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- 1870. (Creation)
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85 ff. ; 415 x 310 mm. Filed.
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Mrs Elsie Hughes; Llanfihangel-ar-arth; Purchase; 1993
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Brief for the defence in the case heard at the Carmarthenshire Assizes, July 1870, against Evan and Hannah Jacob of Llanfihangel-ar-arth, co. Carmarthen, for the manslaughter of their daughter, Sarah Jacob (1857-69), the 'Welsh Fasting Girl'; the brief includes transcripts of depositions by witnesses, taken before the magistrates at Llandysul, and of related correspondence.
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English
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Digital version available: http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4631929
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Publication note
See Fowler, Robert: A complete history of the case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl ... (London, 1871); NLW D. G. Lloyd Hughes MS G/34, which contains an account of Sarah Jacob, including the imprisonment of her parents following the event (published in Y Casglwr (Winter 1993)).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23137E
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- Great Britain. Court of Assize (Carmarthenshire) (Subject)
- Jacob, Sarah, 1857-1869 (Subject)
- Jacob, Evan, 19th cent (Subject)
- Jacob, Hannah, 19th cent (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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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);
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