File NLW MS 2577B. - Collections relating to Wales,

Identity area

Reference code

NLW MS 2577B.

Title

Collections relating to Wales,

Date(s)

  • [1736x1798]. (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

Context area

Name of creator

Name of creator

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

A history of Wales transcribed from George Owen's treatise of lordships marcher in Wales; copies of a statement made March 10, 1685/6, at New York by Morgan Jones, 'the son of John Jones of Basleg near Newport in Monmouthshire', attesting that he had conversed with American Indians in the Welsh language (see The Gentleman's Magazine, 1740), of a letter, August 14, 1734, on a similar subject sent by Charles Lloyd, Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, to a cousin, and of 'Dr. [Robert] Plott's Account [to the Royal Society] of an Antient Discovery of America from Wales'; a list, in the hand of John Lloyd, Caerwys, of 'The names of the Principal men that kept Hardelech castle against Edwd the 4th;' lists of the sheriffs of Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, and Merioneth; transcripts of epitaphs in Mold church; and notes taken from Thomas Carte : A General History of England (London, 1747-1755).

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

Script of material

Language and script notes

English.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

The contents of NLW MSS 328-4279 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 1 (Aberystwyth, 1943).

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

For Morgan Jones's account see The Gentleman's Magazine, 1740. See also NLW MS 2024B, ff. 41-43.

Related descriptions

Notes area

Note

Formerly known as Pennant 57.

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 2577B.

Alternative identifier(s)

Virtua system control number

vtls004353328

GEAC system control number

(WlAbNL)0000353328

Access points

Place access points

Genre access points

Description control area

Description identifier

Institution identifier

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

Script(s)

Sources

Accession area