The murder of William Powell, Glanareth,

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23206D
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004630003
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1770-ca. 1850 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • i, 57 ff. (paginated 1-114) ; 300 x 190 mm. and less. Half-leather; re-bound at NLW using original covers.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A volume relating to the murder in 1770 of William Powell, Glanareth, Llangadog, co. Carmarthen, compiled, ca. 1850, by Charles John Bird (1777-1854), rector of Mordiford, co. Hereford. It comprises copies of An Authentic Trial of William Spiggot [and others] ... for the Inhuman Murder of William Powell ... (Hereford, 1770) (wanting final leaf, the deficiency supplied in manuscript) (pp. 7-46), and The Trial of William Spiggot [and others] ... (Glocester, [1770]) (pp. 75-90); and memoranda, notes, and extracts from printed sources concerning the case in the hand of C. J. Bird, including a transcript of an account published in the Hereford Journal, 31 March 1771, of the trial and acquittal of Powell's brother-in-law, Marmaduke Bowen, Cil-y-cwm, co. Carmarthen, and others as being accessories before and after the fact [in which trial C. J. Bird's father, William Bird, defended the accused] (pp. 49-73).

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Acquisition Information

A. R. Heath; Bristol; Purchase; 1994

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23206D

Archivist's Note

February 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

Armorial book-plate of Charles John Bird inside front cover. Signature of Richard Bethell, late 18th century, on p. 7.

Related Material

See also NLW MSS 1214D, which contains an abstract of documents relating to William Powell, with a copy of An Authentic Trial of William Spiggot ... (Hereford, 1770); 7287D, which includes an account of the proceedings in 1770 consequent upon the murder of William Powell; 12649C, which contains a volume of transcripts and extracts relating to the murder of William Powell; NLW Castell Gorfod 34, which contains an interleaved copy, with manuscript notes, of An Authentic Trial of William Spiggot ... (Hereford, 1770), with press cuttings and manuscript notes relating to the trial; NLW Castell Gorfod MSS 34-35, which also contains a copy of An Authentic Trial of William Spiggot ... (Hereford, 1770), together with a print representing the murder, and letters enclosing further information; and NLW MSS 1214D, 7287D, 12649C.

Bibliography

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

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