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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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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    learned Dr. Lloyd, bishop of St. Asaph, has corrected the former translations of the Bible, and that his pious intentions is for erecting a Press in his diocess for the new reprinting of the Holy Bible and other Godly bookes, for the benefit of the natives of that country.” (c) f. 63. Observations on some books written against the clergy, but more especially those by Martin Marprelate. [216] 814. f. 114b. Notes by Humphrey Wanley of charters, &c., in the Harleian library relating to (i.a.) Wales. Unimportant. [217] 825. ff. 86-/. Names of the tenants of the late duke of Bucking- ham in the county of Hereford, holding of the lordship of Brecon ; 1 / cent. Extract from Dineley’s Beaufort Prog7'ess (ed. Banks), clxvii. F. 84 gives a Roman inscription discovered at y Gaer near Brecon, copied from Dineley, clvi, and f. 87b is an account of the duke of Beaufort’s arrival at Brecon, also taken from Dineley, cxlix. [218] 828. A volume of the collections of capt. John Stevens for his continuation of Dugdale’s Monasticon. The compiler seems to have been in the king’s service in Wales, having his residence in [Welsh] Poole, with his duties extending over the counties of Montgomery and Merioneth. At f. 10 is an interesting memorandum of the state of public feeling in Wales during the revolution of 1688. At his departure from home for a short period during that year he left the Welsh well affected towards the government of James, but upon his return he found a great change, which he attributes chiefly to the influence and exertions of bishop Lloyd of St. Asaph, one ol the seven bishops who had refused to read James’s Declaration of Indulgence. Some rioting took place, and the houses of those who were believed to favour the deposed dynasty suffered slightly. The narrator received warning that he had better clear out of the country, which he at once did. («) ff. 55-6. The statute for the foundation of the Hospital of Swansea, A.D. 1332 ; late 1/ or early 18 cent. copy. Another copy is in Harl. 1249, f. 204, with the appropriation of Oystermouth at f. 161. Translations of these documents are in Arch. Camb., 4th Ser., vii, 3 and 10.