Add MS 46273

NOTEBOOK OF JOHN GRIFFITH AL. SION GRUFFYDD of Cae Cyriog, Ruabon, co. Denbigh; 1688-1697, n.d. English (except for a Welsh note on f. 4). The contents include notes and tables relating to the apportionment of taxation amongst the hundreds of co. Denbigh (ff. 5, 44b-48), the parishes and manors of Bromfield Hundred, co. Denbigh (ff. 5-16, 49-52b, 58b-59, together with bridge assessments at ff. 17-25b), the manors of Yale Hundred, co. Denbigh (ff. 49-52b, 58b-59b), and the townships of Bromfield Hundred's constituent parishes of Wrexham (ff. 26 - 29), Ruabon (ff. 29b-35b, 40b, 44, 50, 60-63), Gresford (f. 36), Bangor-on-Dee (f. 36b), and Holt (f. 37). For the boundaries of all these townships see A. N. Palmer and E. Owen, A History of Ancient Tenures of Land in North Wales and the Marches, 2nd ed., Frome, 1910, map opposite p. 248. MS. 83 in the Wynnstay Papers at the National Library of Wales contains similar notes of apportionment compiled by Ellis Lloyd (see E. Rogers, 'The Allocation of Charges and County Rates within Denbighshire in the late Seventeenth Century', Denbighshire Historical Society Transactions, i, 1952, pp. 46-47). Other MSS. owned by John Griffith are now N.L.W. MSS. 7006-7010. Paper; ff. 66. 172 x 79 mm. 1688-1697. On ff. 1, 3 are notes of ownership, partly in Latin, by John Griffith, eldest son of the compiler, 1700, n.d. See A. N. Palmer, History of the Thirteen Country Townships of the Old Parish of Wrexham, Wrexham, 1903, p. 72, and J. Y. W. Lloyd, The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog. . ., ii, 1882, pp. 184 -185.