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A bound volume inscribed on the outer cover 'Tregrug Inclosure, 1808', and containing printed and manuscript material relating to the enclosure of lands, including wastes called Common Coad y Pane and The Forest, within the manor of Tregrug, co. Monmouth. The printed items consist of a copy of An Act for inclosing lands in the Manor of Tregrug in the County of Monmouth, 1808, and of an act relating to enclosure procedure entitled An Act for consolidating in one act certain provisions usually inserted in acts of inclosure; and for facilitating the mode of proving the several facts usually required on the passing of such acts, 2d July 1801 (London, 1807). The manuscript entries include declarations, subscribed 2 August 1808, by Thomas Fulljames [of Hasfield, co. Gloucester, gent.], as commissioner, and Robert Wright Hall [of Cirencester], as surveyor, that they would discharge their respective duties in connection with the enclosure faithfully; a nomination, subscribed 2 August 1808, by proprietors of land within the manor, of William Morgan of Mamhilad, co. Monmouth, esq., as banker in connection with the project; an affidavit, signed 9 August 1808, by George Long and William Womack, land surveyors, concerning the survey they had made of the lands to be enclosed; copies of notices of meetings to be held, and of declarations issued re public carriage-ways, public foot-paths, and private roads, 1808-1809, signed by Thomas Fulljames; reports of meetings held, and of business transacted, 1808-1809, also signed by Thomas Fulljames; copies of the announcements of allotments to be sold and of the conditions of sale; the commissioner’s statement of account, 1808-1809; and a declaration, signed by the Reverend John Thomas, clerk, and Thomas Jones, esq., Justices of the Peace, 27 June 1810, concerning the completion of certain public carriage roads.

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.