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Date(s)
- 1770-ca. 1850 / (Creation)
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Extent and medium
i, 57 ff. (paginated 1-114) ; 300 x 190 mm. and less. Half-leather; re-bound at NLW using original covers.
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Biographical history
Archival history
Armorial book-plate of Charles John Bird inside front cover. Signature of Richard Bethell, late 18th century, on p. 7.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
A. R. Heath; Bristol; Purchase; 1994
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Scope and content
A volume relating to the murder in 1770 of William Powell, Glanareth, Llangadog, co. Carmarthen, compiled, ca. 1850, by Charles John Bird (1777-1854), rector of Mordiford, co. Hereford. It comprises copies of An Authentic Trial of William Spiggot [and others] ... for the Inhuman Murder of William Powell ... (Hereford, 1770) (wanting final leaf, the deficiency supplied in manuscript) (pp. 7-46), and The Trial of William Spiggot [and others] ... (Glocester, [1770]) (pp. 75-90); and memoranda, notes, and extracts from printed sources concerning the case in the hand of C. J. Bird, including a transcript of an account published in the Hereford Journal, 31 March 1771, of the trial and acquittal of Powell's brother-in-law, Marmaduke Bowen, Cil-y-cwm, co. Carmarthen, and others as being accessories before and after the fact [in which trial C. J. Bird's father, William Bird, defended the accused] (pp. 49-73).
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Language and script notes
English
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Publication note
See Herbert J. Lloyd-Johnes: 'The Glanareth Murder' in Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1949 (London, 1949).
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Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23206D
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Name access points
- Powell, William, d. 1770 (Subject)
- Powell, William, d. 1770 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Spiggot, William, alleged murderer (Subject)
- Bowen, Marmaduke (Subject)
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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
February 2009.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);