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  • As well as the right to hold markets, Monmouth's town charters also gave the mayor and bailiffs control of the weights and measures used as standards for goods sold in the market. Source: Display boards, Nelson Museum & Local History Centre.
Bushel weight of Elizabeth I from Monmouth, 1601
  • This contract of 20th November 1705 resulted from a Council order which was issued because of concern regarding the state of Monmouth's Monnow Bridge. The contract was drawn up between Messrs Rosser, Bibee, and Bibee, and the Corporation, which leased Monnow Gate to them along with the post of porter. In return the lessees were to pay one shilling rent at Michaelmas along with a pair of fat capons for the mayor at Christmas. Also the trio agreed to convert the gate in a dwelling, turning the attic into a second floor of two good rooms covered by tilestones, which they would maintain and repair at their own expense. Source: Display boards, Nelson Museum & Local History Centre.
Contract for repairs to Monnow Gate bridge, 1705
  • This chest was presented to the town by Philip Jones of Treowen in 1656/7. It has three different locks and the three keys were held by the Mayor and two senior council men. All three of them had to be present in order to unlock the chest, which led to inevitable disputes. The chest seems to be an 18th century reconstruction using some of the original chest's metalwork and wood, which is elm. The initials on the lid were once filled with chalk. They are, of course, the initials of the donor. Some traces remain on the lid of the many layers of paint that once covered the chest. Source: Display boards, Nelson Museum & Local History Centre.
Monmouth town chest, 1656-7
A letter from the town clerk, on behalf of the mayor of Cardigan, inviting Daniel Horton Davies to lunch with him, 7 January 1919
  • The letter reads as follows:
Letter from the Mayor and Mayoress of Cardigan to Daniel Horton Davies
  • Elsie Chamberlain served as a councillor in Bangor from 1930 to 1950. In 1941 she became Bangor's first female mayor.
Elsie Chamberlain, the first female mayor of Bangor