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1753 in Wales

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1753
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Events from the year 1753 in Wales.

Incumbents

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Events

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  • Lewis Morris is briefly imprisoned at Cardigan when the local squires challenge his rights as the Crown's local representative to mine for lead. As a result of the controversy, Morris visits London for the first time.
  • Isaac Wilkinson of Cumbria takes out a lease on the Bersham furnace at Wrexham,[9] and settles at Plas Grono.[10]
  • William Thomas, former Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, unsuccessfully brings an action in Chancery against Thomas James, Lord Bulkeley, claiming the advowson of Aber.

Arts and literature

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Music

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
  2. ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
  3. ^ Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. p. 235.
  4. ^ "Owen, Sir Arthur, 3rd Bt. (c.1674-1753), of Orielton, Pemb". History of Parliament Online (1715–1754). Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  5. ^ Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
  6. ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales,. University Press. p. 255.
  7. ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
  8. ^ "Ellys, Anthony" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  9. ^ P. K. Stembridge (1998). The Goldney Family: A Bristol Merchant Dynasty. Bristol Record Society. pp. 36–. UOM:39015041909204.
  10. ^ W.H. Chaloner (10 January 2018). People and Industries. Taylor & Francis. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-351-24724-5.
  11. ^ The Publications of the Thoresby Society. The Society. 1967. p. 78.
  12. ^ Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  13. ^ James Frederick Rees. "OWEN family of Orielton, Pembs.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  14. ^ Henry Owen; Henry Rowlands (1766). Mona Antiqua restaurata. An archæological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the Isle of Anglesey. J. Knox. p. 35.
  15. ^ "VAUGHAN, William Gwyn (?1681-1753), of Trebarried, Brec". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 October 2019.