'Testamenta'

One of thirty-nine volumes containing copies and abstracts in the autograph of Bradney of wills and administrations, principally of Monmouthshire interest, among the ecclesiastical probate records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury preserved at the Principal Probate Registery, Somerset House, London, and among the ecclesiastical probate records preserved at the District Probate Registries at Llandaff, Hereford and Gloucester, together with holograph and autograph letters to Bradney and miscellaneous notes, draft pedigrees and other insets in the autographs of friends and official searchers. Several of the volumes are indexed. This volume contains wills, 1468-1786, of the families of Herbert, Kemeys, Morgan, etc. compiled from the transcripts in the possession of the Hon. Mrs Herbert of Llanarth and from the book of wills of [the Reverend] David Jones [of Wallington, Surrey], lent by Illtyd Nichol of The Ham, together with an index to the Herbert wills.

Formerly known as Bradney 42.
Some of the autograph manuscripts of wills and pedigrees compiled by David Jones are included in the Llanmaes collection now in the National Library of Wales.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 7602D

See also NLW MSS 7603-7640.

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