Notes on Gunter papers, &c.,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 11420E.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004907493
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1902, 1908 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English, Welsh.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

'Notes of old Papers found under the Floor of the Attic at the Parrot Inn, Cross Street, Abergavenny, January, 1908'. They include writs of praecipe to the sheriff of Monmouthshire, 1666/7?-1673/4; letters from William Morgan from Lansoare, Langattocke iuxta Carlyon, to Mr. [Thomas?] Gunter at Carlyon, 1 May, [16]68, from Piers Butler to Mr. Thomas Gunter, attorney-at-law, Abergavenny, 16 May, [16]74, from Tho. Pim?, London, to Mrs. Katherin Williams of Abergaveni, 16 April, 1697, etc.; an order of the Committee for Compounding the estates of Recusants and Malignants in respect of the estate of Thomas Gunter of Abergavenny, recusant, in the parishes of Penrhos and Abergavenny, c. 1650; receipts to members of the Gunter family and others, 1688-1720; fragments of seventeenth and early eighteenth century letters, legal papers, accounts, music, and poetry; and references to letters addressed to Mrs. Bellamy who 'apparently lived in this house in the early forties'. The notes are written on the dorse of examination scripts of the Calvinistic Methodist Sunday Schools Union, 1902. Also included in the manuscript is a note on the preaching of Daniel Rowland, Methodist cleric, of Llangeitho, Cardiganshire.

Note

Title based on contents.

Formerly known as Pandy 65.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 11420E.

Other Finding Aids

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

Additional Information

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