Welsh Journals

DEANERY OF CEDEWAIN. ABERHAFESP. I. REGISTERS (kept in iron chest at the Rectory):- 1578-1651. Parchment, unbound. A Register Booke wherein is conteigned all Chrystnyngs Weddings and burialls sythence the yere of Or lord god 1573." On a fragment of the torn cover is a broken record of King Charles's visit to Newtown, e.g., Charles ye First towne in theere upon dayeofl645." Has a few entries in the Commonwealth. Another mem. states that E Gravener came to Aberhafesp upon ye 26 of April, 1666. A cursed time it proved me as I & others now daily feele and see." [Evan Gravener of Moughtrey died Feb., 1702]. 1721-1726. Loose paper entries. 1726-1756. On the last page specification for repairing Old Vicarage. "Bought by Mr John Evans curate of the Parish and to yr shame never paid for." 1757-1786. Contains Circular to Clergy of the Deanery re Stamp Duties, 1783. 1786-1812. 1. "Aug. 3, 1786, Dr. Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, held his Confirmation only at Welsh Pool, and the Cha'cellor his Visitation Court at ye same time." 2. Mem "The Rev. Evan Jones, Rr of this par., died 10th July, 1827, and in the month of August following the Rev. Richard John Davies, then residing at Brompton Hall, in the Par. of Churchstoke, was presented to the living by Bp. Luxmoore. The old Parsonage House was a very poor and mean edifice, badly thatched with broom and straw and much out of repair." Mr. Davies built a new house (to the east) and outbuildings, at a cost of £ 2,000, and came into residence in June, 1829. The row of Elm trees planted in 1831.