ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1934-35

DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE TEACHING OF WELSH 1935001 Ffynhonnell / Source The Honourable W N Bruce, Albury Heath. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A complete set of typescript and printed memoranda submitted by various persons and bodies to the Board of Education Departmental Committee on Welsh in 1925 (NLW MSS 9353-60 E).

TOM CARRINGTON 1935002 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Tom Carrington, Coedpoeth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph copies of two hymn-tunes, 'Y Ddôl' and 'Bryn Du', of the donor's own composition (NLW MS 9644D).

BEN DAVIES 1935003 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Ben Davies, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description The original manuscript of the donor's poem 'Tu hwnt i'r llen', which won the chair at the National Eisteddfod held at Llandudno in 1896 (NLW MS 9124B). Mynegai Eisteddfod Genedlaethol.

E T DAVIES, BANGOR 1935004 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr E T Davies, Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description The original autograph score of four musical compositions by the donor-'The Winds', a part-song for male voices; 'A Ballad of Glyndwr's Rising, 1400'; 'The Child and the Robin', a part-song for soprano and contralto: and 'Eos Lais', an old Welsh melody for string quartette (NLW MS 9390E). Mynegai Owain Glyndwr.

DAVID JONATHAN, FFWRNEITHIN 1935005 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Llefelys Davies, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Fifteen volumes containing agricultural accounts kept by David Jonathan of Ffwrneithin, Llanarth, Cardiganshire, between 1841 and 1876 (NLW MSS 9600-11A, 9612E, 9613A, 9614C) Mynegai Llannarth.

GENEALOGY OF THE PHILLIPS AND CHARLES FAMILIES 1935006 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J R Davies, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript pedigree chart, compiled by the donor, of the descendants of Samuel Levi Phillips, founder of the Haverfordwest Bank, and of Rees Charles, father of Thomas Charles of Bala and David Charles of Carmarthen, showing the connection between the two families (NLW MS 9118D). Mynegai Hwlffordd, Caerfyrddin.

JOHN DAVIES 1935007 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John Davies, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Some hundreds of autograph letters received by the donor in the course of his genealogical researches, including a large number from the late Sir Joseph Bradney. Many of the letters contain pedigrees, extracts from pedigrees and genealogical notes.

SIR LEONARD TWISTON DAVIES 1935008 Ffynhonnell / Source Captain L Twiston Davies, Monmouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A group of letters and legal documents relating to properties, including collieries, in Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire and Glamorgan, 1614-1875. A group of deeds relating to properties in Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, one of which is of particular interest inasmuch as one of the parties to it was John Kyrle, 'The Man of Ross'. An indenture of apprenticeship, 1859, between Joseph Potter of Haverfordwest, printer, and W. Ellis Jones of Haverfordwest. (Miscellaneous Documents, Pembrokeshire box) Mynegai Swydd Gaerloyw, Sir Fynwy, Sir Forgannwg, Swydd Henffordd, Hwlffordd.

W HUBERT DAVIES 1935009 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W Hubert Davies, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description The autograph manuscript score of three musical compositions by the donor - 'Passacaglia for Full Orchestra'; 'Variations for String Quartette on Clychau Aberdyfi'; and a song, 'In Normandy' (NLW MS 9333E). Mynegai Aberdovey.

J GWYNORO DAVIES 1935010 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend W Watkin Davies, Birmingham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A number of autograph letters mainly written to the donor's father, the late Rev J. Gwynoro Davies, Barmouth. Among the writers are Dr Lewis Edwards, Thomas Charles Edwards, Owen M. Edwards, T. E. Ellis, Thomas Gee, John Morris-Jones, J. Puleston Jones, Edward Matthews, Dr Hugh Williams and W. Llewelyn Williams (NLW MSS 9629-32C). Mynegai Bermo, Thomas Edward Ellis.

ANTHEM 1935011 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Olive V Williams-Davies, Wrexham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description An autograph manuscript copy of an anthem, 'O tyn y gorchudd yn y mynydd hyn', composed by the donor, and printed copies of some of her other musical compositions (NLW MS 9144D).

CANIAD LLYWELYN AB IVAN AB Y GOV 1935012 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Arnold Dolmetsch, Haslemere. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description An autograph transcript into staff notation of one of the tunes, 'Caniad Llywelyn ab Ivan ab y Gov', contained in British Museum Additional Manuscript 14,905, in a notation key to which had been lost for generations. Considerable attention has recently been drawn in the press and elsewhere to the deciphering and playing by Mr Arnold Dolmetsch, the well-known expert in old musical notation and instruments, of this music, which is the earliest Welsh music known (NLW MS 9391D).

LLANDDEWIBREFI ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROSECUTION OF FELONS 1935013 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr D D Evans, Llanio, Cardiganshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A group of papers containing regulations, minutes, balance-sheets, etc., of the Llanddewibrefi Association for the Prosecution of Felons, 1785-1805 (NLW MS 9142E). Mynegai Llanddewi Brefi.

T D GWERNOGLE EVANS 1935014 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend T D Gwernogle Evans, Neath. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Copies of twenty-five Welsh poems ('pryddestau') of the donor's own composition and mainly in his autograph (NLW MSS 9122C, 9123D).

DR T HOPKIN EVANS 1935015 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr T Hopkin Evans, Liverpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description The original autograph manuscripts of the following eight musical compositions by the donor:-'Gwywa y Gwelltyn'; 'Cân y Gwanwyn'; 'Hosanna'; 'Crowns of Golden Light'; 'Memories'; 'Enchantment'; 'Cân y Planedau'; and 'Clychau Bethlehem' (NLW MS 9332E).

TABERNACLE WELSH BAPTIST CHURCH, CARMARTHEN 1935016 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T J Evans, Carmarthen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Press-cuttings relating to the history of the Tabernacle Welsh Baptist Church, Carmarthen (NLW MS 9133D). Mynegai Caerfyrddin.

THOMAS LEWIS JAMES 1935017 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Francis Green, St. Davids. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Twenty-five documents, mainly transcripts made by Thomas Lewis James, solicitor, Haverfordwest, relating to property in Haverfordwest, 1552-1866 (NLW MSS 9671-3E). Mynegai Hwlffordd.

DAVID EVANS (`DEWI DAWEL') 1935018 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr D G Griffiths, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of the donor's grandfather, the late David Evans, 'Dewi Dawel', of Cwmdu, Talley, relating mainly to Talley Abbey. These supplement a group of 'Dewi Dawel' manuscripts and papers presented in 1933 by Mrs J. P. Griffiths, mother of the present donor (NLW MS 9510E). Mynegai Talyllychau, Cwm-du.

ANTHEMS AND HYMN-TUNES 1935019 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr E R Gronow, Newport, Pem. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Two manuscript volumes of sacred music. One, containing anthems, hymn-tunes, etc, by various composers, belonged in 1862 to Martha Rees, Carnmenynisaf, Mynachlogddu, Pembrokeshire (NLW MS 9388A). The other, which contains no indication of authorship, bears the name of Margaret Elizabeth Jones, Wolfscastle, Haverfordwest (NLW MS 9389A). Mynegai Mynachlog-ddu, Hwlffordd.

JOHN JENNINGS 1935020 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W Ferguson Irvine, Corwen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A volume of typescript extracts from a manuscript written about 1857 by Rev John Jennings, then curate of Llandderfel, Merioneth, containing personal observations on the topography and archaeology of the parish (NLW MS 9134E). The original was placed by the author in the Church Chest at Llandderfel, with the stipulation that it was to be preserved there for all time.

DR MIHANGEL AP IWAN 1935021 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Mihangel ap Iwan, Buenos Aires. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Two further groups of items relating to the activities of the Welsh colony in Patagonia. They include two volumes of the diaries of the donor's brother, Llwyd ap Iwan, 1886-7; letters to the donor from Mair, daughter of Llwyd ap Iwan, and from G. R. Pierce, Elias Owen, E. F. Hunt, D. R. Daniel, Bishop Every, John Howell Jones, 'Llew Tegid', Erasmus Jones, Cyril Moore and others; portions of illustrated papers, press-cuttings and miscellanea. (NLW MSS 9651-3A, 9654-5D, 9656E) These supplement previous gifts by the same donor. Mynegai Argentina, Yr Ariannin, South America, De America.

MEDICAL RECIPES ETC 1935022 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Henry Mather Jackson, Bart., Abergavenny. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A seventeenth-century volume of medical recipes, notes on health, diet, etc.(NLW MS 9234A) A seventeenth-century volume containing medical and other recipes, astrological notes and an alphabetical list of male and female Christian names. Much of the volume is written in cipher (NLW MS 9235A). A notebook, containing geographical notes, which belonged in 1755 to one Eliza Maria Lewis (NLW MS 9236A).

EBENEZER THOMAS (`EBEN FARDD') 1935023 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Catherine Jones, Cardiff, per Mr Iorwerth C Peate. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description An autograph letter of Ebenezer Thomas, 'Eben Fardd', dated February 3, 1844, and written in the third person to William Edwards of Penrhos, Holyhead, grandfather of the donor (NLW MS 9117D). Mynegai Caergybi.

JOHN EIDDON JONES (`IEUAN GLAN WNION') 1935024 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr G Cleaton Jones, Pretoria, Transvaal. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts and personalia of the donor's father, Rev John Eiddon Jones, 'Ieuan Glan Wnion' (died in 1903), pastor of the Welsh Presbyterian Church at Llanrug, Caernarvonshire, 1870-97, and afterwards secretary of 'Cymdeithas Ddirwestol Gwynedd'. The donation includes a volume of poetical works by 'Ieuan Glan Wnion' in his own autograph (NLW MS 9645B); an essay by him on 'Hywel Dda a'i Gyfreithiau', which was adjudged second-best at the National Eisteddfod held at Caernarvon, 1886 (NLW MS 9646C); autograph letters to him from T. E. Ellis, Sir John Rhys and Dr Owen Thomas (NLW MS 9647B); and three silver medals which he won at various eisteddfodau in 1878 and 1879. Mynegai Temperance, Llanfihangel-yn-Rug, Caernarfon, Thomas Edward Ellis.

REES JENKIN JONES 1935025 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Goronwy Jones, Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Additional items from the collection of the donor's father, the late Rev Rees Jenkin Jones, Hen Dy Cwrdd, Aberdare. They include miscellaneous autograph letters and postcards addressed to him; a pocket notebook; press-cuttings; and forty-five deeds and documents (1744-1914) relating to properties in Cellan, Llanarth, Llanddewibrefi, and Llandyssul in Cardiganshire, Pencarreg and Llansawel in Carmarthenshire, and Aberdare in Glamorgan. Mynegai Trecynon, Aberdâr, Llannarth, Llanddewi Brefi, Llandysul, Llansewyl.

HUGH ARTHUR JONES, CYNWYD 1935026 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs H Arthur Jones, Cynwyd. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A volume containing the prize essay at an eisteddfod at Corwen in August 1911, on ' Hen Gerddi Cymru, eu nodwedd a'u dylanwad ar y genedl,' by the donor's husband, the late Rev Hugh Arthur Jones, Cynwyd, together with the adjudication of the competition by and in the autograph of the late Principal J. H. Davies (NLW MS 10570B). Mynegai Cynwyd Fawr, Cynwyd Fechan (Llangar).

OWEN JONES (`OWEN Y CANTWR') 1935027 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Owen Jones, Wrexham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Two volumes of autograph music of his father, Owen Jones, 'Owen y Cantwr' (1811-62), including a cantata, anthems, part-songs and hymn-tunes, together with a short biography of the composer written by the donor (NLW MSS 9127A, 9128B).

J W JONES 1935028 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J W Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A further collection of miscellaneous manuscripts, including an account book of friendly societies in Ffestiniog in 1858 and 1862; Welsh and English poetry by the donor's father, David Jones, 'Glan Barlwyd', and others; a volume of model school lessons written by John Powell, a schoolmaster at Cwm Pennant, in 1870; a volume of cookery recipes; and autograph letters. Nodiadau Schedule available

SWANSEA CAVALRY 1935029 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John Jones, Boncath. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Documents relating to the Swansea Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry and the Swansea Gowerland and Cilvey Volunteer Legion, 1799-1803; various bills, receipts and accounts, 1798-1845; and letters, drafts of articles, etc., 1773-1870( NLW MS 9665E). Mynegai Abertawe, Gwyr, Kilvey (Cilfái).

CYDBLWYF AND LLANINA 1935030 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Margaret J Jones, Llanarth, per The Reverend Professor W R Williams, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts and papers relating to local government in the parishes of Cydplwyf and Llanina during 1779-1887. They include papers relating to settlement, 1779; a militia certificate, 1787; assessments of poor rate, 1821-8; rate receipt check books, 1857-61; statements of overseers' accounts, 1796-1869; notices of audit and letters from the Poor Law Board; returns of jurors, constables, overseers, surveyors of highways, and voters; papers relating to highways in Llanina 1834-66, to land and assessed taxes, 1821-70, and to property and income tax, 1846-70; papers relating to the Census of 1821 and 1861; circulars relating to tithes in Llanarth and Llanina, 1835-68; Rules and Regulations of 'The Llanarth Independent Society'; letters, mainly from sailors, to Evan Evans of Cwmbedw, Llanina, 1845-70; a transfer letter signed by Timothy Thomas and other officers of the church at Aberduar, 1789; diaries of Evan Evans, Cwmbedw, 1870-7; letters and accounts relating to several New Quay ships (e.g., 'Syren', 'Perseverance', and 'Loyalty'); a blacksmith's account book, 1758-91, which also contains miscellaneous accounts, 1812-27; and a notebook containing drafts of a ballad entitled 'Hanes Mordaith yr Albion,' c. 1814 (NLW MSS 9370-1C, 9372-4E,9375D, 9376-9E, 9380B, 9381-6A, 9387B). Mynegai Aberdyar (Llanybydder), Cei Newydd, Llannarth.

J D JONES, RUTHIN 1935031 Ffynhonnell / Source Major O D Jones, Pennal. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description The original manuscript score of a cantata, 'Gwarchaead Harlech', by J. D. Jones, Ruthin, father of the donor (NLW MS 9497E). Mynegai Rhuthun.

KENT 1935032 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H B Kent, New Milton, per Messrs Llewellyn-Jones & Son, Mold. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Sixty-five deeds (1717-1887) relating to properties in Flintshire and Cheshire, but mainly in the township of Tryddyn in Mold. Mynegai Sir Fflint, Swydd Gaer, Yr Wyddgrug, Treuddyn.

THOMAS NETHERTON PARKER 1935033 Ffynhonnell / Source Major B E Parker Leighton, Oswestry. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript in four volumes entitled 'Maxims on the political, social, and domestic economy of the English Country Gentleman, in his public and individual capacity', and written in 1823 by the donor's ancestor, Thomas Netherton Parker (NLW MS 9319C). Two volumes of press-cuttings, manuscript notes, etc., relating to two publications by T. Netherton Parker, - Remarks on the Malt Tax, 1835 (NLW MS 9320C), and Suggestions for Warming and Ventilating the Houses of Parliament, 1836 (NLW MS 9321C).

ACCOUNTS, HYMNS,ELECTION ADDRESSES 1935034 Ffynhonnell / Source Lady Lewis, Caerwys. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A volume of general accounts kept during 1728-38 by Rev Hugh Lloyd, Vicar of Mold (NLW MS 598E). A volume of hymns, etc., 1789, by and in the autograph of the Welsh hymnwriter, Jones of Maesyplwm (NLW MS 599A). These two manuscripts had previously been placed on deposit by the late Sir Herbert Lewis. A group of papers of the late Sir Herbert Lewis, including his election addresses to his constituents in the Flint Boroughs, 1892, 1895, 1906 and 1910 (NLW MS 9494E). Files of papers and correspondence relating to the re-distribution of seats under the Representation of the People Bill, 1917-18, particularly to the efforts that were made to amalgamate Denbigh and Flint Boroughs (NLW MS 9495E). Papers relating to the navigation and the lighting of the river Dee, 1910 (NLW MS 9496E). Mynegai Yr Wyddgrug, Maes-y-plwm, Bwrdeistrefi Dinbych, Bwrdeistrefi Fflint.

WILLIAM ROBERTS (`NEFYDD') 1935035 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Caleb Lewis, Blaina. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A third group of manuscripts and papers of Rev William Roberts, D D, 'Nefydd', supplementing the two groups previously presented by the same donor. The present group consists of literary compositions (mainly in connection with eisteddfodau), financial accounts, autograph letters and miscellanea (NLW MSS 9367C, 9368E, 9369D).

EVAN LEWIS, BRYNBERIAN 1935036 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor D Morgan Lewis, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A large number of complete sermons and sermon-notes of the donor's father, the late Rev Evan Lewis, Congregational minister, Brynberian (NLW MSS 9686-98B, 9699-701A, 9702-11B).

`CYMDEITHAS LLEN GWERIN CEREDIGION'; POETRY AND MUSIC 1935037 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs J D Lewis & Sons, Llandyssul. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Miscellaneous manuscripts, papers, books and pamphlets, including material relating to 'Cymdeithas Llên Gwerin Ceredigion' (of which the late J. D. Lewis acted as secretary) (NLW MS 9506E), and manuscript poetry(NLW MSS 9505B, 9507E) and music (NLW MS 9504A). Mynegai Llandysul.

DR J MORGAN LLOYD 1935038 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr J Morgan Lloyd, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph excerpts from the score of the following musical compositions by the donor:- 'Walking by a riverside', a madrigal, words by Thomas Campion with a Welsh arrangement by 'Sarnicol'; 'Cathl i'r Eos', a contralto solo, words by 'Alun' with an English translation by 'Sarnicol'; and an unpublished overture (NLW MS 9347E).

THOMAS JONES (`TALIESIN O EIFION') 1935039 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Joseph Morgan, 'Mair Taliesin', Caerphilly, per Sir D Lleufer Thomas. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts by and relating to Thomas Jones, 'Taliesin o Eifion', father of the donor. They consist mainly of the material accumulated for the publication (1922) of Gweithiau Taliesin o Eifion (Bardd y Gadair Ddu), the contents of which were collected by the poet's son, J. Llewellyn Jones, and edited by Rev William Evans, 'Wil Ifan'. Some of the poems are in the poet's own autograph, while many others have been transcribed by J. Llewellyn Jones. There are also autograph letters, press-cuttings, miscellaneous notes and two photographs of 'Taliesin o Eifon', one of which is copied from a painting (NLW MSS 9615D, 9616E, 9617C, 9618D, 9619-20E, 9621-6C, 9627B).

SIR GEORGE HERBERT 1935040 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Armine Morris, Bart., Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A vellum roll, twenty feet in length, containing a rental of the lands of Sir George Herbert, February 2, 1544/5(NLW Miscellaneous Documents, Glamorgan) . The greater part of the property was situated in Glamorgan (Kairdiff, Cantlowston, Newton Notache, Northe Cornelye, Sowthe Cornely, Pen y vey, and the lordships of Llandoghe, Dynas Powys and Cogan), while there were also portions in the counties of Brecknock, Monmouth, Pembroke and Hereford. Mynegai Sir Forgannwg, Cardiff, Caerdydd, Candleston (Tregantllo), Newton Nottage (Drenewydd yn Notais), Dinas Powis, Sir Frycheiniog, Sir Fynwy, Sir Benfro, Swydd Henffordd.

HENRY RICHARD 1935041 Ffynhonnell / Source The Council of the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Two autograph letters of Henry Richard, one written to Felix Moscheles, artist, May 8, 1883, and the other to E. L. Pierce of Milton, Mass, October 5, 1883. Mynegai USA, Unol Daleithiau.

ELIZA PHILLIPPS HUGHES; WILLIAM OLIVER; JOHN OLIVER 1935042 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr D T Oliver, Cambridge, per Sir D Lleufer Thomas. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Eight autograph letters (1860-5) of Eliza Phillipps Hughes, 'Eliza Carmarthen', written to Rev John Oliver of Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, father of the donor (NLW MS 9119C). Fourteen autograph letters (1868-1904) written to Rev William Oliver, MA, uncle of the donor, the writers including John Ruskin, A. N. Palmer, Alfred Nutt, Henry Morley and T.F. Tout (NLW MS 9120B). Miscellaneous papers and press-cuttings, including poetry by John Oliver and in his autograph (NLW MS 9121B). Mynegai Llanfynydd (Llanegwad Fynydd), Caerfyrddin.

BOB OWEN, CROESOR 1935043 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Bob Owen, Croesor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of a report of a survey of Caernarvonshire made by the donor on behalf of The Caernarvonshire Rural Community Council, January to June 1934 (NLW MS 11132E).A copy of the donor's essay on 'Morgan John Rhys a'i Amserau', which was submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod held at Treorchy in 1928 (NLW MS 10990C). Copies of wills and Star Chamber cases, 1510-1613 (NLW MS 10991E). Mynegai Sir Gaerfyrddin, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Treorci, Rhondda.

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM 1935044 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs J P Owen, Aberystwyth, per Professor R I Aaron. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description An autograph album which belonged to Mary Jones, afterwards Mrs Mary Hughes, mother-in-law of Sir John Williams, first President of the National Library. The autographs include those of Richard Davies, ('Mynyddog'), Samuel Roberts, ('SR'), and John Roberts, ('JR') (NLW 9468C). Mynegai Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru.

JONATHAN REYNOLDS (`NATHAN DYFED'); MARQUIS OF BUTE 1935045 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr L Parfitt, Pontypridd. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of nineteenth-century Welsh poems by Jonathan Reynolds, 'Nathan Dyfed', and William John, 'Mathonwy', (some submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod held at Cardiff in 1883) (NLW MS 9508D) A letter in Welsh from the Marquis of Bute, 1872, to a person unknown, conveying thanks to a 'peithynen' presented to the Marchioness of Bute (NLW MS 9668E). A photograph of a 'peithynen'. Mynegai Caerdydd, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol.

GRISMOND P PHILIPPS 1935046 Ffynhonnell / Source Captain Grismond P Philipps, Cwmgwili. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A group of volumes containing miscellaneous manuscript and printed music (NLW MSS 9461-4D, 9465C, 9466-7A).

MUSIC 1935047 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T J Pickering, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A volume containing a collection of trio parts for violin, viola and violoncello, by Beethoven, Mozart, Boccherini, etc., partly in manuscript and partly printed (NLW MS 9143E).

MONTOMERYSHIRE MISCELLANEA AND DEEDS 1935048 Ffynhonnell / Source 'The Friends of the Powysland Museum,' per Mr A Stanley Davies, Welshpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A miscellaneous group of letters, papers and legal documents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, some of general and others of Montgomeryshire interest. Thirteen deeds (1588-1840) relating to properties in Denbighshire, Flintshire and Cheshire. Mynegai Sir Drefaldwyn, Sir Ddinbych. Sir Fflint, Swydd Gaer.

GLAMORGAN MILITIA AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR 1935049 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J B Garsed Price, Sennybridge. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A list of persons enrolled to serve (personally or by substitutes named) as private militia men for the hundred of Llangyfelach, Glamorgan, 1760-70 (NLW MS 9130E). Accounts of overseers of the poor in the hamlet of Neath Lower, Glamorgan, 1786-1800 (NLW MS 9131E). Mynegai Castell-nedd.

ROBERT HUGHES, LLANDDEUSANT 1935050 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr O E Pritchard, Groeslon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Two manuscript volumes containing Welsh poetry by Robert Hughes, Llanddeusant, Anglesey (1755- 1814), one volume being in the poet's own autograph (NLW MSS 9125B, 9126A).

DAFYDD AP GWILYM 1935051 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Gwen Prys, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description An eighteenth-century manuscript volume containing transcripts of Welsh poems in strict and free metre, the former being mainly by Dafydd ap Gwilym (NLW MS 9111A).

CHARLES ASHTON 1935052 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Susan Pughe, Machynlleth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Nine volumes entitled 'Scrapiana', containing cuttings from Welsh and English newspapers collected and arranged by Charles Ashton, Dinas Mawddwy, and a tenth volume consisting of literary miscellanea in his autograph (NLW MSS 9334-42D). Mynegai Dinas Mawddwy (Mallwyd).

DOROTHEA AND VIOLET RAMSAY 1935053 Ffynhonnell / Source The Misses Dorothea and Violet Ramsay, Portmadoc. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A further group of family papers and correspondence, supplementing that presented by the same donors in 1934. The group consists of letters from Sir Andrew Ramsay to Lady Ramsay, 1854-80; other letters from Sir Andrew, 1858-89; letters to Sir Andrew, 1852-81; letters from Lady Ramsay, 1888; letters to Lady Ramsay. 1884-90; letters from Sir James and Lady Hills-Johnes of Dolau Cothi to the Misses Ramsay, 1906-18; letters from Mrs Charlotte Johnes, J. Williams, and others, 1859-71; a bundle of miscellaneous press-cuttings, 1821-48; a few miscellaneous notes, scraps of poetry, etc; copies of The Royal School of Mines Magazine, February 1877 and 1878, containing articles by Lady Ramsay on 'The Parys Mountain Copper Mines' and 'The Royal School of Mines'; and a printed Order of Service at St Paul's Cathedral, February 27, 1872, on the occasion of the Thanksgiving for the recovery of HRH The Prince of Wales (NLW MSS 9634-41C, 9642E). Mynegai Dolaucothi.

SEION BAPTIST CHURCH,RUABON 1935054 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A Roberts, Wrexham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A list of the pastors of Seion Welsh Baptist Church, Cefn Mawr, Ruabon, from its foundation in 1802 to 1931, together with biographical notes relating to them (NLW MS 9662D). Mynegai Rhiwabon.

DR CARADOG ROBERTS 1935055 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Dr Caradog Roberts, Rhos, Wrexham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph copies, neatly bound, of two recent musical compositions by the donor,- 'Galwad Adre' ('Crossing the Bar') (NLW MS 9239E) and 'Cleddyf yr Ysbryd' ('The Sword of the Spirit') (NLW MS 9240E).

`SOCIAL CLUB', ABERYSTWYTH 1935056 Ffynhonnell / Source Lieut.-Colonel Sir G Fossett Roberts, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts and papers, 1780-1934, relating to the old 'Social Club' at Aberystwyth. The records include copies of the articles to be observed by a 'Society of Gentlemen, inhabitants of the Town and Neighbourhood of Aberystwyth', 1780-1881; minute books of the club, 1865-81; account books, 1858-89; and correspondence relating to the activities, records and relics of the club, 1868-1934 (NLW MSS 8913D, 8914F, 8915-6A, 8917B, 8918A, 8919D, 8920B, 8921C).

HUGH CHARLES HOWELLS 1935057 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Gomer M Roberts, Clydach. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A diary of Rev Hugh Charles Howells, Baptist minister, from 1865 to 1879, containing his autobiograph, some of his reminiscences, and records of the Baptist churches at Sirhowy and Clydach during his pastorate (NLW MS 9470B). Mynegai Clydach (Llanelli, Llangatwg), Sirhywi (Tredegar).

JAMES RICHARDS, PONTYPRIDD 1935058 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Davies Roberts, Westcliff-on-Sea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A volume of Welsh sermons by, and in the autograph of, Rev James Richards (1804-67), Baptist minister, of Pontypridd (NLW MS 9039A). Mynegai Pont-y-pridd.

GLAMORGANSHIRE DEEDS 1935059 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr D S Savours, Llandrindod Wells. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Ten deeds and documents (1604-1705) relating to property in Lancarvan, Lambithery, Cardiff and Landaffe, Glamorgan (NLW Miscellaneous Documents, Glamorgan). Mynegai Llancarfan (Nantcarfan), Caerdydd, Llandaff, Llandaf, Llanybydder, Llanbethery (Llancarfan).

H BERKELEY SCORE (`UGAIN') 1935060 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H Berkeley Score, Dyserth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Four typescript volumes containing 'The Poetry of the Four Ancient Books of Wales', selected, edited, and rendered into English metrical verse by the donor, who has adopted the bardic name of 'Ugain' (NLW MSS 9500-3C).

C TAWELFRYN THOMAS 1935061 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend C Tawelfryn Thomas, Taff's Well, per Sir D Lleufer Thomas. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Sixty-five pieces of Welsh poetry of the second half of the nineteenth century by William Cosslett, 'Gwilym Elian' (a brother of 'Carnelian'), Thomas Williams, 'Brynfab', and others (NLW MSS 9712C, 9713E). 180 autograph letters addressed to the donor, mostly in Welsh and belonging to the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Among the writers represented are Thomas Charles Edwards, E. Herber Evans, J. Cynddylan Jones, Henry Oliver, John Owen (Bishop of St Davids), 'Dyfed', Principal Thomas Rees, Sir Alfred Thomas (afterwards Lord Pontypridd), Dr John Thomas, 'Eifion Wyn', 'Pedrog,' 'Watcyn Wyn', J. Kilsby Jones, J. Machreth Rees and R. G. Berry (NLW MSS 9714-5B).

SIR D LLEUFER THOMAS 1935062 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir D Lleufer Thomas, Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A minute-book of the meetings of the Trustees of the Welsh Institution, Llandovery, 1849-75 (NLW MS 9114C); notes and copies of letters relating to the early history of Llandovery School in the autograph of John Jones, Cefnfaes, near Rhayader, a friend of Thomas Phillips (Founder of Llandovery School) and one of the original Trustees of the School (NLW MS 9115B). Various autograph letters, etc. (NLW MS 9116C). Mynegai Llandyfri, Llanymddyfri, Rhaeadr.

DR D VAUGHAN THOMAS 1935063 Ffynhonnell / Source The Family of the late Dr D Vaughan Thomas, Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description The original manuscript scores of two musical compositions by Dr Vaughan Thomas - 'Stafell Cynddylan' and 'Who is Sylvia?'(NLW MS 9458F).

MANSEL THOMAS 1935064 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Mansel Thomas, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph manuscript scores of two musical compositions by the donor,-'Mwy o flodau' and 'Gyda'r bore bach' (NLW MS 9457E).

GLAMORGANSHIRE DEEDS 1935065 Ffynhonnell / Source The Family of the late Dr T W Thomas, Caerphilly, per Miss Enid Thomas. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Four deeds (1764-1879) relating to properties in Eglwysilan, Glamorgan, including a lease of Watford New Meeting House (NLW Minor Donations, Enid Thomas). Mynegai Eglwysilan (Merthyr Ilan).

G G T TREHERNE 1935066 Ffynhonnell / Source The Family of the late G G T Treherne, Ringmer, Sussex. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Historical material and correspondence relating mainly to Laugharne and Eglwys Cymmin, Carmarthenshire, and containing material intended for Mr Treherne's proposed work 'Laugharneshire', as well as material used in compiling his published works on Eglwys Cymmin, its history, dedication, and epitaphs. Three volumes of typescript extracts from the tithe apportionment for the township of Laugharne and the surrounding parishes. Correspondence and copies of correspondence. Offprints of articles from historical and archaeological journals. Prints, sketches, plans and maps relating to Carmarthenshire. A few volumes of miscellaneous notes. This collection, which the late Mr Treherne bequeathed in 1923 to Sir John Ballinger as his literary executor, had remained in the Library since the latter's death. Members of Mr Treherne's family have now agreed that the manuscripts shall be regarded as the property of the National Library of Wales (NLW MSS 10098-164). Mynegai Eglwys Gymyn, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru.

MORGAN WATKIN 1935067 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor Morgan Watkin, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Two copies of the dialogue (composed by the donor) which was recited at the gate of St Donat's Castle, Glamorgan, as part of the pageant on the occasion of the visit of the Gorsedd Bards during the week of the National Eisteddfod held at Neath in August 1934 (NLW MS 9492C). The parts were spoken by the Herald Bard (Captain Geoffrey Crawshay) and the Norman janitor of the Castle (the donor). Mynegai Sain Dunwyd, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Castell-nedd.

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS 1935068 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Dr H Cernyw Williams, Corwen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of autograph letters, the writers including Robert Ellis ('Cynddelw'), Thomas Charles Edwards, Sir Henry Jones, Dr Owen Thomas, C. H. Spurgeon, J. A. Spurgeon and Charles Davies (NLW MS 9493B).

JOHN A A WILLIAMS 1935069 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John A A Williams, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A selection of the donor's music compositions in his autograph, including 'The Lord is my Shepherd', 'O Lamb of God' and several hymn-tunes and carols (NLW MS 9460E).

BETHEL BAPTIST CHAPEL, PONTRHYDYFEN 1935070 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Joseph Williams, Cwmavon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy of a history of Bethel Welsh Baptist Chapel, Pontrhydyfen, 1848-1928, compiled by the donor (NLW MS 9345E). Mynegai Pont-rhyd-y-fen (Baglan Uchaf/Llanfihangel).

CHARLES W WILLIAMS WYNN 1935071 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A W Williams Wynn, Llansantffraid. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A group of miscellaneous Williams Wynn family papers formerly in the possession of the donor's grandfather, Charles W. Williams Wynn (1775-1850), who was Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire from 1799 to 1850. They include autograph letters sent to him by Fanny Williams Wynn, 1797-1820, and Charlotte Williams Wynn, 1839-40; seventeen note-books containing duplicate copies of his letters, 1806-31; a copy, in his autograph, of the reply of George III to a Minute of the Cabinet, March 17, 1807, with the acknowledgement of the Cabinet annexed; and various historical and genealogical documents (NLW MSS 10798C, 10799B, 10800E, 10801C, 10802-5D, 10806B). Mynegai Sir Drefaldwyn.

GORONWY WILLIAMS 1935072 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Nine documents (1507-1786) relating to properties in OSWESTRY, ANGLESEY and DENBIGHSHIRE . Mynegai Croesoswallt, Sir Fôn, Sir Ddinbych. $$ N Nodiadau Schedule available

Di-enw 1935073 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description 103 deeds and documents (1517-1770) relating to property in LLANFIHANGEL GENEU'R GLYN, LLANBADARNFAWR, ELERCH and LLANGYNFELYN in Cardiganshire; MACHYNLLETH, LLANWRIN, LLANFECHAIN and CYFEILIOG in Montgomeryshire; and HEREFORD. Mynegai Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn (Llanfihangel Castell Gwallter, Llandre), Llanbadarn Fawr, Elerch (Ceulan a Maes-mawr), Llanfechain (Llanarmon-ym-Mechain), Henffordd.

SIR EDWARD NORTH 1935074 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A document signed by KING HENRY VIII and addressed to Sir Edward North, December 7, 1547, intimating that 'Sir William Herbert shall have and bye of us the nombre and quantitie of two thousande fothers of leade to be had and taken of such or leade as is and remayneth wtin the survey order and governaunce of our said Courte at any porte or other place wtin this our Realm or Wales, or the marches of the same . . .'.(NLW MS 11148E)

TELLERS OF THE EXCHEQUER 1935075 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of nearly 900 original BILLS of the TELLERS OF THE EXCHEQUER for sums paid in by the sheriffs and others for Aids to Queen Elizabeth from the various counties of Wales. These documents were formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps of Middle Hill.

PEDIGREES BY A LEWIS 1935076 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A thick quarto volume of pedigrees and heraldry compiled and neatly written in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century by one A. LEWIS, who refers to the work as an 'Alphabet of Pedegres of diverse kings, dukes, marques, Erles, vicounts, barons, knights, squires and gentlemen of Englande, ffraunce, Ireland, Scotland and wales'. The pedigrees are in alphabetical order, and some have been crudely coloured. Included in a list of twelve genealogists to whom the author acknowledges his indebtedness is 'Thomas Joones de Tregaron generosus,' who may be identified as Thomas Jones of Fountain Gate, 'Twm Sion Catti'. An index in a much has been added at the end of the volume (NLW MS 596B). Mynegai France, Ffrainc, Iwerddon, Yr Alban, Twm Siôn Cati.

JOHN WILLIAMS, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK 1935077 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Photocopies of six letters (1622-35) of JOHN WILLIAMS, Archbishop of York (NLW MS 9678E). Mynegai Efrog.

INDEX OF NEW RADNOR PARISH REGISTER 1935078 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript index, compiled by the Society of Genealogists, to the contents of the parish register of NEW RADNOR, 1644-1708 (NLW MS 9110C). By courtesy of the Society the Library was enabled to make a typescript copy of the register to be filed with the index.

FACSIMILE OF THE `ILSTON BOOK' 1935079 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A photostat facsimile of 'The Ilston Book' at Fall River, USA (NLW MSS 9108-9D). It contains records of the first Welsh Baptist church, which met at Ilston, Glamorgan, under the pastorate of Rev John Myles from 1650 to 1659, and of the Baptist church which he subsequently founded at Swansea, New England. Mynegai Ilston (Llanilltud Gwyr), John Miles, Unol Daleithiau.

HENRY, BARON HERBERT OF CHERBURY 1935080 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description An autograph letter, December 22, 1679, and signed by HENRY, fourth BARON HERBERT of CHERBURY, to Admiral Arthur Herbert, stating that he is contesting the Admiral's seat in the coming election in favour of the Protestant party, and referring to the great confusion and fear of Popery which existed in the country (NLW MS 9346B).

BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS IN TREFEGLWYS 1935081 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Entries of baptisms, marriages and burials in the parish of TREFEGLWYS, Montgomeryshire, 1695-6, written on the fly-leaves of a copy of Chillingworth's Religion of Protestants, a safe way to Salvation, 1674 (NLW MS 9716E). This volume was formerly in the possession of Sir Thomas Phillipps of Middle Hill, by whom the register entries were privately printed in 1867. Mynegai Llanbadarn Trefeglwys.

K W GREEN 1935082 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Twenty-one deeds (1703-18) relating to property in WHITCHURCH, FISHGUARD, LLANHOWELL and BRAWDY in Pembrokeshire. Mynegai Tre-groes, Abergwaun, Llanhowell (Llantrisant Fawr).

DISSERTH PARISH REGISTER 1935083 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy of the parish register of DISSERTH, Radnorshire, 1734-1812, with an index compiled by the Society of Genealogists (NLW MS 9327C). These will facilitate reference to the photocopy of this register which is also in the Library. Mynegai Diserth.

JOHN CASTELL EVANS 1935084 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript collection of nineteenth-century Welsh poetry in the autograph of JOHN CASTELL EVANS, a native of the Llanuwchllyn district and a relative of Rev Ellis Evans, Cefn Mawr (NLW MS 9129E).

RICHARD ROBERT JONES ( `DIC ABERDARON') 1935085 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A volume of miscellaneous items, printed and in manuscript, relating to RICHARD ROBERT JONES, 'Dic Aberdaron' (NLW MS 9139B).

FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS 1935086 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Two poems by, and in the autograph of, FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS, - 'Our Lady's Well' and 'The Silver Locks' (NLW MS 9135C).

JOSEPH PARRY 1935087 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts of JOSEPH PARRY, MUS DOC (1841-1903), consisting of: A group of music compositions, vocal and instrumental, by Dr Parry, mainly in his autograph, and most of them unpublished. In the case of some of the orchestral works the full score is accompanied by separate scores for individual instruments. A large folio volume compiled by Dr Parry, probably as the basis of a hymn- and tune-book which he proposed to publish. All the tunes are his own composition, the majority being in his autograph and the remainder printed. Some of the hymns are in the autograph of their authors, while the others are printed copies cut out of hymn-books and other sources. The autograph manuscript of Dr Parry's autobiography. Extracts from this, translated into Welsh, were published in Cofiant Dr Joseph Parry by E. Keri Evans in 1921. An autograph note by Dr Parry announcing the completion of the score of his Emmanuel, January 6, 1880. A leather-bound volume of letters relating to a presentation made to Dr Parry in London, July 24, 1871 (NLW MSS 9281E, 9282-3D, 9284E, 9285-6D, 9287-8E, 9289-90D, 9291E, 9292D, 9293-7E, 9459F, 9660B, 9661D).

ISAAC DAVIES 1935088 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A summary of receipts and expenditure connected with the NATIONAL EISTEDDFODAU from 1880 to 1932, and of the duties of the various committees and sub-committees in preparation for a National Eisteddfod, etc., compiled by the late ISAAC DAVIES, Birkenhead, the general secretary of several recent National Eisteddfodau (NLW MS 10578E). Mynegai Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Penbedw.

HISTORY OF LLANDDERFEL 1935089 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript history of the parish of LLANDDERFEL, compiled in 1905 (NLW MS 9349B).

J LIAS DAVIES, TOWYN 1935090 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Two manuscript collections of DENBIGHSHIRE COLLOQUIAL TERMS AND EXPRESSIONS, compiled by the late REV J. LIAS DAVIES, Towyn (NLW MSS 9362B, 9363C). One of these compositions was successful at the National Eisteddfod held at Llangollen in 1908. Mynegai Sir Ddinbych, Tywyn, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol.

HANES CYFARFODYDD CYSTADLEUOL SIR GAERNARFON 1935091 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript essay on 'HANES Y CYFARFODYDD CYSTADLEUOL mewn unrhyw sir yng Nghymru, hyd ddiwedd y 19eg ganrif', submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod held at Bangor in 1931 (NLW MS 9328). The county selected by this competitor, who was not awarded the prize, is Caernarvonshire. Mynegai Sir Gaernarfon, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol.

MOSES WALTERS 1935092 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A group of manuscripts, papers and press-cuttings brought together by the late Moses Walters, JP, of Blackwood, Monmouthshire. The collection consists mainly of translations into Welsh of various tracts and pamphlets relating to the doctrines and beliefs of the Swedenborgian Church, made by adherents of that sect in South Wales (NLW MSS 10072-4C, 10075B, 10076-8C, 10079D, 10080C, 10081-2B, 10083C, 10084B, 10085-6C, 10087B, 10088-90C, 10091B, 10092E, 10093F, 10094-6C, 10097E). Some of the cuttings relate to political and local government affairs in Monmouthshire in which Mr Walters took part. Mynegai Coed-duon (Bedwellty, Bedwellte), Sir Fynwy.

BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION 1935093 Ffynhonnell / Source The British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Eighty deeds (1362-1820) relating to properties in Montgomeryshire, Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire, Brecknockshire and Flintshire. Mynegai Sir Drefaldwyn, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Sir Aberteifi, Sir Benfro, Sir Frycheiniog, Sir Fflint. Nodiadau Schedule Available

`CYFARFOD CHWARTEROL ANNIBYNWYR CEREDIGION' 1935094 Ffynhonnell / Source The Cardiganshire Congregationalists' Quarterly Meeting, per The Reverend Daniel Davies, Llanbadarnfawr. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Four volumes of minutes of 'Cyfarfod Chwarterol Annibynwyr Ceredigion', ranging in date from 1796 to 1932 (NLW Minor Deposits 466-8A, 482A). Mynegai Sir Aberteifi.

CARDIGANSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS 1935095 Ffynhonnell / Source The Cardiganshire County Council, per Mr Ivor Evans, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Eleven volumes of Quarter Sessions Order Books for Cardiganshire, being the complete set for the period between July 12, 1739, and October 21, 1909 (Cards/QS/OB/1-11). Mynegai Sir Aberteifi. Nodiadau Schedule Available

DAVIES OF LLANDINAM 1935096 Ffynhonnell / Source The Right Honourable Lord Davies of Llandinam, per Mr T Oxland, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A thick folio volume of press-cuttings, with uncut newspapers loosely inserted between the leaves, relating to the history and activities of the late David Davies, Llandinam. This volume supplements the large group of Llandinam Papers deposited by the President in 1934. Nodiadau Schedule Available

FFOSRHYDGALED 1935097 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J G Morris-Davies, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description 145 deeds (1733-1920) relating to properties in the borough of Aberystwyth, in Trefechan, and in the parishes of Llanychaiarn and Llangynfelyn, Cardiganshire, including some documents relating to shipping at Aberystwyth and Aberayron. Mynegai Llanychaearn, Aberaeron. Nodiadau Schedule Available

NANHORON 1935098 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr Claude H Lloyd-Edwards, Nanhoron. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description An extensive group of records relating mainly to the Nanhoron estate, comprising three manuscript volumes and over 1,000 deeds, documents and papers. The manuscripts consist of an eighteenth-century book of legal precedents in which the majority of the instruments transcribed relate to Caernarvonshire; a folio letter-book containing copies of letters written to Colonel Edwards of Nanhoron, 1820-30, with loose letters, including one addressed to Captain Richard Edwards, 1793; a rental of the Nanhoron estate, 1776-1818. The documents include conveyances of properties (1476-1868) in Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Merioneth, among them being leases of lands in Anglesey granted by abbots of Conway, 1511-27, and an estreat from the court rolls of the commote of Uchaled, Denbighshire, 1476. Miscellaneous papers include a rent roll of the King's rent of the town and liberties of Conway, 1626; an assessment of the town and liberties of Caernarvon, 1717-27; papers and accounts relating to the estate of Colonel Evan Jones of Gelliwig c. 1821; and a few issues of The London Gazette Extraordinary, The Naval and Military Gazette and The United Service Gazette, containing accounts of operations in the Crimea in 1854. Mynegai Sir Gaernarfon, Nanhoron (Botwnnog), Sir Fôn, Sir Ddinbych, Sir Fflint, Sir Feirionnydd, Conwy, Uwch Aled (Rhufoniog), Caernarfon, Gelli-wig. Nodiadau Schedule Available

D D EVANS, LLANIO FAWR 1935099 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr D D Evans, Llanio, Cardiganshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Miscellaneous documents (1692-1833), including:- An order in a case touching the customs of Vaynor Gaeth in the lordship of Tregaron and Pennarth, 1692. Deeds relating to the Llanio Fawr estate. Letters to members of the Llanio family, including five (1794-9) in the autograph of Richard Beadon and one (1811) in the autograph of G. I. Huntingford, bishops of Gloucester. A 'bidding' account book, 1820. Mynegai Faenor Gaeth, Caerloyw. Nodiadau Schedule Available

GLYNNE OF HAWARDEN 1935100 Ffynhonnell / Source The late The Right Honourable Lord Gladstone of Hawarden. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description THE GLYNNE OF HAWARDEN FAMILY PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS, consisting of:- Volumes of personal diaries and travel journals. Volumes of rentals, accounts and other estate records. Numerous autograph letters, election papers and legal and miscellaneous documents. The diaries, fifty-five in number, cover, with many gaps, 1753-1874. They were kept by Sir John Glynne, sixth baronet; Rev Sir Stephen Glynne, seventh baronet; Mary Neville, wife of Sir Stephen R. Glynne, eighth baronet, and Henry Glynne, his son Mary Glynne, afterwards Lady Lyttelton; Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, ninth baronet; and W. H. Gladstone. The sixteen travel journals were written by Sir Stephen R Glynne, ninth baronet, between 1824 and 1866, and record his tours in North and South Wales, Scotland, the continent of Europe and the Near East. The volumes of accounts range from 1690 to 1872, and consist of rentals, estate, household, and personal accounts, inventories, election expenses, colliery accounts, lists of charities distributed, etc. In a group of miscellaneous volumes are notes on history, genealogy and ecclesiology, ships' log-books (1727-30 and 1734-9), lists of voters, etc., in the Flintshire parliamentary election of 1734 and copies of indentures. The loose documents and papers, which are very numerous, consist of estate papers in the form of deeds and other legal documents, schedules of deeds, estate maps, plans, surveys, rentals, accounts, bills, vouchers, etc., ranging from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, with the majority belonging to the eighteenth; papers connected with various Flintshire parliamentary elections between 1727 and 1837; a separate group of legal papers which belonged to a lawyer named Dovey and do not relate to Glynne affairs; about 600 letters written by and to members of the Glynne family and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, among the most interesting of which may be mentioned two letters sent to Gladstone in 1858 from Roumanian ministers, conveying their own and their country's thanks to him for having supported the cause of the Danubian Principalities; and a number of papers of a miscellaneous nature. This material supplements to some extent the 'Hawarden Castle Deeds and Documents' which were deposited by Lord Gladstone some years ago, and of the contents of which a Calendar was published by the Library in 1931. Mynegai Penarlâg, Yr Alban, Sir Fflint, Roumania. Nodiadau Schedule Available

T D GWERNOGLE EVANS 1935101 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend T D Gwernogle Evans, Neath. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description An essay, by the depositor, on 'Herbalists, old and new, in Wales' (NLW Minor Deposits 306B). This work was successful at the National Eisteddfod held at Llanelly in 1930. Mynegai Llanelli, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol. Nodiadau Schedule Available

OTTLEY 1935102 Ffynhonnell / Source Major-General Sir Charles J C Grant, Pitchford Hall, Salop. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description OTTLEY, JENKINSON AND COTES PAPERS. The Ottley Papers include a volume of neatly-written contemporary transcripts of documents relating to the office of the justices of the peace in Shropshire, 1590-7, particularly to their duties in connection with the regulation of alehouses, the sale of corn, and the militia; a transcript of the Queen's general instructions to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, President of the Council in Wales and the Marches, as well as his orders to the deputy lieutenants and the records of the proceedings of the justices; original Civil War letters, some of which were printed, from a transcript, in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1894-6; a volume of Ottley family memoranda from 1566; some memoranda relating to the diocese of St. Davids, including an estimate of the cost of repairs to the Cathedral in 1719; over sixty letters from Adam Ottley to his wife, 1724-1832; transcripts of English poetry; deeds, and drafts of pedigrees. The Jenkinson Manuscripts include letter-books (1808-10) of the Hon. Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson (afterwards third Earl of Liverpool), and his diary from March to July 1809. The Cotes Papers include letters addressed to Thomas Cotes, esquire, vice-admiral of His Majesty's White Squadron, c. 1760-4; wills; pedigrees and miscellaneous correspondence. There are also copies of printed letters and pamphlets which passed between Charles Baldwyn and his son, William Childe, 1781-6, and papers relating to the quarrel and threatened duel between Thomas Pitt, second Baron Camelford, and George Vancouver, explorer, 1796-7. Original letters of Camelford and Vancouver are included. These papers constitute a further addition to the OTTLEY PAPERS and the PITCHFORD HALL MANUSCRIPTS AND PAPERS which Sir Charles deposited in 1932 and 1933. Mynegai Swydd Amwythig, Tyddewi.

DERWENLAS WHARFAGE BOOK 1935103 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Phillip Jones, Aberayron. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A wharfage book kept by Messrs Jones and Morgan, Machynlleth, in connection with a wharf at Derwenlas, 1839-62 (NLW Minor Deposits 308A).

SWEENEY HALL 1935104 Ffynhonnell / Source Major B E Parker Leighton, Sweeney Hall. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description 222 deeds and documents (1636-1810) relating to properties in Carmarthenshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Herefordshire. The collection, though consisting for the most part of the usual legal instruments, also contains some interesting judicial papers relating to the Brownes of Sweeney Hall, and a few manorial estreats. This group supplements the large group deposited in 1933. Mynegai Sir Gaerfyrddin, Swydd Henffordd, Swydd Amwythig, Swydd Gaerwrangon.

TABERNACLE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, LIVERPOOL 1935105 Ffynhonnell / Source The Officers of The Tabernacle Welsh Congregational Church, Liverpool, per The Reverend D Eurof Walters. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description The register of The Tabernacle - the oldest Welsh Congregational Church in Liverpool - from 1830 to 1856 (NLW Minor Deposits 305A). Mynegai Lerpwl.

MONTGOMERYSHIRE BOARDS OF GUARDIANS 1935106 Ffynhonnell / Source The Montgomeryshire County Council, per Lieut.-Colonel G R D Harrison, Welshpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Sixty-six volumes of minutes of Boards of Guardians in Montgomeryshire, relating to the following Unions:- Forden, 1870-1900; Llanfyllin, 1841-1902; Llanidloes and Newtown, 1837-1900; Machynlleth, 1837-1901. Mynegai Sir Drefaldwyn, Y Drenewydd. Nodiadau Transferred to Powys RO (Llandrindod) 1990

PLYMOUTH 1935107 Ffynhonnell / Source The Right Honourable The Earl of Plymouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description About 1,700 deeds and documents (1301-1844) relating to properties in Brecknockshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Merioneth, Monmouthshire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Berkshire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire and Wiltshire. The collection contains a number of manorial records, including court rolls of the manors of Magoyr and Wondy in Monmouthshire (1568-1603), an incomplete rental of the lordship of Senghenydd (fifteenth century), and estreats from the court rolls of the manors of Abenbury, Burton, Esclusham, Maelor, Ruabon and Wrexham in Bromfield and Yale, Knockyn and Whittington in Salop, and Wondy in Monmouthshire. Among a number of seventeenth century legal documents relating to properties in Flintshire are a few Civil War papers, including passes granted by General Byron and General Mytton to Ralph Hughes of Llewerllyd (1646), a copy of a petition of the inhabitants of Prestatyn to General Mytton, and a letter from General Byron referring to a petition of the inhabitants of Rhuddlan and Prestatyn touching the demolition of Rhuddlan Castle. Mynegai Sir Frycheiniog, Sir Ddinbych, Sir Fflint, Sir Forgannwg, Sir Feirionnydd, Sir Fynwy, Swydd Gaer, Swydd Amwythig, Gwlad-yr-haf, Magor, Senghennydd, Rhiwabon, Wrecsam, Iâl, Knockin (Cnycyn), Rhyfeloedd Cartref, Llewerllyd (Diserth). Nodiadau Schedule Available

POWIS CASTLE 1935108 Ffynhonnell / Source The Right Honourable The Earl of Powis. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Two additional manuscripts belonging to the extensive collection of POWIS CASTLE DOCUMENTS deposited by Lord Powis in 1933. They consist of:- An inventory of the goods and chattels taken over to Ireland when Sir William Herbert crossed in 1587 to plant a colony in Munster and to acquire the Castleisland estate. An autograph history of the Manor of Myfennydd, Cardiganshire, by Lewis Morris, 'Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn', which he presented in 1756 to the then Earl of Powis. This appears to be a companion to his history of the Manor of Creuddyn, which was published as an appendix to S. R. Meyrick's History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan, 1808. Mynegai Castell Powis, Iwerddon, Mefenydd, Anglesey, Sir Aberteifi. Nodiadau Schedule Available

CALVINISTIC METHODIST ARCHIVES 1935109 Ffynhonnell / Source The Presbyterian Church of Wales. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description From time to time during the year, the Presbyterian Church of Wales has through various persons transferred further groups of 'Calvinistic Methodist Archives' to supplement the first consignment which was described in the last ANNUAL REPORT. Among the more interesting are:- The original manuscript of the 'Constitutional Deed', 1826, signed and sealed by 150 ministers, preachers, elders and trustees of the Connexion. Ten autograph letters (1804-14) of Thomas Charles of Bala and a part of the autograph manuscript of his Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol. Manuscripts of Richard Newell, consisting chiefly of diaries containing Monthly Meetings and Associations, 1813-50, and letters and statistics relating to Sunday Schools in Montgomeryshire, 1823- 34. A large number of letters addressed to Richard Bennett, Caersws, including many from the late Rev M. H. Jones. Addresses by the late Rev John Roberts, DD, Khasia, and the late Evan Evans, Aberystwyth. Sermons by Henry Rees of Liverpool, Joseph Thomas of Carno, Thomas Richards of Fishguard, William Evans of Tonyrefail, Griffith Williams of Talsarnau, and Morgan George of Llangyfelach. Mynegai Sir Drefaldwyn, Lerpwl, Abergwaun, Tonyrefail (Llantrisant), Talsarnau (Llanfihangel-y-traethau). Nodiadau Schedule Available

GLANPAITH 1935110 Ffynhonnell / Source Lieut.-Colonel Sir G Fossett Roberts, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Over 270 deeds (1555-1892) relating to properties in Cardiganshire, Caernarvonshire, Merioneth, Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire. The documents include a few Aberystwyth court leet papers, 1775- 9, and some deeds relating to shipping. A number of miscellaneous papers, including:- A letter of John Williams of Ystradmeurig (1794). Papers of John Parry, solicitor, Aberystwyth, including share certificates of the Aberystwyth Gas and Coke Company (1839), and the Bwlch Consolidated Lead Mines (1847) and notes of the Aberystwyth and Tregaron Bank (1813-14). A few printed items, including copies of A Letter of Reply to Arthur James Johnes, Esq., . . . by Amicus, 1833, and a copy of the Report on the Estate and Property of the Corporation of Swansea, 1851. Mynegai Sir Aberteifi, Sir Gaernarfon, Sir Feirionnydd, Sir Drefaldwyn, Sir Faesyfed, Ystradmeurig (Gwnnws Isaf), Abertawe, Caron. Nodiadau Schedule Available

HESTER LYNCH PIOZZI 1935111 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Gwen Salusbury, Ross-on-Wye. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description An autograph letter of Hester Lynch Piozzi to a Mr Wilson, written at Bath on April 2, 1819 (NLW Minor Deposits 353A). A copy of The Book of Common Prayer (Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1762) formerly owned by Mrs Piozzi and bearing on a fly-leaf the signature 'Hester Lynch Thrale' (NLW Minor Deposits 323B). The depositor is a descendant of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, of which Mrs Thrale was a member. Mynegai Caergrawnt, Lleweni (Llyweni).

SALUSBURY OF LLEWENNI 1935112 Ffynhonnell / Source Major R Salusbury, St Briavel's. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description A group of seven genealogical documents of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, mainly relating to the Salusbury family of Llewenni, of which the depositor is a descendant (NLW ROLLS 111-6). One of the documents is in the autograph of Angharad Llwyd and another in that of Hester Lynch Piozzi. Mynegai Lleweni (Llyweni). Nodiadau Converted to a donation in 1977. Schedule Available.

WELSH CHURCH COMMISSION 1935113 Ffynhonnell / Source The Welsh Church Commissioners, per Mr T Huws Davies, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Two further groups of ecclesiastical manuscripts and documents, supplementing those described in the ANNUAL REPORT for 1932-3. The first group contains twenty-one manuscripts and nineteen deeds relating to the dioceses of Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph and St Davids. They may be classified as follows:- Bangor A transcript of the extent of the temporalities of the diocese, [? 1335], which may be compared with Harleian MS. 696 printed on pages 92-109 of the Record of Carnarvon. A commonplace book kept by an officer of the diocese c. 1590, containing copies of an inspeximus of the charter granted by Henry VII to the inhabitants of North Wales, valuations, rentals, a list of leases, and an extent of Bangor and Maenol Bangor. A copy of an exemplification (1560) of charters granted to the bishops of Bangor. Surveys of the manors of Bangor, Maenol Bangor, Ederne, Castellmai and Treffos, 1647, and Dyndaethwy, 1650. A survey (1647) and court rolls and rentals (1820-39) of the manor of Cantref. Extracts from a grant of the possessions of the bishops of Bangor and St Asaph, 1650. A bill of complaint by Thomas Sherlock, bishop of Bangor, touching a tenement in the manor of Cantref in Anglesey, 1734. A roll of the chief rents of the diocese, 1826-34. A fragment of a fourteenth-century Latin dictionary with an outer cover of parchment on which is written a letter (Divina disponente) from Pope Nicholas V to [?] the chapter of Bangor, 1440. Llandaff. A survey of the manor of Matherne, Monmouthshire, 1564. St Asaph. Nineteen leases, 1600-1753, of properties in St Asaph, and extracts from a grant of the possessions of the bishopric, 1850. St Davids. An eighteenth-century transcript of the Black Book of St Davids, 1326. Copies of conveyances of property by Parliamentary Commissioners, 1647-57, and of surveys and valuations of the diocese in the times of Bishop Lucy, 1660, Bishop Warren, 1779-83, and Bishop Burgess, 1816. Valuations of the Brecknockshire and Radnorshire estates, 1796, and of the forest of Nantgwnlle in Cardiganshire, 1814. The second group contains eighty-two manuscripts - and sixty documents, including:- Files of papers relating to the rectory of Towyn, Merioneth, 1547-1787, to wrecks washed up on the lands belonging to the bishop of Bangor, 1747-1827, and to the tithes of Talgarth and Llangorse in Brecknockshire, 1801-26. Manorial records of the bishopric of Bangor, including rules of procedure at manorial courts. Court books of the manors of Llanddulas, 1797-1802, 1804-18, 1827; Castellmai, 1797,1799,1807- 8,1810-13; Gogarth, 1797-1818,1827,1836,1838; Llanddoget, 1797-1810, 1812-13, 1815-18; Maenol Bangor, 1797-9, 1802-7,1809, 1811, 1813, 1816-18; Treffos, 1811-18, 1820, 1824, 1826, 1828-9, 1831, 1833-4, 1836, 1841, 1843-4. Rentals, particulars, surveys, and estate books of the bishopric of St Asaph, 1637-1868. Rentals of the bishopric of Bangor, 1795-1883. Particulars of leases and accounts for the bishopric of Llandaff, 1706-1829. Particulars of tithes and surveys of the parishes of Abergwilly, Nantmell and Talgarth, 1799-1801. Registers of leases, St Asaph, 1666-1735, and Bangor, 1573-1852. Deeds and documents, 1560-1808, mainly relating to properties in the bishopric of Llandaff, and to the rectory of Towyn, Merioneth, which belonged to the bishops of Lichfield and Coventry. Mynegai Llandaf, Llanelwy, Tyddewi, Gogledd Cymru, Edern, Castellmai (Treffos), Matharn (Merthyr Tewdrig), Sir Frycheiniog, Sir Faesyfed, Nancwnlle, Nantcwnlle, Tywyn, Llan-gors, Abergwili, Nantmel.

NATIONAL FUND FOR WELSH TROOPS 1935114 Ffynhonnell / Source The Trustees of the Welsh Troops' Chlldren's Fund, per Mr A W Willington, Liverpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Four minute-books of the National Fund for Welsh Troops, 1915-20, together with a printed Report of the Executive Committee of the National Fund for Welsh Troops, 1914-18; and three minute-books of the Welsh Troops' Children's Fund, 1920-7 (NLW Minor Deposits 15-21A).

MERIONETHSHIRE CALVINISTIC METHODIST PRESBYTERY 1935115 Ffynhonnell / Source The West Merioneth CM Presbytery, per The Reverend J T Davies, Dolgelley. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description Five volumes of minutes of the Monthly Meeting of the Presbytery, covering respectively the years 1883-9, 1889-99, 1899-1903, 1903-9 and 1909-16 (NLW Minor Deposits 24-8A).

YR EISTEDDFOD GENEDLAETHOL 1935116 Ffynhonnell / Source The Town Council of Wrexham, per Councillor W Emyr Willlams. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description An extensive collection of records of the National Eisteddfod which was held at Wrexham in August 1933, being material relating to the administrative and secretarial work connected with the Eisteddfod. Mynegai Wrecsam, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol.

GLYNLLIFON 1935117 Ffynhonnell / Source The Trustees of the Estate of the late the Honourable F G Wynn, Glynllifon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1934-35 Disgrifiad / Description THE GLYNLLIFON MANUSCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS, consisting mainly of the older muniments of the extensive estates of Glynllifon, Bodfean, the Abbey and Melai. This large archive, which is now being catalogued, includes account books, manorial records, slate quarry records, railway plans and documents, Caernarvonshire borough and election papers, militia records, letters, deeds, drafts of legal documents, and miscellaneous papers and pamphlets. Among the account books of the Glynllifon and Bodfean estates are:- Two volumes of the accounts of fees received at audits held at Carmarthen and Brecon, 1763-8, of the issues of the seven counties of South Wales, and of business transacted at the prothonotary's office for the Anglesey circuit, 1793-7. Sir Thomas Wynn, who became first baron Newborough in 1776, was granted the office of auditor to the Court of Exchequer for the thirteen counties of Wales in 1756, and followed his brother, Glyn Wynn, as prothonotary for the Anglesey circuit in 1793. The history of the Caernarvonshire boroughs and their representation in Parliament is illustrated by a small group of manuscripts which includes:- A stamped register of the burgesses of Nevyn, 1707-13. A poll-book recording the votes cast for Thomas Wynn and William Price, esquires, at the election for a burgess of Parliament, April 3, 1722, when Thomas Wynn, who was of Bodfean, secured the majority. Lists of Pwllheli burgesses in the eighteenth century. A canvass book for Caernarvon, 1852. The militia records consist of:- A book of laws and a muster book of the 'society' or garrison at Fort Williamsbourg in Glynllifon Park, which was instituted September 22, 1761. Militia warrants, 1762-99, including the appointment of Thomas, Lord Newborough, to be lieutenant- colonel commandant of the Loyal Association of the Coast of Caernarvon, 1799. A weekly return of arms and stores of the Royal Caernarvonshire Grenadiers at Fort Williamsbourg and Caernarvon, 1773. Returns of Abermenai barracks, 1776. Correspondence with the War Office in the matter of the accounts of the Glynllifon Volunteers, 1814-18. Accounts of disbursements made upon Fort St. Davids, 1824-5. Industrial records are represented by:- A number of well-preserved account books of the Glynrhonwy (Llanrug) and Ffestiniog slate quarries, 1822-32. Bundles of notices to owners of land required for the construction of several North Wales railways, 1860-5. Sessional plans of the following lines - Llangollen and Corwen, 1859, Llyfni Vale, 1859-60, Merionethshire, 1861-2, and Bala, 1861-2. The manorial records comprise court rolls and miscellaneous papers relating to the manor of Ardda (Dolgarrog), sometime parcel of the possessions of the abbey of Maenan, 1758-1875. A short account of the manor, written by Dr O. O. Roberts, is included amongst the miscellaneous papers. The deeds and legal instruments, 1428-1879, relate to properties in Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Cardiganshire, Merioneth, St. Mary le Bone, Newington, Lambeth and Cambridge. Mynegai Sir Gaernarfon, Caerfyrddin, Aberhonddu, Sir Fôn, Gogledd Cymru, Nefyn, Nevin, Caernarfon, Sir Feirionnydd, Sir Ddinbych, Sir Aberteifi, Caergrawnt. Nodiadau Transferred to Gwynedd RO (Caernarfon) 1973