The murder of William Powell of Glanareth,

A volume of transcripts and extracts relating to the murder, 8 January 1770, of William Powell of Glanareth, co. Carmarthen. The greater part of the volume (100 pp.) consists of a transcript of the account of the trial published under the title An Authentic Trial of William Spiggot . . ., John Spiggot . . ., William Morris, William Thomas . . ., David Morgan . . ., William Walter Evan, Charles David Morgan, William Charles, and David Llewellin, who were tried on Wednesday, the 28th of March, 1770, at Hereford. . . for the inhuman murder of William Powell . . . [(Hereford, 1770)]. Included also are a further account of the episode (? transcribed from a printed source), entitled 'A Narrative of the unexampled cases of William Spiggott, William Morris, David Morgan, William Walter Evan, Charles David Morgan, and David Llewellin, who were executed at Hereford . . . for murdering William Powell . . .'; a transcript of a broadsheet offering an award for the apprehension of two of the murderers, viz. William Williams and William Morris; and extracts from printed sources, including T[homas] Rees: The Beauties of [England and Wales . . .], South Wales, The Merthyr Guardian, 9 Sept. 1848, etc.

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Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 12649C.

The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

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 IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

See also NLW Castell Gorfod MSS 34-35.

See Herbert J. Lloyd-Johnes, 'The Glanareth Murder' in Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1948 (London, 1949), pp. 271-8.

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