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Fifty-three files of unbound material accumulated by Bradney during the preparation of A History of Monmouthshire and containing press and proof copies, transcripts and abstracts of, and extracts from, manuscripts, deeds and documents, holograph and autograph letters, pedigrees and genealogical notes, press cuttings, etc., generally arranged under parishes. Much of the material is in the autographs of friends and official copyists. This volume contains letters, 1923; and photostat facsimiles of the introduction and dedicatory portions of NLW MS 641C, in the autograph of George Parry, son of James Parry of Ewyas Lacy, and of the pedigrees of Gwilym Pue of Penrhyn, near Bangor, Caernarvonshire, from NLW MS 4710B.

A transcript of the poll book of the Monmouth Parliamentary Election, 1715, between William Bray of Llantarnam, who was elected, and the Honourable Andrews Windsor, youngest son of Thomas, first earl of Plymouth; and additional notes by Bradney.

A rate book of the parish of Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern, 1889.

Transcripts, from burgess rolls, of lists of burgesses of Newport, 1714-1721.

Extracts relating to Monmouthshire from the Episcopal Act Books and the Subscription Books of the diocese of Llandaff, 1660-1863; and insets including similar extracts from Institution Books in the Public Record Office, 1612-1770, and an autograph list of 'The Dignities and Prebends of Llandaff Cathedral, 1535-1666' compiled in August 1919 by C[harles] A[lfred] H[owell] Green, then Archdeacon of Monmouth, afterwards Archbishop of Wales, and presented by him to Bradney.

Extracts relating to clerical institutions principally in Monmouthshire, 1228-1485, compiled in 1906 from printed Calendars of Papal Registers (Papal Letters), Papal Registers (Petitions to the Pope), Patent Rolls, Close Rolls and Charter Rolls.

A large collection which includes correspondence; transcripts and extracts from parish registers and bishops' transcripts, from wills and administrations, from public and private records, from monumental inscriptions, and from printed sources; pedigrees compiled from manuscripts notes and printed sources, and genealogical notes; a copy of The Diary of the Revd. William Jones, 1777-1821 ..., 1929, with additions; a copy of Rider's British Merlin, 1734, with additions; copies of poetry and of metrical translations into Latin; a copy of The Parish Priest ..., [1841]; material accumulated during the preparation of A History of Monmouthshire; a copy of Plantae Woodfordienses ..., 1771, with additions; and a rate book of Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern parish, 1889. The majority of references in this collection are to Monmouthshire or places within that county. Correspondence is substantial and a list notes Bradney's principal correspondents as follows: Sir John Ballinger, Aberystwyth; G. R. Brigstocke, London and Ferryside; J. H. Canning, Newport; D. Stedman Davies, Llandrindod; John Davies, Aberystwyth; John Davies, Pandy; Sir Leonard Twiston-Davies, Rockfield Park; T. C. Evans ('Cadrawd'), Llangynwyd; William Haines, Y Bryn, Llangattock-iuxta-Usk; Fred J. Hando, Newport; Lemuel Hopkin James, Ystrad Mynach; J. Ifano Jones, Cardiff; W. H. O. Kemmis, Frome; J. Hobson Matthews, Cardiff and Monmouth; T. Matthews, Llandebie; Edward Owen, London; Egerton G. B. Phillimore, Corris; D. Rhys Phillips, Swansea; Thomas Richards, Maesteg and Bangor; Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, Swansea; G. N. W. Thomas, Devizes.

A transcript made by Bradney of an incomplete autobiography of Lewis Edmunds, tiler and plasterer, of Yewtree Cottage, Llanellen.