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A group of manuscripts that form part of an extensive collection of Pembrokeshire documents and papers from the offices of Messrs. Williams & Williams, solicitors, Haverfordwest.

Deeds and documents, 1553-1877, relating to properties in the parishes of Llandysilio, Llanfyrnach, Llanbedr Felffre, Lamphey and Mathri, co. Pembroke; Llanfihangel-ar-arth, Carmarthen town and borough, Llan-gain, Abergwili, Llanfihangel Rhos-y-corn, Newchurch, Llanfihangel Abercywyn, Llanybydder, Llanwinio, Tre-lech a'r Betws, Llanboidy, Aber-nant, Llangynnwr, Meidrim, St. Clears, Llandeilo Fawr, Llandybie and St. Ishmael, co. Carmarthen; Bangor [Teifi], Cellan and Caron, co. Cardigan. They include deeds for the Glandewely estate in Llanfihangel-ar-arth, 1553-1769, and the Golden Lion in Lammas Street, Carmarthen, 1771-1877.

Deeds and documents (1668-1882) relating to properties mainly in in co. Flint (Axton, Bistre, Caergwrle, Coleshill, Cwm, Cwm Uwchglan, Diserth, Estyn or Hope, Hawarden, Holywell, Hope, Hope Owen, Huriathicke, Kilken, Kinnerton, Mould, Newmarket, Northop, St Asaph, Shordley, Skeiviog, and Whitford), but also in cos Denbigh (Denbigh, Henllan, Llanrwst and Lleweny), Chester (Chester and Dodleston), Brecknock (Devynnock), Anglesey (Amlwch, Coedana, Llanerchymedd, Llanbadrug, Llanddyfnan, Llanfechell and Llanfihangel Tre'r Beurdd), Montgomery (Berth Lloyd) and Pembroke (Amroth). The main families were Mostyn of Mostyn Hall and Hope of Broughton and Hope.

Records accumulated by Nicholas Bennett as Conservative Member of Parliament for Pembroke, 1987-1992, comprising subject files, press cuttings and constituency files.

Papers relating to the activities of the Preseli Anti-Nuclear Group, 1981-1987, including mostly newspaper cuttings concerning the nuclear arms race, foreign affairs, peace groups and disarmament, nuclear power stations and nuclear waste, with also leaflets and correspondence.

Deeds and papers accumulated by D. Roy Evans, comprising the papers of Mrs A. A. Puddicombe (Allen Raine), including manuscripts of her work, [1894x1908] and an eighteenth-century manuscript formerly belonging to her; newspaper cuttings relating to the death of, and the inquest upon, Sarah Jacobs of Llether-noyadd-ucha, Llanfihangel-ar-arth, co. Carmarthen, the Welsh fasting girl, 1869-1870; a copy of Mercvrivs Avlicvs, communicating the intelligence and affairs of the Court, to the rest of the Kingdom. From May to May 11, 1645, recording the victory of General Charles Gerard over Major-General Laugharne before Newcastle Emlyn; and deeds and documents relating to properties in the parish of Laugharne, 1609-1756, and to properties in the counties of Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Pembroke, 1695-1900.

Deeds and documents, 1555-1875, relating to properties in the counties of Pembrokeshire, Anglesey, Montgomeryshire; deeds, 1696-1868, of lands in the parishes of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Llanelidan, Efenechtyd, and Llanfwrog, Denbighshire; and documents, 1735-1868, relating to the Eyarth Estate, Denbighshire.

Records relating to the Brigstocke family, including deeds of properties in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire prior their acquisition by the Brigstockes, 1496-1889; deeds and documents of members of the Brigstocke family, 1655-1912; miscellaneous deeds, documents and papers relating to the Brigstocke family and lands in Carmarthenshire, including the Dolhaidd estate, 1846-1892, Cenarth, 1741-1838, and Llandyfaelog and Kidwelly, 1772-1833; legal papers, 1751-1775; and deeds and documents collected by W. Evans George relating to other estates, including: papers of the Lewes family of Gellidywyll, mostly bills and receipts, 1741-1792; draft deeds of W. Evans George for property in the Lower Teifi Valley, Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire, 1896-1922; sale and account books of W. Evans George and Sons, 1863-1884; printed material, 1837-1925; papers concerned with local elections in Cardiganshire, 1741-1937; weekly account book of the surveyor of the South Wales Highway for Llanfihangel-ar-arth, 1866-1873; records of the Court of Petty Sessions, Penrhiw-pal, Cardiganshire, 1903-1927; and records of the Newcastle Emlyn Town Improvement Committee, 1903-1906.

Accounts of the grocer William Evans, 1913-1945; together with some receipts, 1898-1923, a tithe bill, 1898 and tenancy documents for properties in Llanfihangel Penbedw, Llanfair Nant-gwyn, Castellan Chapel and Penrith (Penrhydd), [Pembrokeshire].

Research papers of Wynford Davies, 1961-1980s, mainly on educational matters, including notes compiled by him in preparing his book, The Curriculum & Organization of the County Intermediate Schools, 1880-1926 (1989); research papers on intermediate education in Wales, 1970s-1980s and correspondence on small rural schools, 1961-1966.

This file consists of a draft of a piece of writing on Pembrokeshire under the title 'The Welshness of Pembrokeshire'[c.1974]. This was possibly a draft for the leaflet Menna Gallie published about Pembrokeshire, Little England's Other Half, (1974).

A copy of part of Chetham Library MS 6715 containing Wyth ran rhieni, being pedigrees to great grandparents, together with coats of arms of the noblemen and gentry of Pembrokeshire.

Poetry by Rees Jones ('Amnon') written in a late eighteenth century shipping account book (?relating to Pembrokeshire).

Estate accounts kept by Allen, together with Tenby town and harbour accounts and financial and other details relating to Pembrokeshire.

A copy, with manuscript notes by Allen, of Edward Laws: The History of Little England beyond Wales ... (London and Tenby, 1888).

One of two volumes containing Allen's copies, with manuscript notes by him, of Parts I-III of The Description of Pembrokeshire, by George Owen of Henllys ... Edited ... by Henry Owen ... (London, 1892-1906).

One of two volumes containing Allen's copies, with manuscript notes by him, of Parts I-III of The Description of Pembrokeshire, by George Owen of Henllys ... Edited ... by Henry Owen ... (London, 1892-1906).

Allen's copy, with manuscript notes by him, of Old Pembroke Families in the Ancient County Palatine of Pembroke. Compiled (in part from the Foyd MSS.) [now in the National Library of Wales] by Henry Owen ... (London, 1902).

Miscellaneous papers of Allen, mainly concerned with Pembrokeshire affairs.

Offprints of articles published in Archaeologia Cambrensis, namely 'On the Architectural Antiquities of South Pembrokeshire' by E. A. Freeman (1852), 'The House of Scotsborough, near Tenby' by Edward Laws (1906) and 'The Early Life of St. Samson of Dol' by W. Done Bushell (1903).