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A new unused book.

About the book >.>.> The main collection of documents relating to the Bristol and Clifton Goldneys was eventually traced through some fortunate chances to Sir Henry Goldney in London. A collection of family portraits had already been sold and it has not been possible to trace the most important of these: of Thomas II and Thomas III which had once hung on the walls of the mahogany parlour in the Clifton house. There remained two tin boxes of family papers. The Duke of Beaufort who was Chancellor of the University was a friend of Sir Henry and encouraged him to make a generous gift of this collection to the University. This is now in Special Collections in the University Library. This material with less important items at Coalbrookdale and the Shropshire Records and Research Centre and in other Record Offices in Bristol Gloucester and Flintshire [Clwyd] has provided the basis for research on the Goldneys of Bristol and Clifton in the seventeenth (LL)