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Papurau yn ymwneud & gweinyddiad a thrroedd YSGOL FRIARS, BANGOR

Papers relating to the Administration and Estate lands of FRIARS' SCHOOL, BANGOR

Catalogiwyd gan: Tomos Roberts, myfyriwr ar gwrs Diploma Archifiaeth Bangor 1978/9.

Catalogued by: Tomos Roberts, a student on the 1978/9 U.C.N.W. Archives Administration Diploma Course.

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DALIER SYLW: Ceir manylion am ail-aa^e^uaeth o ddogfennau Ysgol Friars mown catalog arall.

N. B.: Details of the second deposit of Friars School records are to be found in a separate catalogue.

Deeds and allied documents 1-35

Wills 36 ­ 38

Legal suits 39-51

Petitions . 52-55

Letters 56 ­ 84

Rentals 85 ­ 87

Accounts and receipts 88 ­ 114

Miscellanea 115 ­ 129

Plans !30 ­ 150

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Deeds and allied documents

1. 1560 May 20 1. Sir William Peter, and Sir William Garrard, knights, Simon Lowe, Merchant Tailor.

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2. George Lee alias Leigh, Merchants of the Staple and Thomas Bower of Salop.

COPY DEED TO LEAD USES before a Common Recovery upon the late Chapel of St. John Baptist in Oswestree together with all its lands, fments and tithes of corn and hay in the villages, fships, hamlets and places called Berghill Vgher, Berghill Issha, English Frauncton, Alder­ton, Kynton, Upper Ridge, neither Ridge, Newe Merten, Newnes, Hardwicke, Crecote, and Estwyke, all co. Salop, and the moiety of tithes of corn and hay in the fship of Whittington, co. Salop.

Appended:

NOTE: 'a true coppy examined with the Record of thirteenth day of June 1654: by me William Thomas1 .

2. 1560 May 27 Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster.

EXEMPLIFICATION OF COMMON RECOVERY

Demandants: Rouland Meryk, Bishop of Bangor, and Thomas Yale, Doctor of Laws.

Tenants George Lee alias Leigh, and Thomas Bowyer.

Vouchee: JohnTwysse.

touching one messuage, 200a. land, 40a. meadow, 200 a. pasture, 20a. wood in Oswestre, and the tithes of corn and hay in Englisshe Frangton, Alderton, Kynton, Upper Ridge, Nether Ridge, New Merton, Newnes, Hardwyke, Crecote, Estwyke, Ugher Bferghill], Berghill Issha, all Co. Salop, and the moiety of all tithes of corn and hay in Whittington, co. Salop. Latin.

3. 1569 Feb. 18 1. Hugh Davies of Caerhun, gent..

2. Thomas Davies, Bishop of St. Asaph.

COUNTER PART ASSIGNMENT of lease in fee farm of parcels of land in a close called quetge d. .y Han in fship llanpedr, [pa. Llanbedrycennin] and five parcels of land in fship llanpedr, of which the first is one half of one meadow called y weirgloth gron ynghil y bvarth. the second, called Dyyll y gelynen, extends from a place called garth y pwrs as far as the high road in the same place, the third, called Talar Ieuan gryth, lies in width from the orchard of the rectory of llanbedr as far as a place called gwern castell, and in length from the said parcel called dry 11 y gelynen, as far as the land of the said Hugh called Kelly y forwyn, the fourth parcel, called dry 11 Ieuan ap Madock ap yorwerth, lying adjacent to the land called brynnie melynion on one side, and a place called fynnon blethyn ddu at one end as far as the land called Talar Ieuan gryth on the other, the fifth parcel ̂ called frwd y kemerey as far as a parcel of land called dry 11 Robyn, and in length from the land called llwyn y gwayw at one end as far as the land of the said Thomas Davies on the other. Fee farm rent: 3s. 4d. p. a. payable to the Dean and Chapter of Bangor Cathedral, to the use of the new school at Bangor. Latin.

4. 1571Bangor

Aug. 1 LETTERS OF ATTORNEY from Roland Thomas, Dean of Bangor to — (blank

in document) to receive from Sir William Petre, Sir William Garrarde and Simon Lowe, merchant tailor, the religious house called le Freer House in Bangor with all the f ments and lands which belong to it, and all other lands and fments in Bangor, Anglesey, Arlliode, Ughallet, Denbigh and elsewhere in North Wales

4. (cont. 'd) ... which were formerly of Geoffrey Glynn Doctor of Civil Law, deceased, according to the terms of an indenture dated Aug. 1, 1571, made between Nicholas, Bishop of Bangor of the first part the said Roland Thomas, Dean of Bangor and the Chapter of the Cathedral of Bangor of the second part, and the said William Petre, William Garrard and Simon Lowe, of the third part. Latin.

5. 1571 Nov. 7 1. Rowland Thomas Dean of Bangor.

2. John Kyme, gent..

ABTICLES OF AGREEMENT concerning the delivery and receipt of deeds and documents belonging to Bangor Grammar School.

6. 1574Goramburie

Sept. 13 ABSTRACT of Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, granting a lease in perpetual fee farm

to John Farneham and others of lands and t?ments in the manor of Estegrenwich, co. Kent, and pas. of St. George, Southwarke, and Streatham, co. Surrey. Latin.

7. 1575 SCHEDULE of the deeds and documents of Bangor Grammar School in the possession of Thomas Bates.

8. 1579 Aug. 1 1. The Deane and Chapter of the Cathedrall Church of Bangor, Govern­ors of the Free Grammar School of Bangor.

8. (cont. 'd) ... 2. EUice Abellice of Pickill, co. Denbs., gent..

COUNTERPART LEASE for three lives of the late Chappell of Sainct John Baptist in Oswester and its lands, fments and tithes of corn and hay in the villages and places called Bergill Vcha, Bergill yssa, Englishe Franction, Alderttonne, Kynton, Upper Rydge, neither Rydge, Newe Merton, Newnes, Hardwick, Crickott and Estwick, all co. Salop, and the moiety of tithes of corn and hay in the t'ships of Wyttington, co. Salop, at a rent of £30 p.a..

Endorsed:

QUERY as to how the Dean and Chapter could grant a lease when the estate which they had was a rent charge issuing out of the chapel lands, amounting to £26.l3s.4d..

9. 1654 Sept. 7 ABSTRACTS of letters patent and other documents concerning the school's lands in pa. St. George, Southwark, extracted by Phillip Darrell.

10. post 1664 BLANK PRINTED FORM of release of lands in East New Jersey, America. Fragment.

11. 1688 Oct. 8 1. £he Deane and Chapter of the Cathedrall Church of Bangor, Wardens and Govern­ors of the free Grammar School of Bangor.

2. Walter Gore of pa. St. George, South­warke, co. Surrey.

11. (cont. 'd) ... COPY LEASE for a term of 41 years of messuages and fments called the Alms.houses?

three parcels of land called Whitehind Alley in White Street, a piece of ground called the Garden plptt, and all the messuages and fments in Long Lane formerly in the occupation of Thomas Bates, all in pa. St. George, Southwark. Rent: for the first year of the term £20, for the second year £25, and for the next five years £45. Consideration: £20.

!2. 1692 Sept. 28 1. The Deane and Chapter of the Cathedrall Church of Bangor, Wardens, Governors and Feoffees of the Free Grammar School, of Bangor.

2. Walter Gore of Surry, gent..

DRAFT LEASE for a term of 51 years of messuages and fments called the Aulmes7 houses, three parcels of land called White Hinde Alley, a piece of ground called the Garden plott, and all the messuages and fments in Long Lane formerly in the occupation of Thomas Bates, all in pa. St. George, Southwark. Rent: for the first seven years of the term £45 p. a., for the remainder of the term £50 p.a..

Consideration: blank in document.

Appended: COPY LETTER (n.d.) from an unnamed writer, writing on behalf of the Dean and Chapter of Bangor to [Walter] Gore. He complains about arrears of rent, but states that the Dean and Chapter are willing to grant Gore a new lease.

13. n. d. c. 1692 1. The Deane and Chapter of the Cathedrall Church of Bangor, being Wardens and Governors of the Free Grammar Schoole of Bangor.

2. Walter Gore of pa. St. George, Southwark, co. Surrey, gent..

DRAFT LEASE for a term of 50 years of messuages and fments as in no. 12 above at a rent of £45 p. a.. Consideration: £800.

14. 1693 Sept. 28 1. The Dean and Chapter of the Cathedrall Church of Bangor, being Wardens, Governors and Feofees of the free Grammar schole of Bangor.

2. Walter Gore of pa. St. George Southwark, gent..

COUNTERPART LEASE for a term of 51 years of messuages and fments as in no. 12 above. Consideration: £800.

15, n.d. 17 cent. SCHEDULE of the deeds and documents of Bangor Grammar School.

16. n. d. 17 cent. SCHEDULE of the deeds and documents of the Free Grammar School of Bangor.

Attached:

SCHEDULE dated April 9, 1707 of leases in the custody of the Bishop of Bangor.

17. n. d. 17 cent. COPY LETTER OF ATTORNEY of the Wardens and Governors of the Free Gra.mmar School in Bangor, empowering Thomas Meredith, schoolmaster and William Thomas of Caernarvon, gent, to receive the rents issuing out of the Free SchooPs land in pa. St. George, Southwark.

18. n. d. 17 cent. 1. Walter Gore of Southwarke, co. Surrey.

2. The Deane and Chapter, Wardens of the Free Schoole of Bangor.

COPY ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT concern­ing the rebuilding of houses in pa. St. George, Southwark.

19 & 20. 1702 Aug. 5 & 6 1. Humphrey [Humphreys], Bishop cf Hereford.

2. The Bishop of Bangor, John Jones, Dean of Bangor, Owen Hughes of Bewmares, esq., William Morgan of Henblas [Llangristiolus], esq., Chanc­ellor of Bangor, John Rowlands of Nant, esq., George Coytmore of Coytmore esq., and James Brynkir, of Brynkir, esq..

LEASE AND RELEASE for renewal of a trust of a messuage and lands called Ty yn y coed, pa. Clynnog.

21. 1755 March 10 1. The Dean and Chapter of the CathedraU Church of Bangor, Governors of the Free Grammar School in Bangor.

2. Sir William Irby of Llanidan, Bart..

21. (cant. 'd), ... COUNTERPART LEASE of a term of twenty one years of a tenement and lands called Cappel Itha. in pa. Pen­rhosllugwy for the purpose of sinking a mine, and searching for copper and lead. Rent: £2 p. a. and £1 on every £9 worth of ore raised.

22. 1873 Dec. 3 APPLICATION of jJ. William Hughes, agent to the governors of Friars School^ to the Charity Commissioners for leave to lease nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6 White Street, pa. St. George, Southwark to Andrew Nelson.

23. 1878 BLANK FORM OF TENDER for a lease of no. 11 White Street, and nos. 2-31 Willmofs Buildings, pa. St. George, Southwark, and a copy of a newspaper advertisement concerning the 1 easing of the property.

24. 1878 July 2 TENDER of W.W. Johnson, Tooley St., Southwark, for a lease of No. 11 White Street, and nos. 2-31 Whillmotfs Buildings, pa. St. George, Southwark.

25. 1878 Oct. 21 1. The Governors of the Free Grammar School of Dr. Geoffrey Glynne, Bangor.

2. Robert Angell Freeman.

DRAFT LEASE for a term of 40 years (altered to 30 years) of nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10 White Street, and nos. 1, 25 and 26 Whillmotts Buildings (altered to nos. 2-24 and nos. 27 ­ 31 Willmotfs Build­ings), Southwark, co. Surrey at a rent of £150 (altered to £266) p.a.. Consideration: £700.

26. . 1879 1. The Governors of the Bangor Grammar School.

2. Mrs. Susannah Freeman.

DRAFT CONSENT to lease a warehouse and yard at the rear of nos. 19, 20 and 21 Long Lane, Southwark, co. Surrey to George McDermot, 64 Long Lane, Bermondsey for a term of 21 years at a rent of £42 p. a..

27. 1879 1. The Governors of the Bangor Grammar

School.

2. Mrs. Susannah Freeman.

COPY of no. 26 above.

28. 1879 April 22 DRAFT MEMORIAL of John William Hughes of Bangor, gent., to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue concerning a lease granted by the governors of the Bangor Grammar School to Robert Angell Freeman of lands in Southwark, co. Surrey, in October 1878.

29. 1879 May 2 1. The Governors of the Bangor Grammar School.

2. Mrs. Susannah Freeman.

CONSENT to demise nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10, White Street, Southwark, co. Surrey, to Messrs. Courage and Co..

30. 1879 July 28 NOTICE; by direction of the Charity Commissioners that the governors of the Grammar School of Dr. Geoffrey Glynne, Bangor propose to grant a lease of nos. 11 White Street and nos. 2-24 and 27-31 Willmott Buildings in pa. St. George, Southwark, at a rent of £266 p. a..

31. 1880 1. William Walter Jomson of Watling Street in the City of London.

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2. George Harding, Pearcy John Harding, and Charles Frederick Harding, of Long Lane in the Borough of Southwark, co. Surrey.

COPY LEASE for a term of 30 years wanting 10 days computed from September 29, 1879, of nos. 18, 19, 27 and 28 Wilmotts Buildings, pa. St. George, ccSurrey at a rent of £57 p. a..

32. 1884 1. The Governors of the Free Grammar School of Dr. Geoffrey Glynne, Bangor.

2. Mrs. Susannah Lambert.

DRAFT SUPPLEMENTAL LEASE for a term of 40 years from June 24, 1878 of land at Willmotts Buildings, Southwark, co. Surrey.

33. n. d. SCHEDULE of deeds and documents in the school chest.

34. n.d. ABSTRACTS of some of the school's deeds and documents.

35. n.d. SCHEDULE of the deeds and documents of the Free Grammar School of Bangor.

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36. 1557 July 8 COPY WILL of Dr. Geoffrey Glyn. 15 monetary bequests totalling £144 11s. 8d., £20 to each of his sisters who survive him; a year's wages and 20s. to Thomas ap Rowland and all his servants at the time of his death. Other bequests comprise: his grey gelding, his second saddle and bridle, his 'lydaye' and a year's wages to Owen Glyn; his cloak, boots and spurs to Sir Richard Rowland; his wood knife and cross­bow to his uncle John ap Rhys, and his best ring with the greatest turquoise in it to Mistress Grace; his best saddle and bridle, the ring with a death's head enamelled on to . Dr. Ellis;his bay gelding to the Bishop of Elyt and his grey colt and his standing gilt cup to the Bishop of Rochester. He leaves the frier howse in Bangor and his lands in North Wales and elsewhere to Morris, Bishop of Rochester, and William, Bishop of Bangor, to the use of a grammar school to be maintained at Bangor 'for the better educacon of bringing vpp of poore mens children1 , £20 to be spent on "edifying' the building, and £400 to the bishops to pur­chase lands, reversions, or annual com­modities to the yearly value of £20, to the use of ten scholars "diligently to be brought vpp at the same scole'.

37. 1570 April 19 ?ORIGINAL WILL of Thomas Davies, Bishop of St. Asaph. Bequests include:his 'cheef mease place1 called brynniemelynion [pa. Llanbedrycennin] to his wife Margaret Davies during the term of her life, and; after her death to Katheryn Davies, wife of William Holand of Abergele, and after her death to Pers Holand, son of William Holand and Katheryn Davies, and the heirs of his body, and in default of heirs to Thomas Holand, son of William Holand and Katheryn Davies and the heirs of his body, and in default to the heirs male of William Holand and Katheryn Davies, and in default to

37. (cont. 'd) ... the testator's brother Hugh Davies for the term of his life, and after his death to his sons William ap Hugh, and George ap Hugh and their heirs, and in default to the test­ator's brother Gruffudd Davies and his heirs and in default to the testator's brother Owen Davies and his heirs, and in default to the Master and Fellows of Queen's College, Cambridge and their successors forever; £10 to the church where he is to be buried; £10 to the Dean and Chapter of Bangor Cathedral, to the use of the free school erected there by Dr. Geoffrey Glyn, and £10 to the use of the Bishop of Bangor; 20 horseloads of hay annually to his sister Margaret verch Dafydd ap Robert from his farm of doly garrog during the unexpired term of the lease, and one of the six parcels of tithe corn and hay called the parcell Islawr avon for the next harvest after his death; the parcel of tithe corn and hay which he had in 1569 to Ieuan ap John ap ̂ adock for the next harvest after the testator*s death, and he is to be forgiven the money remain­ing unpaid for that parcel; the term of years unexpired in the tenement and lands called Tythyn y marchog to Edmonde ap Dafydd ap Meredith, annual rent 5s.; £45 due to the testator upon Hugh ap Rhys.. of Anglesey fof which I protest before god I had not a peny', towards the performance of the will of Dr. William Glyn, late Bishop of Bangor, and also £20 towards the per­formance of the will if it is not already performed; £4 to be divided between the vicars choral, choristers, and choir of St. Asaph Cathedral; £10 to be divided between his household servants and family; three bays of a house which the testator framed at the bettus to his successor the Bishop of St. Asaph, towards the building of a house of offices at St. Asaph, and two portals, the new drawing table, 12 stools and a cupboard in the greatchamber of his mansion at St. Asaph, as well as all the tables in the kitchen, all the bedsteads except the best, and all the door and windows. Names Margaret Davies as his executrix and residuary legatee, and the Bishop of Bangor, Hugh Davies, Gruffudd Davies, and

37. (cont. *d) ... Dr. Yale as overseers.

38. n. d. 16 cent. NOTE concerning the rectory of Trefriw devised by Dr. [Thomas] Davies in his will to his brother Gruffyth Davies.

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Legal suits

39. 1573 MichaelmasTerm

40. Circa 1575.

41. circa 1575

42. 1575 Easter Term

43. 1575 EasterTerm

44. 1575 EasterTerm

TRANSCRIPT pleadings in an action of trespass between Roger Andrewe, gent.,

plaintiff and Alice Hannell, defendant. Latin.

TRANSCRIPT case of Robert Boston, plaintiff, against Thomas Marler, plaintiff in an action of trespass, touching a messuage in longlane, pa. St. George Southwark, with appended notes. Latin.

TRANSCRIPT case of Thomas Marler, defendant in an action of trespass, touching a messuage in longlane, pa. St. George, Southwark. Latin.

MEMORANDUM of information by Gilbert Gerrard, Attorney General of Elizabeth I, against Thomas Bates in an action of trespass in and upon messuages and tene­ments in Longe Lane and Blackman Strete in pa. of St. George, Southwark.

Attached:

ACCOUNTS of Thomas Bates' legal expenses and rent paid by him 1579-1583. Latin.

MEMORANDUM. As no. 42 above. Latin.

TRANSCRIPT case of John Farneham, esquire, plaintiff, in an action of trespass against Thomas Bates, defendant. Latin.

45. 1575 Easter Term TRANSCRIPT case of Thomas Bates, defendant in an action of trespass, touching messuages, and fments in Long Lane, pa. St. George, Southwark. Latin.

46. 1577 Easter Term TRANSCRIPT case of John Bill, gent., plaintiff in an action of trespass against James Marler, defendant, touching a mes­suage called le Estridge fether, and now called le Whyte Horse in Waterlambeth.

Endorsed:

NOTES concerning the case. Latin.

47. 1577/8 Jan. 5 STATEMENT of Maryon Huntington of pa. St. George, Southwark concerning a house called the White Hinde, and other tenements under the same roof called alms houses.

48. 1580 Feb. 1 ORDER of the Council of the Marches in the case between Rowland Thomas, Dean o f Bangor and Edward Mitton, gent., for the examination of witnesses.

49. 1580 May 27 INTERROGATORDSS administered to witnes­ses on behalf of Edward Mitton and other

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defendants at the suit of Rowland Thomas, touching tithes of corn and hay in Bergill Vcha and Bergill yssa and Whittington, co. Salop, together with the depositions of witnesses, namely Richard Mytton, of the town of Salop, esq., Meredith ap John of Kensill, co. Salop, yeoman, Roger ap William of Rudge, co. Salop, yeoman, Roger Bercley, of the same, yeoman, taken before Thomas

Powell, Roger Puleston and John Hanmer, esq., and George Barker, gent, at Oswestry.

49. (cont. 'd) Interrogatories administered to witnes­ses on behalf of Thomas Lloyd, defendant, at the suit of Rowland Thomas, touching tithes of corn and grain in Kinton and Alderton, co. Salop, together with the depositions of witnesses, namely Richard Langley of the town of Salopp, John Ditcher, vicar of Shawbrye, co. Salop, Robert Ditcher of the same, gent., Thomas Warner, of the Town of Salop, Shermon, and George Lawrens of the town of Salope, taken before Thomas Powell, Roger Puleston and John Hanmer, esquires, and Georg Barker gent., at Oswestry. Interrogatories administered to witnesses on behalf of Nicholas Thomes esquire, Roger Kynaston, and David Hanmer, def­endants at the suit of Rowland Thomas, touch ­ing tithes of corn and hay in New Martyn in the parish of Ellesmere, co. Salop, together with the depositions of witnesses, namely Thomas ap Llywelyn of Ellesmere, yeoman, Homfrey Meredyth of Byrch, co. Salop, yeoman, Andrewe Lee of the same, Geffrey Holland of Ruthen, co. Denbigh, gent., and Thomas Jones of the same, taken before Thomas Powell, Roger Puleston and John Hanmer, esquires and George Barker at Oswestry.

50. 1647 Dec. 4 FURTHER ANSWER of Thomas Webster to the bill of complaint of Thomas Meredith, master of the Free School of Bangor, John Draycott, usher of the school and Morgan Roberts, touching a rent of 8s. 6d. p.a..

51. 1768 Nov. 10 COPY OF CASE AND OPINION OF COUNSEL in the matter of the Bishop, Dean and Chapter of [Bangor] wardens and governors of the Free Grammar School against W.B. who refuses to rebuild the four houses in

*v [pa. St. George, Southwark] destroyed by fire in July 1768.

Petitions

52. n. d. 16 cent. COPY PETITION of Rowland Thomas, Dean of Bangor and Thomas Bates to Lord Burghleigh, Lord High Treasurer of England, requesting him to order John Farneham, and John Mynors to cease their legal actions against the tenants of the Free School of Bangor in pa. St. George, Southwark.

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n. d. 16th cent.

COPY PETITION as No. 52 above, addressed to Sir Walter Myldmey, knight, Chancellor of her Majesty!s * Court of Exchequer.

COPY PETITION of RowlandThomas, Dean of Bangor, and Thomas Bates to Sir Walter Myldrney, knight, Chancellor of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, requesting him to order [John] Mynors to oease his legal actions against the tenants of the Free School of Bangor in pa^ St. George, Southwark.

55. 1616[/17] Feb. 23 PETITION of Richard Price, clerk, Gruffith ap Rees and Thomas ap William churchwardens of Bethkelert, Henry Lloyd ap Humphrey, and Gruffith Lewis to Edmund

(?Gruffyth, Dean of Bangor and the Preben­daries and Canons of the Chapter. They ask that Ieuan Lloyd son of John ap Ieuan Lloyd be admitted to the scholarship estab­lished by Mores Wynn of Gwedyr at the Free Grammar School of Bangor.

Letters

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56. post 1579 March 13 LETTER: Rowland Thomas [Dean of Bangor] to Elys Abelys at [Ludlow], In reply to the recipients inquiries about Dr. Geoffrey Glyn, and the arrears of rent, the writer states that Dr. Glyn was a bastard being the reputed son of Sir John Glynne, parson of Heneglwys. Concerning the arrears of rent the writer states that he is enclosing a letter written by Beyrch himself, in which he admits defaul t of payment.

57. 1611 July 31 LETTER: Edward Bates to [Henry Rowlands] Bishop of Bangor. He and Mr. Henry Rowlands, goldsmith went to see Mr. Johnes at Lincolns Inn, and the writer gave him his deed for the houses called the alms­houses in pa. St. George, Southwark, des­iring him to make over a conveyance to the Dean and Chapter of Bangor Cathedral. But Mr. Johnesfmade a speach concerning mortmayne' Mr. Dean did not come to London during Trinity Term as he had pro­mised, and Mr. Johnes left soon after the end of term. The writer hopes that the business will be completed upon his return.

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58. 1616[/17] Jan. 21 LETTER: Edward Bates to Edmond Griffith, Dean of Bangor asking for a new lease for the lands in Southwark, and offering £20 as a consideration.

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59. 1617 [/l 8] Feb. 2 LETTER: Richard BrickdaU at Llanvairyng­hornwy to the Bishop of Bangor. He des­ired to have possession of the lands, according to William Wynne's new lease. He states that William Wynne has deceived the bishop. Hui...

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1647 April 7 LETTER: Thomas Williams, William Williams, T. Glynne, John Bodwrda and Thomas Madryn at Carrnarvon to unnamed recipients. They ask the recipients to assist Mr. Meredith, master of the Free Grammar School of Bangor in recover­ing sums of money, issuing from tithes in Shropshire and lands in Southwark, due to the school. The 'Dean and Chapter of Bangor Cathedral were the governors of the school, but because that Corporation' had been "made voyd by the Honourable houses of Parliament1 , the school was unable to recover the money.

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Nov. 16

LETTER: John Gorham from the Kings Road to Anthony Gell at Buckingham Gate. He gives his valuation of the school lands in pa. St. George, Southwark.

LETTER: Anthony Gell at Gloysters, Westminster to the Bishop of Bangor stating that a copy of the order attested by the registrar or chapter clerk will be sufficient. He asks the bishop to send him one at his convenience.

63. 1855-1877 BUNDLE: Letters from the Charity ix Commission and the Endowed Schools Commission relating to Friars School, and from Robert Marsh relating to the school lands in pa. St. George, Southwark (138 items).

64. 1872 BUNDLE of letters relating to Frairs' School, and to the School lands. (36 items),

65. 1873 BUNDLE: Letters relating to nos. 3-9 [White Street, Southwark, co. Surrey(4 items).

66. 1878 June 6 LETTER: J. William Hughes, agent, to the governors of Friars' School. He asks for their decision on Mr. Freeman 's offer r to take 28 cottages in Willmotfs buildings, and no. 11 White Street, pa. St. George, Southwark ona repairing lease at £240 p.a.. (3 copies).m i m

67. 1879-1881 BUNDLE: Letters relating to Friars' School and the School lands inSouthwark. (95 items).

68. 1880 FELE: Letters relating to Friars School (118 items).

69. 1882 Sept. 21 LETTER: Messrs. Ovans, Bayley and Adams, to J. William Hughes, esquire,Bangor, asking on behalf of Mrs. Susannah Freeman for the consent of the governors of the Bangor Grammar School to lease The Royal Standard Public House, Southwark, co. Surrey to James Edward Kent of 61 LongLane, Southwark for a term of 35 years at

,, a rent of £142 p. a., and to demise the pre­mises by way of mortgage to -Messrs. Courage and Co..

70. 1884-1885 BUNDLE: Letters relating to Friars' School (43 items).

71. 1885-1888 BUNDLE: Letters relating to the school lands in pa. St. George, Southwark (10 items).

72. 1888 BUNDLE: Letters relating to Friars' School, and to the school lands (126 items).

73. 1888 BUNDLE: Letters relating to no. 23 long Lane and to Willmotts Buildings, Southwark, co. Surrey (5 items).

74. 1888-1889 BUNDLE: Letters relating to a proposed exchange of lands in Bangor between the wardens and governors of Friars School and Lord Penrhyn, and to the school lands in pa. St. George, Southwark (22 items).

75. 1888-1894 BUNDLE: Letters relating to Friars' School (35 items).

76. 1889 BUNDLE: Letters relating to Willmotts Buildings, Southwark, co. Surrey (7 items).

77. 1890-1899 BUNDLE: Letters, postcards and tele­grams, relating to Friars1 School (174 items).

78. 1894-1897 LETTER BOOK: Bangor (Friars) County School for Boys.

79. 1897-1900 LETTER BOOK: Bangor (Friars) County-

School for Boys.

80. 1898-1910 LETTER BOOK: Friars' Estate Company.

81. 1899 BUNDLE: Letters, receipts and memoranda

relating to Friars' School (109 items). 82. 1899-1911 LETTER BOOK: Governors of the Bangor

(Friars) County School for Boys.

83. 1901-1902 BUNDLE: Letters and bills relating to Friars1 School (19 items).

84. 1901-1902 BUNDLE: Letters relating to Friars' School; general statement of account of Friars' School for 1901-1902, and receipts relating to the school (52 items).

Rentals

85. 1768-1770

86. 1770

87. , 1874

RENTAL of the school lands in pa. St. George, Southwark. It includes a list of tenants who had not paid their rents 'on Account of the late Fire which happen'd on 14th July 1768*.

ACCOUNT of rents received and expenses incurred by Anthony Gell on behalf of the Trustees of the Free Grammar School of Bangor.

RENTAL of school lands in pas. St. George, Southwark, Penrhosllugwy, and Bangor.

Accounts and receipts

88. 1564-1571 ACCOUNT of payments made and received by Sir William Garrard on behalf of Mr. Glynne's school.

89.

90.

1574-1577

n.d. c.1688

ACCOUNT of expenses incurred by Thomas Bates during the legal actions concerning the lands of the Bangor school in pa. St. George, Southwark.

Sujlfcoj (£0 i!tiia?),

ACCOUNTS of disbursments made and money received on behalf of the Free Grammar School of Bangor by Humphrey Humphreys [Dean of Bangor] between 1685 and 1688.

91. 1768 Nov. 23 RECEIPT for £2 paid to John Gorham by Mr. Gell for surveying and valuing the school lands in pa. St. George, Southwark.

92. 1768-1769 RECEIPTS for land tax paid by the tenants of the school lands in pa. St. George, Southwark.

93. 1768-1770 ANTHONY GELL in account with the Trustees of the Free Grammar School of Bangor.

94. 1769 ,, Dec. 8 RECEIPTED BILL: of Marston Jones to .y. Mr. Gell for the sum of 6s. 6d. for writing and painting a 'to let' sign 'for the Ruins'.

95. 1849-1859. ACCOUNT BOOK: Agent of Friars' School.

96.

97.

98.

99.

100.

101.

102.

103.

104.

1875

1876

1877 L90i

, 1878

1879

1894-1904

1896-1897

1899-1901

1900-1901

BUNDLE: Bills and receipts relating to Friars' School (33 items).

BUNDLE: Receipts relating to Friars1

School (24 items).

BUNDLE: Receipts relating to Friars' School (20 items).

BUNDLE: Bills and receipts relating to Friars' School (26 items).

BUNDLE: Receipts relating to Friars' School and J.W. Goodbolfs statement of receipts and expenditure in respect of premises in pa. St. George, Southwark. (35 items).

ACCOUNT BOOK: Bangor (Friars') Comity School for Boys.

BUNDLE: Bills, receipts and vouchers relating to Friars' School (38 items).

BUNDLE: Receipts re new school buildings at Ffriddoedd (61 items),

;;vx.-a. *Vk-TS' frVhool.

BUNDLE: Bills, receipts and vouchers relating to Friars' School (107 items).

* * * * *4.i ' ' ' M m r t r t i i i f i i i i ^ i i W i i i H i w r t r t ' " ­

105. 1901

106. 1902

107. 1904-1905

108. .1904-1924

109. 1906-1907

110. 1913-1919

111. 1919-1925

112. 1925-1928

113. 1928-1930

114. 1937-1941

BUNDLE: Receipts relating to Friars1

School (86 items).

BUNDLE: Receipts relating to Friars' School (12 items).

BUNDLE: Bills and receipts relating to Friars' School (101 items).

LEDGER: Bangor (Friars) County School for Boys.

BUNDLE: Bills and receipts relating to Friars1 School (ll6Utems).

CASH BOOK: Friars' School.

CASH BOOK: Friars' School.

BANK PASS BOOK: Friars School.

BANK PASS BOOK: Friars1 School.

CASH BOOK: Friars' School.

Miscellanea

115. post 1536 NOTES relating to the clauses of the Statue of Uses, draft points of law for the opinion of counsel. Fragment. French/English.

116.

117.

1568[/9]

l568[/9]

March 2

March 2

COPY (c. 1700) STATUTES for the regulation and government of the Free Grammar School of Bangor.

i COPY (19th cent) of no. 116 above.

118. l568[/9] March 2 COPY (19th cent) of no. 116 above.

119. 1755 April 8 SURVEY AND VALUATION a? the school lands in pa. St. George, Southwark, made by James Home.

120. 1755 Apr a 8 COPY of no. 118 above.

121. 18-19 cent. 'THE BOOK OF THE BANGOR FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL' comprising: copy will of Geoffrey Glynne (1557); statutes of Bangor Grammar School; copy letters patent of Elizabeth I (21 March 1561) incorporating the Dean and Chapter of Bangor Cathedral as wardens and govern­ors of the school; copy grant (1 August 1571) by Sir WiUiam Petre, Sir WilHam Garrard and Simon Lowe to the Dean and Chapter of Bangor Cathedral of rents . J I i -i i/ViW.. .-1..W' I N : :i:..i'(.r TiV*H t Wif.-i.maY ­

121. (cont. 'd) ... issuing from lands in co. Salop and co. Denbigh; minutes of meetings of the wardens and governors of the school, 1789, 1791, 1792-1795, 1798, 1802-1804, 1807­1808, 1811, 1813, 1815-1818, 1820-1821, 1823-1832, 1833, 1838-1839, 1841-1862; list of subscribers towards the building of a new school house (1791); rental of school estate (1790); leases of lands in Southwark (1798-1831-2, 1835-1837, 1841) Llansannan, co. Denbigh (1799), Llan­wenllwyfo (1800); maps and plans of school lands in Southwark and Llanwenllwyfo; cases for the opinion of counsel (19 cent); copy articles of agreement (1806) between David Roberts of Bangor, carpenter and; Bowland Williams, usher of Bangor School concerning the building of a house on a quillet called BrynEryr in Bangor.

122. 1872 Aug. SPECIFICATION of the defects, decays and wants of reparation found upon nos. 3-9 White Street, pa. St. George, South­wark.

123. 1873 SPECIFICATIONS of proposed repairs to nos. 7, 8 and 9, White Street, Southwark, co. Surrey.

124. 1878-1898 BUNDLE: New school buildings and letting of old buildings (32 items).

125. 1879 Aug. 8 APPOINTMENT by the Rt. Honourable Edward Gordon Baron Penrhyn, Lord Lieutenant of co. Carnarvon of himself as a governor of Bangor Free Grammar School.

126.

127.

1894-1930

1901-1917

]VITNUTE BOOK: Bangor (Friars) County-School for Boys.

MINUTE BOOK: Bangor (Friars) County School for Boys, House and Finance Committees.

128. 1903-1934 REGISTEB: Friars School.

129. n.d. SCHOOL EXERCISES signed by John Jones and Humphrey Jones. Latin/English.

Plans

130. 1867 March 13 PLAN: Friars' School, basement and attic. Kennedy and 0'Donoghue, Archi­tects, Bangor and Albion Chambers, Adelphi, London.

131. 1867 March 13 PLAN: Friars'School, first floor. Kennedy and 0'Donoghue, Architects, Bangor and Albion Chambers, Adelphi, London.

132. 1876 PLAN: Friars' School, proposed new dorm­itories, side elevation. H. Kennedy, Architect, Bangor.

133. 1876 PLAN: Friars1 School, proposed new dorm­itories, transverse section. H. Kennedy, Architect, Bangor.

134. 1876 PLAN: Friars' School, proposed new dorm­itories, plan. H. Kennedy, Architect, Bangor.

135. 1876;

SKETCH: Proposed new entrance gate at Friars 1 School. atw

136. 1877 PLAN: Nos. 7, 8 and 9 White Street [South­wark], proposed rebuilding and additions. H. Harger, Architect and Surveyor, Stamford St., London, S. E..

137. 1881 PLAN of a porch at Friars'School. Owen WUliams, Architect, 5, The Crescent, Upper Bangor.

138. 1920 PLAN: Friars' School, Physics Labora­tory. H. Harold Hughes and W. G. Williams, Architects, Bangor.

139. 1920 , PLAN: Friars' School, Physics Labora­tory ground floor, and section. H. Harold Hughes and W. G. Williams, Architects, Bangor.

'-, .140.

. . n. d.

PijVA. ::-ttvvit, Bangcir, PLAN: The school's tenements in pa. St.

George, Southwark.

141. n. d. PLANS: some of the schools tenements in pa. St. George, Southwark.

142. n. d. PLAN: some of the school's tenements in

pa. St. George, Southwark.

143. n.d. PLAN: Houses in White Street [Southwark].

144. n. d. PLAN: Tenements in White Street and

145. n. d.Wilmotts Buildings, [Southwark].

PLAN: proposed elevation to nos. 7, 8 and part of9 White Street, Southwark, Thomas Arnold, Architect BasinghaU Street, London.

146. n. d. PLAN: proposed elevation of nos. 7, 8 and 9 White Street, pa. St. George, Southwark.

147. n.d. PLAN: elevation of houses built in Bangor Court, White Street [Southwark]. William Humphreys.

148. n. d. PLAN: Drains for houses in Bangor Court, White Street, [Southwark]. William Humphreys.

149. n.d. PLAN: Lands near Belmont, Bangor.

150. n.d. SKETCH ofa door. Document damaged.

ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF

FRIARS SCHOOL, BANGOR.

Carnarvonshire Record O f f i c e

1 9 7 3

Records deposited by ths

Headmaster, F r i a r s School, Banger.

Catalogued by

Hiss A.B. Jorwe, A s s i s t a n t A r c h i v i s t .

Class Mark t F r i a r s A d d i t i o n a l .

m m w r n v m

%9 1903-1913 ADMISSION ivBGISTOU

2 * 1913-1920 ADMISSION uzoistm.

3 . 1914*1924 ADMISSION KfcGISTSR.

4* 1920-1924 ADMISSION REGISTER.

5* 1924-1931 ADMISSION REGISTER.

6* 193t-193^ ADMISSION REGISTER,

7* 1936-1940 ADMISSION ROISTER.

8 . I 9 4 O - I 9 4 5 ADMISSION /$GXSTEIU

9* 1883 -1093 mnsrm,

10* 1394-1902 REGISTER.

11* 1915-1928

12* 1890*1913

13* 1939-1 y i l l

; 14* 19j6-19^

15­

16.

17*

18* (C1I3.1231)

R E G I S T E R S

REGISTER OF FEES 1 Bangor Ortumect School**

F300KKS3 REGISTER.

ROUGH ACCOUNT BOOK

(with reference to pocket seney account),

BOOK O F DE C I M A L FRACTIONS (c8anuecrlpt)*

F1LK Or DRAFT ARTICLES for Tfae Dominican, fourth centenary number, 1957*

PRIHT&D BOOK i vorfce of Zoaioue, 1679* presented to B&ngor Sohod1 *7 ̂ waofier Morgan of Tre& A R T H , co. Angleeey.

17 echool photographs.

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Christmas 1052

Christmas £53

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Christmas 105C

Christmas D67

Christmas 853

Summer 1069

Christmas B69

Summer I960

Christmas 1960

/31 The Dominican No. 78 Summer 1063

/32 No. 79 Spring 1964

/33 No. 80 Spring 1966

/34 No. 81 Spring 1966

/35 No. 62 Spring 1967

/36 No. 83 aimxner 1968

20 1673 SCHEME for the Management of the Graxnxnar School founded at Bangor In the County of Carnarvon by Dr. Geoffrey Giynne', Endowed, Schools CJoramissioa.

21 1875-1884 REGISTER OF FEES, 'Bangor Grammar School'.

22 1899 BE PORT on the Laying of the Memorial Stone of the New Building of Friars School, Bangor, April 12, 1899 (2 copies).

23 1903, 7 JUly BE PORT of Examiners for Entrance Scholarship! Examination.

24 1936-1939 ACCOUNT BOOK of Friars School re. Groceries Wages, repairs, furniture, tuition fees etc.

25 1943-1946 ADMISSION REGISTER of Friars School.

20 J957

27 1057

28 n.d. £1*11*1-113*3

29 n.d. D * i 3 * ' wW3

PROGRAMME of the Frtare School *Celebr&tloo Concert' to be held at the PritcbarxKJooea Hall, University College of North Wales, Bangor, July 9th, 1957 (2 copiei

PROGRAMME for Friars School Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving at Bangor Cathedral, July 12th 1957, to m a r k the fourth centenary of tho school.

PROSPECTUS, J Friars School, Bnagor. (headmaster Mr. W. St. Dodfaa Griffith).

PROSPECTUS, Friars School, Bangor. (headmaster Mr. Ivor Williams,).

/

Photographs of F r i a r s Schoolt

CHS.1251/1 Large group outside F r i a r s , 1 8 9 0 . (2 copies) .

/2 Large group outside schoo l , c . 1 9 0 8 ,

/ 3 F r i a r s School F o o t b a l l Team, 1 9 0 5 - 0 6 .

/ 4 Large group outs ide schoo l , 1 9 0 4 .

/ 3 Group, 1 8 9 2 - 9 3 . ( l a r g e ) .

/ 6 Group, 1 9 1 2 ,

/ 7 F r i a r s School , C r i o k e t XX (names g i v e n ) , 1 9 1 5 . .

/ 8 F r i a r s School general group, 1920,

/ 9 F r i a r s School F o o t b a l l Team?, 191^-15­(2 c o p i e s ) .

/ 1 0 F r i a r s School C r i c k e t Team, 1922. (names given)*

/11 F r i a r s School general group, 1919*

/%2 F r i a r s School F o o t b a l l Team, 1918-19*

/ 1 3 F r i a r s School F o o t b a l l Team, o.19**5*

/ I 4 Ceremony outside F r i a r s School d u r i n g cons truc t ion , 1899* ( l a r g e ) .

/ 1 5 ' G i r l / s t a n d i n g on stairway, 1933*

ADDITIONAL DEPOSIT - PHOTO GRAPHS

XCHS 1361/1 Friars School Football Team 1909/1910.

/2 Group of scholars with master.

/3 Friars School boarders, 1924 (large)

/4 Group with master, shows loan Gfysne, second from right, o. 19 M.

/5 Friars Cricket Team.

/G Friars School House XV, 1825 (with names) (large)

/7-9 S photographs of Friars School, 1908 (framed) (large)

i /7 Group of Friars masters.

/8 Friars schoolchildren.

/9 Group with master.

/10-12 3 photographs in frame.

/10 Group of Friars Schoolchildren, 1904.

/II Group of Friars SchcolchHdren, 1908.

/12 Group of Friars Schoolchildren, 1906.

/13 W. Glynn Williams, Headmaster of Friars School, 1879-1919 (large, framed).

/14 Sketch of Friars School buildings, 1931 (largo, framed)

/ /15 Drawing of Friars School (large, framed).

/16 Boys playing cricket outside Friars, 1893.

/ /ll Lewis Lloyd, Master of Friars School, 1872-1879.

/18 Scholars of Friars School, Bangor, June 1948.

/19 Friars School, Bangor (2 copies).

i ­

FRIAB8 - ADDITIONAL DEPOSIT

80 The Dominican No. 10 February 1913

Additional Deposit:

/31-37 Numbers of the Dominican, the magazine of Friars School, Bangor:

/31 1908 Midsummer No.l

/32 1909 Christmas No.4

/33 1910 Midsummer No.5

/34 1911 Midsummer No,7

/35 1911 Christmas No,8

/36 1912 Midsummer No.9

/37 1913 Feb. No.10

I1

XS/1768/1

/2

/3

Additional Deposit ­ Photographs:

Pupils and staff of Friars School, Bangor c. 1907/08.

Headmaster and prefects of Friars School, Bangor, 1911,

Members of 1st XI Friars School, Bangor, 1911-1912.

/4 Members of cricket team, Friars School, Bangor.

/38-43

/38 1873

/39 1899 March 1

Additional Deposit:

Papers relating to Alderman (later Sir) Henry Lewis (co-author with Henry Barber of "The History of Friars school', Bangor, 1901).

BOOKLET: Endowed Schools Commission - Scheme for the Management of the Grammar School founded at Bangor in the County of Carnarvon by Dr. Geoffrey Giynne. Bangor: Nixon & Jarvis, booksellers and stationers. Enclosed: ORDER for the alteration of the scheme as above, 9 May 1879.

MS NOTES on the House of Commons records regarding the petition (dated 16 March 1844) of Owen Owen Roberts, of Castle H i l l , Bangor, requesting an inquiry into the number and amount of bequests in the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph for the education of poor men's children and into the alleged misapplication of funds, and c i t i n g as an example the mismanagement of the Friars Bangor Free School. Also report on the subsequent debate. COVERING LETTER (1899 March 1): William Jones, [M.P.], House of Commons Library to Mr. Kenry Lewis.

/40 1899 A p r i l 1

/41 1900 Feb.12

LETTER: J[ohn] Williams, [Clerk of Works], Penlan, Llandegai to Mr. Henry Lewis, Belmont, Bangor, with d e t a i l s of the i n d u s t r i a l enterprise of Mr. Worthington of Llwynon. He had a lease f o r conveying s l a t e s along Lord Penrhyn's tramway from the quarry to the quay at Abercegin whence they were shipped i n h i s v e s s e l s to Liverpool and other p l a c e s . He had a large number of horses stabled at F e l i n i s a f and held a farm c a l l e d T a l y b r a i c h at Nant y Benglog. He also had a china m i l l at Penlan and an ochre m i l l above Coed y Pare. Mrs. Kneeshaw of Penmaenmawr i s a descendant of h i s . He l e f t the neighbourhood i n the 1820*s.

(Note l e t t e r dated * Easter eve' 1899 i . e . 1 A p r i l 1899, but the envelope postmarked 26 May 1899).

MS COPY OF REPORT (Jan. 1900) of Mr. Harold Hughes [ACR.I.B.A.] on sepulchral slabs found on the F r i a r s Estate, Bangor. COVERING LETTER: William H. Worrall, Borough of Bangor sanitary inspector, The Museum, Bangor, to A i d . Henry Lewis J.P., Bangor e n c l o s i n g the above.

/42 n.d. 1. The Rt. Rev. Father in God Humphrey, Lord Bishop of Hereford.

2. The Rt. Rev. Father in God John, Lord Bishop of Bangor, the Rev. John Jones, D.D. and Dean of the Cathedral Church of Bangor, Owen Hughes of Bewmares Esq., William Morgan of Henblas, co. Anglesey, Esq. and now Chancellor of the Diocese of Bangor, John Rowlands of Nant co. Carnarvon, Esq. and James Brynkir of Brynkir, co. Carnarvon, Esq.

MS COPY OF APPOINTMENT (6 Aug. 1702) of parties as in 2 above to be the trustees of a bequest of £120 made by Thomas Jones of pa. Allhalowes Barking in the City of London (made 1 Jan. 1683) for the employing of a writing master s k i l f u l in the art of arithmetic to teach the poor scholar boys in the schools of Bangor.

/43 n.d. MS NOTES on ̂ The Coming of the Friars' (Rev. Augustus Jessop D.D.) by ?H. Barber.

/44-52 Papers relating to the headmastership of W. Glynn Williams, M.A. (1879-1919):

/44 1890 BOOKLET: A Dozen Hints to Welsh Boys on The Pronunciation of English by W. Glynn Williams, M.A., headmaster of Friars School, Bangor, revised and corrected by J. Morris Jones, B.A., lecturer on Welsh at the University College of North Wales. Bangor: Nixon & Jarvis. (Sir John Morris Jones was a pupil at Friars 1876-78 and moved with the headmaster (D. Lewis Lloyd) to Christ College, Brecon in 1879).

/45 1893-1894 PROSPECTUS: Friars School, Bangor, A County School for Boys,

/46 1895-1896 PROSPECTUS: Friars School, Bangor.

/47 1899 April 12 LEAFLET: Friars School, Bangor - Laying the Memorial Stone of the New Building, with an account of addresses given by the Lord Bishop of Bangor and the Master of Marlborough College, (Reprinted from the North Wales Chronicle) (2 copies)

/48 1899 April 12 ADDRESS given by R. LI, Hartley, head prefect of Friars School, to the Lord Bishop of Bangor at the ceremony of laying the memorial stone of the new buildings at Friars School, Bangor. Latin. (

/49 1899 April 13 CUTTING from the Manchester Guardian containing an account of the laying of the memorial stone at Friars School, Bangor.

/50 1899 April 15 CUTTING from the North Wales Chronicle containing an account of the laying of the memorial stone of the new buildings at Friars School, Bangor.

/51 1908-1909 HEADMASTERrS REPORT: Friars School, Bangor.

/52 n.d. BOOKLET: Ode to V i r g i l written at the request of the Mantuans for the nineteenth centenary of V i r g i l ' s death by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Translated into Latin Major Sapphics by W, Glynn Williams, M.A., formerly headmaster of Friars School, Bangor.

/53-54 Papers relating to the headmastership of W. St. BQdfan G r i f f i t h , M.A. (1919-1934):

/53 1922 June 28 PROGRAMME AND SOUVENIR: Friars School Bangor ­29 Grand Bazaar at the Prichard-Jones Hall,

University College, Bangor. Also contains a r t i c l e s on the history of the school by the Rev. T. Shankland, M.A. and Sir Henry Lewis, J.P. Also photographs: 1. The old school 2. The headmaster (Mr. W. St.Bodfan G r i f f i t h ) 3. The staff:

Standing L. to R.: 1. R.E. Hughes (later headmaster of Pwllheli Council School; 2. ? Mr. Chapman; 3. D. Park Jones (remained at Friars as senior Welsh master; 4. ? ;5. ? ; 6. W.J. Lewis (history teacher, l e f t c. 1930). Sitting L. to R.: 1. David Jones (later headmaster of Cae Top School, Bangor); 2. J.R.Griffith (retired as Senior Master i n 1954); 3. Miss Mabel Parry (part time Friars, part time County School for G i r l s , later lecturer at St. Mary's College); 4. James Fielding (retired as Senior Master c. 1968; 5. Rev. W.G.Roberts. NOTE: one of the unidentified men in the back row i s almost certainly Albert Charles, teacher of English and active with the Dramatic Society,

/54 1922 June 28­29

ADVERTISEMENT: Friars School, Bangor -Grand Bazaar at the Prichard-Jones Hall, University College, Bangor.

/55 1959 REPRINT OF ADDRESS delivered at the Memorial Service to Ivor Williams, headmaster of Friars School, Bangor 1934-1954, at St. Mary*s Church, Bangor.

/56 1961 Sept. DAILY ROUTINE AND SCHOOL RULES of Friars School,

/57 1967 May 10 INVITATION to the Founder's Sermon at Friars School, Bangor. Preacher: Rev. Elwyn Roberts, M.A. (Blank).

/58 1968 May 15 INVITATION to the Annual Athleticat Friars School F i e l d .

Sports

/59 1973 May 26 LETTER: [Miss] Nesta Glynn Williams, 29 Monkswell Road, Monmouth to Mr. M, E l i s Williams, Friars School (Upper), Bangor enclosin photograph of J.M, Archer Thompson, M.A. Talks about the family of Herbert Owen (who lived at Hereford). (See XS/2490/2 for the photograph of J.M. Archer Thompson as mentioned above).

/60 1975 July 7 SUBMISSION by the headmaster and 37 members of staff of Friars School (Upper School), Bangor to the Secretary of State for Wales opposing Gwynedd County Council's scheme for the reorganisation of secondary education in Bangor including the proposal to establish a bilingual school at Tryfan.

/61 1977 Feb,10 SUBMISSION by the headmaster and staff of Friars (Upper) School, Bangor to the Secretary of State for Wales opposing Gwynedd County Council 1 s scheme for the reorganisation of Secondary education in Bangor including the proposed establishment of the bilingual Ysgol Tryfan.

/62 1901 PRINTED BOOK: The History Of Friars School, Bangor, by Henry Barber, s o l i c i t o r and Henry Lewis, chairman of the Governing Body. Bangor: Jarvis & Foster. On frontis piece note reading:

"To Richard Hartley (dux [Head Boy] of the school when the new building was commenced) on the attainment of his Majority, August 1903 from his sincere friend and wellwisher, Henry Lewis'

and note reading: 'This copy presented by the author Sir Henry Lewis, Governor of Friars in 1903 to Hartley (dux of the school 1898-1900) now given to Friars by Major Richard Hartlnow 78, Nov. 1960. Richard L. Hartley on Active Service, 1914-18 and 1939-45.

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* :