Brecknockshire quarter sessions,

A typescript copy of an order book of the Court of Quarter Sessions for co. Brecknock, 4 October, 1670-13 January, 1684/5. Beginning at the end of the original volume are records of general and special sessions held for the hundreds of Builth, Devinnocke, Merthyr, Penkelley, Talgarth, Crickhowell, and Ystrodveltey, 2 May, 1671-25 May, 1674, to grant licences to alehouses and for the grazing of cattle on the commons; recognizances, indictments, and presentments, 5 October, 1680-1683; and a loose sheet containing marriage licences, citations, etc., 2 March, 1673/4-13 May, 1674.

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Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 10784E.

The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XIX, 246.

October 2008.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961);

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The original order book once formed part of the Castell Gorfod collection in the National Library of Wales, but was returned to the Clerk of the Peace for Brecknockshire, with the consent of the executor of the depositor, in 1933.

An additional copy of this volume can be found at NLW MS 11000D.

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