Finding Aid - Llangibby Castle Estate Records
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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - Llangibby Castle Estate Records. (GB 0210 LLABBY) Cynhyrchir gan Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Argraffwyd: Mai 20, 2017 Printed: May 20, 2017 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; ACCR2; and LCSH https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/llangibby-castle-estate-records https://archives.library.wales/index.php/llangibby-castle-estate-records Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 [email protected] www.llgc.org.uk Llangibby Castle Estate Records. Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information .............................................................................................. 3 Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch ......................... 3 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content .......................................................................................................... 4 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 4 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 5 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 6 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 0210 LLABBY Llangibby Castle Estate Records. Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Llangibby Castle Estate Records. ID: GB 0210 LLABBY Virtua system control vtls004250317 number [alternative]: GEAC system control (WlAbNL)0000250317 number [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: 1217-1930 (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 0.677 cubic metres (24 boxes); 144 manuscript volumes. Physical description: Iaith | Language: English Iaith | Language: Latin Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note The following source was used in the compilation of this [sourcesDescription]: description: Sir Joseph Bradney, A History of Monmouthshire (London, 1993, facsimile ed.), vol. 3, part 1. Nodyn | Note Title based on contents of fonds. [generalNote]: Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note The Williams family acquired the Llangibby Castle estate (anciently called Tregrug) following the purchase of the estate by Roger Williams (d. 1585) of Usk in 1544-1545. He was succeeded by his son, Rowland Williams, followed by his son Charles Williams, who became MP for Monmouthshire in 1621. He was succeeded by his son Sir Trevor Williams who played a prominent role in the civil war in Monmouthshire, siding first with the King, then with the Parliamentarians before rejoining the royalists in 1648. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 0210 LLABBY Llangibby Castle Estate Records. The estate remained in the hands of the Williams family until the death of Sir John Williams without male issue in 1739. His daughter Ellen (1724-1781/2), who inherited the estate, married William Addams of Monmouth who assumed the additional surname of Williams. Hanes Gwarchodol | Custodial history Deposited at NLW by the Trustees of the late Major Albert Addams-Williams, Llangibby Castle, per the Hon. Mrs Eleanor Addams-Williams, 1939. Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content Llangibby Castle estate records, including court rolls of manors in Monmouthshire, 1262-1911, Glamorgan, 1675-1739, Gloucestershire, 1427-1595, and Somerset, 1609-1691; title deeds, mainly Monmouthshire, 1217-1930, and correspondence, mainly 18-19 cent.; important letters and papers relating to the civil war in Monmouthshire; and manuscripts aquired by the family, including drafts and copies of Modus Tenendi Parliamentarum and Observata Parliamentaria by Henry Elsynge, junior (1598-1654), clerk to the House of Commons, together with minutes of the House of Commons, 1624-1626, calendar of the Journal of the House of Lords, 1647-1768, copies of the Journals of the House of Commons, 1547-1701, index to parliamentary proceedings, temp. Edward III-Edward IV, and, 1724-1743, civil war tracts, the journal of the missionary Dr Joseph Wolff, 1832, 'Prif Achae holh Gymru Benbaladr' in the autograph of Sir Thomas Wiliams, Trefriw, 1578-1609, a seventeenth-century collection of Welsh poetry by the principal 'cywyddwyr'; a memoir of Richard Robert Jones ('Dic Aberdaron', 1780-1843) in his own autograph; English sermons and miscellaneous notes by Rev. Edmund Jones, Pontypool, a sermon notebook of Rev. Philip Henry (1631-1696), the eminent Nonconformist divine, a survey of the lands of Henry, earl of Pembroke, in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, 1570, and a survey of lands in the lordship of Usk, 1619; pedigree rolls of Sir Roger Williams of Penrhos, Monmouthshire, compiled by Thomas Jones ('Twm Siôn Catti'), 1591, and of the Williams family of Llangibby Castle, probably compiled by Sylvanus Morgan. Nodiadau | Notes Nodiadau teitl | Title notes Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition Major Hopton Addams-Williams; Llangibby; Purchase; July 1945 Trefniant | Arrangement Arranged at NLW as follows: manuscripts, autograph letters, manorial records, and title deeds. Original numbers are included in the catalogue; these originate from a catalogue of the library at Llangibby Castle, compiled by John Kyrle Fletcher and Ifan Kyrle Fletcher in 1933. The manuscript volumes and Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 LLABBY Llangibby Castle Estate Records. letters were removed from the archive and arranged in the NLW MSS series; they are now NLW MSS 16962-17109. Cyfyngiadau ar fynediad | Restrictions on access Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form. Amodau rheoli defnydd | Conditions governing use Usual copyright laws apply. Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids Further details relating to manorial records within the archive can be accessed on-line from The National Archives Manorial Documents Register. Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material A bound typescript copy of the catalogue of the library at Llangibby Castle is NLW, Misc. Vol. 67. A number of maps, topographical works, portraits, photographs and printed works are in NLW, Map Collections, and NLW, Special Collections. Ychwanegiadau | Accruals Accruals are not expected. Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published • Dynodwr sefydliad | Institution identifier: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points • Llangibby Castle (Wales) -- Archives. • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. • Llangibby Castle Estate (Wales) • Williams, Roger, d. 1583. (pwnc) | (subject) • Elsynge, Henry, 1598-1654. (pwnc) | (subject) • Wolff, Joseph, 1795-1862. (pwnc) | (subject) • Wiliems, Thomas, 1545 or 1546-1622? (pwnc) | (subject) • Jones, Richard Robert, 1780-1843. (pwnc) | (subject) • Henry, Philip, 1631-1696. (pwnc) | (subject) • Jones, Thomas, ca. 1530-ca. 1620. (pwnc) | (subject) Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 5 GB 0210 LLABBY Llangibby Castle Estate Records. • Jones, Edmund, 1702-1793. (pwnc) | (subject) • Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, -1601 (pwnc) | (subject) • Morgan, Sylvanus, 1620-1693. (pwnc) | (subject) • Addams-Williams family, of Llangibby Castle -- Archives. • Williams family, of Llangibby Castle. • Powell family, of Llantilio. • Administration of estates -- Wales -- Monmouthshire. (pwnc) | (subject) • Manors -- Wales -- Monmouthshire. (pwnc) | (subject) • Manors -- Wales -- Glamorgan. (pwnc) | (subject) • Manorial courts -- Wales -- Monmouthshire. (pwnc) | (subject) • Manorial courts -- Wales -- Glamorgan. (pwnc) | (subject) • Welsh poetry -- Early modern, 1550-1700. (pwnc) | (subject) • Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. (pwnc) | (subject) • Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603. (pwnc) | (subject) • Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714. (pwnc) | (subject) • Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century. (pwnc) | (subject) Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container NLW MSS Otherlevel - Manuscripts, [1330x1370]-1927. NLW MS 16962-17101. 16962-17101. vtls005791117 ISYSARCHB52 Cyfres | Series NLW MSS 16962-17000. vtls005791118 ISYSARCHB52: Manuscripts, Dyddiad | Date: [1330x1370]-1927. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation) Lleoliad ffisegol | Physical location: ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Nodyn | Note: Preferred citation: NLW MSS 16962-17000. Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status