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Lady Agnes Davis (born Chandler)<br>Gender: Female<br>Marriage: Aug 27 1520 - Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England<br>There seems to be an issue with this person's relatives. View this person on FamilySearch to see this information.<br> Additional information: <br> <br>LifeSketch: **CAUTION NO SOURCES ATTACHED TO PROVE WHO THIS PERSON IS** **THIS IS A MESS WITH NOTHING TO PROVE ANYONE** **PLEASE STOP CREATING PERSONS WITHOUT SOURCES TO PROVE** 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, writing in his 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Pevsner, noted that "Bradney's approach, with its emphasis on genealogies and monumental inscriptions, was out-of-date in its own day; but his pages are full of clues and cannot be ignored". His family histories came in for particular criticism. Sir Cyril Fox and 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". 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". 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. 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 emphasized a fatal weakness in Bradney's history". Despite its deficiencies, Bradney's industry and the sheer scale of his investigative work continued to be recognized; the historian of Gwent, Raymond Howell, writing in 1988, praised his "monumental efforts of half a century ago". 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, 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".
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