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Date(s)
- 1870 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 f. ; c. 290 x 290 mm. (photographic image), 370 x 340 mm. (card backing)
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mr Richard Davies-Cooke; Mold; Purchase (with NLW MSS 24140-5); January 2020; 991021842102419.
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Scope and content
A photographic copy, May 1870, of a pedigree of Sir Peter Mutton of Llannerch, chief justice of north Wales, showing also some of the descents of his second wife Ellen (née Williams), compiled on parchment in, or soon after, 1634/5 by Griffith Hughes.
The roll is an example of a target pedigree (style 7 in Michael Powell Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996)). It includes sixty coats of arms around the circumference, representing the most distant ancestors, with a further twenty-one mostly impaled shields dispersed within the body of the pedigree. At the centre is the personal coat of arms, with twenty-seven quarterings, of Mutton Davies, grandson of Peter Mutton, together with two cartouches. The copy is monochrome and on a reduced scale and is assembled from two photographs; it can be discerned that the majority of the coats of arms on the original were fully painted.
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Language of material
- English
- Latin
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, Latin.
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Finding aids
Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c. 800-c. 1800, 3 vols (Aberystwyth, 2022), I, 327.
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
WPR 482 in M. P. Siddons, 'Welsh Pedigree Rolls – Further additions and corrections (2)', NLWJ, 37.4 (2022), 154-157.
Note
Date of original pedigree based on the birth date of Mutton Davies, 19 February 1634, as given in the pedigree, and the death of Peter Mutton in 1637. Date of copy supplied by P. B. Davies-Cooke on the dorse.
Note
The original pedigree is described in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Appendix to the Third Report (1872), p. 260, where it is said to have been hanging in the hall at Llannerch; its current location is unknown.
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Name access points
- Mutton, Peter, -1637 -- Family (Subject)
- Mutton, Ellen, -1643 -- Family (Subject)
- Davies, Mutton, 1634-1684 (Subject)
- Davies, Mutton, 1634-1684 -- Family (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH