Letters and related documents of William Lloyd, Bishop of St Asaph
Reference code
MSS/0243
Title
Letters and related documents of William Lloyd, Bishop of St Asaph
Date
1680-1684; transcript 19th century
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. iv + 50.
Folio.
Limp leather binding, brown.
Folio.
Limp leather binding, brown.
Scope and content
19th-century transcript (fols. 7-42) of 33 letters, 1680-4, of Dr William Lloyd, Bishop of St Asaph, preceded by a life of Bishop Lloyd and list of his works (fols. 2-6) by James Herbert Cooke, FSA, and followed (fols. 43-6v) by an Appendix conc. Bishop Lloyd's relations with Quakers and Nonconformists, and an Index (fols. 47-50). The letters are almost entirely addressed to the Rev. John Edwards, Commissary of St Asaph at Llanymynych, and relate mostly to church matters, with occasional reference to politics. Pedigree of the Lloyd family, fols. ii verso-iii.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/243
Archival history
Presented by Edwin Freshfield, LL.D, VPSA, 4 June 1885 (fol. iv). Donor's letter referring to the original MSS (then owned by James Herbert Cooke, FSA) printed in Proc., 2nd ser., 10 (1883-5), 321-2; see also Proc., ibid., 325-6 (original letters exhibited).