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England and Wales. Court of Great Sessions (Montgomeryshire)
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Legal precedents,

  • NLW MS 23892B.
  • File
  • 1782-1788.

A book of legal precedents, 1782-1788, containing notes of legal opinions and of cases heard before numerous courts, including those of King's Bench and the Montgomeryshire Great Sessions, together with transcripts of legal documents.
The volume was probably compiled by John Hughes of Llain-wen, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, notes and transcripts relating to whose articles of clerkship (with John Dickin of Welshpool, 1781, and with George Griffin of Lincoln's Inn, 1785) are found on pp. 95-114. A portion of the volume was 'Copied out of Mr Dickin's Manuscript Book' (p. 94); transcripts of an affidavit of service of John Hughes and of his admission as attorney at the Court of King's Bench, both 1787, have been tipped in at the end of the volume (pp. 119-122).

Montgomeryshire pedigrees, &c.,

Draft pedigrees and miscellaneous genealogical extracts and notes from parish registers and other manuscript sources and from printed publications relating largely to individual Montgomeryshire families, e.g., Jervis of Llanbryn-mair, Burton of Darowen, Bennett of Trefeglwys, etc., Bowen of Trefeglwys and Llanwnnog, Swancott of Trefeglwys and Llanwnnog, Kinsey of Llandinam, Savage of Trefeglwys and Llanwnnog, Goodwyn of Trefeglwys, Worthington of Trefeglwys, Mills of Trefeglwys, Jerman of Trefeglwys, Ashton of Trefeglwys, Pughe of Darowen and Penegoes, Pugh of Aberffrydlan [in Llanwrin] and Abergwydol [in Darowen], etc. Among other items included in the extracts are some nineteenth century statistics of Calvinistic Methodist churches and Sunday Schools in the Llanidloes area; material relating to Llanbryn-mair from parochial records, 1663-1821, and from records of the Court of Great Sessions, 1662-85/6; abstracts of probate records of Quakers in Trefeglwys, 1708-76; and a pedigree chart of Principal J. H. Davies, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.