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| name = A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time
| image = File:Monmouthshire Hundreds.jpg
| caption = [[Thomas Moule]]'s map of the Hundreds of Monmouthshire, 1831 
| books = {{Plainlist|
*''Composed of:''
* Volume I Part 1, The Hundred of Skenfrith 
* Volume I Part 2, The Hundred of Abergavenny
* Volume II Part 1, The Hundred of Raglan
* Volume II Part 2, The Hundred of Trelech
* Volume III Part 1, The Hundred of Usk 
* Volume III Part 2, The Hundred of Usk
* Volume IV Part 1, The Hundred of Caldicot
* Volume IV Part 2 The Hundred of Caldicot
* Four volumes consisting of a List of Subscribers, Addenda and Corrigenda, and Indices of Names and Places}}
| author = [[Joseph Bradney|Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney]], {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB|DL|JP|FSA}}
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| genre = {{Plainlist|
*[[History]]
*[[Genealogy]]
*[[Architecture]]}}
| publisher = Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke
| pub_date = 1904-1932 
| media_type = Print (hardback)
| pages = 
| preceded_by =}} 

'''''A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time''''' is a study of the county of [[Monmouthshire (historic)|Monmouthshire]] written by [[Joseph Bradney|Sir Joseph Bradney]] and published by Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke of London between 1904 and 1932. The history comprised twelve volumes, based on six of the seven historic [[Hundred (county division)|hundreds]] of Monmouthshire; [[Skenfrith Hundred|Skenfrith]], [[Abergavenny Hundred|Abergavenny]], [[Raglan Hundred|Raglan]], [[Trellech]], [[Usk Hundred|Usk]] and [[Caldicot Hundred|Caldicot]].

==History==
Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB|DL|JP|FSA}} (11 January 1859 – 21 July 1933) was a British soldier, historian and archaeologist. Born in Shropshire, he inherited the [[Tal-y-coed Court]] estate and a small fortune at an early age.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.library.wales/index.php/bradney-joseph-alfred-sir-1859-1933|title=Bradney, Joseph Alfred, Sir, 1859-1933 - National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts|website=archives.library.wales|accessdate=9 June 2019}}</ref> Settling in Monmouthshire, he held many public offices, as a [[county council]]lor, an [[alderman]] and as [[High Sheriff of Monmouthshire]] in 1889.  He was also a governor and a member of the councils of the [[National Library of Wales]] and the [[National Museum of Wales]]. He devoted much of his time to compiling a history of his adopted county.<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-BRAD-ALF-1859|title=Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney (Achydd Glan Troddi; 1859 - 1933), historian of Monmouthshire|access-date=9 June 2019}}</ref> In the preface to the first volume on the Hundred of Skenfrith, Bradney dedicated his History to [[Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar]] and went on to describe his methodology.{{sfn|Bradney|1991a|loc=preface}} This consisted of outline descriptions of many of the places and buildings within the county, together with detailed [[Genealogy|genealogies]] of the principal families associated with them. The early volumes also contained many photographs and illustrations, particularly of family crests, although these largely disappeared from the later volumes. By the time he came to complete his last volumes on the Hundred of Caldicot in the early 1930s, Bradney lamented that there were "fewer illustrations and fewer shields of arms than before; my excuse for this is the great cost of this work, and at the same time the diminution in the number of those who are able, owing to financial stress, to purchase expensive books".{{sfn|Bradney|1994a|loc=preface}}

==Original arrangement: 1904–1932==
Bradney's History comprises twelve volumes, divided by the traditional administrative areas of [[Hundred (county division)|Hundreds]]. The work covers six of the seven hundreds of Monmouthshire.
* Volume I Part 1, The Hundred of Skenfrith, (1904){{sfn|Bradney|1904}}
* Volume I Part 2, The Hundred of Abergavenny, (1906){{sfn|Bradney|1906}}
* Volume II Part 1, The Hundred of Raglan, (1911){{sfn|Bradney|1911}}
* Volume II Part 2, The Hundred of Trelech, (1913){{sfn|Bradney|1913}}
* Volume III Part 1, The Hundred of Usk, (1921){{sfn|Bradney|1921}}
* Volume III Part 2, The Hundred of Usk, (1923){{sfn|Bradney|1923}}
* Volume IV Part 1, The Hundred of Caldicot, (1929){{sfn|Bradney|1929}}
* Volume IV Part 2, The Hundred of Caldicot, (1932){{sfn|Bradney|1932}}
* Four volumes consisting of a List of Subscribers, Addenda and Corrigenda, and Indices of Names and Places.{{sfn|Bradney|1904–1933}}

==Revised arrangement: 1991-1994==
Between 1991 and 1994 the history was reprinted by Academy Books, and subsequently the Merton Priory Press, as an 80% sized [[facsimile]]. The work was arranged somewhat differently to the original history, the indexes were included in their respective Parts, and a fifth volume covering the last [[Wentloog Hundred|Hundred of Newport]], was compiled from Bradney's manuscript notes by Dr Madeleine Gray. This last volume was published by the [[National Library of Wales]]. The re-ordered works were:
* Volume 1 Part 1, The Hundred of Skenfrith, (1991),{{sfn|Bradney|1991a}}
* Volume 1 Part 2a, The Hundred of Abergavenny, (1992),{{sfn|Bradney|1991b}}
* Volume 1 Part 2b, The Hundred of Abergavenny, (1992),{{sfn|Bradney|1992a}}
* Volume 2 Part 1, The Hundred of Raglan, (1992),{{sfn|Bradney|1992b}}
* Volume 2 Part 2, The Hundred of Trelech, (1992),{{sfn|Bradney|1992c}}
* Volume 3 Part 1, The Hundred of Usk, (1993),{{sfn|Bradney|1993a}}
* Volume 3 Part 2, The Hundred of Usk, (1993),{{sfn|Bradney|1993b}}
* Volume 4 Part 1, The Hundred of Caldicot, (1994),{{sfn|Bradney|1994a}}
* Volume 4 Part 2 The Hundred of Caldicot, (1994),{{sfn|Bradney|1994b}}
* Volume 5 The Hundred of Newport, (1993),{{sfn|Bradney|1993c}}

==Assessment==
Bradney's work remains a valuable source for information on the county's history but its weaknesses have long been recognised. The architectural historian [[John Newman (architectural historian)|John Newman]], writing in his [[Pevsner Architectural Guides|Gwent/Monmouthshire Pevsner]], noted that "Bradney's approach, with its emphasis on genealogies and monumental inscriptions, was out-of-date in its own day; but his pages are full of clues and cannot be ignored".{{sfn|Newman|2000|p=82}} His family histories came in for particular criticism. [[Cyril Fox|Sir Cyril Fox]] and [[FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan|Lord Raglan]], in the first of their three-volume study ''[[Monmouthshire Houses]]'', wrote of the pedigrees of the Monmouthshire families; "Sir Joseph Bradney gives a large number (which) trace their ancestry to Welsh kings or Norman lords but are, like those of their English contemporaries, mostly fictitious".{{sfn|Fox|Raglan|1994|p=13}} Canon E. T. Davies, in his 1986 study, ''Bradney's "History of Monmouthshire": An Assessment'', placed Bradney in a "particular tradition in which country gentlemen wrote for country gentlemen".{{sfn|Davies|1986|p=13}} Considering him more of a genealogist than a historian, Davies levelled two particular charges. Firstly, Bradney's reliance on weak sources for his early history of the county, such as [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]], and [[Iolo Morganwg]], who had been exposed as a forger while Bradney was engaged on his work.{{sfn|Davies|1986|p=14}} Secondly, Davies critiqued Bradney's lack of interest in, and coverage of, Monmouthshire's later industrial history; "his vision fixed on the old, historic, agricultural Monmouthshire…, the inadequate treatment of a new industrial society emphasised a fatal weakness in Bradney's history".{{sfn|Davies|1986|p=16}} In the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust survey, ''Gwent Historic Churches'' carried out for [[Cadw]] in 1997, E. M. Evans noted that Bradney's lack of architectural training and understanding limited the value of his works, although Evans appreciated his "transciptions of funerary monuments, some of which no longer survive."{{sfn|Evans|1997|p=4}} Despite its deficiencies, Bradney's industry and the sheer scale of his investigative work continued to be recognised; the historian of Gwent, Raymond Howell, writing in 1988, praised his "monumental efforts of half a century ago".{{sfn|Howell|1988|p=10}} Twenty years later, in his foreword to the second volume of the Gwent County History, ''The Age of the Marcher Lords, c.1070-1536'', Martin Culliford acknowledged the debt to Bradney, and to [[William Coxe (historian)|William Coxe]], when paying tribute to the contributors to the history; "[they] are no longer just following in the hallowed footsteps of Archdeacon Coxe and Sir Joseph Bradney but by now have overtaken them".{{sfn|Culliford|2008|loc=Foreword}}

==Notes==
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==Sources==
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Skenfrith|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 1, Part 1|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|date=1904|publisher=Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke|oclc=896129125}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Abergavenny|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 1, Part 2|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney| author-mask = 1|date=1906|publisher=Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke|oclc=895940655}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Raglan|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 2, Part 1|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney| author-mask = 1|date=1911|publisher=Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke|oclc=895940653}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Trelech|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 2, Part 2|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1913|publisher=Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke|oclc=895939552}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Usk, first part|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume=3, Part 1|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1921|publisher=Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke|oclc=502610834}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Usk, second part|series=A history of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume=3, Part 2|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1923|publisher=Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke|oclc=502610826}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Caldicot, first part|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 4, Part 1|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1929|publisher=Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke|oclc=896116356}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Caldicot, second part|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 4, Part 2|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1932|publisher=Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke|oclc=502610829}}
* {{cite book|title=List of Subscribers, Addenda and Corrigenda, and Indices of Names and Places, four parts|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1904–1933|publisher=Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke|oclc=884485215}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Skenfrith|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 1, Part 1|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1991a|publisher=Academy Books|oclc=59882270|isbn=9781873361092}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Abergavenny, first part|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 1, Part 2a|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1991b|publisher=Academy Books|oclc=896118883|isbn=9781873361122}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Abergavenny, second part|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 1, Part 2b|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1992a|publisher=Academy Books|oclc=60103879|isbn=9781873361139}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Raglan|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 2, Part 1|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1992b|publisher=Academy Books|oclc=59890882|isbn=9781873361153}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Trelech|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 2, Part 2|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1992c|publisher=Academy Books|oclc=59924501|isbn=9781873361160}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Usk, first part|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 3, Part 1|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1993a|publisher=Academy Books|oclc=896118895|isbn=9781873361177}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Usk, second part|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 3, Part 2|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1993b|publisher=Merton Priory Press|oclc=896061723|isbn=9780952000938}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Caldicot, first part|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 4, Part 1|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1994a|publisher=Merton Priory|oclc=59814982|isbn=9781873361160}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Caldicot, second part|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 4, Part 2|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|date=1994b|publisher=Merton Priory Press|oclc=896061771|isbn=9780952000952}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hundred of Newport|series=A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 5|first=Joseph Alfred|last=Bradney|author-mask = 1|editor-first=Madeleine|editor-last=Gray|date=1993c|publication-place=Cardiff/Aberystwyth|publisher=South Wales Record Society/National Library of Wales|oclc=82421105|isbn=9780950867670
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Culliford | first = Martin
| editor-first= Ralph A. |editor-last= Griffiths 
| editor2-first= Tony |editor2-last= Hopkins
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| editor1-link = Ralph A. Griffiths
| title = The Age of the Marcher Lords, c.1070-1536
| series = The Gwent County History
| volume = 2
| year = 2008
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| location = Cardiff 
| publisher = [[University of Wales Press]] 
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|title=Medieval Houses
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