Notebooks
Reference code
WAK/003
Title
Notebooks
Date
late 12th century-1886
Level of description
Series
Scope and content
Notebooks (nine), with many loose insertions, including letters:- (a) Pedigrees of Monmouthshire families, notes on the Welsh language, history, etc.;- (b) Extracts from Exchequer Rolls, etc., historical notes and pedigrees. Includes (loose) a printed programme of a concert, Monmouth, 15 August 1842;- (c) 'Of the Ancient Britons';- (d) Notes on the Liber Landavensis (NLW, MS Gwysaney I); calendar of Welsh saints, etc.; historical notes;- (e) Kemeys family; excerpts from PRO rolls; agricultural notes, etc.;- (f) Notes on British Museum MSS, PRO records; pedigrees. Printed squib (loose insertion) by 'O.M' (Octavius Morgan) relating to Dissenters;- (g) Pedigrees;- (h) Pedigrees, coloured coats of arms, etc. Loose material includes a vellum charter, 1591 (grant by Richard Wakeman, the younger, of pasture rights on Bredon Hill, in Beckford, Glos.); MS note, late 17th century, of chief rent belonging to the manor of Beckford; genealogical account of the Higford family;- (i) Pedigrees; historical notes; royal tribes of Wales. Loose insertions including printed notices of auction of property in Raglan of John Briggs, Newent, 13 Oct.1806; and a warning of cholera in London, 1832. All quarto.
Creator
Wakeman, Thomas (1788-1868), Monmouthshire antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/790/3