Gwysaney manuscripts
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Davies-Cooke family, of Gwysaney and Owston
Davies, Robert, 1658-1710
Davies family, of Llannerch and Gwysaney
Gwysaney (Wales : Estate) -- Records and correspondence.
Llannerch Estate (St Asaph, Wales) -- Records and correspondence.
Davies-Cooke family, of Gwysaney and Owston -- Archives
Manuscripts, [c. 1120]-[1942x1959], formerly part of the library of the Davies-Cooke family at Gwysaney, Mold, consisting mainly of family papers and manuscripts in Welsh or of Welsh interest.
The manuscripts include the Liber Landavensis (Book of Llandaff), [c. 1120]-[c. 1133]; volumes of Welsh pedigrees, [16 cent.], and Welsh poetry, [16 cent.]; Richard Davies's translation into Welsh of St Paul's Pastoral Epistles, [1546x1563]-[1567x1581]; a manuscript of the Brut in English, [1460x1479]; sermons, [17 cent.]-1811; inventories, catalogues and schedules relating to books, deeds and other property at Oulton, Owston, Llannerch and Gwysaney, 1750/1-1801; a travel journal of Bryan Cooke, 1790-1797, and journals of continental tours by Phillip Davies Cooke, 1815-1824; records of dues for the parish of Mold, 1581-1590; rentals and accounts of the Llannerch and Gwysaney estates, 1730-1843; surveys of the Llannerch and Gwysaney estates, [18 cent.]-[early 19 cent.]; valuations of part of the Gwysaney estate in Flintshire, 1809; pedigree rolls, 1604-1771, of the Davies, Puleston and Meredith (of Allington) families; and several groups of letters, including transcripts and memoranda, and other papers, relating to the Puleston, Davies, Cooke, Davies-Cooke and other families, [1487x1503]-1901.
A detailed list of the manuscripts' contents (as well as those later withdrawn) may be found in NLW, Catalogue of the Gwysaney Manuscripts deposited by Lt.-Col. Phillip Ralph Davies-Cooke, T.D., D.L., Gwysaney (1953), a copy of which is available in the Reading Room.
Some of the manuscripts are described briefly in John Cordy Jeaffreson, 'The Manuscripts of Philip Bryan Davies Cooke, Esquire, of Owston, co. York, and of Gwysaney, co. Flint, North Wales', in Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts: Part I. Report and Appendix (London, 1877), pp. 418-426.
For catalogues listing the manuscripts in the Llannerch library in 1740 and 1778 see NLW MS 17126D.
Title based on contents of fonds.
NLW MSS 17110-17162 and 21608D previously Gwysaney MSS 1, 14, 20, 23-25, 27-29, 34-36, 38, 42, 46-49, 53-54, 56, 59-70, 72-94.
NLW MS 17110E purchased with financial assistance from The Friends of the National Libraries.
[c. 1120]-[1942x1959], 2007
58 volumes, 3 rolls, 1 framed document.
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