Cause book,

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23387B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004646837
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1659-1687
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 186 ff. (ff. 37 verso-156 blank; leaves excised after ff. 22, 37, 160 and 164) ; 185 x 140 mm.
      Bound in full leather with fillets in blind on both covers and monogram 'I M' stamped in blind on front cover.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Cause book, 1659-87, of John Maddocks (1601-62), Bodfari, co. Flint, containing lists of the civil cases heard on the Chester and North Wales circuits of the Great Sessions in Wales, April 1659 - October 1661 and October 1659 - September 1661 respectively, in which he appeared as an advocate (ff. 2-36; 170-84 verso inverted text); two civil cases heard in the Great Sessions for co. Denbigh, August 1666, are listed in another hand on f. 37. The volume was later used by another scribe (the entry on f. 156 verso is in another hand who also added memoranda on f. 186 verso) to copy extracts from the court book of the bishop of Bangor's manors of Llan, Llech and Llanelidan, co. Denbigh, for sessions held May 1683 - November 1687 before John Maddocks, steward, probably the advocate's son (ff. 156 verso-68 verso inverted text). Other items comprise legal and financial memoranda, including a list, 1662, in the hand of Edward Wynne of bonds delivered by him (f. 185 recto-verso inverted text).

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Acquisition Information

John Titford; Higham, co. Derby; Purchase; 1995

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23387B.

Other Finding Aids

The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).

Archivist's Note

April 2009.

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 IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);

Custodial History

Previously purchased by John Titford at Bloomsbury Book Auctions (lot 152), 22 June 1995. 'Gulielmos Thomas', late seventeenth century, inside front cover; 'John Maddocks 1661' inside back cover; 'Jo: Foulkes', late seventeenth century, on front cover.

Related Material

See also the NLW typescript volume Llanelidan Manorial Records (1933).

Additional Information

Published

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