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Church of England. Diocese of Saint Asaph
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Antiquarian notes on St Asaph clergy

  • NLW MS 24138E.
  • File
  • [c. 1790]-[c. 1853]

A volume compiled, [c. 1790], by the Rev. Thomas Edwards of Mount Sion, Selattyn, Shropshire, rector of Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire, containing lists of incumbents for each parish in the Diocese of St Asaph, arranged mostly alphabetically by parish (pp. 1-4, 7-260), together with lists of the bishops, deans, archdeacons, prebendaries and chancellors of the diocese (pp. 261-289). The volume contains later additions by Edwards and, to about 1853, in the hand of the Rev. Richard Bonnor Maurice Bonnor.
The lists are written on rectos, often with notes inserted on the versos opposite. The volume also includes an index of parishes (pp. 540-543), notes on 'Antient Usages & Customs in North Wales' (pp. 293-295) and ecclesiastical wakes (pp. 299-302) and a poem (p. 297).

Edwards, Thomas, 1726?-1800

Antiquitates Parochiales, &c.

  • NLW MS 24126B.
  • File
  • 1809-1825

A notebook, 1809-1825, of the Rev. Peter Bailey Williams, Llanrug, containing a transcript, 1809, of Henry Rowlands's 'Antiquitates Parochiales' (pp. 1-107). The volume also contains a note (in Latin and English) concerning Mathew de Englefield, Bishop of Bangor's response to a writ of quo warranto (pp. 108-112); transcripts (in Latin and English) concerning the Merioneth Commission of the Peace for 1649 (pp. 113-119); part of a translation into English of the Statute of Rhuddlan of 1284 (pp. 121-122); 'A short account of Holyhead Church by L[ewis] Morris' (pp. 123-131); and a variety of transcripts and notes mostly concerning impropriations and other aspects of Church finances in the Dioceses of St Asaph and Bangor (pp. 132-182).
The 'Antiquitates Parochiales' was transcribed from a manuscript, apparently in the hand of Henry Rowlands, then in the possession of the Rev. J[ohn] Williams of Treffos, Anglesey (see p. 1); an additional section concerning Beaumaris, found in some manuscripts (see for instance NLW MS 115B), is not present. 'Antiquitates Parochiales' remained unpublished on Rowlands' death in 1723. The initial portions were first published in The Cambro-Briton, 2 (1820-21), 52-55 and 151-154, in an English translation by Peter Bailey Williams, possibly based on the present transcript (see the marks and marginal note on pp. 5 and 9, coinciding with the end points of the two articles), although the preamble (p. 1) differs significantly. The work was published in its entirety, in parallel Latin and English versions, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1 (1846), 126-135, 305-317, 389-396; 2 (1847), 6-13, 135-140, 215-222, 292-298; 3 (1848), 55-60, 164-169, 240-243, 291-301; 4 (1849), 36-44, 101-114, 176-193, 261-291. The names entered by Williams inside the covers and on pp. i-ii provide an informal, partial, index to the 'Antiquitates Parochiales'.

Williams, P. B. (Peter Bailey), 1763-1836

Letters

Autograph letters and fragments of letters from a variety of correspondents, many of them dealing with affairs in the dioceses of Bangor and St Asaph.

Miscellanea

Papers, 1687, relating to the petition of Thomas East, engraver, for payment of amounts due to him for engraving large double judicial seals of silver for the Courts of Great Sessions for the counties of 'Carnarvan, Merionith, and Anglesey', 'Denbigh, Montgomery and fflint', and '[Carmarthen] Cardigan and Pembrook', 'a large double Silver Seale for the Chancellor of Denbigh and Montgomery', and 'a large steale Plate' for the embassy at Constantinople; a copy, with an English translation, of the charter of Edward II to the borough of Carmarthen, 1312; papers relating to the dioceses of Llandaff and St. Davids; etc.

Notebook

A notebook containing 'collectanea' of Thomas relating to the diocese of St Asaph, the Church and Nonconformity in Wales, archaeology, pedigrees, poetry, place names, autograph signatures, etc.

Notebook

A notebook containing 'collectanea' of Thomas relating to the diocese of St Asaph, the Church and Nonconformity in Wales, archaeology, pedigrees, poetry, place names, autograph signatures, etc.

Notebook

A notebook containing 'collectanea' of Thomas relating to the diocese of St Asaph, the Church and Nonconformity in Wales, archaeology, pedigrees, poetry, place names, autograph signatures, etc.

Notebooks

Four notebooks containing 'collectanea' of Thomas relating to the diocese of St Asaph, the Church and Nonconformity in Wales, archaeology, pedigrees, poetry, place names, autograph signatures, etc.

Notebooks

Four notebooks containing 'collectanea' of Thomas relating to the diocese of St Asaph, the Church and Nonconformity in Wales, archaeology, pedigrees, poetry, place names, autograph signatures, etc.

St Asaph (Bishop's Palace) Manuscripts,

  • GB 0210 MSSABISH
  • Fonds
  • 1926.

This collection comprises facsimiles made at the National Library of Wales in 1926 of four manuscript volumes belonging to the see of St Asaph. They include transcripts from Llyfr Coch Asaph; an entry book exhibited at the visitation of Thomas Davies, bishop of St Asaph, 1561; a court book of the manor of Llanelwy, 1475-1489.