny Baptist Academy. These sermons were written in 1817-1819 and were delivered by him at Abergavenny during that period and also in 1842-1851. Loosely inserted in the volume is another autograph sermon which he delivered at Abergavenny on Sept 26, 1819. Paper; 178 ff., unnumbered; 164x103; diced sheepskin.

Commonplace book mainly containing proverbs and original and transcribed sermons in English, Latin and Greek. The following inscription appears on the fly-leaf:-'M ... Edwardi Warreni de Wormington in Comit Gloucestrio Anno Doni 1664 Anno Etatis 23'. A short description of the volume, in the form of a cutting from a sale catalogue, is loosely inserted. According to this description, the author appears to have been a Puritan of the Cromwellian period. A note, however, in the margin of this cutting [by Albert Addams-Williams] refutes this suggestion on the ground that the volume contains a sermon based on the martyrdom of Charles I. Paper; 252 pp., unnumbered; 142 x 89;; tooled calf.

Volume lettered 'Chandless Alphabet of Arms', containing the arms of the gentry of Yorkshire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire; pencil, pen-and-ink, and coloured reproductions of some coats of arms; and miscellaneous verses including a long poem entitled 'Memorials of Mortalities'. This volume was formerly Phillipps MS. 11201. Paper; 37 ff., unnumbered; 171x 114; full calf with gilt tooling.

Earl of Strafford's speech to the Irish Parliament. A copy of the address delivered by Sir Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, Lord-Deputy of Ireland, to the Irish Parliament at Dublin, 15 July 1634. Paper; 17 pp., unnumbered; 202 x 160; brown paper.

Autograph manuscript of 'The Gift of Tongues' by Arthur Machen, which was presented by the author to Major Albert Addams-Williams, Llangibby Castle, together with a proof copy of the same, and a covering letter, 8 December 1927, from the author to Major Addanms-Williams. This tale was published in the Christmas 1927 number of T.P.'s Weekly and describes an extraordinary service conducted by the Rev.Thomas Beynon at Bryn Sion Methodist Church, Treowen, Monmouthshire, on Christmas Day, 1870. Paper; pp. 1-23; 254 x 204.

Composite volumes containing journals of tours through Wales by Sir Richard Colt Hoare. The first volume embraces the Vale of Clwyd, Rhuddlan, St. Asaph, Denbigh, Ruthin, Mold, Holywell, Northop, Flint, Hawarden, Chester, Caergwrle, Wrexham, Wynnstay, Chirk Castle, Oswestry, Montgomery, Knighton, Presteigne, Tintern Abbey, Chepstow, Clifton, and Bristol. The second volume embraces (a) Bristol, Newport, Caldicot, Caerleon, Usk, Raglan, Abergavenny, Llanthony, Crickhowell, Tretower, Brecon, Trecastle, Merthyr, Pontypridd, Caerphilly, Tredegar, Newport and Bristol; (b) Newport, Cardiff, Llandaff, Cowbridge, St. Donats, Margam, Aberavon, Briton Ferry, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Kidwelly, Carmarthen, Llandilo, Laugharne, Llanstephan, Narberth, Haverfordwest, Newgale, St. Davids, Fishguard, Cardigan, Aberaeron Talybont, Machynlleth, Llanidloes, Newtown, Welshpool and Shrewsbury; (c) Monmouth and Brockway; and (d) Aberystwyth. As far as can be ascertained from internal evidence these tours were undertaken in 1796. A sale catalogue cutting, pasted on the inside front cover of the first volume, states that the work is in the autograph of Sir Richard Colt Hoare. Portions of it, however, are in a different hand. The work has all the appearances of a draft, some paragraphs being deleted and copious additional notes inserted. The volumes have been assembled and bound in a very careless manner, individual folios and even complete sections being misplaced. The work is divided into chapters which have been numbered at a later date. The first volume contains sections XVI-XX, 20, XXII, and the second volume sections XXIII-XXV, 26. These numbers, as well as the existing pagination, suggest that the work is incomplete. Paper; 424 ff., many of which are numbered; 242 x 193; full sheepskin; 2 vols.

1. Richard Morgan the elder of the Argoed, co. Monmouth, esq. 2. Richard Morgan the younger of the same, his second son, esq. Lease for life of the Glynn farm, p's Trelleek and Lanishen, co. Monmouth.

1. Daniel Tregose of Tregirog, p. Lanishen, co. Monmouth, esq., Thomas Probyn of the town of Monmouth, tanner, and James Yorworth of the Sun Dials, p. Monmouth, gent., executors of the will of John Davill late of the town of Monmouth dec., skinner. 2. William Edmunds of p. Tregare, blacksmith, and Mary his wife. 3. John Lewis of p. Landiloe Cressenny, esq. Conveyance of a barn called Skibbor vach and land in p. Dingestow.

Rental of the estate of Richard Morgan, esq., in p's Penalt, Lanishen, Llansoy, Llanvihangell Torryminnyd [Torymynydd], New Church, Llangum, Cwmcarvan, Llanvihangell Rogiet, Llangiview, Gwernesney, Tintern, Trelleck, Landiloe, Landogo, Whitebrook. Gwernhere, Mamhilad, Landenny, all in co. Monmouth, and Lydney, co. Glos.

1. Charles Atwood of Crick, p. Caerwent, co. Monmouth, gent., and Mary his wife, only daughter of Francis Herbert late of Tuy Vrie, gent., and Mary his wife. 2. William Addams, otherwise William Addams Williams, of Langibby Castle, co. Monmouth, esq., and Ellen his wife. 3. Thomas Phillipps of Eaton Bishop, co. Hereford, esq. Assignement and acknowledgement of a legacy bequeathed by the will of Dela Rivers Williams.