Montgomeryshire Collections

Contents

Volumes 78 (1990) up to the present (main articles)

A comprehensive index of all volumes is in preparation and it is hoped to provide this in electronic format in the near future

2003, volume 91

Disputes over presentations to the rectory of Llandrinio during the Tudor period, by Murray Ll.Chapman

Towards a census for Machynlleth for 1686/1687 by Michael Gibbon

The timber and sawmilliong trade in Montgomeryshire by P.G.Barton

'They shall no longer see through a glass darkly': Robert Owen and the Welsh Enlightenment by Geoffrey Powell

Thomas Olivers of Tregynon, 1725-1799, by Glyn Tegai Hughes

'The highest triumph': some aspects of pre-twentieth-century medical practice in parts of Montgomeryshire, by T.G.Davies

David Jones's reminiscences about old Llanwddyn and the construction of Lake Vyrnwy, by D.W.L.Rowlands

Clement Davies and 'the Shrewsbury Document: a note, by J.Graham Jones

 

2002, volume 90

Prehistoric funerary and ritual sites in the Upper Severn Valley, by A.M.Gibson

Excavations at Sarn-y-bryn-caled, Welshpool, Powys, in 1998-99, by K.Blockley & N.Taverner

Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn's Trefnant Market Charter,1279 - 1282, by P.G.Barton

Henry Tudor's Journey through Powys and the lords of Powys in Early Tudor Times, by W.R.B.Robinson

Llandyssil Rectory: its architecture and building history, by Nicholas Moore

The Curate of Berriew: John James Turner's diaries for 1857 - 58, by Roger L. Brown

Clement Davies, the West African Commission and the 'Montgomeryshire Revolt' of 1938 - 39, by J.Graham Jones

 

2001, volume 89 (special "Ty-mawr" issue)

The discovery of Ty-mawr, Castle Caereinion, by Peter Smith

Ty-mawr, Castle Caereinion: building, recording and analysis, by Philip Dixon & Patricia Borne

Dendrochronological dating of Ty-mawr, Castle Caereinion, by D.H.Miles

Archaeological excavations at Ty-mawr, Castle Caereinion, by William J. Britnell & Philip Dixon

The environment and agricultural activity at Ty-mawr, Castle Caereinion: the archaeobotanical evidence, by Astrid Caseldine and Catherine Griffiths

Finds and building materials from Ty-mawr, Castle Caereinion, by R.C.Alvey, W.J.Britnell, Paul Courtney and Penny Dransart

Evidence of geometrical building design at Ty-mawr, Castle Caereinion, by Laurie Smith

Ty-mawr in Trefnant: the environmental background, by James Davies

The landscape and settlement of Trefnant, by Robert J. Sylvester

John Probert and the map of Trefnant township, by Robert J. Sylvester

Ty-mawr, Castle Caereinion: a history of ownership and tenancy, by Murray Ll. Chapman

Circumstantial evidence concerning a Montgomeryshire longhouse in the early seventeenth century, by Murray Ll. Chapman

Ty-mawr, Castle Caereinion and the aisle-truss houses of Wales, by Peter Smith

Ty-mawr in context, by Richard Suggett

The restoration of Ty-mawr, Castle Caereinion, by Mike Garner

2000, volume 88.

Sir Richard Herbert (d 1539) of Montgomery: Part 2, by W.R.B.Robinson

James Baker and the Pool Quay Smelthouse, by W.J.Lewis

Sir Rowland Hayward and the Heyward Family of Trawscoed Hall, Guilsfield, by P.G.Barton

The Heraldic Carving at Gregynog, by Michael Powell Siddons

Shipbuilding and shipowning in Montgomeryshire: the Evans family of Morben Isaf, Derwenlas, by David Jenkins

The Revd Richard Williams Morgan of Tregynon and his writings, by Peter Freeman

Clement Davies and Montgomeryshire Politics, by J.Graham Jones

 

1999, volume 87.

A history and conspectus of Montgomeryshire water corn mills, by P.G.Barton

Sir Richard Herbert (d.1539) of Montgomery: Part 1, by W.R.B.Robinson

An English Settlement in Western Montgomeryshire during the Tudor Period,

by Murray Ll. Chapman

Some Shrewsbury Connections of the Griffiths family of Llanfyllin, by Janice V. Cox

The Political Baptism of Stuart Rendel, by J. Graham Jones

 

1998, volume 86.

A Section across the Roman Road North of Caersws, by W.G.Putnam

Montgomery Town Wall: excavation and recording at Plas Du, 1995 - 97,

by N.W.Jones & W.J.Britnell

Sir Griffith Fychan (? - 1447), by Glanmor Williams

Edward Sutton (d. 1532), Lord Dudley and Powys: an early Tudor Marcher Lord,

by W.R.B.Robinson

Maria's Dreams: the reckoning, by Martin Murphy

Robert Owen's Welsh childhood: kin, culture and environment 1771 - c. 1781,

by Ian Donnachie

The Effects of Queen Anne's Bounty and the Ecclesiastical Commission on some

Montgomeryshire Parishes, by Roger L. Brown

A Brief History of the Founding and Development of the Powysland Club,

by Moyra S. Wyllie

Montgomeryshire Ambulance Service, 1948 - 1970, by Brian Owen

 

1997, volume 85

Luggy Moat, Berriew: recording and conservation, by R.J.Silvester

Llanfyllin: the charter and the Laws of Breteuil, by Henry Loyn

The development of Llanfyllin as a market town and the 1789 Llanfyllin Market

House Act, by Murray Ll. Chapman

Medieval Windmills in Montgomeryshire and the Marches, by P.G.Barton

The Llanwddyn Hospitium, by R.J.Sylvester

The excavation of a malt house in the grounds of Plas Machynlleth, 1994,

by Alex Gibson & James Barfoot

Maria's Dreams: Lady Mary Herbert, 1685 - 1775, by Martin Murphy

Patronage, Fees and Fixtures: some notes on the history of the parish of Llandysilio,

by Roger L. Brown

Causes Celebres relating to property in Montgomeryshire (No. 3), by E.H.C.Davies

 

1996, volume 84

Excavations within the Roman vicus at Caersws, 1989 - 93, by Nigel W. Jones

Grants by Edward Sutton (d. 1532), Lord Dudley, relating to the lordship of Deuddwr,

by W.R.B.Robinson

The Windmill of the Abbey of Strata Marcella, by P.G.Barton

'Mineral Engineer' John Williams of Kerry (1732 - 1795): his work in Britain and his

mineral surveys in the Veneto and North Italy, by Hugh Torrens

Llandyssil: an uncertain rectory and an uncomfortable living, by Roger L. Brown

Making a new parish: Holy Trinity, Penrhos, by Roger L. Brown

The Tithes to their end in Montgomeryshire: an introduction, by D.W.Smith

Records: Notitiae St Asaph (continued): Newtown, Tregynon

1995, volume 83

The Place-Names of Berriew, by G.G.Evans and D.W.Smith

The Carreg Beuno Prehistoric Landscape, Berriew, by Alex Gibson

Excavations at Mathrafal, Powys, 1989, by C.J.Arnold and J.W.Huggett

Pillow Mounds at Y Foel, Llanllugan, by R.J.Silvester

A Conspectus of Schools in Eighteenth-Century Montgomeryshire,

by T.M.Humphreys

Penson's Progress: the work of a Nineteenth-Century County Surveyor,

by C. Robert Anthony

Sad, Mad or Bad: the case of Evan Jenkins, Rector of Manafon,

by Roger L. Brown

Poverty, Despair and Deceit: an administrative and clerical history of the

parish of Criggion, by Roger L. Brown

Notes: The 'controversial' Australian descendant of Evan Blayney of

Pantglas, Professor Geoffrey Blainey, Chancellor of the new University of Ballarat, by S.P.Thomas

 

1994, volume 82

PENNANT MELANGELL

1. The Boundaries of the Parish of Pennant Melangell, by W.J.Britnell

2. Place-names and Field-names of Pennant Melangell, by G.G.Evans

3. A New Edition of the Historia Divae Monacellae, by H. Pryce

4. Excavation and Recording at Pennant Melangell Church, by W.J.Britnell

5. A Structural History of Pennant Melangell Church, by R.B.Heaton and W.J.Britnell

6. Furnishings and Fittings in Pennant Melangell Church, by M.H.Ridgeway

7. Paintings and Inscriptions in Pennant Melangell Church, by A.J.Parkinson

8. Saint Melangell's Shrine, Pennant Melangell, by W.J.Britnell and K. Watson

Notes: The Dartmoor Shepherd, by Roger L. Brown

1993, volume 81

Grant of Arms: Some Genealogical Reflections, by S.P.Thomas

Caersws Roman Fort and Vicus, Montgomeryshire, Powys, 1984 - 92,

by Nigel W. Jones

Powis Castle: The Development of the Structure, by Christopher J. Arnold

A Mormon Testimony - The Journal of Edward Roberts, 1845 - 1865,

by David Pretty

Emlyn Hooson's Parliamentary Debut: The Montgomeryshire By-Election of 1962,

by J. Graham Jones

 

1992, volume 80

Frontispiece: The Grant of Armorial Bearing to the Powysland Club

The Excavation of the Timber Circle and Horseshoe-shaped Enclosure at

Sarn-y-bryn-caled,

Near Welshpool, Powys: An Interim Report, by Alex Gibson

A Lithic Scatter on Mynydd Carreg-y-big, Llanerfyl, by R.J.Silvester and

G. Davies

A Debatable Land: Arwystli in the Middle Ages, by A.D.Carr, PhD

An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Stephen William Williams (1837 - 99),

by Rev. David H. Williams, MA, PhD, FSA, with an Appendix by

C.J.Arnold, BA,PhD, MIFA

Thomas Powell - Chartist, c. 1802 - 1862, by E.R.Morris, BA

Miscellanea: Price Hughes of Llanllugan and South Carolina: A Note,

Eirlys M.Barker

 

1991, volume 79

Frontispiece: View of St Curig's Church, Llangurig, from the South East, C.

1875: Edward Salter

A History of Llanidloes's Borough Charters, by Richard Morgan,

M.Ll.Chapman and E.R.Morris

Property and Landownership in Llangadfan by Major E.H.C.Davies, MBE, BA DL

Bro Dyfi Leisure Centre Excavations, 1998 - 89 by James Barfoot

Berriew and Trinity: Thomas Jones (1756 - 1807) and his Contemporaries

by Douglas Smith

 

1990, volume 78

A Cropmark Enclosure and a Sherd of Later Neolithic Pottery from Brynderwen,

Llandyssil, Powys, by Alex Gibson and Chris Musson

Excavations in the Vicinity of Forden Gaer, Powys, 1987, by Kevin Blockley

with Glyn Owen and Wendy Owen

The Christian Origins of Montgomeryshire: An Interpretation by Dr R.W.D.Fenn, FSA,

FRHistS and J.B.Sinclair, FSA Scot

Powis Castle: The Outer Bailey, by C.J.Arnold, BA, PhD

The Demography of Late-Stuart Montgomeryshire, c.1660 - 1720,

by David Jenkins, BA, PhD

The Newtown and

Llanidloes Poor Law Union Workhouse, Caersws, 1837 - 1847, by Brian Owen