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- [1679] x [1682] (Creation)
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118 ff. (old pagination 1-170 with errors) 175 x 110 mm. Sprinkled calf with gold fillets and gold-tooled spine-panels
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Signature of N. Wms (17/18 cent.), erased, on f. 1
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Sold at; Sotheby's,; 22 July 1988 (lot 323)
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A volume containing an autobiographical account by John Gwyn (fl. 1660, DNB) of Trelydan, Guilsfield, co. Montgomery, a captain in the Royal Regiment of Guards, of his military career during the English Civil War, prefaced by dedicatory epistles to the king, the dukes of York, Buckingham, Monmouth, Albermarle, the earls of Pembroke, Maxenfield [? Macclesfield], the officers of the Board of Green Cloth, Sir John Salsbury, and Colonel [? Thomas Salusbury]. One of several copies probably written, [1679] x [1682], by a professional scribe for Gwyn's patrons. The text, probably from Cardiff MS 2.269, was edited by Walter Scott in Military memoirs of the great Civil War being the military memoirs of John Gwynne (Edinburgh, 1822) and by Norman Tucker in Military memoirs, the Civil War: Richard Atkyns and John Gwynne (London, 1967). Notes comparing the manuscript with Scott's edition, found loose within the volume, have been tipped in at the end.
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- English
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English
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Note
For an account of the other known copies of this manuscript, see Graham C. G. Thomas, Military Memoirs of the Civil War by John Gwyn of Trelydan, National Library of Wales Journal, 29 (1995-1996), 115-17. See also NLW MS 4900A.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 22632A