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Carreglwyd Estate Records,
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Carreglwyd Estate Records,

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  • 1329-1864 (predominantly 1500-1780) /

Estate records, mainly title deeds, of the Carreg-lwyd and Berw estates, Anglesey, and family papers, mainly correspondence, of the Griffith family of Carreg-lwyd and the Holland family of Berw, 1329-1864, including valuable early 17th century papers relating to affairs of state, accumulated by John Griffith, secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), 1st earl of Northampton, Keeper of the Privy Seal, 1608-1614, and First Commissioner of the Treasury, 1612-1614; accounts and papers relating to the administration of the county of Anglesey, including muster rolls, 1602-1656, mainly for the hundreds of Tindaethwy, Menai and Talybolion; mise, window, house and land tax assessments, 1653-1764, mainly for the hundreds of Tindaethwy, Menai and Talybolion; rentals of Crown lands in the same hundreds; 1503-1737; papers of Dr William Griffith (1597-1648), successively chancellor of the dioceses ofSt Asaph and Bangor, and Commissioner of North Wales from 1633; account of the funerals of Elizabeth I and James I, [1625], and a census of the inhabitants of the parish of Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, August 1690.

Griffith family, of Carreglwyd and Berw.

Estate and family papers of Griffith of Carreg-lwyd and Holland of Berw, co. Ang., and Trygarn of Trygarn, co. Caern ...,

Estate and family papers of Griffith of Carreg-lwyd and Holland of Berw, co. Ang., and Trygarn of Trygarn, co. Caern, 14-19 cent.; valuable papers relating to affairs of state, early 17 cent. (John Griffith was secretary to Henry Howard, 1st earl of Northampton), and to local affairs, 17-18 cent. The schedule is a notoriously unsatisfactory one. Many of the more important documents are described more fully and satisfactorily in Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Fifth Report (1876), pp. 405-423. See also NLW Annual Report 1924 (Oct.), pp. 9-10; 1925 (May), pp. 18-20; and 1964-65, p. 58.

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