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Deeds of the Court Henry estate, mainly in Llangathen and Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire, 1770-1905.

Court leet of Dee Lee Phose, St Dogmaels. (Formerly Haverfordwest MS.) English. Between boards. Donated by Messrs Williams & Williams, Haverfordwest, 1915.

A court leet record book, 25 April 1771-29 December 1806, of the manor of Bishopston, Glamorgan. The volume also contains loose sheets of notes in a 20th century hand relating to some of the records.
The court records are written in what appear to be four different hands. There is some annotation, possibly in the same hand as the loose sheets. There is an index at the back of the volume; it appears that the last page of the index is written in a later hand and is pasted onto the recto of the previous page.

A request made in the 37th year of Queen Elizabeth (1595) by Henry Goodman, one of the messengers of the Court of Exchequer to Cardiff and Milford Haven, for payment of allowances for travel and various charges, etc.

The main records of the court are: (1) civil side: plea rolls which is the formal record of civil actions, mainly debt, but from around 1700 only those actions which reached issue - an extremely small proportion in fact; docket rolls and books which serve as indexes to the plea rolls; prothonotary files which include draft pleadings, including those which did not reach issue, challenge pedigrees, insolvent debtors' papers and slander and libel papers where a defendant had moved for a writ a prohibition to halt the action being heard in the consistory court; feet of fines and common recoveries which are indexed in docket books of fines and recoveries and, for the Brecon circuit only, in the docket books of pleas and fines; and order books, which is a formal records of the court's orders in both civil and criminal cases; (2) Crown side: gaol files which include indictments, depositions of witnesses, recognizances, calendars of prisoners and coroner's inquests; indexes to criminal prosecutions for Flintshire (called Crown books, 1564-1666) and the Brecon circuit (called the Black Books, 1726-1830) though the order books already referred to contain formal records of orders to carry out sentences or to discharge prisoners; calendars rolls of indictments for Radnorshire, 1554-1659, Glamorgan, 1554-1603, Cardiganshire, 1541-1602, and Pembrokeshire, 1541-1622, 1674; and mainprize rolls (only six have survived) which list names of individuals bound over from one sessions until the next for an indefinite period; (3) equity side: pleadings of complainant and defendants together with interrogatories or set questions submitted to witnesses together with their replies; reports of the registrar of the court, decree books and bill books, the latter serving as indexes to the pleadings.

A manuscript entitled The Practice of the Court of Great Sessions for the several Counties of Glamorgan, Brecon and Radnor ... 1763.

A volume of Jno. Lloyd, Mid[dle] Temple, 6 January, 1767, entitled 'Of the proceedings at Law in the Court of Great Sessions held for the Countys of Flint Denbigh and Montgomery in Wales as they are stated in the Books which relate immediately to this Court. Copied from a Book of Jno. Madocks Esqr. all of his own hand writing taken by him in the year 1749 when he went ye Welsh Circuit'. At the end of the volume are some legal precedents and a list of contents.

A record book, in the autograph of John Lloyd, attorney, Wigfair, of actions heard at the Court of Great Sessions for the counties of Denbigh and Flint, 1637-1650, with memoranda relating to legal, financial, and other transactions.

Records of Court Powis Foresters, 1844-1968, relating to the administration of the Society and the management of funds, comprising contribution books, 1844-1901; initiation books, 1853-1900; rules and rituals, 1853-1939; accounts, 1867-1954; financial and administrative papers, 1875-1968; minute books, 1882-1968; annual returns, 1910-1954; and records relating to the sick fund, 1959-1967.

Estate records of the Vaughan family of Courtfield, Welsh Bicknor, Herefordshire, and associated families of Vaughan of Ruardean, Gloucestershire, and Weld of Lulworth, Dorset, 13 cent.-20 cent.; almost all title deeds relating to lands chiefly in Monmouthshire, Radnorshire, Herefordshire, and Gloucestershire,[temp Edward I]-1916; and manorial records, 1454-1792. The Vaughans were notable adherents to Catholics and the archive includes acquittances to Joan Vaughan of Ruardean, a Catholic recusant, for the payment of fines, 1620-1644, and papal licences and instruments of possession of Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster.

Court-Hand Restored, with MS notes, by Andrew Wright. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 29.) English. Cloth. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Photocopy of Helen E. Fulton, Department of English, University of Sydney, Australia's thesis 'Courtly and popular traditions in the love poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym' for the degree of Ph.D. (University of Sydney) 1982.

A manuscript containing copies of titlings for writs of covenant, entries of fines levied and recoveries suffered at courts of Great Sessions for Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, 1799-1806.

Coventry and West Midland Metropolitan Study compiled by Martyn Richards. English. In a file. Donated by Martyn Richards, Coventry, March 1974.

An account book containing particulars of rent paid in respect of Craflwyn in the parish of Beddgelert by Pierce Griffith to Robert Parry, 1748-1759, to Mrs Marylandia Parry, 1760-1768, and to Richard Parry, 1769-1770, and by Martha Pritchard to Richard Parry, 1771-1777, together with details of miscellaneous payments mainly in respect of agricultural produce.

Deeds and documents, 1572-1868, relating to Crafnant and Gerddi Bluog estates of the families of Owen of Crafnant and Price of Gerddi Bluog, mainly in Merionethshire.

A manuscript containing a short account of Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen) (1839-1916) by Sarah Rowlands, Aberystwyth.

Papers, 1772-1990, mainly comprising correspondence and papers of George Crawshay of Haughton Castle, Northumberland, which include letters, 1840-1874, from George Crawshay to his mother Louise Crawshay, his wife Eliza, and other family members; letters, 1840-1890, to George Crawshay from political figures, which reflect Crawshay's active political rôle; a journal, 1836-1837, of George Crawshay whilst in Freiburg under the care of a German tutor; miscellaneous papers, [1830s]-1890, of George and Eliza Crawshay; and letters and papers, 1772-1950, of Florence and James Kennedy Esdaile, daughter and son-in-law of George Crawshay.

A copy of a paper by B. William Murphy, Maryland, USA, entitled 'Creation and Destruction. Notes on Dylan Thomas' used by Colin Edwards (d. 1994), California, when preparing his incomplete and unpublished work on Dylan Thomas.