Volume 1

A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Date:
1900-1922
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [205] *73. The note book of Francis Tate, second judge of the great sessions of the Glamorgan circuit; alphabetically arranged ; 17 cent. Examples of the entries :— f. 3. Abertannad: made p’cell of the county of Salop and hundred of Oswestry, the towne and all the ground and soile therein, 34 and 35 H. VIII. f. 82b. Monmothshire is none of the twelve shires of Wales and yet it is p’te of the principalitie ot Wales, 34 and 33 H. VIII. A few extracts from this MS. will be found in Mont. Coll., ii, 154, and one in Clark, Cartce, iv, No. 1335. [206] *87. f. 195. A brief of the causes of difference between the company of the Tintern Battery Works and Thomas John Williams ; 159—. For another copy see Cotton, Titus F. iv, f. 299. |207] 6**. A volume of collections relating to the county palatine of Cheshire; 17 cent. It contains numerous references to the county of Flint, which was administered with Cheshire. [208] 683. A sort of political Register, probably compiled by, or for the use of, some minister of state in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Contains a number of lists such as — f. 1. The names ot all the shires in [England and] Wales. f. 27. The names of the custodes rotulorum in every shire in [England and] Wales. The following are more worthy of record here :— (a) ff. 48-9. The names of the council in the Marches of Wales ; c. 1587. Earle of Worcester, Earle of Pembroke, B. ot Heref’, B. ot Bangor, B. of St. David, B. of St. Assaphen, S’r James Crofte, S’r John Throkmorton, S’r Andrew Corbet, S’r John Perrot, S’r Nich’s Arnolde, S’r Hughe Cholmeley, S’r John Littleton, S’r John