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- 1637 (Creation)
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1 roll ; 2280 x c. 295 mm.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bloomsbury Auctions; London; Purchased at auction, lot 44; 6 December 2017; 99817036202419.
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Pedigree and achievement, dated 1637, of the Watkins family of Usk, Monmouthshire, with fifty-one fully painted coats of arms, mostly impaled, apparently compiled by Walter Hopkins of Brecon.
The pedigree shows the Watkins family's descent, in four parallel lines, from Bennett Pencla[w]dd [Sir Bennet de Penclawdd], lord of Kilfigyn [Cilfeigan, near Usk], as well as Kydifor Vawr of Kilsant, Barnard Newmarch [Bernard de Neufmarché] and Iestyn ap Gwrgan[t], down to the brothers William and Thomas Watkins of Usk (both alive 1637); some collateral branches are also noted. An inscription concerning Bennett Penclawdd is inserted in a cartouche at the beginning of the pedigree, with a further inscription, mostly illegible, on the dorse. Several roundels, for the Watkins brothers's wives and immediate descendants, have been left blank; two escutcheons have been added below the last generation and then carefully erased with white paint; the roll also retains pencil markings used to sketch out the pedigree before painting. A missing individual ('Gronow Benet') has been interpolated in a later seventeenth-century hand. The pedigree is an example of 'Style 3' in Michael Powell Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996), pp. 11-12.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Affected by dirt and insects. Damage, primarily at upper end, repaired at NLW, 2019.
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Title based on contents.
Note
'28' on dorse.
Note
No. 481 in Michael Powell Siddons, 'Welsh Pedigree Rolls - Further Additions and Corrections (2)', NLWJ, 37.4 (2022), 154-157.
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- Watkins family, of Usk (Subject)
- Bennet, de Penclawdd (Subject)
- Cadifor, Fawr (Subject)
- De Neufmarché, Bernard (Subject)
- Iestyn ap Gwrgant (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
April 2019
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Jones.