George Owen and William Sargeant papers

A collection which includes George Owen's Description of Wales, Arms of Pembrokeshire Families, and Genealogical Notes, John Jones's History of Brecknock, and William Sargeant's Glamorganshire Collectanea; also a note on Owen's map of Pembrokeshire by John Browne.

George Owen (1552-1613), antiquary, was born at Henllys, near Newport, Pembrokeshire. His most important work, The Description of Penbrokshire, was begun in December 1602.

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 13686-13690, 13813E.

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Purchased, per Mr W. A. Caffall, from Mrs A. E. Penn, Thornbury Castle, near Bristol, 1941.

George Owen (1552-1613), antiquary, was born at Henllys, near Newport, Pembrokeshire. His most important work, The Description of Penbrokshire, was begun in December 1602.

NLW MSS 13686-89 are described by B. G. Charles in NLW Journal, II (1941), pp. 43-5. The manuscripts are also listed by Dr Charles in the appendix to George Owen of Henllys - a Welsh Elizabethan (Aberystwyth, 1973), pp. [193]-9.

April 2005.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS

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