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- 1781-1911 / (Creation)
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46 ff. (ff. 1, 40 verso-41 inverted text) ;225 x 85 mm.Bound in full calf with blind tooling on both covers, rebacked at NLW; remains of two metal clasps.Leaves excised after ff. 21, 24, 32 and 39; small hole in f. 1.Leaves excised after ff. 21, 24, 32 and 39; small hole in f. 1
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Archival history
The volume was owned by Thomas Edwards's grandson, George Edwards (1841-1893) of Norwood, Surrey, and the latter's son, Tom Edwards (b. 1879) of Clapham (ff. 44 verso, 45 verso, inside front cover).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bloomsbury Book Auctions; London; Purchased at auction, lot 50; 11 May 2000; B2000/8.
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Scope and content
A notebook containing memoranda, 1781-1794, of Isaac Lloyd, an excise officer stationed at Pwllheli and later Bangor, mainly relating to his work. They include petitions requesting transfers of duties, examples of summonses and other legal documents, chemical tests for beers, wines and spirits, medical recipes and personal and family memoranda (ff. 1-21, 25-28 verso, 29 verso-31, 40 verso-41, 42 recto-verso, 43 verso-45, 46 recto-verso, inside back cover). The volume was subsequently used to record farming accounts and memoranda, 1803-1809, probably by Thomas Edwards, a farmer in the vicinity of Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, and Church Stoke, Montgomeryshire (ff. 11, 28 verso-29, 32-40, 41-43, 45 verso-46, inside back cover).
Family births and deaths were later recorded in the volume by Edwards and his descendants, the last entry being made in 1911 (ff. 10, 11, 21-24 verso, 28 verso, 41, 44 verso).
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English.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23809C.
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
July 2011.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;