… when one considers the great amount of money spent in the restorations and rebuildings we can appreciate that for this to have happened while…
… when one considers the great amount of money spent in the restorations and rebuildings we can appreciate that for this to have happened while the deanery was steadily being milked of its substance by Chichester must have involved a tremendous effort on the part of clergy and laymen. Local gentry were very generous, especially the Pryse family of Gogerddan: the Powells of Nanteos less so, perhaps: they insisted on the full market price when…
… the churches they had built and endowed soon reverted to a more socially acceptable style of public worship. Some differences remained and traditions survived,…
… the churches they had built and endowed soon reverted to a more socially acceptable style of public worship. Some differences remained and traditions survived, but they were minor and quite superficial. Today, we can admire and be thankful for the buildings: but buildings alone cannot perpetuate a revolution. We can therefore understand the true significance of the movement as a whole in the Victorian era. Mainly, I think, it was highly symptomatic of a…
… 1 N.L.W., SD/C/119. Draft consecration dated 6 October 1835. 2 On Tractarianism in Wales, see O. W.Jones, Isaac Williams and his circle (London, 1971)…
… 1 N.L.W., SD/C/119. Draft consecration dated 6 October 1835. 2 On Tractarianism in Wales, see O. W.Jones, Isaac Williams and his circle (London, 1971) and the same author's article 'The Mind of Robert Raikes', Journal of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, XVIII (1968). See also D. Eifion Evans, 'Mudiad Rhydychen yng Ngogledd Sir Aberteifi', ibid., iv (1954), pp. 45ff. 3 Quoted in O. W. Jones, op. cit., p. 96. 4 ibid.,…
… 24 Petition from Rev. D. E. Jones to the Incorporated Church Building Society, dated from Llanafan 27 December 1836, File No. B2225. 25 Seventh…
… 24 Petition from Rev. D. E. Jones to the Incorporated Church Building Society, dated from Llanafan 27 December 1836, File No. B2225. 25 Seventh Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, with Appendix, Parliamentary Papers, 1865, XXVI. i, p. 498. 26 In 1835 the position was as follows: the Bishop exercised the patronage of 4 livings, a vicar of 1, and Brecknock Collegiate Church of 1 lay patrons owned the advowsons of…
… ASPECTS OF PLANTER SOCIETY IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES BEFORE EMANCIPATION EIGHTEENTH Century West India planter society was well developed in spite of the…
… ASPECTS OF PLANTER SOCIETY IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES BEFORE EMANCIPATION EIGHTEENTH Century West India planter society was well developed in spite of the high rate of absenteeism, and many aspects of this society can be seen in the brief extracts taken from the Nassau Senior and Slebech Papers in the National Library of Wales. The Senior family had had important links with the smaller West Indian islands, especially Barbados, and their papers came…
… Spain still held the major share of possessions in the New World, Cuba, Saint Domingo and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, the South American…
… Spain still held the major share of possessions in the New World, Cuba, Saint Domingo and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, the South American continent and Central America, but she had been unable to keep the European powers out of the New World. By the seventeenth century Portugal had claimed Brazil, France had won Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique (and Canada until 1763) and had constant battle with Britain for the islands, for example St.…
… on the other hand, had been only a relatively small merchant, his son worked his way into wealth and position, marrying the daughter of…
… on the other hand, had been only a relatively small merchant, his son worked his way into wealth and position, marrying the daughter of a well to do and established planter, and then by virtue of very hard work, retiring wealthy, though not nearly as wealthy as the Pennants of North Wales or even the Morris family of Mon- mouthshire, or above all, the English Beckfords. It was the ultimate desire of the British…
… acted as bankers. The bills of lading and exchange which crossed the Atlantic made up the intricate economic network of the planter economy which…
… acted as bankers. The bills of lading and exchange which crossed the Atlantic made up the intricate economic network of the planter economy which was to bring far more wealth to the mother country than to the islands. But although the stress among the British plantocracy was on absenteeism, planter society did flourish in the islands and the letters here transcribed most interestingly reveal aspects of it. Most official life centred on the Governor-…
… NASSAU SENIOR PAPERS E2. [Captain] R[obert] G. Bruce, Dominica to William Ascanius [sic] Senior; [London?] Dominica ist May 1771. Dear Sir I have taken…
… NASSAU SENIOR PAPERS E2. [Captain] R[obert] G. Bruce, Dominica to William Ascanius [sic] Senior; [London?] Dominica ist May 1771. Dear Sir I have taken a great deal of pains to examine the Island and I think that I have now fixt in the best Quarter in it, and where the lands are inferior to few in the West Indies I took a great deal of pains and made some offers to get an Estate…
… excellent Coffee for which it seems peculiarly calculated. The Windward part, consisting of the Parishes of St. Patricks, St. Davids and St. Andrews (particularly…
… excellent Coffee for which it seems peculiarly calculated. The Windward part, consisting of the Parishes of St. Patricks, St. Davids and St. Andrews (particularly the latter) is a fine flat practicable Country, very extensive, and possessing several good shipping Bays. It abounds with Rivers, and appears by Experiment to be excellently calculated for Sugar. I still keep my health very well in this Climate and if I am lucky enough to enjoy a continuance…
… disappointed in their Expectations. At all Events the Merchant is safe, as he has a Mortgage below the value of the Estate, and 8p.…
… disappointed in their Expectations. At all Events the Merchant is safe, as he has a Mortgage below the value of the Estate, and 8p. cent interest for his advances; and should the worst happen there has not yet been a Single instance of an estate being sold here at so little as it was purchased for [incomplete] E4. R. G. Bruce, Dominica to [Ascanius W. Senior] [?London]. Dear Sir, Since my last Letter I…
… for Mills, and but a short distance from a Shipping Place. The only objection which I think can be made to preferring Coffee is…
… for Mills, and but a short distance from a Shipping Place. The only objection which I think can be made to preferring Coffee is that it is two or three years longer before it begins to make Returns than Sugar. But in the present case that objection is greatly obviated (inde- pendent of the above arguments) by your view being more to make a future Provision for your Family than to enjoy immediate Revenue…