File NLW MS 7755E - Monmouthshire miscellanea

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 abstracts of wills of Monmouthshire interest, 1503-1813, proved principally at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, compiled by official copyists and subsequently transcribed by Bradney into various volumes of 'Testamenta'; transcripts of Chancery Proceedings, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Exchequer Depositions, etc., temp. Edward I-1725; and miscellanea, including extracts from the pocket-book of the Roman Catholic Chapel in Monmouth, 1777-1794, with notes on the volumes by Bradney, and transcripts of letters, 1796-?1802, of the Duke of Beaufort relating to Parliamentary election matters in the borough of Leominster (Herefordshire).