File MS 14. - Miscellaneous notes.

A notebook with sections arranged in alphabetical order, containing miscellaneous notes on local history; origin of place-names; brief biographies; genealogies of Catholic families; parish register entries; monumental inscriptions; the history of recusancy in Monmouthshire and other areas of Wales and the Marches; and two newspaper cuttings. Some of the more significant entries include: Abergavenny Priory and the Gunter family, Abergavenny parish church, and the Catholic Mission; William Blethyn, Bishop of Llandaff in 1575; Blackbrook and family of Briggs (including a family tree); Beili Baker, with a family tree of Baker of Abergavenny; Berington; Betws, origin of the name; Carne family, sixteenth century; Chantries in Monmouthshire and Cardiff churches; Morgan, Croft (and George) of Llanfair Cilgoed, family tree; Christchurch, tombstone inscriptions; Dingestow, parish register entries; Fowles of Sussex; The Graig and Plas Ifor in Llantilio Crossenny, with family tree of Wakeman, Prichard, and Prichard of Severney; The Hardwick, with family tree of Jones; Charles Horton; Jacobites in South Wales; Kemble family; Lewis of the Van; Llantilio Crossenny and Walter Powell; Llanfair Cilgoed; Morgan family, including family trees for Morgans of Llantarnam, Morgans of Machen, Morgan and Lewis families; Monmouth, Catholic mission, recusants, and parish register; St Michael, hill-top churches dedicated to; Needham of Hilston, family tree; Newport, monumental inscriptions; Perth-hir, with family tree of Powell and Lorymer; Robert Pugh, work by; Pontypool iron works; Morgan Phillips, one of the founders of Douai, died 1577; Pepys family, a short pedigree; Recusants in Wales and the Marches; Rockfield; Stradling family of St Donat's; Skenfrith, origin of the name, and parish register entries; Skyrrid, Great; Sea-Serjeants of South Wales; Tre-Owen, man. Monmouth; Tre-Ifor, parish of St Maughan's with family tree of James William Winslade, recusant, of St Bride's Major, 1577. At the back of this notebook Canning has supplied a list of references from Archaeologia Cambrensis and the Cymmorodion Transactions.