ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1964-65

CLOGAU GOLDMINE 1965001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr Ifor Lewis, Llanbedr, Merioneth, per Mrs Nesta Gore, Harborne, Birmingham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Photographs of the Clogau gold mine in Merioneth, including the interior of the mill, the entrance to Ty'n-y-cornel level, a group of workmen outside the New Mill, the slate yard at Llanfair, and a general view of the mountains and the Mawddach estuary (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

H J RANDALL 1965002 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr H J Randall, LL.D., F.S.A., Bridgend. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Notebooks of H. J. Randall as a law student and later as a lecturer in law and politics; articles and correspondence about the question of land registration; daily rainfall records for Bridgend, 1912-58 (kept as a Meteorological Office observer); material for, drafts of, correspondence concerning, and reviews of H. J. Randall's published works:--History in the Open Air, 1936, Bridgend: The History of a Market Town, 1955, The Vale of Glamorgan, 1962, and the volume of The South Wales and Monmouthshire Record Society devoted to L. W. Dillwyn (Vol. 5, 1963); typescripts, drafts, and notes for papers, addresses, and obituaries; and correspondence, 1915-62, mostly with fellow archaeologists and historians.

RHEOLA 1965003 Ffynhonnell / Source An Anonymous Donor Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A miscellaneous archive of deeds, documents, and papers relating to the estates of the family of Edwards-Vaughan of Rheola. There are three deeds of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but the bulk concern the period from the late eighteenth century down to the death of Col. John Edwards- Vaughan in 1929. Selected items of interest include a transcript, with translation, of an inspeximus, 1358-9, concerning the grant of the land of Resolven to the monks of Margam; a lease of a water mill, tithe of corn, and fisheries in the river Neath within the lordships of Resolven, 1483; a lease of the manor of Resolven, 1555; papers, case for counsel's opinion, and correspondence relating to disputes about fishing rights in the river Neath, 1666-1883; correspondence relating to the inclosure of the Drim Mountain, 1812-13; presentments at courts leet of the manor of Resolven, 1817-49; a typescript copy of articles for the augmentation of the chapel of Blaengwrach, 1754; correspondence concerning the provision of services in the chapel of Rheola, 1899-1906; papers concerning the presentation to the living of Glyncorrwg, 1900-1; a copy of a scheme for the transfer of the patronage of the Glyncorrwg vicarage with the Blaengwrach curacy to secure the augmentation of the living, with correspondence relating thereto, 1907; a collection of pamphlets published by the Conservative Party in the 1890's, the election address and posters advertising meetings of John Edwards-Vaughan, the Conservative candidate in the Mid-Glamorgan election of 1895; notes of speeches delivered, questions asked, answers given, and miscellaneous correspondence relating to the same election; a schedule relating to a plan of the Rheola estate, 1815; particulars of sale of the Rheola mansion, undated; inventories of furniture at Rheola, 1868, 1882, and 1896; an abstract of accounts of the Leavington, Dillington, co. Somerset, Lanelay, and Rheola properties, 1885; two letters from J. H. Speke, the explorer, to Nash Vaughan Edwards Vaughan concerning his preparations for his last African expedition and thanking him for his assistance, 27 February and 6 March 1860; correspondence concerning the exchange of tithes between the Rheola and the Aberpergwm estates, 1829-46; proof of James Mansergh in support of a bill of the Ystradyfodwg UDC to acquire the Ystrad Gas & Water Co., 1896; a typescript report to the Neath RDC concerning the water supply of their area, 1897; correspondence and papers concerning the sale of land in connection with the Resolven Sewerage Scheme, 1901; an act to empower the Neath RDC to obtain a supply of water from the river Tringarth in the parish of Ystradfellte, to acquire the Cwm Avon gas and water undertaking and other purposes, 1902; a printed report by the parliamentary committee of the Neath RDC upon the Ystradfellte Water Act; a printed report by W. E. Cleason Thomas on the proposed sewerage of Resolven, 1910; a report on the situation and prospects of Rev Thomas Basset's colliery in Ystradgynlais as compared with others on the line of the Swansea Canal, and proposals for leasing stone coal and culm under his land in Glyntawe, 1799; memoranda relating to proposals for leasing Glyntawe colliery, c. 1800; a report of John Brough on coal discovered on the Rheola estate, 1825; a printed prospectus for the formation of the Neath Vale Iron & Coal Co., with reports by William Brough & Sons and Mathew Wayne & Sons on minerals on the Blaengwrach, Forchgoch, and Venallt estates, 1836; a printed report on the stone coal belonging to N. V. E. Vaughan in the vale of Neath, 1840; extracts from minutes of the Neath Canal Navigation, 1813; balance sheets and resolutions passed at meetings of the Neath Canal Co., 1885, 1887, 1888; printed acts for improving the port and harbour of Neath, 1843; a printed act relating to the TUR, 1836-49; papers and letters relating to the Vale of Neath Railway, including the crossings at Venallt and Resolven brook; correspondence and papers relating to the Venallt Coal & Iron Co., 1834-50; letters concerning the pollution of the River Neath by the Aberdulais Tinworks, 1851-64; a printed prospectus of the Welsh Steam Coal Collieries Ltd. for working coal under the Gnoll estate, Neath, 1873; correspondence relating to claims against the Copper Miners Co., and the Rio Tinto Co., for damages caused to lands in the parishes of Llantwit Lower, Clyne, Resolven, Glyncorrwg, Llangynwyd, Michaelston Higher, and Baglan Higher, 1872-98; accounts of rents paid and coal worked at the Resolven collieries, 1871- 97, and various correspondence and papers concerning the same undertakings, 1873-1900; and a number of deeds and correspondence relating to mineral leases in Cadoxton juxta Neath, Llantwit juxta Neath, Glyncorrwg, Resolven, and Michaelston-super-Avon, co. Glamorgan, and Ystradgynlais and Ystradfellte, co. Brecknock, 1860-1926.

WILL OF MICHAEL DANIEL JONES 1965004 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs. T. ap Rhys, Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Probate, 11 March 1899, of the will (dated 4 July 1891) of Michael Daniel Jones, of Bodiwan, Bala, co. Merioneth, Principal of Bala Independent College (NLW Deeds 1215).

SIR H IDRIS BELL 1965005 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir H Idris Bell, C.B., O.B.E., D.Litt., F.B.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Sir Idris has continued his long-standing custom of forwarding to the Library several foreign journals to which he has been a regular subscriber, and also many other overseas publications which have encouraged the Department of Printed Books to acquire interests in new fields of learning (Dept of Printed Books).

PEDIGREE OF TIMOTHY AND MARY EVANS, ESGAIRFYNWENT 1965006 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Tabitha Beynon, Kenilworth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An annotated transcript, August 1964, by the donor, of a summary of the family pedigree of her grandparents Timothy and Mary Evans, Esgerfynwent, parish of Llanfihangel Rhos-y-corn, co. Carmarthen (NLW MS 18889A).

MARY LAURA LLOYD PHILIPPS 1965007 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Muriel Bourne, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An album of late nineteenth and early twentieth century press cuttings, etc., of family and local interest, compiled by the donor's mother, Mary Laura Lloyd Philipps (nee Bonsall), afterwards Davies, wife of Morris Davies, of Ffosrhydgaled, Llanychaearn, co. Cardigan (NLW Misc Volumes 155).

J B S HALDANE 1965008 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John B. Bowen, B.Sc., A.R.I.C., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Holograph notes of a public lecture on 'Bad air' delivered by Professor J. B. S. Haldane, FRS, to the Scientific Society of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, at Shiloh Schoolroom, May 1940 (NLW MS 17743E).

BRECKNOCK SOCIETY 1965009 Ffynhonnell / Source The Brecknock Society, per The Reverend J Jones-Davies, R.D., Trecastle. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Seven typescript catalogues of documents preserved in the Brecon Museum - (1) Maybery Collection; (2) Sir John Lloyd (of Dinas) Collection; (3) Enclosures; (4) Quarter Sessions; (5) Friendly Societies, Charities, Churchwardens and Overseers, Church, and Tithe Apportionments; (6) Bridges, Canals, Railways, and Turnpikes; and (7) Elections and Politics (Open Shelves).

GEOFFREY W BRIGHT 1965010 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Geoffrey W Bright, F.A.L.P.A., Leominster. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A watercolour drawing of Goodrich Castle by Oliver Baker, and a mid-nineteenth century scrapbook containing a number of silhouette cut-out designs by a painter at the Royal Worcester china manufactory (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

CHARLES A H FRANKLYN 1965011 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr and Mrs Morwent A. Brown, Penarth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Copy No. 19 (of 102 copies) of A Genealogical history of the families of Paulet (or Pawlett), Berewe (or Barrow), Lawrence, and Parker . . . by Charles A. H. Franklyn. Privately printed by the Foundry Press, Bedford, 1963 (Dept of Printed Books).

EVAN PRICE EVANS 1965012 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr P W Carter, M.Sc., Welshpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Notebooks of the late Evan Price Evans (1880-1959), of Hove, Sussex, a founder-member of the British Ecological Society and former vice-president of the Montgomeryshire Field Society. They contain sketch-maps and botanical, geological, and geographical notes on various districts, many of them having probably been made in preparation for his published ecological papers. One notebook contains copies of his articles North-West Wales: The Face of the Land - 1 and 2, reprinted from Report of the Montgomeryshire Field Society, 1952 and 1953; draft copies and a typescript copy of the third article in this series, which was published, after E. Price Evans's death, in Report of the Montgomeryshire Field Society, 1959; a printed copy of the Official Guide to Sweetheart Abbey, Kirkcudbright, with personal manuscript notes; and articles on 'Cader Idris and Talyllyn' and 'From Aran Fawddwy to the Great Orme: a preliminary study of the ecology of the eastern flanks of the Harlech Dome and of Snowdonia . . .'. There are also an incomplete copy of The Geology of the Dolgelley District, Merionethshire by A. Hubert Cox and A. Kingsley Wells (London, 1927), offprints of articles from various journals, and some correspondence to E. Price Evans.

SIR JOHN CECIL-WILLIAMS 1965013 Ffynhonnell / Source Lady Cecil-Williams, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Material from the library of the donor's husband, the late Sir John Cecil-Williams, M.A., LL.D., (d. 1964). Pedigree charts, notes, and photographs relating to the family connections of Sir John Cecil Williams, with letters from Isaac Newton Williams, Belmar, New Jersey (d 1955), and others; books and papers relating to the visits of Sir John to the United States of America, with a brief visit to Canada, in 1957 (see Trans. Cymmr., Session 1960, pp. 112-28, 'Goodwill Missions to the United States of America'); and a paper by Sir John entitled 'The London Welsh Charitable Aid Society, 1873-1962; A few notes'. 'Copi o lyfr eglwys y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Tynrhyd Cerrig-y-drudion', 1813-35, transcribed by D. R. Thomas from the original in January 1895, with some additional material, followed by 'Adysgrif o gofrestr Bedyddiadau yn mhlith y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Cerrigydrudion ar Amgylchoedd', 1811-37 and 1842 (NLW MS 17675), transcribed by D. R. Thomas, Cartref, nr. Bala, 1922. A typescript copy of 'The Vision of the Immortal King, Owain Glyn Dwr', a poem by Walter Dowding, inscribed by the author. Miscellaneous papers including two letters, 1925-6, from Viscount Grey of Fallodon, and one letter, 1950, from Rev E. Gwyn Evans, London. A sound recording in eighteen parts of the service in commemoration of Bishop William Morgan arranged by the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 9 December 1954, together with a copy of the order of service; and several recordings of speeches by Sir John Cecil-Williams, 1951-3 (Audio-Visual Dept).

ANEIRIN TALFAN DAVIES 1965014 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Aneirin Talfan Davies, Llandaff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Two poems - 'The Anglo-Welsh' and 'Amends', in typescript with the author's signatures, by T. H. Jones (d. 1965), Newcastle University, New South Wales, together with a holograph letter from the author to the donor, 27 March 1957 (see Aneirin Talfan Davies: 'Passing of a Prince', Welsh Outlook, part 2, May 1965, pp. 19-20) (NLW MS 16799D).

D JEFFREY DAVIES 1965015 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs D Jeffrey Davies, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A notebook in the hand of J. Lodwick Evans, Ystradgynlais, containing notes of WEA Tutorial Class lectures on Plato's Republic given at the Workmen's Institute, Ferndale, by the donor's husband, the late Rev D. Jeffrey Davies, B.A., Penuel, Ferndale, 1926-7.

D R DAVIES, ABERDARE 1965016 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr D R Davies, Aberdare. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Two holograph letters to the donor, the one from Professor T. Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth, 1936 (NLW MS 16098E), and the other from D. R. Hughes, Old Colwyn, 1951 (NLW MS 16343E).

QUEEN VICTORIA 1965017 Ffynhonnell / Source The Hon Mr Justice Edmund Davies, Q.C., LL.D., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A letter signed by Queen Victoria and by Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, informing the President and Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation of the marriage of Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of York, and Princess Victoria Mary Louise Pauline Claudine Agnes of Teck, 27 July 1893 (NLW MS 16704E).

SIR ELLIS JONES ELLIS-GRIFFITH 1965018 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Gwilym Davies, B.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Additional material relating to Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith (1860-1926), including an album of 'Friday Evenings ('Llen a Chân')' meetings held at his home at 7 Radnor Place, Hyde Park; reminiscences by the donor; portraits; and personalia.

PERCIVAL V DAVIES 1965019 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Percival V Davies, O.B.E., F.S.A., Tunbridge Wells. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A supplement to the archive of Pembrokeshire records already presented by the donor. It comprises a pedigree of the Harries and Voile families of Broomhill, co. Pembroke, dating from 1799; the will of Margaret Parry of Haverfordwest, 1809, with additional notes, a rental, 1868-91, and fifteen deeds and documents, 1799-1876, relating mainly to the Castle Cenlas estate in the parishes of Llanrythan, Mathry, St. Davids, Whitechurch in Dewsland, Kilgerran, and Manorowen, co. Pembroke, and Llanwinio, co. Carmarthen; and a map of Trejenkin in the parish of Llanrithan, co. Pembroke, 1812. Mynegai Cilgerran Nodiadau Schedule Available.

SIR IFAN AB OWEN EDWARDS 1965020 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards, M.A., LL.D., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Correspondence between the donor, the Welsh Department of the Ministry of Education, and M. Herri Caouissin, Asnieres (Seine), 1946, relating to the attempt made by the donor, on behalf of 'Urdd Gobaith Cymru', to foster a similar youth movement, 'Urz Gonag Breiz', in Brittany (NLW MS 18965C).

J D EDWARDS, ABERYSTWYTH 1965021 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J D Edwards, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A sermon preached in 1810 and 1812 by John Jones, perpetual curate, at Llan[armo]n [Dyffryn Ceiriog] and Cad[walad]r [Llangadwaladr] (NLW MS 16620B); a bill of sale of 2/64th shares of the sloop Anna Maria of Aberystwyth, 1831 (NLW MS 17743E); a letter from Elizabeth Evans from Newport, Kentucky, to her brother and sister in the Aberaeron area, 1867 (NLW MS 16098E); a postcard from Robert Owen, Aberystwyth & Aberdovey Steam Packet Co.'s Office, Liverpool, to Isaac Griffith, Steam Packet Co., Aberystwyth, 1890 (NLW MS 16726A); and a collection of tickets, passes, labels, etc., of the Cambrian Railways, Manchester and Milford Railway, Taff Vale Railway, Great Western Railway, etc. (NLW MS 17743E)

T I ELLIS 1965022 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T I Ellis, M.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph letter from Thomas Edward Ellis, M.P., from Cynlas to D. Lloyd George, 1892, and another from Stuart Rendel, from Cannes, to T. E. Ellis, 1894.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS, GWALCHMAI 1965023 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs A B Emlyn Evans, Trearddur Bay. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts of the donor's father, Rev William Phillips (1861-1944), Gwalchmai, Congregational minister successively at Harlech, Betws (Abergele), Penrhynside, and Llanfairneubwll and Llanfaelog, relating to his visit in 1891 to the Welsh Colony in Patagonia (NLW MS 18953B). They include 'Hanes y daith i'r Andes, a byr Ddesgrifiad o'r Wlad Fynyddig', September-November 1891; lectures and notes of lectures on 'Bywyd yn Patagonia'; 'Bywyd yn ngwlad yr Indiaid yn Patagonia', and 'Yr hyn a welais ac a glywais gyda'r Cymry a'r Indiaid yn Patagonia'; and a printed copy of 'Yr Emyn Genedlaethol Arianin' harmonised, with a Welsh translation of the words, by William Jones ('Gwaenydd') (Dept of Printed Books).

ANEURIN O EVANS 1965024 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Aneurin O Evans, & Co., Solicitors, Denbigh. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Twelve deeds, 1709-1912, relating to properties in Denbigh, in Gwaen Dwysog, parish of Henllan, and in the parish of Eglwys fach, co. Denbigh; three wills, 1712-70, among them that of Richard Evans, curate of Henllan, 1712; and a marriage licence, 1704/5. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

`REVIEW OF THE OUTDOOR STAFF IN WALES' BY EVAN EVANS 1965025 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Evan Evans, Aberystwyth, per Mr Gwilym Evans, O.B.E., M.Sc., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript 'Review of the Outdoor Staff in Wales, 1912-49', compiled by the donor's husband, Evan Evans (d. 1964), formerly Deputy Chief Inspector, Welsh Board of Health, and Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance, Cardiff (NLW MS 17743E).

T J EVANS, CLUNDERWEN 1965026 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr T J Evans, M.B.E., Clunderwen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A volume of holograph sermon notes, 1800-2, 1804, by Titus Lewis (1773-1811), successively pastor of Blaen-waun, St. Dogmaels, and of Dark Gate (afterwards Tabernacle), Carmarthen, Baptist churches (NLW MS 18995A); a copy of Titus Lewis: Hanes . . . Prydain Fawr . . . (Caerfyrddin, 1810), bearing the names of members of a family of Edwards of Llansadwrn, co. Carmarthen (NLW Misc Volumes 203); a copy of Joshua Thomas: Hanes y Bedyddwyr . . . (Caerfyrddin, 1778), bearing the names of Lewis Thomas, his son Titus Lewis, and the latter's daughter Mary Lewis, afterwards the wife of Hugh William Jones (1802-73), pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Carmarthen; four diaries of Hugh William Jones, 1835-40, 1840-54, 1855-64, 1865-73 (NLW MSS 18966-9C); and a grocer's account book, 1893-4, of Anne Evans, 36 Waterloo Terrace, Carmarthen, the donor's great-aunt (NLW MS 19000C). The diaries of Hugh William Jones are not available for consultation for a period of fifty years without the written consent of the donor or his representative.

IDRIS LL FOSTER 1965027 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor Idris Ll Foster, M.A., F.S.A., Oxford. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A diary, 1892-1909, of R. J. Williams, Post Office, Dyffryn Ardudwy, Merioneth (NLW MS 18966A); and a mid-nineteenth century tune-book of one John Jones containing hymn-tunes, psalm-tunes, and anthems (NLW MS 18883A).

H H ASQUITH 1965028 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H R Francis, London. $N Blwyddyn Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Correspondence, May 1895, between the Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, the Rt. Rev. A. G. [Edwards, bishop of] St. Asaph, and Col. Hugh R. Hughes of Ystrad, concerning the appointment of the last-named to be a Commissioner of Church Temporalities in Wales (NLW MS 18881B).

PEDIGREE OF THE FAMILY OF LARKE OF THETFORD, DISS 1965029 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Charles A H Franklyn, M.A., M.D., F.L.S., F.S.A., Hassocks. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A positive facsimile of a holograph pedigree by the donor of the family of Larke of Thetford, Diss, and Norwich, co. Norfolk, supplementing the information contained in the donor's A Genealogical History of The Families of Paulet . . . Berewe . . . (1963) (NLW Rolls 208). Nodiadau Schedule Available.

LEGAL PRECEDENTS 1965030 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Eric C Freeman, Cowbridge. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript of the period c. 1752-62 containing legal precedents largely of Chester and Cheshire interest (NLW MS 18890B). The volume bears the name originally of Jno. Coppock and subsequently, in 1771, of Hugh Ellis, Bangor.

`GESTA ROMANORUM' 1965031 Ffynhonnell / Source The Friends of the National Libraries and the Friends of the National Library of Wales. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A slightly imperfect vellum manuscript of the first half of the fifteenth century containing a Latin text of the 'Gesta Romanorum' (NLW MS 18951C). The order of the tales is as follows: Tree-legacy, Ostrich-chick, Socrates married, Gauterus in search of unending joy, Golden ball for fool, Leprosy given in spite, Wax image, Mother suckled, Thrice brave, Priestess ravished, Hurled from rock, Two women ravished, Pirate's daughter, Madman cured by leaden hood, Giraffe, Toad and serpent, Arms from tomb, Prisontalk, Lame and blind, Bell of Justice, Wise man follows fool, Bloody shirt, Focus the smith, Hundred shillings, Seven years' troth, Scars shown, Father sheltered, Lear, Soft words, Nightingale killed, Fire-alarms, Seven riddles, Leprosy induced, Chess-realm divided, Dead man's seal, Proud emperor, Wife and two children lost, Three gallants entrapped, Dog and serpent, Three truths, Five services, Facundia, Choice of gods, Five fools, Unicorn, Labyrinth, Aglaes the swift-footed, Friendship tested, Four heavenly sisters, Golden fish-hook, Cords, Boar without a heart, Plaice-three petitions before death, Foster-child carried off by wolf, Pound of flesh, Zaleucus, Shooting at father's corpse, Shirt of three inches, Three widows, Cockcrows (with English words), Jonathas, Two friends, Birthday prophecy fulfilled, Ravisher preferred to rescuer, Son plots against father, Girdle of forgetfulness, Mother left to rescue father, Princess seduced but avenged, Son and stepson, Laziest of three sons, Basilisk, Sentence irrevocable, Serpent and milk, Lion and emperor, Romance of Gregory, Guy of Warwick (here called Iosias), Foster-child carried off by eagle, Gauterus in search of endless joy, Archer and nightingale, Lordship given to churls, Fair and ugly, Three tasks, Well-water cures drunkenness, Vengeance deferred for thirty years, Lamp which only a virgin can light, Serpents suckled, Crucified lion, Refuge in palace for escaped prisoners, Grateful beasts, whale and three caskets, Wine casks, Horse's neigh, Pirate's daughter, Uncle and father, Hurled from rock, [Two women ravished,] Suicide attempted (imperfect), Ravisher denounced, Poison-maiden, Son tears himself, Bath of blood, Fountain that revives the dead, Prodigal son's child, Statues robbed, Fire and water ready, Chaste empress, and Fridolin. The text begins 'Ancelmus in ciuitate romana regnauit' and ends 'Vnde tales in ignem eternum mittentur a quo igne nos eripiat qui sine fine viuit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum amen'. The volume consists of 144 folios (f. 130 almost entirely and lower part of f. 1 cut away), 237 mm. by 165 mm., 32 lines to each page, with initials in blue, penwork decoration in red, and paragraph marks alternately in red and blue. It is bound in contemporary oak boards, covered with leather which is considerably worn, and there are remnants of two clasps. On the end fly-leaf a near-contemporary ownership inscription has been erased, and on the last page of the text is an early eighteenth-century signature of Howell Meredith. Nodiadau Restricted Access.

DAVID PETERS, SALT LAKE CITY 1965032 Ffynhonnell / Source The Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, per Mr David Gardner, F.S.G. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy of a manuscript of David Peters (1810-89), native of Llanfair-iuxta-Harlech and pioneer of 1849, who settled at Salt Lake City and finally at Brigham City (NLW MS 18888C). It contains a register of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at Ffestiniog, 1846-9, and a record of births, marriages, and deaths of members of the Peters family.

GLAMORGAN RECORD OFFICE 1965033 Ffynhonnell / Source The County Archivist, Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Catalogues (reproduced by the Historical Manuscripts Commission) of the Court Kydrim and Merthyr Mawr Estate Records (Open Shelves).

W M GOULDING, BANGOR 1965034 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W M Goulding, Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description One of the sad and often too frequent trends of our time is the disappearance of local newspapers. The Library has always striven to make known its interest in preserving complete files of newspapers and periodicals--particularly, but not solely, those of Welsh interest, and it is therefore to be regretted that printers' files of newspapers, journals, and other more apparently ephemeral publications are still being destroyed instead of being added to the national collection. Through the good offices of Mr. Goulding (the General Manager), the directors of The North Wales Chronicle have enabled the Library to acquire a file of The Flintshire Observer, 1920-42, 1944-6, 1948-9 and 1951-7, The North Wales Pioneer, 1919-28, 1930-4, 1936-42, 1944-9, and 1951-6, and useful runs of The Welsh Coast Pioneer, and The Rhyl Observer (Dept of Printed Books).

SEAMEN'S DISCHARGE CERTIFICATES 1965035 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Meurig Griffith, Barmouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Eleven seaman's discharge certificates of the donor's grandfather John (J.J.) Griffith(s), a native of Dolgellau, 1871-80, and two similar certificates of Robert Evans, a native of Barmouth, 1880-1 (NLW Misc Records 187).

MYFANWY GRIFFITH 1965036 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Myfanwy Griffith, Horley. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An incomplete holograph letter written from Edinburgh, 1843, by [Owen Thomas, aft. C. M. minister, Liverpool] to Mrs. Davies [Fronheulog, Llandderfel] ('Found on Criccieth beach, June 12, 1890, by O. W. Griffith. Identified by Mr. Josiah Thomas' [a brother of the writer]) (see Wales, August, October, 1897, for a transcript of, and notes on, the letter) (NLW MS 16098E); and a carte-de-visite photograph of an engraving of Thomas Edwards ('Twm o'r Nant'), published by H. Humphreys, of Caernarvon (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

T O HUGHES, BOOTLE & O HENRY HUGHES 1965037 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T Elwyn Griffiths, B.A., A.L.A., Caernarvon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Nine letters addressed mainly to T. O. Hughes [Marsh Lane, Bootle] (d. 1906) and his son, O. Henry Hughes, from T. Charles Williams, Menai Bridge, 1900 and undated, Hugh Jones, Liverpool, 1902, John Williams, Liverpool, 1902, J. Puleston Jones, Dinorwig, 1906, Thos. Williams, Gwalchmai, 1906, Ellis Edwards, Bala, 1915, and C. R. Attlee, House of Commons, 1936. The letters are from the library of O. Henry Hughes, Bodawel, Endsleigh Road, Old Colwyn (d. 1964) (NLW MS 18877B).

SIR FREDERIC GEORGE MORGAN 1965038 Ffynhonnell / Source The Executors of the late the Hon Mrs S A Gurney, London, per Messrs Rider, Heaton, Meredith & Mills, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A group of nine game (NLW MSS 18903B, 18904-5C, 18906-7B, 18908A) and fishing books (NLW MSS 18900B, 18901-2A) of Sir Frederic George Morgan, 5th baron Tredegar, held by the National Library of Wales since May 1957 on permanent deposit.

D D HERBERT 1965039 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Olive Herbert, Resolven. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts and papers from the library of the donor's husband the late D. D. Herbert, Resolven, consisting of notes, transcripts, an eisteddfod essay, and other miscellaneous material accumulated in the course of a lifetime's study of the history of Resolven and district. The original works of the author consist of the manuscript of 'Hanes Plwyf Resolfen' submitted to the Dolgellau National Eisteddfod, 1949, for which he shared the first prize; manuscript essays entitled 'Prydferthwch Cwm Nedd' and 'Paham y dylid cadw'r Gymraeg', being the winning entries at local eisteddfodau; and an unsuccessful entry in a competition for a handbook for schools at the Treorchy National Eisteddfod, 1928, on the subject 'Hanes deg taith i wahanol fannau o ddiddordeb yn Ne Cymru'. Among the transcripts are a volume containing surveys of the manor of Neath Ultra and Kilybebill, 1633 and 1638, taken from a manuscript in the possession of Richard J. Thomas, Neath, and copies of other documents in the John Jenkins (Resolven) Papers in the National Library of Wales; a book containing extracts from a book of old leases of the Briton Ferry estate, 1738-1811, with observations on the value of the estate written by George Tennant in 1820; a volume containing a copy of a churchwardens' account book of the two upper hamlets of Lantwit, 1821-48, and of Resolven, 1849-68, including a list of churchwardens, 1748-1866; and extracts of minutes (in pencil) of a branch of the Sons of Temperance Friendly Society at Resolven, 1884-1906. There are also numerous photocopies of original documents from the Public Record Office, the British Museum, Somerset House, and the National Library of Wales, all relating to the history of the Resolven district, including extracts from the Hearth Tax Returns, the records of the Augmentation Office, the Great Sessions Gaol Files, various wills, and the Census Returns of 1841 and 1851. Other items include a notebook containing an analysis of the Census Returns of parishes or hamlets in the hundred of Neath, 1801- 1951; a minute book of a branch of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds, meeting at the Vaughan Arms, Resolven, 1894-9; records of the Prince Llewelyn Lodge of the True Ivorites (Cwmavon and Neath district), including printed rules, a bank book, 1894-1908, an account book of members' contributions, 1904-37, annual returns, 1929-36, annual statements of accounts, 1833-7, and miscellaneous correspondence, receipts, and papers, 1913-38; correspondence with secretaries of friendly societies in 1957, asking for information concerning lodges formed in the Neath district; a report (printed) of Samuel Dobson on the Glyncorrwg coalfields, 1859; a complete file of Home News, a bi-monthly newsletter sent to the men and women of Resolven serving in H.M. Forces, 1939-45, of which D. D. Herbert was editor for most of this period; copies of Traethodau hanesyddol ar Ddyffryn Nedd by Rev William Williams, Hirwaun, and William Williams ('Carw Coch'), and of Traethawd ar Gywreinedd, Hynafiaeth a Hen Bendefigion Glynn Nedd, by Taliesin Williams ('Taliesin ab Iolo Morganwg'). Mynegai Cilybebyll

CZECHOSLOVAKIAN BOOKS 1965040 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr G A Hughes, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of twenty books in Czech and mainly published in Prague (Dept of Printed Books), including works by Antonin Dvorak, Jan O. Fischer, Josef Hrabak, Leos Janacek, and others.

H J HUGHES, HARLECH 1965041 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H J Hughes, B.A., Harlech. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Papers (bills, receipts, insurance policies, etc.), 1861-1944, mainly of Griffith Roberts, Ynys Farm, Dyffryn, Llanenddwyn, co. Merioneth, farmer (d. 1916), and Hugh Roberts, also of Ynys Farm, Dyffryn. Griffith Roberts appears to have moved to Dyffryn from Trawsfynydd in 1910. The papers include a rent-book of Ynys (Ynys Gwrtheyrn), Dyffryn, 1910-44, agreements relating to the use of land at Dolgain, Trawsfynydd, and a sheepwalk or sheepwalks called Llech Idris and Gelligain in the parish of Trawsfynydd by the War Department before the First World War, a few items of correspondence including a letter, 1911, from J. Pugh, Blaenlliw, Llanuwchllyn, statements of account relating to (?) Penystryd Congregational Chapel, Trawsfynydd, 1902-3 and 1907-9, and letters of administration of the estate of Griffith Roberts, 1916.

R GWENDOLEN WILLIAMS 1965042 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr T W Hughes, Tregynon, per Mrs. Hughes. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A bronze figure depicting 'The Flower' by R. Gwendolen Williams (1870-1955) (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

HUGH BLAKER 1965043 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs T W Hughes, Penrhyn Bay, Llandudno. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of drawings, photographs, and other material relating to the artist and collector Hugh Blaker (Dept of Pictures and Maps), including original sketches by him in various media of portrait heads and other subjects; photographic copies of paintings and pencil studies; and a file of papers relating to the exhibition of his collection of modern French art at various galleries in 1933.

POSTAGE STAMPS 1965044 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Geoffrey C S Ingram, Cardiff, per Col. H. Morrey Salmon, C.B.E., M.C., D.L., Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An album of British Empire postage stamps (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

MARRIAGE SERVICE SHEET 1965045 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Richard G Jenkin, Hayle. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy of the marriage service sheet, in Cornish, at Perran-ar-worthal Church, of Miss Susan Laura Chapman, Falmouth, and Mr. Malcolm Francis Joseph Smith, Ponsanooth, 3 October 1964 (NLW MS 17743E).

BUTCHERS' LEDGER 1965046 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr D P Jones, Cardigan, per Mr David Jenkins, M.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A ledger, 1877-95, of Messrs. Morgan & Sons, butchers, 21 High Street, Cardigan (NLW MS 18876E).

DORA HERBERT JONES 1965047 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Dora Herbert Jones, B.A., Tregynon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of photographs of Welsh celebrities and of groups connected with the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, the National Eisteddfod, etc. (Dept of Pictures and Maps)

E BRISBANE JONES 1965048 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr E Brisbane Jones, New Quay, Cards. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A wages account book of the schooner Catherine of New Quay, 1839-50 (NLW MS 18935B); three exercise books--arithmetic, trigonometry, etc., apparently in connection with navigational studies (NLW MS 18938E); an account book, 1872-82, containing accounts relating to the voyages of the brigantine Sylph (NLW MS 18936D); a miscellaneous account book, 1832-65, with references to the Catherine and other vessels ?of New Quay (NLW MS 18937E); and two printed booklets entitled Rules and Regulations of the New Quay Mutual Ship Insurance Society, 1876, and New Quay, Cardiganshire, Being a Brief History . . ., 1913 (Dept of Printed Books).

JACK JONES 1965049 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor Gwyn Jones, C.B.E., M.A., Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy of Jack Jones's autobiography, Me and Mine (London, 1946) (No 227). A copy of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English language (London, 1827) given to the donor by the late Caradoc Evans, and of Le Antichita di Ercolano, 6 vols. in 4, published in Rome, in 1789 (Dept of Printed Books). Nodiadau Schedule Available.

DR IORWERTH HUGHES JONES 1965050 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Iorwerth Hughes Jones, Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of lino-cuts and drawings by Ernest Morgan, Swansea borough architect, c. 1937, including Harlech, Pembroke, and Kidwelly castles, the churches at Nevern, Llanrhidian, and Llanrwst, and a portrait of David Lloyd George (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

JACK JONES 1965051 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Jack Jones, C.B.E., Rhiwbina. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Typescript copies of 'The Boy on the Old Men's Corner', a short story, and 'One More Spring', by the donor (No's 189-92). Nodiadau Schedule Available.

AGRICULTURAL ADJUDICATIONS 1965052 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John Jones, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cards. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscript and typescript adjudications by the donor on green crop competitions organised by the Mid-Aeron Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 1926, the Cardigan and District Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 1947-50, the Aberystwyth and District Agricultural Society, 1849-51, and the Lampeter Agricultural Society, 1950 (NLW MS 18927E).

CARICATURE MAP 1965053 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Emrys Jones, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of the caricature map 'Dame Venedotia, alias Modryb Gwen', designed, engraved, and published by Hugh Hughes, and printed by A. Miller, Liverpool (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

K IDWAL JONES 1965054 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs K Idwal Jones, B.A., Caerwys. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Three watercolour drawings by an unidentified artist, c. 1820, of 'Pontycovin, Caernarvonshire', 'Pont Aberglaslyn', and 'Pont y Prydd ' (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

M A SPRAKE JONES 1965055 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Miss M A Sprake Jones, Carmarthen, per Mr C H Porter, Carmarthen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A selection of pictures from the donor's collection and including portraits of, and pictures by, members of her family (Dept of Pictures and Maps). They include: A self-portrait in oils of William Jones (1839-1931), the donor's father, Principal of Carmarthen School of Art. A watercolour portrait of the donor as a young girl, by her brother, Harold Jones (1877-1911), Egyptologist. Portraits in oils of the donor's brother, Harold Jones and Cyril Jones, by Ernest Lloyd. Paintings in oils and watercolours by the donor and by her father, brother, and mother, Mrs. Marianne Jones (1848-1929).

M CHARLES JONES 1965056 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs M Charles Jones, Colwyn Bay, per Mr E O Jones, Old Colwyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Oil paintings of Tanycastell, Dolwyddelan, the birthplace of John Jones, Talysarn, and Tanycelyn, Trefriw, the birthplace of Evan Evans, 'Ieuan Glan Geirionydd', by Samuel Maurice Jones (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

THOMAS JONES, TREALAW 1965057 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W Rosser Jones, Trealaw. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of the donor's father,Thomas (Tom) Jones (1871-1938) of Trealaw, including 'A Short History of Treherbert' (NLW MS 19538C) by Tom Jones and a draft of, and correspondence, 1934, relating to his work on 'The Place Names of Cardiff [Parishes of St. Mary and St. John]' (NLW MSS 19539-40C), the substance of which was published posthumously in the South Wales and Monmouth Record Society Publications series, No. 2 (1950), pp. [5]-65. Other items include a memorandum, October 1925, submitted by the East Glamorgan Monthly Meeting ('Cyfarfod Misol Dwyrain Morgannwg') of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists to the Departmental Committee appointed by the President of the Board of Education to inquire into the position of the Welsh Language, and a pamphlet entitled Adroddiad Pwyllgor yr Iaith Gymraeg ('Cyfarfod Misol Dwyrain Morgannwg'), [1926] (NLW MS 19545E). A selection of Welsh books and pamphlets from the library of Tom Jones (Dept of Printed Books), including Rheolau Cymdeithas y Chwiorydd, Gelli Dawel, Rhondda, 1824, Detholion gwobrwyawl idd eu hadrodd mewn cyfarfod yn nghapel y Bedyddwyr, Dinas, Hydref 1, 1852, and Prwygraifft (programme) Eisteddfod Soar, Dinas, ... Medi 14, 1863.

J JONES-DAVIES 1965058 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend J Jones-Davies, B.A., R.D., Trecastle. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Two volumes of typescript transcripts from churchwardens' accounts, vestry minutes, probate inventories, and other records of, or relating to, the parish of Llywel, Brecknockshire (NLW MSS 18879-80C).

WILLIAM PROBERT 1965059 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs D R Knight, Andover, per Mrs B Horley, Llandaff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A volume in the hand of William Probert (1790-1870), Unitarian minister, Walmsley, containing English translations made in 1863 from The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales (NLW MS 18944B). $A

ANTHONY A LEACH 1965060 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Anthony A Leach, Chatham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of over 300 photographs illustrating European art, architecture, and scenery, 1895-1905, collected by the late Charles Johnson, C.B.E., M.A., F.S.A. (Dept of Pictures and Maps)

WILLIAM LEWIS, MERTHYR TYDFIL POLICE FORCE 1965061 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A W Lewis, Loughborough. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A group of papers of the donor's father, Inspector William Lewis (1879-1963), relating to his enlistment in 1908 in the new Merthyr Tydfil Borough Police Force (NLW MS 17743E).

`BRITHGOFION NEWYDDIADURWR' 1965062 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs J D Lewis & Sons, Ltd., Gomerian Press, Llandysu1. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Additional chapters of the holograph manuscript of 'Brithgofion Newyddiadurwr' by the late William Eames, currently serialised in Y Genhinen (NLW MS 17442B).

LLANGYNOG PARISH COUNCIL 1965063 Ffynhonnell / Source Llangynog Parish Council, per Mr W Davies, Llangynog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Records of the 'Meibion Cynog' (Sons of Cynog) Friendly Society, Llangynog, co. Montgomery. They comprise two minute-books, 1862-75 and 1875-1907 (NLW MSS 18912-13C); three steward's books, 1846-58, 1859-82, and 1882-1913 (NLW MSS 18914-16D); three registers of contributions, 1858-75, 1875-95, and 1895-1912 (NLW MSS 18917-19E); two cash-books, 1858-85 and 1887-1913 (NLW MSS 18920-1D); four books of sick pay certificates, 1894-7, 1901-5, 1905-10, and 1910-12 (NLW MS 18922A); and two sashes. The earlier of the two minute-books contains some loose papers including printed balance-sheets for 1905-6, 1908-9 and 1909-10.

A R LLEWELLIN-TAYLOUR 1965064 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A R Llewellin-Taylour, M.A., F.R.S.A., F.R.G.S., Kensington. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Petitions, 1794-5, of debtors confined in gaols in London, Bristol, etc.; correspondence, etc., 1822-5, relating to the West Indies (politics; manumission of slaves, etc.), including a letter from Geo[rge] Canning to [Lord] Granville; the appointment, 1830, of Col. George James Reeves, K.H., to be Lieutenant Governor of the town and garrison of Placentia, Newfoundland; and correspondence, 1958- 9, relating to the donor's gifts to St. Peter's Hall, Oxford. A group of fifty-four deeds and documents, 1566-1832, relating to properties in cos. Northants, Somerset, Middlesex, Wilts., Lincoln, and Northumberland. An interesting group of the following French documents:- an extract, 4 Sept. 1755, from the registres de Parlement, decreeing in the establishment of a Charity School in the parish of Siesne les rougis; an acknowledgment, 25 January 1783, of Nicholas Louis Dartagnol before the court of Sedan respecting the sale of a house in that town; a commission, 22 July 1758, to Claude Louis de Louvain to be a lieutenant in the army; a commission, 16 October 1787, to Louis Germain de Louvain to be a second- lieutenant in the army; a letter, 26 April 1711, from the Marquis de Tarazena, addressed to 'Monseigneur', protesting against a decision of the council of state not to pay him the wages due to him; a letter, 6 January 1764, to M. Ie Comte de Thorane, appointed second in command of the army at S. Dominique, from a M. de Tarsfield, asking him to send him news of S. Dominique and enjoining him to take care of his health; a letter, written on 22 September 1796, from General Castelverd to his wife [or mistress?], Pauline, about the birth of a son, containing interesting news of the campaign in Germany and of the death of General Marceau; a letter (n.d.) from Ernest de Roux to the Minister of the Interior, soliciting a post in his ministry; a letter, 24 November 1805, from Marshal Soult to Marshal Berthier, the Minister of War, requesting the incorporation of a company into the Corsican battalion; a letter, 19 May 1807, to the Empress Josephine from a person who signs himself 'Frederic', concerning the birth of a child to her son, Eugene de Beauharnais, the viceroy of Italy; a letter, 23 August 1807, from Robert Campbell to le Comte d'Antraigne concerning matters of a social and personal nature; a letter (n.d., the date 13 January 1849 has been written in pencil) from A. Humboldt [Alexander von Humboldt, the German naturalist and explorer], expressing his thanks to M. de Cailleux, the director general of museums; a letter (n.d.) from Victor Hugo thanking his correspondent for his sympathy; letters, 1866-74, from Louis d'Orleans [Duc de Nemours] to M. de Cailleux concerning the acquisition and insurance of pictures, invitations to dinner, etc; a group of letters and papers, 1807-78, concerning the family of Augustin Richer, who was an officer in the Hussars and had held various administrative posts in the army of Napoleon, being a nephew of Marshal Lefebre, and who, like his uncle, became reconciled later to the royalist regime, including besides letters of a personal character correspondence relating to the award to him in 1814 of the Order of the Lily and the title of Chevalier de l'ordre de St. Louis in 1817, certificates of the death of Richer in 1833 and of his wife, Marie Rose (nee Glasser) in 1847, a certificate of option of Auguste Charles Richer, their son, born in Alsace in 1810, to assume French nationality, and finally a letter from A. Bachord, 14 November 1878, addressed to 'M. Ie Senateur', in support of the application of his sister-in-law, Mlle. Louise Richer, to keep a tobacco shop in the neighbourhood of Troyes in compensation for the loss of this privilege in Obernai in Alsace, instancing her father's distinguished services under the first Emperor and the fact that she was a grand-niece of Marshal Lefebre. There are also two letters in Italian, one from Garibaldi, 24 March 1864, thanking the people of Malta for their welcome, and the other, 13 August 1898, from Queen Maria Isabella of Spain to her niece, acknowledging receipt of a letter, with comments on the misfortunes of the day; a testimonial in German, 18 August 1547, in favour of a pastor Schmid of Nuremburg; a letter in Latin, 1674, by Caspar Saggitarius, respecting a manuscript of Johan Heinrich Boecler; a panegyric written in Latin by C. Arnold of Nuremburg; and copies of various inscriptions in Latin and Italian. A group of twenty-one deeds of Devonshire interest, 1428-1766, mainly relating to properties in the parish of Sutcombe, but also concerning lands in Abbots Bickington, Bradworthy, Grawley, Milton Damarel, Pancrasweek, Virginistow, and West Putford; four deeds, 1768-1804, referring to plantations in the island of Tobago; a conveyance, 1815, for £357. 10. 0 of an undivided moiety in thirteen slaves; an appointment, 1813, by the Earl of Mulgrave of John Forbes Huppell to be a clerk of the cheque on the establishment of the ordnance at Newfoundland; and a miscellaneous collection of letters, receipts, and notices, 1950-61, relating to the donor's membership and support of the Wild Life Protection Society of South Africa. A number of mid-nineteenth century albums containing a variety of topographical prints, engravings, and sketches, caricatures, and satirical, humorous, and sporting prints and sketches, etc., and several coloured posters published by the Department of Nature Conservation, Cape Province Administration, depicting wild life (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mr. Llewellin-Taylour has again proved to be one of the most munificent friends of the Library in both the number and the quality of his gifts to the Department of Printed Books. For many years his donations have enhanced the Library's holdings of incunabula and modern books and periodicals, and with characteristic generosity he has this year presented over 200 books (Dept of Printed Books). Among them may be noted a 1505 edition of Thomas a Kempis's De imitatione; Magna Carta cum aliis antiquis statutis . . ., 1531, A profitable book treating of the lawes of Englande by John Perkins, 1586; a 1557 edition of Epistolae obscurorum virorum; Thomas Stapleton's Antidota evengelica contra horum temporum haereses . . . (Antwerp, 1595), in contemporary German binding with blind-stamped tooling and panels; A Latin Prayer Book printed in London in 1574; works by Thucydides (Basle, 1540); Cicero (Venice, 1550); Paulus Orosius (c. 1520-40); Nicholas de Grouchy, 1555; and Richard Streinnius (Geneva, 1559). Among publications of more recent date are a French Prayer Book of 1689; a Dictionnaire militaire (Paris, 1758); The speech of Edmund Burke on American taxation, 19 April 1774 (4th edition, 1783);... a detailed narrative of the assassination of the Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval . . . 11th May 1812, and The Trial of J. Bellingham . . . for the said murder; and Samuel Sharpe's Description of the Egyptian Court erected in the Crystal Palace by Owen Jones, architect, and Joseph Bonomi, sculptor (London, 1854). Two interesting items on account of their association with the donor's family are a copy of the 1827 edition of The Holy Bible which belonged to Mrs. Eliza Llewellin and contains manuscript notes and newspaper cuttings of family events, and The Book of Common Prayer (Oxford, 1845) which belonged to Lord John Taylour, and also containing notes of family events. In addition there are numerous modern publications concerned with the preservation of wild life in which the donor is actively interested, and several books dealing with the First World War.

J H LLOYD (`PERYDDON') 1965065 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J H Lloyd ('Peryddon'), Bala. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of Friendly Society and other records, including a rules and account book of 'Cymdeithas Gyfeillgar Gwragedd Llandderfel a Llandrillo', 1836-46 (NLW MS 18946B), and a register of 'Cymdeithas Gyfeillgar Llanfor', 1861-78 (NLW MS 18947C); a minute book of the Penllyn District of C.M. Sunday Schools, 1874-82 (NLW MS 18948B); sermon notes, 1910; manuscripts of Gruffydd Hughes ('Myfyr y Gadair'), among them being biographies of John Roberts, Llangwm, Thomas Lloyd Roberts, Ysbyty Ifan, Robert Williams, Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, etc. (NLW MS 18949B); and an essay on 'Dylanwad y cyfleusterau teithio a chludo' (NLW MS 18949B); a letter to the donor from William Christmas Jones, Chubut, 1946 (NLW MS 16704E); and Alwen. Rhiangerdd fuddugol yn Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Corwen . . . 1874 (Corwen, n.d.) (NLW MS 18949B).

H J LLOYD-JOHNES 1965066 Ffynhonnell / Source Major Herbert J Lloyd-Johnes, T.D., F.S.A., Coates, Nr. Cirencester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Additional correspondence and papers relating to various public bodies and institutions with which the donor has recently been associated. A selection of books in Polish, and of Polish interest in English, including works by A. Boguslawski, S. Balinski, S. Mackiewicz, A. Slonimski, S. Stronski, and others (Dept of Printed Books). Manuscript estate plans of Trellwyn, in the parish of Llanwnen, 1801, and of Tanyrallt, in the parish of Llanddewi Brefi, 1806 and 1879, and a ground plan of Brongest farmhouse, in the parish of Troedyraur, all in the county of Cardigan (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

W H MAINWARING 1965067 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W H Mainwaring, Oxford. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of pamphlets mainly of economical and Socialist interest (Dept of Printed Books), including items published by the Plebs League, the Bimetallic League, the Labour Pioneer Press of Merthyr Tydfil, and the Socialist Labour Press, Glasgow; and an extensive but incomplete run of Fabian Tracts. Much of this type of material is now scarce, and it is a valuable source for both the political and the social historian of the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The donor was for many years Member of Parliament for Rhondda East, and one of the leaders of the South Wales Miners' Federation in its formative years.

BLAENCONYN BRITISH SCHOOL 1965068 Ffynhonnell / Source The late the Reverend D J Michael, B.A., Tenby. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Imperfect class registers, 1872-82 (with gaps), of Blaenconyn British School, co. Pembroke, conducted by Stephen Williams (NLW MS 18887E).

MONTGOMERYSHIRE COUNTY LIBERAL ASSOCIATION 1965069 Ffynhonnell / Source The Montgomeryshire County Liberal Association, per Mrs C C Wyatt Jones, Newtown. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of Liberal Party publications including a long and very useful run of The Liberal Magazine Vols. 1-38 (1893-1930), The Liberal Year Book, 1905-22, 1924-38, and pamphlets issued between 1904 and 1929 (Dept of Printed Books).

GRIFFITH THOMAS, DELAWARE, USA 1965070 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Beti Morgan, Brynaman. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph letter of Griffith Thomas, a Welsh emigrant from Llanfynydd, co. Carmarthen, written from Delaware U.S.A., 1846 to Thomas Evanes, Spite, Llanfynydd (NLW MS 16704E).

VALUATION OF SHOP GOODS 1965071 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr E T Kinsey Morgan, Rhayader. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A valuation of the shop goods, furniture, etc., of David Jones, grocer, Rhayader, 1897 (NLW MS 18884A).

WILLIAM THOMAS (`ISLWYN') 1965072 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss G Morgan, Pontypridd, per The Welsh Folk Museum, St. Fagans. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Six holograph letters, 1873-8 and undated, from William Thomas ('Islwyn'; 1832-78) to the donor's uncle John Morgan, solicitor, Cardiff (NLW MS 20088B); and an incomplete transcript, in another hand, of elegiac verses entitled 'Morgan'.

IWAN MORGAN 1965073 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Iwan Morgan, M.A., Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A certificate of union of the National School at Llangennech, in the diocese of St. Davids, to the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, 1850 (NLW MS 17743E). A signed pencil drawing by W. Goscombe John of a memorial plaque of the Rt. Hon. John Allan Rolls (1837-1913), 1st Baron Llangattock, a collection of engraved views of Monmouthshire, including a copy of 'Views of Ragland Castle drawn and engraved by W. Westall', engraved portraits of Albrecht Durer, Sir Walter Scott, Benjamin West, etc., a collection of miscellaneous maps of Britain; etc. (Dept of Pictures and Maps)

BOOK OF ESTHER 1965074 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Leonard Owen, C.I.E., M.A., Gerrards Cross. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A nineteenth-century parchment roll of the Book of Esther, written in unpointed Hebrew (NLW Rolls 68). Nodiadau Schedule Available.

WELSH COMMUNITY IN PATAGONIA 1965075 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W R Owen, Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of manuscripts of the Welsh community in Patagonia (NLW MSS 19100B, 19101E). It includes a history of Bethel Independent Church, Gaiman, 1876-1947; a record book of Rev Tudur Evans containing the names of members of Bethel Church, Gaiman, 1915, and of Bethel, Cwm Hyfryd, and of Seion, Esquel, Churches, 1921 and 1930, and the names of children baptised by him, 1915-55; and four photographs, among them one of the pupils of Camwy Secondary School, 1906 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

ARTHUR W WADE-EVANS 1965076 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs M Phillips, Hitchin, Herts. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Papers and note books of her father, Rev Arthur W. Wade-Evans (1875-1964), rector of Wrabness, Essex: Manuscripts and drafts of 'The Emergence of England and Wales', 'The Welsh Annales', 'Gildas and Glastonbury', 'Gildas Badonicus of Glastonbury', and 'The Passing of Roman Britain'; transcripts of Colgan's 'Vita S. David', Gerald's 'Vita S. David', 'Life of St. Cadog' (Ashmole MS. 794), 'Bonedd y Saint' (Hafod MS. 2), Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae, 'Buchedd Margaret Santes' (B.M. Cot. Titus D xxii), and 'Armes Prydain'; translations of parts of the 'Book of Llan Dâv', 'Life of St. Dubricius', Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae', Giraldus Cambrensis's 'Description of Cambria' and 'Itinerary', and 'The Gododin' (by Professor Edward Anwyl); notes on the lives of Celtic saints, early British and Welsh history, Nennius and Gildas, 'Book of Llandaf', manuscripts of 'Lives' of saints, church plate, early bishops of South East Wales, and Pembrokeshire history and language; a volume containing issues of the parish magazines of France Lynch, co. Gloucester (1884-1900), and St. James's Church, Tredegar (1910), The Country Town (Thaxted) (1911), Wales (1911) and Stow Deanery Magazine (1940), photographs of France Lynch, Thaxted, and Stow-on-the-Wold people (1908-12) and a house in Fishguard (1910), family photographs, and notes on France Lynch and its people and on Wade-Evans's career in the church; sermons in Welsh delivered by Wade-Evans at Caergybi (1907) and Llangoedmor (1921); a volume of press-cuttings of articles and letters by Wade- Evans, reviews, and obituary notices; letters testimonial to Wade-Evans, 1906-26; photographs and postcards, including photographs of Goodwick quay, c. 1895; printed matter consisting of off-prints, advertisements of books, proofs, pamphlets, proofs of Owen's Pembrokeshire corrected by Egerton Phillimore, press cuttings, and reviews; and photostats (mostly of manuscripts in the National Library of Wales). An extensive group of letters to A. W. Wade-Evans, and some letters to Mrs. Florence M. Wade- Evans. At the time of his retirement from the rectory of Wrabness Rev A. W. Wade-Evans invited the Library to select whatever books it required from his very extensive library, except for certain annotated volumes which he wished to retain during his lifetime. These have now been received as a part of his daughter's donation.

EVAN AND RACHEL LEWIS 1965077 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Charles R Pope, New York, U.S.A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Two holograph letters, 1844-5, from Evan and Rachel Lewis, Bridgend, to their daughter-in-law Mrs. Jane Lewis, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, U.S.A. (NLW MS 16098E)

MINISTERS' ACCOUNTS 1965078 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Anthony Powell, C.B.E., M.A., The Chantry, Near Frome. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Photocopies of ministers' account of the commote of Swydd Buddugre in the cantref of Maelienydd, co. Radnor, 15-16 and 18 Richard II, in the Public Record Office (S.C.96 1209/16 and S.C.6. 1209/2) (NLW Facsimiles 137).

KNIGHTON BANK-NOTE 1965079 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Cecil Price, Kingsland, Herefordshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A five guinea bank-note of the Knighton Bank, 20 March 1792 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

`THE WREXHAM AND ELLSMERE RAILWAY' BY M R C PRICE 1965080 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr M R C Price, Newcastle, Staffs. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy of an essay by the donor on 'The Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway' (NLW MS 17743E).

AMOS EDWARDS, MUSIC BOOK 1965081 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss M Pugh, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A volume of Amos Edwards, January 1849, containing poetry by him, 1843-9, and speeches by him to the Peterborough Debating Society, etc., 1849(NLW Misc Records 368), and a nineteenth-century music book containing marches, airs, etc. (NLW Misc Volumes 129)

IVOR M PURDEN 1965082 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Ivor M Purden, Sutton Coldfield. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Probate of the will of Mary Lloyd of Aberystwith, widow, relict of Evan Lloyd of the same, master mariner, 1840 (NLW Deeds 1214); a pension ticket of John Lloyd, Aberystwyth, master mariner, 1854 (NLW Misc Records 184); and a photograph of Aberystwyth Harbour, c. 1900-4 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Aberystwyth

J SEYMOUR REES 1965083 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs A Seymour Rees, Seven Sisters. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Additional material from the library of the donor's husband, the late Rev J. Seymour Rees, Seven Sisters. It includes typescript collections of 'Cyfansoddiadau sydd yn fy modloni i' and 'A short anthology of the world's greatest Christian prayers' (NLW MS 19384B); three scrapbooks of typescripts and newspaper cuttings (NLW MSS 19385A, 19386B, 19387C); a typescript copy of 'Casgliad o gyfarwyddiadau i wneuthur hen fwydydd nodweddiadol Gymraeg' by Miss Mati Thomas ('Mati'r Ddôl'), Nanternis, New Quay (awarded the prize at the Treorchy National Eisteddfod, 1928) (NLW MS 19383B); Evan Thomas: Galareb S. Griffiths o Horeb (Castellnewydd-Emlyn, 1960), and J. Lloyd Williams: Byd Natur (Caerdydd, 1924) (Dept of Printed Books). A holograph letter of David Jones (1856-1937), Aberdare, afterwards Independent minister at New Quay, co. Cardigan, and at Scranton, Pa., U.S.A. (NLW MS 18866E, No 246C); and a printed postcard to the donor from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, [March 1965], acknowledging a message of sympathy and good wishes (NLW MS 16726A).

GLANMOR REES 1965084 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Glanmor Rees, New Quay, Cards., per Mr D B Evans, New Quay. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Two navigational exercise books belonging respectively to David Rees of Gilfach-yr-halen, near Aberaeron, 1854-5 (NLW MS 18941C), and Thomas Rees of Gilfach-yr-halen, afterwards of Glasfryn, New Quay, c. 1862 (NLW MS 18942D).

DAVID ADAMS 1965085 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend D J Roberts, B.A., B.D., Cardigan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A group of manuscripts, typescripts, and printed matter from the library of David Adams (1876-1962), Independent minister, Llechryd. It includes an autobiography entitled 'Bras-gamau fy mywyd' (NLW MS 18897E); 'Ymgom Ddychmygol rhwng Diwinydd a Gwyddonydd, yn arddangos y berthynas rhwng Crefydd a Gwyddoniaeth', submitted for competition at the Liverpool National Eisteddfod, 1929 (NLW MS 18898C); an essay on 'Cenhadaeth Poen', 1924 (NLW MS 18899C); 'pryddestau' on 'Rhosydd Moab', submitted for competition at the Bangor National Eisteddfod, 1943, and 'Pwy a'm Gwared i?', and other poems (NLW MS 18899C); addresses on 'Crist a'n Hoes ni', delivered to the Three Counties' Association at Cardigan, 1948, and 'Iachawdwriaeth', delivered at Cilgwyn; newspaper cuttings ('Pla'r Tystebau', etc.) pasted on the leaves of a volume of early reminiscences of David Evans as a farm servant; a duologue entitled 'Ar y Wraig mae'r Bai' by Ebenezer Rees, London, 1897 (NLW MS 17743E); a printed sermon on 'Yr Ysgol Sul' by David Adams, Tywysydd y Plant, August 1940, containing a biography and photograph of David Adams, printed poetry including Penillion Coffadwriaethol John Morris . . . Gwernllwyn, Dowlais by Mrs. Kate Adams, 1917, and Can Newydd i'r D.D. by 'Gwallter Ddu', 1906, and a copy of John Davies ('Siôn Gymro'): Llethi: Afonig Llanarth . . . (1868) (Dept of Printed Books).

PWYLLGOR CANMLWYDDIANT GENI O M EDWARDS 1965086 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr E C Roberts, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Files of correspondence, minutes, circulars, and accounts, 1958-60, of the Committee of the Centenary of the Birth of Owen Morgan Edwards.

WYNNE-FINCH (VOELAS) 1965087 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr E W Roberts, Pentrefoelas. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description The minute book, 1964-5, of the local committee of the Wynne-Finch (Voelas) Golden Wedding Celebration (NLW MS 18939A).

HENRY PARRY JONES 1965088 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs G Roberts, Dorchester, and Mrs D Andrew, Ottawa. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Letters and papers of the donors' father, Henry Parry Jones, M.A. (1880-1964), headmaster of Llanrwst County School from 1920 until his retirement in 1946. They include a draft of the essay on 'Athroniaeth Eucken yn ei pherthynas â seiliau Crefydd' for which H. Parry Jones was awarded a prize at the Bangor National Eisteddfod, 1915, with a letter from Professor W. J. Roberts, one of the adjudicators; a paper on 'Shakespeare and the Welsh' delivered to Newport Literary Society c. 1916; 'Darbwyllo Tom Morgan', a translation by H. Parry Jones of a one-act play by Herbert Bloye, O.B.E. ('Bringing it home to Mr. Chibley'); testimonials from [Sir] Owen M. Edwards, Professor W. J. Gruffydd, [Sir] John Edward Lloyd, Mrs. G. P. Hopkin Morris (afterwards Lady Hopkin Morris), J. Trevor Owen, [Sir] J. Rhys, and [Sir] Ifor Williams; translations into Welsh of a number of hymns and other poems, with letters from E. H. Jones, editor of The Welsh Outlook, 1928, Owen Williams, Eglwys Bach, 1938, and W. S. Gwynn Williams, 1940; lecture notes and notes for addresses; and adjudications by H. Parry Jones, including one on translations of Homer's Odyssey, Book VI, into Welsh prose, a subject set for competition at the Cardiff National Eisteddfod, 1938.

GEORGE REES, FISHGUARD 1965089 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Gomer M Roberts, M.A., St. Dogmaels. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A volume of sermons, largely in Welsh, 1844-54, by George Rees (1795-1870), schoolmaster and Independent minister, Fishguard (NLW MS 20057A).

JOHN WILLIAMS (`IOAN AP GRIFFITH') 1965090 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs S Francis Roberts, Bontnewydd, Caerns. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A volume of poetry, partly by John Williams ('Ioan ap Griffith'), Rhiwbryfdir, Blaenau Ffestiniog, a brother of Rev Griffith Williams, Talsarnau (NLW MS 12855A).

R G ROBINSON 1965091 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R G Robinson, C.B.E., F.R.S.H., Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Three manuscripts handed down to the depositor by his mother, Lady Robinson, and originally belonging to her grandfather, Thomas Bevan ('Caradawc y Fenni'), one of the founders and first secretary (1833-9) of the famous Abergavenny Welsh literary society called 'Cymreigyddion y Fenni'. The first of these manuscripts is an autograph book, which also contains numerous photographs and engravings and a few letters and newspaper cuttings (NLW MS 12353D). The autographs and portraits are of distinguished Welshmen, men of letters and prominent figures in eisteddfod circles. The autographs were collected mainly at eisteddfodau, 1858-81, though signatures of prominent personages collected before this period have been pasted in. The book is well indexed and as it contains notes on, and pseudonyms of, many local bards, it is a useful work of reference. Among the several hundreds of autographs collected may be mentioned those of H. A. Bruce, Crawshay Bailey, Thomas Charles, Bala, Richard Davies ('Mynyddog'), Thomas Edwards ('Caerfallwch'), Robert Ellis ('Cynddelw'), Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), Howel Harris, Joseph Harris ('Gomer'), Dean Howell ('Llawdden'), John Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog'), Joseph Hughes ('Carn Ingli'), Hugh Hughes ('Tegai'), Rev John Jenkins, Morlaix, Brittany, John Jones ('Tegid'), John Jones ('Mathetes'), John Jones ('Talhaiarn'), John Emlyn Jones ('Ioan Emlyn'), Owen Wynne Jones ('Glasynys'), Richard Robert Jones ('Dic Aberdaron'), Lewis William Lewis ('Llew Llwyfo'), Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, Sir Charles Morgan, bart., David Owen ('Brutus'), Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai'), Robert Parry ('Robin Ddu Eryri'), Benjamin Price ('Cymro Bach'), Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc'), Professor Rice Rees, Jonathan Reynolds ('Nathan Dyfed'), John Roberts ('Ieuan Gwyllt'), Thomas Stephens, Merthyr, Thomas Thomas, principal of the Baptist College, Pontypool, William Thomas ('Islwyn'), Henry Vincent, London, David Williams ('Alaw Goch'), John Williams ('Ab Ithel'), Morris Williams ('Nicander'), Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Mon'), and Thomas Williams ('Gwilym Morganwg'). Among the photographs and engravings are included those of Thomas Bevan ('Caradawc'), Thomas Edwards ('Twm o'r Nant'), John Elias, Christmas Evans, John Evans (the Elizabethan astrologer), David Griffiths, Nevern, Joseph Harris ('Gomer'), Owen Jones ('Owain Myfyr'), Theophilus Jones, the Brecknockshire historian, John Jones ('Ioan Emlyn'), John Jones, ('Talhaiarn'), William Ellis Jones ('Cawrdaf'), Lewis Morris ('o Fon'), William Owain Pughe, Robert Parry ('Robin Ddu Eryri'), Joshua Thomas, the Baptist historian, Micah Thomas, William Williams ('Gwilym Peris'), and Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'). The other two manuscripts are scrapbooks containing an interesting collection of newspaper cuttings, printed notices, and a few manuscript letters assembled by 'Caradawc' (NLW MSS 12354-5F). The bulk of the cuttings, covering the period 1831-63, are taken from periodicals and local newspapers such as Monmouthshire Merlin, Merthyr Guardian, and Seren Gomer, with occasional extracts from English periodicals. They deal in the main with political, social, and cultural events of local and national interest; there are also frequent notices and reports of local eisteddfodau, particularly those of 'Cymreigyddion y Fenni', theatre notices, obituaries of notable Welshmen, letters to the press on subjects of Welsh cultural interest, poems in English and Welsh, and verses in praise of local gentry and commemorating topical events, etc. Items meriting special mention are a printed appeal, dated 22 August 1832, entitled Anerchiad at Genedl yr Hen Gymru oddi wrth Cymreigyddion Caerludd, being an eloquent plea for the use of the Welsh language in the lawcourts; a printed appeal in Welsh under the caption Cymmru, Cymmro, a Chymmraeg, 16 November 1840, sent out by 'Caradawc' to members of 'Cymreigyddion y Fenni', of which he had then ceased to be a member, appealing to them to elect to the committee of the 'Cymreigyddion' patriotic Welshmen who would rescue the society from the control of the English element and safeguard the interests of the Welsh language in accordance with the original intentions of the founders; and a full report of the opening of the Crumlin viaduct which appeared in the Hereford Times, 6 June 1857.

INDUSTRIAL RECORDS OF RHOSLLANNERCHRUGOG INTEREST 1965092 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Emlyn Rogers, M.A., Johnstown. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A group of industrial records of Rhosllannerchrugog interest. It includes an account book of Rhosllannerchrugog Miners' Association, 1879-96 (NLW MS 18957C); a minute book of 'Undebwyr Rhosllannerchrugog', 1889-96 (NLW MS 18958C); a contributions book of Hafod-y-bwch Colliery workers, 1880-3, with minutes, 1885-8 (NLW MS 18959C); two minute books of Hafod-y-bwch Colliery workers, 1894-7, 1900-2 (NLW MS 18960C); and an account book of the Wrexham, Buckley, Chirk, and Mostyn branches of the North Wales Enginemen's Protection Association, 1901-11 (NLW MS 18961C).

DR MICHAEL P SIDDONS 1965093 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Michael P Siddons, Llanddewi Fach, Croesyceiliog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Typescript transcripts by the donor of the parish registers of Tredunnock, 1695-1837, and Kemeys Inferior, 1701-1813.

R G THORNTON 1965094 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R G Thornton, Shalbourne, Wilts. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Coloured aquatints of Hafod, Cardiganshire, Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, and Pencerrig, Radnorshire, from James Baker: A Picturesque Guide through Wales (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

CHARLES W TRAYLEN 1965095 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Charles W Traylen, Guildford, Surrey. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript music book containing airs and dance tunes (reels, hornpipes, waltzes, etc.) (NLW MS 20067A). The volume is described as 'Mr. W. S. Clark's Old Music Book' and bears the name 'Willm. Thos. Lewis, Mardy, Aberdare, July 22 [18]69' [i.e., 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghennydd]. William Southern Clark was mining agent for the Marquis of Bute's estate in South Wales. A manuscript volume containing notes on mechanical and railway engineering, c. 1842-59, transcribed largely from printed sources, with some references to machinery at various ironworks, etc., in South Wales (NLW MS 20068B). Pasted inside the volume are a slip with the words 'Wm. Lewis's Book, 1823', and a letter, 1826, from Wm. Lewis, Duffryn, to Thomas Bevan. There is also a label bearing the name of 'Thomas W. Lewis, Plymouth Iron Works, Merthyr-Tydfil'. Thomas William Lewis was the father of William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghennydd.

A J VAUGHAN 1965096 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss A J Vaughan, Woodstock, Pembs., per The Reverend Richard H D Williams, M.A., Woodstock. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An account book of expenses incurred in the building, 1839-48, and in the repairing, 1861, of Rehoboth C.M. Chapel, Hakin, co. Pembroke (NLW MS 18871A); a servants' account book of John Vaughan, Junior, of West Farm, Walton East, Clarbeston Road, co. Pembroke, 1873-7; and the probate of the will of Rev Thomas Vaughan of St. Twinnells, clerk, 1838 (NLW Deeds 1213).

L WATTERS 1965097 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr L Watters, Belfast. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A group of twenty-three deeds and documents of the family of Hugh Lewis (d. 1850), mariner and subsequently shopkeeper, of Amlwch, co. Anglesey. It includes deeds relating to properties in Amlwch, 1810-1920; a copy will of Margaret Prichard of Llechog Isaf, Amlwch, widow, 1784, and probates of the wills of Hugh Lewis, Amlwch, 1850, William Lewis of 16 Glenallen Street, Belfast, retired Inland Revenue officer, 1896, Richard Lewis of Fron, Amlwch, 1879, Griffith Hughes of Brynteg, Amlwch, retired pilot, 1883, and Mary Hughes of Fron, Amlwch, widow, 1895, and legacy and succession duty accounts, 1865-1902; and a map of Maes-y-llwyn Isaf [otherwise Fron, parish of Amlwch], surveyed by Wm. Francis, 1817. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

EZEKIEL THOMAS 1965098 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Beatrice E Williams, M.B.E., Wrexham, per Mr D Morgan Rees, M.A., Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts of Rev Ezekiel Thomas (1818-93), pastor of Ebenezer Calvinistic Methodist Church, Llwynbrwydrau, Llansamlet, Glamorgan, including two volumes (ff. 236-339, 371-437) containing an incomplete essay on (?) the history of the parish of Llansamlet (NLW MS 18929B), a notebook (ff. 1- 41) containing 'Cip-olwg ar Hanes Sir Forganwg' (NLW MS 18930B), and a commentary (ff. 1-168) on Chapters I-VIII of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans (NLW MS 18931D).

R BRYN WILLIAMS 1965099 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R Bryn Williams, M.A., Llanbadarn-fawr, Cards. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A miscellaneous group of late nineteenth and early twentieth century essays and poetry of local interest submitted for competition at literary festivals at Brynaerau, Bwlan, etc., in Caernarvonshire (NLW MS 18933E). The collection derives from the family of Cefnhengwrt, Llandwrog.

W H WILLIAMS, PRESTATYN 1965100 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend W H Williams, B.A., Prestatyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Poetry sent to the donor by Rev R. Meirion Roberts, Lockerbie, and Rev Abel Ffoulkes Williams, Llwyngwril, 1945, together with a letter explaining the occasion of their composition, and a sonnet in English by Miss M. Rees, a mistress at Grove Park School, Wrexham (NLW MS 16799D).

WORCESTER RECORD OFFICE 1965101 Ffynhonnell / Source The County and Diocesan Archivist, Worcester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A catalogue of the Harward and Evers (Stourbridge) archive in the custody of the donor.

VOCABULARIUM BIBLIAE 1965102 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A fourteenth-century vellum manuscript of English provenance containing a Latin text of the Vocabularium Bibliae or Dictionarium Biblicum or Summa super difficilia Bibliae, i.e., an explanation in dictionary form of obscure words in the Bible, by William Briton (Breton) (ob. 1356), a comparatively unknown British theologian, who has been described in turn as a Franciscan and a Cistercian, and who is said by John Bale, bishop of Ossory, 'apparently by a guess', to have been a Welshman (see D.N.B., Vol. VI, p. 359) (NLW MS 18952C). The volume consists of 104 leaves, measuring approximately 258mm. by 192mm., written in double columns, 41 to 45 lines to each column, with a marginal catchword for each entry, a large red and blue decorative capital with extensive red and blue marginal penwork for each successive introductory letter of the alphabet, and alternate red and blue initial letters for successive dictionary entries. The first page is slightly rubbed, and original flaws in some leaves have been carefully avoided by the scribe. The text is incomplete at the end, lacking all entries after 'Thorus'. The volume is bound in eighteenth century calf, rebacked and repaired, with two metal clasps and catches. On the first fly-leaf are the inscriptions '49. Dictionarium Biblicum', 'Summa Britonis super difficilia Biblie', and 'Dictionarium Biblicum', and on the inside upper cover the signature of 'Tho. Martin', i.e., Thomas Martin (1697-1771), known as 'Honest Tom Martin of Palgrave', an antiquary who owned a large collection of manuscripts, some of which he sold in 1769 and the remainder were dispersed after his death. The present work does not appear to have been published in its entirety, but specimens from it were printed by A. M. Bandini in his Catalogus codicum Latinorum . . . Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae, Vol. IV, pp. 213 et seq, and by Ducange in the preface to his Glossarium ad Scriptores mediae et infimae Latinitatis. A complete, but slightly abridged, version of the text, written c. 1400, is contained in NLW MS 3090. The Friends of the National Library of Wales contributed £80 towards the cost of this manuscript.

TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE TENISON MSS ETC 1965103 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A volume of transcripts, from the Tenison MSS. at Lambeth Palace and other sources, of correspondence, etc., 1593-1729, relating to the family of Morgan of Llantarnam, co. Monmouth (NLW MS 18924E); an early eighteenth century volume of holograph sermon notes of Rev Thomas Richard (1783-1856), Calvinistic Methodist minister, Fishguard (NLW MS 18925A); and an album containing two autograph letters and two telegrams from Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, Viscount Emlyn, 1892, and press cuttings, 1901-22, relating to the charitable activities of Messrs. Henry Studt and Sons, amusement caterers, Swansea (NLW MS 18926D).

BALA THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE 1965104 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Two items from the Bala Theological College Library: A composite volume containing imperfect copies of Gerard Lei(i)gh: The Accedence of Armorie (London: Henrie Ballard, 1597), and John Monipenny: The Abridgment or summary of the Scots Chronicle [sic] (n.d.), an imperfect copy of George Owen Harry: The Genealogy of the high and mighty Monarch, James ... King of great Brittayn; etc. (London: Simon Stafford for Thomas Salisbury, 1604] in which some of the plates are wanting and pp. 63-7 have been supplied in manuscript, with some extra pages containing manuscript additions (the genealogy of Thomas Price of Llanvylling, gent. (b. 1627), and Jane Vaughan, his wife), a copy of Robert Vaughan: British Antiquities revived (Oxford: Hen. Hall for Thomas Robinson, 1662), and an imperfect copy of [William Camden, Reges, reginae, nobiles et allii in ecclesia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti, usque ad annum 1606 (Londini, 1606)] (NLW MS 18972B). The volume came from the library of Principal T. Charles Edwards and contains the signatures or names of Robt. Saunderson, May 27, 1811, Jane Vaughan, and Charles Saunderson, 'Siarl Wyn o Benllyn'. A small manuscript volume of Welsh verse (part of a kind of interlude, etc., written or transcribed c. 1761], now in a fragile condition and wanting a cover (NLW MS 18973A). The contents correspond, with minor differences, to pp. 1-34 of Thomas Williams: Mynegiad yr Hen Oesoedd (London, 1761), concluding at stanza 150 with the following note: 'y chwaneg or Hanes yn Canlyn yn Rif 2 llyfr nesa. William Hughes 1761.' (cf. also NLW MS 838 B and Bangor MS 92, pp.53-63]. At the end of the volume are miscellaneous entries of Anglesey interest ('Dangosiad pa flwyddyn o Oed Crist y bildwyd Eglwysydd sir Fon') and a list of incumbents of the parishes of Llanddeusant and Llanfechell to about 1750.

SURVEY OF THE MANOR OF SENGHENNYDD 1965105 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A volume containing a (?) late nineteenth century copy of a survey of the manor of Senghennydd [co. Glamorgan], 13 August 1630, with typescript insets including a rental of the estates of Sir George Herbert, Kt., in co. Glamorgan and elsewhere in 1545, and an account of rents due to Thomas Herbert, esq., an infant, in Swanzey and elsewhere [in co. Glamorgan], 1717-18 (NLW MS 18885E); a volume containing a copy of evidence, mostly historical, produced on behalf of the Marquis of Bute in an action whereby he sought to restrain the Corporation of Cardiff from interfering with the bed of the tidal portion of the river Taff at Cardiff (c. 1894), with an inset containing translated extracts from the findings of a jury of inquiry concerning lands subject to the overflowing of the sea, held at Cardiff in 1637; and a copy, made by J. S. Corbett, the Bute Estate Office, Cardiff, for Sir William T. Lewis, in 1894, of a letter sent by William Gamage from Lanedain to William Herbert of Cogan pill [co. Glamorgan], (?) sometime between 1618 and 1627, to accompany 'a little poor gift . . ., the A.B.C. of our ancient, copious, learned British tongue'. The writer of the letter tries to persuade the recipient to learn 'our worthy British'. Mynegai Swansea

VOLUME OF PRAYERS ETC 1965106 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A bound volume containing A Briefe concordance, or table to the Bible of the last translation . . . Carefully perused and enlarged by Mr. John Downame; (London: Printed for N. Bourne and R. Young, 1642), with over 100 manuscript leaves of the second half of the seventeenth century inserted between the title-page and the first page of the concordance (NLW MS 18934B). These pages contain prayers in English and Welsh and notes on works by various authors including [William] Lyfford [sic], [Richard] Baxter, and Wm. Annand. The concordance bears the names of Rob: Goodwynn, Da: Maurice, c. 1653-5, and John Bunyons. At the end of the volume is one folio (?ccxl) from a printed work entitled (?) Tractatus Clausularum.

EDWARD HALL 1965107 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A letter, 1688, from [Henry Somerset], 1st Duke of Beaufort, Badminton, to Robert Davis, Esqr., in Denbighshire, in obedience to His Majesty's command to call in all deputations formerly given by the writer (as Lieutenant of North and South Wales); signatures of [Thomas Osborne], Marquis of Carmarthen, 1693, Peregrine Hyde (Osborne), Marquis of Carmarthen, 1715, and [Peregrine (Osborne)], 2nd Duke of Leeds, 1726; a letter, 1745, from Wm. Swymmer, Becks, addressed to Mr. Owen 'at Mold near Northop In Flintshire'; a letter, [17]53, from A. L. Swymmer, Longwood [M.P. for Southampton], to an unnamed correspondent; a letter, 1780, from R. [Lowth], Bishop of London, Fulham, to [John Nichols] (see John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, I, 644); a letter, 1782, from R. Kenyon, Cefn, to an unnamed correspondent; two letters, 1784 and 1796, from Ralph Richardson, Llannerchymor, to his brother, Richd. Richardson, Chester and Capenhurst; a letter, 1788, from [Francis Mathew], Baron Landaff (of Thomastown), Rome, to the Marquis of Buckingham, with draft reply; a memorandum, 1790, by C. [Moss], Bishop of Bath and Wells, of the admission of Rev John Goldesborough, A.B., to the augmented curacy of Redlynch in the diocese of Bath and Wells; a letter, 1791, from [Francis Godolphin (Osborne)], 5th Duke of Leeds, to Mr. Alderman Clark; a letter, 1809, from J. Hertford, London, to an unnamed correspondent (of Ipswich interest); a customhouse note, 1814, from Beaumaris to Liverpool concerning the certificate of registry of the flat Molly; and letters of ordination to the order of priesthood of Frederic Griffith, clerk, A.B., by John [Luxmore], Bishop of Saint Asaph, 1824.

EDWARD HALL 1965108 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Eight letters, 1805, from Sir Charles Morgan, Downing Street, to Mr. Mitchell, Wymondham, Norfolk (cf. Annual Report, 1963-64, p. 42), one or two containing references to Lord Byron in connection with copyhold lands at Wymondham; four letters to Sir William Dundas, bart., Richmond and Llanelly, two from Evan Davies, Dolvor [Newtown postmark], 1826 and 1829, one from Samuel Ware, White Hall Chambers, 1829, and one from John Meredith, Llanbadarn Fynidd, 1833; seven letters, 1827-8, addressed mainly to Hugh Roberts, esq., Mold; fifteen items of legal correspondence, 1835-44, addressed to Thos. Dalton, solicitor, Cardiff, including one letter from William Cox, Governor, Swansea, [Gaol], 1840, and one from Robert Crawshay, Cyfarthfa, 1844; and seven letters, 1848-66 and undated, all probably addressed to the Bishop of St. Davids, from Alban T. Davies, Ty- glyn, Lampeter, 1848, Valentine Davis, Carmarthen, [18]48, Rees Price, Brecon, 1848, John Sinnett, Llandyssil, 1851, James Rogers, Broadway, 1865, Thomas Walters, Maenclochog Vicarage, Haverfordwest, 1866, and W. E. Prickard, Rhayader, n.d. Mynegai Llanbadarn Fynydd

EDWARD HALL 1965109 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Miscellaneous and largely unrelated letters written by the following correspondents:- (Revd.) Ezra Powell, Trelleck, near Chepstow, 1808, R. Browne, Llangadock, 1821, (Revd.] R. Prichard, Langan, 1821, J. E. Armstrong, Lincoln's Inn, 1830, Messrs. Coutts & Co., London, 1830, Sophia Brownrigg, Hilstone [Monmouth postmark, 1832], Stephen Towgood, Cardiff, 1836, Wm. Bottomley, Bristol, 1836 (copy), I. Thomas, (Ratton), Park Street, [London], 1838, Robt. Finlayson, Postmaster, Arbroath, 1840, W. R. Crotch, Llanberis, [1850], (?) P. Spencer Stanhope, Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, [18]64, Annabella Price, Neath, [18]85, Aug[ust]a [Hall], Lady Llanover, 1864, [George Kenyon], 2nd Baron Kenyon, Gredington, London, and Peel Hall, Bolton, 1811-44 (five-items), Arthur F. G. Leveson- Gower, Pentillie Castle, Saltash, [18]75, Charles [Lloyd], Bishop of Oxford, 1827-8, Charles H[arford] Lloyd, Oxford, [18]85 and [18]88, Edward Lloyd, London and Hove, [?1880], [Edward Pryce Lloyd], 1st Baron Mostyn of Mostyn, 1831 and 1842, Sir Theodore Martin, London and Bryntysilio near Llangollen, 1862-1908 (seven items and a photograph), Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell, Llanfrechfa Grange, Caerleon, 1881, with a holograph poem (undated), C. Lloyd Morgan, University College, Bristol, 1899, Sir G. Osborne Morgan, London, ?1878-89 (four items), Octavius Morgan, London, [18]64, Sir Lewis Morris, London, [18]80, [Edward Mostyn (Lloyd Mostyn)], 2nd Baron Mostyn of Mostyn, 1871, David Christie Murray, Beckenham and Pensarn near Abergele, 1897, [Francis Godolphin D'Arcy (Osborne)], 7th Duke of Leeds, Hornby Castle, 1844 and undated, [George Godolphin (Osborne]], 9th Duke of Leeds, 1887 and [18]90, R. A. Cunliffe, Jodrell Hall, Holmes Chapel, 1872, W. B. Yates, Office of Trade Boards, n.d., R. Skinner, Admiralty, [19]06, R. A. Gibbons, Harrogate, [19]06, Roland E. L. Vaughan Williams, London, 1910, the last five letters forming a group, Arthur T. [Lloyd], Bishop of Newcastle, n.d., R. [Lewis], Bishop of Llandaff, (?) 1901, [John Allan Rolls], Baron Llangattock, London, [1902], [Lt.-Gen. Sir] Francis Lloyd, 1914, [George Ambrose], 1st Baron Lloyd, Eastbourne and London, 1924 and 1934, Evan Roberts [The Revivalist], Loughor, [1906] (postcard), A. G. [Edwards], Archbishop of Wales, 1927 (postcard), and one or two later items.

`ANONYMOUS NARRATIVE OF A TOUR THROUGH WALES' 1965110 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An early eighteenth century 'Anonymous Narrative of a Tour through Wales, by an English Gentleman' (NLW MS 18943B). The volume was in 1827 in the possession of John Farrent (ob. 1832), and was subsequently acquired by his friend William Henry Black (1808-72), antiquary, who largely during the period 1834-45 has added an index to the tour and a so-called Part II containing annotated transcripts, with some translations, of 'monumental and local inscriptions' in England and Wales. The volume also bears the bookplate of Herbert Smith-Stanier, esq., and the 'ex libris' of John L. Marks, Chippendale, Earlswood.

SERMONS IN WELSH AND ENGLISH 1965111 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An eighteenth century volume of sermons in Welsh and English, mostly in Welsh, once in the possession of, and partly in the autograph of, Rev William Price, vicar of Llanrhaeadr-yng- Nghinmeirch, co. Denbigh, 1712-34 (NLW MS 18955B).

ACCOUNT BOOK OF DR JOHN PHILIPPS 1965112 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An account book of Dr. John Philipps, rector of the parish of Burton, co. Pembroke, and of [? his son] John Henry Philipps of Williamston in the parish of Burton, 1787-1838 (NLW MS 18893E). The volume contains accounts relating to the operation of a lighter in Milford Haven carrying culm, stones, timber, bricks, and dung to Newton West, Coedcanlas, Haverfordwest, Blackpool, Black Tar, Pembroke Ferry, Derby, Little Milford, Minwear Kiln, Williamston Pill, Milford, Cowbatch, Guildford, and Cresswell, and the output and sale of limestone from Garron Quarry [in the parish of Lawrenny], 1787-1808; account of Henry Thomas and James Phillips with the daughter of John Philipps, 1781-91; rentals of the estate of John Henry Philipps in the parishes of Begelly, Burton, Langum, Cronwear, [Haroldston], St. Issells, Johnston, Rosemarket, Freystrop, Kilgerran, Llanwnda, Llanychlwydog, and St. Thomas, co. Pembroke, and Llanboidy, Llandissilio, and Llangludwen, co. Carmarthen, 1832; accounts of rents received by John Henry Philipps from John Harvey [agent], 1832- 8; expenditure by Mr. Philipps, 1836-7; workmen's wages, 1827; and payments to annuitants and Miss Philipps, 1835-6. Mynegai Llangwm, Crunwear, Cilgerran.

CERNIOGE 1965113 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A supplementary group of papers relating to the Cernioge Estate. It comprises a few rent receipts, 1756-1816; assignments of sheepwalks, 1827 and 1835; copies of memorial inscriptions and of entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials relating mainly to the members of the Kenrick family; correspondence, 1806-16 and 1827, between James Blair, solicitor, Uttoxeter, and various persons including Thos. Jones, Ruthin, R. H. Kenrick, Nantclwyd, Messrs. Drewe & Loxham, New Inn, Edwd. Jones, Rhos (near Ruthin], S. Humphryes, Chester, T. Jones, London, Messrs. Kenyon & Parry, Wrexham, Hugh Jones, Ruthin, Rob. Nicholls, surgeon, Ruthin, Chas. Potts, Chester, and David Mason, Denbigh; and one or two other items including a copy of a bond, 1800, and two deeds, 1843. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

JAMES WATT, JUNIOR 1965114 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph letter of James Watt, junior (1769-1848), engineer, to A. D. Campbell, Glasgow, 1814 (reference to the attitude of his Welsh neighbours to land enclosure) (NLW MS 16098E).

CASES AND OPINIONS 1965115 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A volume containing cases and opinions, 1817-36, including those relating to the tolls of Cardiff, mineral rights in the borough of Avon, co. Glamorgan, notes of the Swansea Bank, and to the wills of William Lewis of Corzham, co. Wilts,. clerk, Henry Williams of Cardiff, co. Glamorgan, clerk, Walter Evans, a maltster and banker at Pontypool, co. Monmouth, and Philip John, a farmer, who bequeathed £600 for discharging the debt of Zion Chapel, The Hayes, Cardiff. The volume bears the name of T[homas] Dalton, clerk of the peace for co. Glamorgan (NLW MS 18967C).

RICHARD PARRY (`GWALCHMAI') 1965116 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An essay on 'Achosion Llwyddiant ac Aflwyddiant', submitted for competition at an eisteddfod at Bryngwran, Anglesey, May 1842, by 'Agur' [?Rev Richard Parry, 'Gwalchmai', who was awarded the second prize], and a revised and annotated holograph 'awdl' entitled 'Cariad', submitted by Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai') to the National Eisteddfod held at Merthyr Tydfil, 1881 (NLW MS 18945B).

ROBERT OWEN, SOCIALIST & PHILANTHPOPIST 1965117 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Documents relating to Robert Owen [1771-1858], socialist and philanthropist (NLW MS 18894C). They include a draft letter [1834], partly in his hand, to Henry Peter Brougham, baron Brougham and Vaux (requesting the presentation of a petition to the House of Lords from the 'producing classes') (written on the dorse of a letter, 1834, from Rt. Alger); holograph letters, 1830-58, to Robert Owen from H. Brougham (a book mentioned by the recipient), Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, earl of Derby (declining to support a petition), John Scott, earl of Eldon (declining to act on a committee), David Montagu Erskine, baron Erskine (inability to procure an audience for the recipient with the King of Bavaria), Henry George Grey, earl Grey (declining to support a petition), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, marquess of Lansdowne (the recipient's autobiography), F. W. Newman (the recipient's works), and Richard Oastler ('the factory king') (speeches on behalf of the Ten Hours' Bill); and three engraved bills issued by the National Equitable Labour Exchange, 1832-3, authorising the delivery to the bearers of goods to the value of two hours.

MISCELLANEOUS HOLOGRAPH LETTERS 1965118 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph letter from Rowland Williams, Vice-Principal of Lampeter College, to Dr. Moses Margoliouth, 1859, relating to the recipient's engagement by the writer as curate of Broadchalke, near Salisbury (NLW MS 16726A); four holograph letters from Sir Lewis Morris, Penbryn, etc., to Major James Burton Pound, lecture manager, New York, etc., 1897, relating to the arrangements for an American tour by the writer (NLW MS 16726A); and three holograph letters of Sir Lewis Morris, Penbryn, Carmarthen, respectively to [J. H. Smither Jackson], 1902, to the editor of The Morning Post [1905], and to an unnamed lady, 1906 (NLW MS 16726A).

`THE MORGAN MANUSCRIPT' 1965119 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An elaborately bound album lettered 'The Morgan Manuscript. Collected by G.B.M. A.D. 1884-1891', being a collection compiled by G. Blacker Morgan of manuscript and printed matter, and photographs and other illustrations, relating to the family of Morgan of Llantarnam Abbey, co. Monmouth (NLW MS 18940E).

W E GLADSTONE 1965120 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Nine letters from, and on behalf of, W. E. Gladstone to Lady Llanover, 1869-70, with a draft reply and memoranda by the recipient (relating to claimants to the bishopric of St. Asaph), two personal letters from Cath[erine] Gladstone to Lady Llanover, ?1876 and undated (reference to Bulgarian horrors), and 'A list of the poor of the Town and Parish of Monmoth which received my Lord Marques his Almes at the Election of my Lord Herbert to be Burges for the Town aforesaid', 26 March 1677 [corrected from 1676] (NLW MS 16343E). Mynegai Monmouth

JOHN HENRY PULESTON 1965121 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Holograph and autograph letters to Mr (aft. Sir) John Henry Puleston (1829-1908), M.P., from Hugh Owen, 1878, Henry Manners, Foreign Office, 1887 (with an enclosed letter to the writer from Francis Knollys, aft. Viscount Knollys, 1887), Sir John Rhys, 1889, Sir Lewis Morris, 1891-7, W. H. Preece, G.P.O., London, 1892, Arthur James Balfour, 1900, and George J. Goschen, aft. Viscount Goschen, undated (NLW MS 18928B).

PEDIGREE OF JONES, AFTERWARDS HERBERT OF TREOWEN ETC 1965122 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A folio volume, handsomely bound in hard-grained morocco, with elaborate gilt lettering and tooling, containing an emblazoned pedigree of the family of Jones, afterwards Herbert, of Treowen and Llanarth Court, co. Monmouth, extracted from the records of the College of Arms, London, by Charles A. Buckler, Surrey Herald Extraordinary, 1886-1901 (NLW MS 18891F), and a volume entitled 'Newport Coal Account', containing particulars of receipts and shipments, 1874-5 (NLW MS 18892E).

HENRY TOBIT EVANS 1965123 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Holograph and autograph letters written, with two exceptions, to Henry Tobit Evans (1844-1908), schoolmaster, journalist, and author, from E. Pan Jones, 1867, M[ichael] D. Jones, Bala, 1877, J. R. Kilsby Jones, 1879, William Edwardes, 4th baron Kensington, 1882-5, C[uthbert] E. Edwardes, brother of Lord Kensington, 1884; Joseph Chamberlain, 1887, J. Powell Williams, Birmingham, 1887, Roundell Palmer, Viscount Wolmer, aft. 1st Earl of Selborne, 1889, George Henry Arthur Vaughan, 6th Earl of Lisburne, 1890, W. Cornwallis West, Ruthin Castle, 1890, David Davies, Llandinam, 1890, H. Coulson Bond, Llanelly, 1890, Leigh Maclachlan, Liberal Unionist Association, Manchester, 1890, A. J. Balfour, 1892, Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Môn'), 1897, John D. Llewelyn, Penllergaer, 1898, James W. Szlumper, London, 1899, W. Goscombe John, 1910, and George Brooks, Hackney, undated (NLW MS 18882B); a certificate of the admission of Henry Tobit Evans to membership of the Herefordshire and Radnorshire Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1879 (NLW MS 18882B); and a photograph of Joseph Chamberlain (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

ARTHUR LEONARD LEACH 1965124 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of Arthur Leonard Leach (NLW MSS 19400-31), including a typescript of his History of the Civil War in Pembrokeshire (NLW MS 19420D) and Charles Norris (NLW MS 19423C)and material collected for these works (NLW MS 19421D), files of manuscript notes on the history of Tenby (NLW MS 19424C) and the castles of Manorbier and Carew, with illustrations (NLW MS 19431D), notes on the history of Caldey and other places in Pembrokeshire, the Lake District and Weymouth, illustrated with photographs, press cuttings and reviews (NLW MS 19422C), and press cuttings relating to Pembrokeshire folklore and customs (NLW MSS 19425-7C); holograph manuscripts of Liam O'Flaherty's short story 'The Blackbird's Mate' (NLW MS 19403C), W. H. Davies's poems 'Molly' (NLW MS 19480C) and 'The Force of Love', Theodore Francis Powys's short story 'The Bride' (NLW MS 19406C), and Rhys Davies's short story 'Blodwen' (NLW MS 19407C); holograph letters of A. C. Benson, 1904-15, Rhys Davies, 1949, W. H. Davies, 1917-18, Charles Dickens, 1838, C. L. Dodgson, 1882, J. O. Francis, 1936-52, Daniel Jones, 1951, Jack Jones, 1952, Walter Savage Landor, 1838, Arthur Machen, 1946, Guglielmo Marconi, 1902, Liam O'Flaherty, 1926-7, John Cowper Powys, 1949, Arthur Symons, 1916, Connop Thirlwall, 1835, and Dylan Thomas, 1949; signed typescript letters of Walter de la Mare, 1928-30, and Emlyn Williams, and autograph postcards of George Bernard Shaw, 1939 (NLW MS 19417E); an agreement partly in the autograph of Lord Nelson and signed 'Bronte Nelson', 1800; a draft on Messrs. Coutts' Bank written and signed by Charles Dickens, 6 June 1870 (NLW MS 19400D); a manuscript of 'A Peregrination through the Counties of Somerset, Monmouthshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and Shropshire with a portion of South Wales and a Tour of North Wales' by William Joseph Bruce, 1810 (NLW MS 19405C); a manuscript of Charles Dixon's 'The Birds of Our Rambles' (NLW MS 19401C); and a typescript copy (with manuscript additions and corrections) of Arthur Christopher Benson's 'Samuel Pepys' (NLW MS 19404C).

WILLIAM MYRTLE & M E MYRTLE 1965125 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An album of photographs, printed programmes, and press cuttings, with copious annotations, entitled 'Illustrated Sketch on Five Musical Seasons at Llandudno ... 1908-1912', compiled by Wm. Myrtle and M. E. Myrtle, 1912 (NLW MS 20056D).

BOB OWEN, CROESOR 1965126 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An essay by the late Robert Owen, O.B.E., M.A., Croesor, entitled 'Dylanwad y Chwildroad Ffrengig ar fywyd a llen Cymru', submitted for competition at the Caernarvon National Eisteddfod, 1921, under the pseudonym 'Cymro Gwyllt' (NLW MS 19314C). There are some annotations by the two adjudicators, Professor T. Gwynn Jones and (Sir) Ifor Williams. The prize was withheld.

BERTA RUCK: THE IMMORTAL GIRL 1965127 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Berta Ruck: The Immortal Girl (London, [1925]), bound in full calf with gilt tooling by Messrs. Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, with nineteen original water colour illustrations in the text and some manuscript insertions by the author, and with two undated holograph letters by the author loosely inserted; and an undated holograph letter of Augustus John (NLW MS 18954B).

HOLOGRAPH AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS 1965128 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description One holograph letter and one autograph letter of W. H. Davies ('Tramp Poet'), 1919-35 (NLW MS 16343E) , together with a snapshot of the writer and a negative of another, and a holograph letter of Richard Hughes (author of A High Wind in Jamaica), undated (c. 1935) (NLW MS 16343E); and two autograph letters from W. H. Davies to St. John Adcock, novelist, essayist and journalist, 1924 (NLW MS 16343E).

HOLOGRAPH LETTERS ETC 1965129 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Ten holograph letters from Augustus John to Philip Heseltine, 1920-9 (NLW MS 18909D); a copy of the vocal score of Hiawatha's Wedding Feast by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, inscribed by the composer to A. J. Jaeger; with two holograph letters from the composer to Miss Jaeger (NLW MS 18910B); copies of the vocal scores of The Temple, Everyman, England's Pleasant Land, The Blessed Birth, and As with Gladness Men of Old, and the score of Dreaming by H. Walford Davies, all inscribed by the composer to A. J. Jaeger (NLW MS 18911D); fifty-two holograph letters and one postcard from H. Walford Davies to A. J. Jaeger, 1898-1918, and two holograph letters from C. Hubert H. Parry to A. J. Jaeger, 1903-4 (NLW MS 18910B).

J O FRANCIS & VALMAI BURDWOOD EVANS 1965130 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy, with some author's emendations, of J. O. Francis: The Beaten Track (NLW MS 18896D); and a typescript copy of 'A Critical Exposition of Mr. [F. H.] Bradley's View of Truth' by Valmai Burdwood Evans, Somerville College, Oxford (NLW MS 18895E).

ABERYSTWYTH GOLF CLUB 1965131 Ffynhonnell / Source Aberystwyth Golf Club, per Dr B G Charles, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Minute books (five volumes) of the Executive Committee, 1912-59, and a register of members, 1943- 9.

ABERYSTWYTH RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL 1965132 Ffynhonnell / Source Aberystwyth Rural District Council, per Mr Cyrus Evans, Clerk to the Council. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A general ledger of the Rural Sanitary Authority (predecessor of the R.D.C.), 1890-4; eleven general ledgers of the R.D.C., 1895-1932; four parochial ledgers of the R.D.C., 1895-1927; three volumes of financial statements and loan accounts, 1911-29; and a set of parish valuation lists for Tregaron Rural District, 1911. Nodiadau Transferred to Ceredigion RO. List Available.

WELSH BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 1965133 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Emrys Anwyl, Bala. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Typescript and photocopied minutes of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, 1943-9 (NLW Minor Deposits 871B). See also under Mr. J. H. Ball, Rossett.

WELSH BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 1965134 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J H Ball, Rossett. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A second group of typescript and photocopied minutes of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, 1950-60 (NLW Minor Deposits 871B). See also under Mr. J. Emrys Anwyl, Bala.

PLAYBILLS 1965135 Ffynhonnell / Source The City of Bangor Corporation, per The Town Clerk. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of playbills relating to performances at the Gaiety Theatre, Anglesey Castle, Llanfairpwll, directed by Alex Keith, 1901-4 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

BADMINTON 1965136 Ffynhonnell / Source His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O., Badminton, per Dr J Conway Davies, M.A., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Supplementary material comprising rentals and account books of Badminton manors and estates in co. Monmouth, 1631 (1 vol), in cos. Brecknock, Glamorgan, and Monmouth, 1638-40 (1 vol), in cos. Brecknock and Monmouth, 1660-6 (5 vols.), in cos. Glamorgan, Gloucester, and Monmouth and elsewhere in England, 1700-26 (21 vols.), and in cos. Gloucester and Monmouth, 1739-66 (44 vols.); and rentals and account books for the manors of Tidenham and Woolaston, co. Gloucester, 1760-72, 1783-1894 (129 vols.), for the Badminton manors and estates in co. Monmouth, 1760-1894 (135 vols.), for the same manors and estates in co. Monmouth plus the manors of Tidenham and Woolaston, co Gloucester, 1895-1901 (7 vols.), and for the Badminton manors and estates in co. Monmouth, 1902- 31 (30 vols.). Nodiadau Schedule Available.

ALBERT TILLEY 1965137 Ffynhonnell / Source The Dean and Chapter of Brecon Cathedral, per Lieut.-Col F M Pryce, Brecon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A group of manuscripts of the late Albert Tilley, verger of Brecon Cathedral: Exercise books numbered 1-93, together with about fifty more notebooks and exercise books, consisting of voluminous notes on historical, genealogical, and heraldic material relating in the main to the town and county of Brecon. Material has been abstracted from standard works on economic, social, and ecclesiastical history as well as from journals such as Archaeologia Cambrensis, Y Cymmrodor, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Old Wales, The Red Dragon, Bye-Gones, Old Brecon Chips, The Gentleman's Magazine, and Transactions of the Woolhope Society, from rare eighteenth century newspapers such as The Hereford Journal and The Gloucester Journal, from papers of later date such as The Cambrian, The Carmarthen Journal, The Welshman, The Silurian, The Brecon County Times, The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, etc., from the manuscript collections of the National Library of Wales and of the Cardiff Central Library, from the works of the well-known Brecknockshire historians Theophilus Jones, John Lloyd, and Edwin Poole, and the manuscript material of Hugh Thomas, and from an unpublished compilation of the late Miss Gwenllian E. F. Morgan. There are several exercise books filled with notes and sketches relating to the armorial bearings of Brecknockshire families, and extensive transcripts have been made of parish registers and of monumental inscriptions. The accessibility and value of the work are enhanced by the several card indexes and alphabetical guides to the collection. Based on this material are copious notes on various topics and aspects of Brecknockshire history, and pp. 1-50, 63-162, including an index, of a systematic study of Brecon in manuscript, in which the sources are carefully noted. The papers also contain a file of typescript notes concerning the Breconshire Agricultural Society; some historical notes in the hand of John Lloyd compiled in pursuance of his historical researches; a file of notes, transcripts, and correspondence addressed to J. L. Morgan and T. D. Morgan, The Hayes, Cardiff, relating to the parish of Llanfeugan; a manuscript volume, compiled c. 1880, of transcripts of inscriptions, sometimes with additional notes and sketches, of tablets and monuments in Brecknockshire churches and a few Nonconformist chapels, drawings of archaeological remains, etc.; a file of transcripts in pencil of monumental inscriptions in the churches and churchyards of Llansbyddyd, Llansanffraid, Llaneleu, Cwmdu, Crickhowell, Patrishow, and Llanbedr; an alphabetical index of coats of arms of certain Welsh families; a scrap-book of newspaper cuttings relating to the Turco-Greek war of 1897; and a group of eleven deeds, mainly of Brecknockshire interest, 17th-19th cent.

DIOCESE OF SWANSEA AND BRECON MISCELLANEA 1965138 Ffynhonnell / Source The Registrar, Diocesan Registry, Brecon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Deeds and documents relating to Holy Trinity Church, Swansea. They include two assignments of subscription, 1843; a nomination of trustees, 1843; a petition for consecration (with plan) and sentence of consecration, 1843; and case and oninion touching the conveyance of the site, 1845.

TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH, CARMARTHEN 1965139 Ffynhonnell / Source The Officers of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Carmarthen, per the late Mr T J Evans, M.B.E., Clunderwen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A Sunday School register and account book, 1842-?9, and a collecting-book towards the new meetinghouse, 1845 (NLW Minor Deposits 873-4A).

DENBIGHSHIRE LAND TAX ASSESSMENTS 1965140 Ffynhonnell / Source HM Inspector of Taxes, Inland Revenue, Colwyn Bay. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Land tax assessments, 1946-7, 1947-8, 1948-9, in the parishes of Abergele, St. George, Bettwsyn- Rhos, Garthewin, Llanfair Talhaearn, Eglwysbach, Garthgarmon, Gwytherin, Llanddoget, Llanddulas, Llanelian-yn-Rhos, Llangerniew, Llanrwst, Llansantffraid Glan Conwy, Marchaled, Marthebrwyd, and Ty Brith, in the division of Uwchdulas, co. Denbigh; and a register of land tax redemption and notification of surplus tax, 1927-49.

E W WILLIAMSON, BISHOP OF SWANSEA & BRECON 1965141 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Canon E T Davies, M.A., Llangibby Rectory, Usk. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Over 500 autograph sermons, 1915-53, of Right Rev E. W. Williamson, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, and a dissertation entitled 'The Psychological Phenomena of Solitude and Crowd in Relation to Religious Experience and their value for the Church', 1916.

DAVIES, GREGYNOG & MONTGOMERY COUNTY NURSING ASSOCIATION 1965142 Ffynhonnell / Source The Executors of the late Miss Margaret S Davies, LL.D., Gregynog, per Colonel E C Powell, Newtown. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A group of ledgers, cash books, journals, letters, etc., of the family of Davies of Llandinam and Gregynog. These are not available for consultation for a period of ten years except by consent of the Hon. Islwyn Davies, Berth-ddu, Llandinam, or failing him the Hon. Edward D. G. Davies. Manuscripts and papers, 1909-58, of the Montgomery County Nursing Association, including minute books, ledgers, registers of nurses, correspondence, and annual reports of district associations and annual reports of the Montgomeryshire Infirmary, 1905-11.

NOTES OF SERMONS PREACHED AT HEBRON CHAPEL, LLANGLYDWEN 1965143 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W J Davies, Hebron, Whitland. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A volume in the hand of L. Davies containing notes of sermons preached at Hebron Chapel, parish of Llanglydwen, co. Carmarthen, and in neighbouring chapels and homes during the years 1828-31 and 1837 (NLW Minor Deposits 870B).

ASHBURNHAM 1965144 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Richard F Dell, B.A., Sussex County Archivist, Lewes. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An addition to the Ashburnham archive in the National Library of Wales, being a tithe rent charge account book for the parish of Pembrey, co. Carmarthen, 1895-1905 (No 2168). Nodiadau Schedule Available.

GLANDOVAN 1965145 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Helen Dew, Guernsey. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An additional group of the records of the family of Gower of Glandovan and Castle Malgwyn, parish of Cilgerran, co. Pembroke, supplementing the group described in the Annual Report for 1957-58 and consisting of: Manuscript volumes. These include one belonging to Robert Gower containing letters by him to Matt. Bascome, Robert Patrick, and Henry Tucker concerning the transport of goods to Bermuda, 1796, copies of songs and verses, and an extract of the will (1814) of Sir Erasmus Gower; a diary, 1863; a game book of Erasmus Gower (shoots at Barnbarroch, co. Wigtown, etc.), 1878-80; a note book of Robert Frederic Gower containing notes on travel on the continent, the Marquita and New Granada Mining Company, gold and silver mining, mining contracts and mines in Spain, 1848-54; an inventol of linen, addresses, recipes, etc., 1848-52; a bank book of Miss S. A. G. Gower, Clynderwen, 1876-95, a letter book of R. F. Gower and Erasmus Gower (business in Madrid, Granada, Mexico, Valencia, etc., slate quarries, the Dutch Rhenish railway, electioneering at St. Clears, 1868, Narberth Road Church, etc.), 1867-71; and a statement of the affairs of A. A. Gower, Nephews and Co., 1847. Estate papers. They include title-deeds of land in the parishes of Dinas, co. Pembroke, and Henllan Amgoyd and Llanboidy, co. Carmarthen, 1648-1717; rentals of lands in Cilgerran, Cardigan, Penlan, Llechryd, and Clynderwen, 1787-1884; a case on the marriage settlement of John Lloyd of Trevach, co. Pembroke, and Ruth, his wife, 1749; particulars of sale of the Taliaris estate, co. Carmarthen, 1832, and the Castle Malgwyn estate, co. Pembroke, n.d.; lists of the mortgages of A. A. Gower, Glandovan, 1834; an inventory of documents relating to the Clynderwen and Glanrhyd estate of A. A. Gower and the Castle Malgwyn estate- material relating to drainage on the Clynderwen estate, 1856-60; notes on rents, 1871-4, the sale of Pontvane, co. Pembroke, and other accounts. A bill of costs of Mr. Gower, Glandovan, 1791; an account of Lettis Gower with Evans and Lewis (sale of Brynrhogfan), 1791; accounts of R. F. Gower, 1845-57; receipts, 1853-5; accounts of the sale of timber on the Taliaris estate, 1832, and of the sale of books by Capt. E. W. Gower at Sotheby's, 1928. Genealogical and family history material. This consists of pedigrees of the families of Gower, Stedman, Vans Agnew of Barnbarroch, co. Wigtown, Fraser, Dunlop, Steward, Lewes of Gernos, and Vaughan of Glandovan; extracts from wills, copies of memorial inscriptions, and extracts from parish registers relating to the Gower family; papers relating to the will of Abel Anthony Gower of Finsbury, merchant,1837; probate of the will of Erasmus Lewis, rector of Bettws Bledrus, co. Cardigan, 1744; commissions of Erasmus Gower, 1856-71; and a copy will of Richard Gower of Tenby, 1828. Industrial and business records:- documents and correspondence relating to the Cefn Quarries at Cilgerran, co. Pembroke, including an agreement, 1869, and share certificates in the Cefn Quarries Syndicate Ltd., 1895, and an undated report by James W. Szlumper on the disposal of waste at Cilgerran quarries; correspondence on brickmaking and building at Llanfallteg, 1861-2; railway records, including share certificates in the Oxford and Great Western Union Railway Company, 1837, prospectuses of the South Wales Railway, 1844, and the Whitland and Cardigan Extension Railway, 1877, and other documents and correspondence relating to these railways and the Swansea Vale Railway Company, the Great Western Railway, and the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway Company, 1847-83, an opinion on shares in the European Central Railway Company, 1869, share certificates in the Dutch Rhenish Railway Company, 1864, share certificates of Robert Frederic Gower and Erasmus Gower in Spanish Five Per Cent Perpetual Annuities, 1836, the New Rosario Silver Mining Company, the Aberdare Merthyr Steam Colliery Company, 1874, and the Agricultural and Horticultural Association, 1870-4; correspondence and other documents connected with the business and financial interests of the Gower family, mainly in Spain, including a contract of co-partnership between John de Larrard and Anthony Gower of Barcelona for continuing the business of the house of De Larrard and Co., 1792, articles of agreement between Louis Tassin de Messilly of Paris on one part and William Lees and Samuel Oviatt on behalf of William Lees, Messrs. Williams and Co., and Messrs. Henry Usborne, Benson and Co., of London for the liquidation of claims on the Spanish Government, 1828, various items concerning a loan to King Charles V of Spain and the liquidation of claims against the Spanish government, 1828-36, the decision of the Royal Commission against the parties entered in the Guipuscoan Claims, 1832, against France (for the forced supplies with which they furnished the French Republican Army in the province of Guipuscoa, Spain, during the war of 1793), Madrid, 1832, papers relating to the business affairs, estate, and accounts of Jose Augustin de Lizaur of London, merchant, including interests in Montevideo, South America, 1838-41, and letters (many in Spanish) from numerous correspondents in London, Paris, Madrid, Montevideo, etc., 1823-67. A good collection of family correspondence, 1791-1889. Miscellaneous documents, including a notice (copy) by Abel Lewis Gower, Castle Malgwyn, against a threat on the weir at Llechryd Bridge by Rebeccaites, 1884, school essays by Erasmus Gower with school reports, 1844-7, an elegy to the memory of Lord Hugh Seymour, an account of the return of General [Augustin de] Yturbide from England to Mexico (July 1824) and of his capture and death, 1825, papers relating to the estate of Professor James Murray, Toronto, and Rev Robert Murray, 1865- 73, and notes on the sugar estates and trade in Mauritius, 1846-8. Printed material (Dept of Printed Books), including copies of M. B. Honan: The Court and Camp of Don Carlos (London, 1836), and Sketch of a Genealogical ... Account of the Family of Vaux, Vans or De Vallibus, printed by Wilmot, Pembroke (post-1755). Mynegai Henllan Amgoed, Trefach, Betws Bledrws Nodiadau Group II. Preliminary Schedule in first box.

T E ELLIS 1965146 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T I Ellis, M.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A group of forty-one holograph and autograph letters, with enclosures, and three telegrams, 1893-7, from Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of Rosebery, Foreign Secretary and subsequently Prime Minister, to Thomas Edward Ellis, M.P., Chief Government Whip. Five of the letters are written and/or signed by N. Waterfield. Among the enclosures are holograph letters, 1896, from M. M. Pattison Muir, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Sir Edward Grey, afterwards Viscount Grey of Fallodon, and W. Martin Conway, afterwards 1st baron Conway of Allington. Accompanying the letters is a memorandum, 17-18 December 1902, relating to their custody, by and in the hand of [Sir] Robert A. Hudson. An address based on these letters, and entitled 'Premier and Chief Whip', was delivered by the depositor to the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion on 18 November 1964. Nodiadau No's 3704-58. Schedule Available.

HAROLD T ELWES 1965147 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Harold T. Elwes, Somerton, Somerset. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A supplementary group of thirty-nine deeds and documents, 1526-1788, relating to properties in the townships, towns, and parishes of Bewmarres, Bryngoycha, Castell Bulchwyn, Penheskin, Penmynydd, Pwligwingill, Tourgarw, Trefrayn, Treffos, and Trevorion, co. Anglesey, Bodsillin, Tregwirrithion, and Llanllechid, co. Caernarvon, Llanrhayeder, Lleweny, and Denbighe, co. Denbigh, Overton Forreinge and Overton Villa, co. Flint, and Festiniock and Gwernevel, co. Merioneth. Mynegai Beaumaris, Bodsilin, Llanrhaiadr, Denbigh, Ffestiniog

OLWEN CARADOC EVANS 1965148 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Olwen Caradoc Evans, Conway. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Five holograph letters and one holograph postcard, 1958-60, to the depositor from John Cowper Powys, Blaenau Ffestiniog (formerly NLW Minor Deposits 882A, now NLW ex 2128); and a typescript draft, with manuscript emendations, by H. V. Morton of the text of This is Rome (1960) (formerly NLW Minor Deposits 884B, now NLW ex 2129).

JOHN WILLIAMS, BANGOR 1965149 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs M Farmiloe, Bredon, nr. Tewkesbury. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Notes of lectures on the theory and history of music delivered by the depositor's father, John Williams, F.R.C.O., of Bangor; manuscript music, including original compositions by the said John Williams and copies of works by other composers; and a photocopy of a typescript letter signed by [the Right Hon.] D[avid] Lloyd George at No. 10 Downing Street, September 1918, and addressed to Major Crawshay, D.S.O.

CILGWYN 1965150 Ffynhonnell / Source Captain Charles G Ll Fitzwilliams, D.L., Newcastle Emlyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A supplementary group of manuscript volumes of the Cilgwyn estate. They include rentals, 1791-1912; ledgers, 1882-1936; wage accounts, 1881-1936; a cash book, 1883-7; tithe accounts, 1887-93; letter books, 1825-1934; diaries, 1822-1926; ships' log books, 1893-7; Acts of Parliament relating to salmon fisheries, 1861-88; abstract of title, 1627-1832; valuations, etc., relating to a partition of the estate, 1831-3; notes of E. C. Lloyd Hall, esq., arbitrator in cases relating to the Pembrokeshire election of May 1831; a list of voters, etc., in the Marylebone election, 1832; verse relating to the South Wales and other circuits, 1845-7; music books, c. 1830; and a copy of a work on the history of anatomy, (?) 1754. A folio volume bound in calf and entitled 'Maps of the Kilgwyn Estate', containing seven large-scale field plans on vellum by Richard Jones, 1773, of properties held by Thomas Lloyd, Esq., in the counties of Cardigan and Carmarthen. The maps are in colour, with decorative cartouches, and the accompanying reference schedules give field names, land utilization, and acreages. A number of loose maps and plans of a later date relating to the estate. Mynegai Cilgwyn Nodiadau Group II.

ACCOUNT BOOK OF PHILIP PUGH 1965151 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr S M George, B.Sc., Pwll, nr. Llanelly. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An account book of Rev Philip Pugh (1679-1760), Blaenpennal, co. Cardigan, Presbyterian minister, containing memoranda, 1725-51, relating to rents, servants' wages, money lent and due, money borrowed or owing, books lent and borrowed, etc (NLW Minor Deposits 872A). The properties specified include Cwmbedw lands [Llanina and Llanarth], Bryn y croye, Ty'n y mynydd, Tan y garreg, Bryn y wichell, and Hendre, all in Blaenpennal, and Ty'n y clawdd [? Llangeitho]. Mention is made, among others, of the writer's sons, D[avid], Philip Pugh, and John Pugh, his uncle M[organ] Pugh, his brother D[avid] Pugh, and his mother and her tenants, and in 1730-1 there are references to a school. The persons to whom books were lent include 'Roderig Davies of Rhos diau', 'Lewis Price of Lanavan', 'Mr. Evan Davies', Mr. Timothy Davies', 'Mr. Daniel Rowlands' and the 'Revd. Mr. John Thomas'. One note, afterwards crossed out, reads 'March 1729/8 [sic] I reced from Mr. Chr Samuel by Wm. Atkins twelve books calld Golwg ar Destament Newydd to be sold for twelve [sic] a piece disposd of as followeth'. There is also a tide table for Traeth mawr and Traeth bychan. Some of the entries in this volume, as in the diary of Philip Pugh (NLW MS 17934A), are in shorthand.

CARREG-LWYD 1965152 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Gregory, Rowcliffe & Co., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Two manuscripts of the Carreg-lwyd estate in cos. Anglesey and Caernarvon, being a rental with insets, 1826-35, and an agent's account book, 1857-64.

FLINTSHIRE UNITED TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION 1965153 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend W J Griffiths, Aberavon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Five minute books of the United Temperance Association of Flintshire from its formation in 1909 until 1960 (NLW Minor Deposits 877-81A).

HENRY W T LL HOWELL 1965154 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Henry W T Ll Howell, Capel Evan, Newcastle Emlyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A common-place book of Caroline Howell, Glaspant, Capel Evan, 1829; a tune book of John Thomas, 1830, containing hymn-tunes (?) copied by David Thomas, Cilast; a volume containing fishing accounts of H. W. T. Howell, Glaspant, 1856-61, and game accounts, 1856-81; farm and rent accounts, 1867-83; a diary, 1896; a rental of the Glaspant estate, 1901-15; and the account of C. L. E. Morgan Richardson, trustee to the will of Erasmus Reginald William Lloyd, deceased, 1929-39.

JEFFREYS & POWELL 1965155 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Jeffreys & Powell, Brecon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Fifty-eight deeds and documents, 1811-1929, relating to properties in Llangors, co. Brecknock, and Llangyfelach, co. Glamorgan. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

E D JONES & M E JONES 1965156 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr E D Jones and Mrs M E Jones, Banc-y-ffordd, Llandysul, per Messrs James Jones, Son, & Francis, Llandysul. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Eleven deeds and documents, 1769-1891, relating to Penpistyll Ucha, Penpistyll Isaf, and other properties in the parish of Llangeler, co. Carmarthen. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

R W JONES (`ERFYL FYCHAN') 1965157 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R W Jones, M.A., F.R.Hist.S., ('Erfyl Fychan'), Mynytho. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A copy in three volumes of the depositor's thesis on 'The Wayside Entertainer in Wales in the Nineteenth Century' submitted for the M.A. degree of the University of Liverpool (typescript); Particulars of the Proceedings at the Eisteddfod . . . to be held at Welsh-Pool . . . September . . . 1824 under the auspices of the Cymmrodorion Society in Powys (printed); 'Journal of Capt. Charles Compton Parish as a French Prisoner of War, 1794-1795' (typescript); manuscript notes entitled 'Gwerslyfr y Delyn Deir-res' by Ellis Roberts ('Eos Meirion'), 1858, with exercises and airs for the harp; a transcript made in 1783 by William Owen [Pughe], from a [manuscript] volume in the possession of Owen Jones ['Owain Myfyr'] in London, of Aneirin's Gododdin; and a note-book containing manuscript entries, newspaper cuttings, etc., being patrons' appreciations of the harp and violin playing of John Roberts ('Telynor Cymru', 1816-94) and members of his family.

HERBERT STANLEY JEVONS 1965158 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs R Konekamp, Newport, Pembs. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A supplementary group of manuscripts and printed matter from the library of the depositor's father, Professor Herbert Stanley Jevons (see Annual Report, 1962-63, p. 56). It includes material towards The British Coal Trade (1915) and Money, Exchange, and Banking in India (1922); an imperfect unpublished work entitled 'The Future of India'; manuscript, typescript, and printed articles and lectures, and files containing articles, correspondence, etc., on various subjects, such as 'A Systematic Nomenclature for Igneous Rocks', 'Instructions for the Determination of the Rockforming Minerals in Thin Sections with the aid of the Parallel Light alone . . .', 'A Cardiff Harbor Trust', 'Electricity for London', 'A Glance at Melanesia', 'How to make Wales a Nation', 'The Housing Bill, 25 July 1914', 'Housing Reform Movement in South Wales' (and others on the subject of housing), 'State Aid to Industries', 'Town Planning and Industrial Development', 'Town Planning for Landowners', and on aspects of the development of Burma ('Education Committee', 1924, 'Labour Bureau', 1925-7, 'Oil', 1928, etc.), India ('Currency and Commission', 1919-27, 'India's Future', c. 1930, 'India's Part in the War', 1918, 'Indian Economic Policy', etc.), and Indore State ('Customs Documents', 1919-20, 'Development Board', 1918, 'Direct Importation', 1919, 'Electric Scheme', 1919-20, etc.); letters to the press on 'The Neutralisation of Adrianople', 1913, 'Prayers for China', 'Naval Expenditure', 'Agricultural Labourers', 'The Nationalisation of Wales', etc.; and a few miscellaneous notes. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

LEE, BYGOTT & ECCLESTON 1965159 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Lee, Bygott & Eccleston, Wem, per Miss Mary C Hill, M.A., Shropshire County Archivist. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Deeds and documents, 1897-1902, relating to houses in the town of Aberystwyth, co. Cardigan (NLW Minor Deposits 624B).

N LEWIS, BOURNEMOUTH 1965160 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss N Lewis, Bournemouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A supplementary group of family papers comprising a bank-book, 1858-69, of Rev Roger Edwards (1811-86), Mold, with a typescript note concerning the family of Roger Edwards, and a small notebook bearing the name of [Sir] Henry Lewis, Belmont, Bangor, containing family genealogical notes by Thomas Lewis, M.P., Sir Henry Lewis, his son, and the depositor, together with a few loose papers.

ANGLO-WELSH REVIEW 1965161 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Roland Mathias, M.A., B.Litt., Inkberrow, Worcs. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Files, 1961-5, relating to Nos. 28-34 of The Anglo-Welsh Review edited by the depositor. They contain correspondence (No. 28); correspondence and original copy (No. 29); correspondence and part of copy (No. 30); correspondence and original copy (No. 31); and correspondence, original copy, and galley-proofs (Nos. 32-4). These records are to be regarded for a period of five years as a temporary deposit, and they are not available for consultation during this period without the consent of the editor at the time. Thereafter the records will be converted into a permanent deposit. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

MARRIAGE SETTLEMENTS OF WILLIAM HENRY THOMAS 1965162 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Meade-King & Co., Bristol, per Miss Elizabeth Ralph, City Archivist, Bristol. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Two marriage settlements, 1843-73, of William Henry Thomas of Aberystwyth, co. Cardigan (NLW Deeds 808-9).

MONTGOMERYSHIRE COUNTY RECORDS 1965163 Ffynhonnell / Source Montgomeryshire County Council, per Mr P E White, Clerk of the Peace and Clerk of the County Council. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A supplementary group of county records (cf. Annual Reports for 1953-4 and 1954-5): Quarter Sessions Records. Thirteen court files for various sessions in the years 1746-8, 1850-1, and 1853, filling gaps in the series for 1719-1925 already deposited; seven order books, covering the years 1833-64 and 1870-1913; and a volume of fines, amercements, and estreats, 1844-91. Plans deposited with the Clerk of the Peace. London and North Western Railway: Shrewsbury to Newtown line and Oswestry branch, 1852-3, and Llanidloes and Newtown railway, 1852. Poor Law Union Records. Llanfyllin Union:- parochial ledger, 1871-6, and papers and correspondence relating to the transfer of property of Poor Law Unions following the 1929 Act. County Council Records. Council minute books, 1889-1906; Standing Joint Committee minute books, 1889-1925; Local Government Committee minute book, 1889-1929; a register of documents given under the common seal, 1889-1955; minute books and letter books of the Agricultural Committee and other committees dealing with agricultural matters, 1879-1947 (including the committee set up under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act in 1879); minute books, registers, etc., of the Licensing Committee, 1906-32, Penstrowed Quarry Committee, 1910-45, Valuation Committee, 1927-49, Rating Appeal Committee, 1929-45, Air Raid Precautions Committee, 1938-41, and other minor committees; and miscellaneous papers and documents from the County Treasurer's Department, relating mostly to public mortgages, 1900-32. Deeds. A conveyance of part of the Gregynog estate to Montgomeryshire County Council in 1910, and associated with this some 120 earlier deeds relating to the parishes of Penstrowed, 1660-1828, Llanwyddelan, 1785-1862, Forden, Betws, and Berriew, 1678-1741, Forden, 1815-69, and Llanllwchaearn, 1768-1802; some forty deeds relating to the Glascoed estate, parish of Meifod, 1701- 1870; a conveyance of land associated with rebuilding New Bridge Einion, parish of Meifod, 1877, and conveyances of toll-houses in the parishes of Llandysul, Llanllwchaearn, and Newtown, 1885- 1900. Coroner's records. Records for 1948-57. Nodiadau Transferred to Powys RO, Llandrindod 11/12/1990.Microfilm copies of Quarter Sessions Order Books, enclosure awards and deposited plans available.

PEDIGREE OF RICHARD PARRY 1965164 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss M S Priestley, Sutton St. Nicholas, Hereford. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description An emblazoned pedigree roll of the family of Richard Parry (son of Dr. Richard Parry, bishop of St. Asaph) and his wife Mary (third daughter of Thomas Mostyn, esq., who was second son of Sir Thomas Mostyn of Mostyn) (NLW Rolls 103). The roll was collected and made by Randle Holme of the city of Chester, alderman and deputy of the Office of Arms, 13 July 1626. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

GREAT SESSIONS 1965165 Ffynhonnell / Source The Keeper of Public Records, Public Record Office, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description The deeds relating to Wales extracted from classes Wales 29 (36 items) and Wales 31 (Boxes 5A, 5B, 6, 7A, and 8); and a notebook of bills filed, etc., in the Brecon Circuit, 1704-7 (OBS 822). Nodiadau Great Sessions 29, 31, 10/20. Schedule Available.

LLANFAIR CAEREINION BAPTIST CHURCH 1965166 Ffynhonnell / Source The Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire Baptist Association, per The Reverend T Joseph Morgan, Rhayader. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Records of Llanfair Caereinion Baptist Church (NLW Minor Deposits 885-90A), including a rough daily account book, 1879-1905, two members' subscription books, 1887-1906, a minute book, 1905- 26, a receipts and disbursements account book, 1906-27, and a Sunday School minute book, 1910-18; and an account book of the Welsh Baptist Temperance Society (secretary, Samuel Ellis, Llanfair Caereinion), 1893-1911.

YR EISTEDDFOD GENEDLAETHOL 1965167 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John Roberts, North Wales General Secretary, The Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of literary and musical compositions and adjudications, and noms-de-plume, of the Royal National Eisteddfod, Llandudno and District, 1963.

CILGYNNYDD (LLANGELER) 1965168 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr P and Mrs A G J Szulejko, Llangeler, per Messrs James Jones, Son & Francis, Llandysul. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description Six title-deeds, 1751-91, and one manuscript map, 1841, of Cilgynfyddfach otherwise Kilgynith and specified parcels of land in the parish of Llangeler, co. Carmarthen.

BETHANIA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, LLANNON, CARMARTHEN 1965169 Ffynhonnell / Source The Officers of Bethania Congregational Church, Upper Tumble, per The Reverend J Gwilym Jones, B.A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description The first register of Bethania Congregational Church, Llannonn, co. Carmarthen (NLW Minor Deposits 875B). It contains an account of the building of the first meeting-house and the foundation of the church in 1800; a list of early admissions, 1800-3; a list of baptisms, 1800-37; an undated list of members of the Temperance Society; a list of ministers, 1800-1912; minutes [? and accounts] relating to the building of the meetinghouse, 1854; and accounts, 1848. The second register of the church, c. 1847-1926 (NLW Minor Deposits 876B). Mynegai Llannon Nodiadau See also NLW Ex 974 for `typescript transcript'.

ABERPERGWM 1965170 Ffynhonnell / Source Major Idris M Williams, London, per Messrs Ashurst, Morris, Crisp & Co., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description About 400 items, 1605-1919, consisting of deeds, documents, legal papers, a few letters, and copies and probates of wills, being a supplement to the Aberpergwm estate muniments already on deposit in the Library. The deeds relate to properties in the manor of Neath Ultra and Kilybebyll (surrenders and admissions), Aberavon, Baglan, Briton Ferry, Cadoxton iuxta Neath, Cardiff, Glyncorrwg, Llangynwyd, Llangyfelach, Llanguick, Llantrisant, Llantwit iuxta Neath, Llantwit Major, Llanwonno, Marcross, Michaelston, Neath, Roath, St. Andrew, St. Bride's, and St. Donats, co. Glamorgan; Aberystruth, Bedwellty, Caerleon, Christchurch, Glascoed, Goytre, Llanbadoc, Llanddewi Fach, Llandegveth, Llanfihangel iuxta Llantarnam, Llanfihangel Pontymoile, Llanfrechfa, Llangatock iuxta Caerleon, Llangibby, Llanhennog, Llanover, Llantarnam, Mamhilad, Mynyddislwyn, Panteg, Pontnewynydd, Pontypool, St.Mellons, Tredunnoc, Trevethin, and Usk, co. Monmouth; Cantref, Defynog, Glasbury, Lanelieu, St. David, Ystradfellte, and Ystradgynlais, co. Brecknock; Abergwili, Llanddeusant, Llandeilo, Llandingat, Llanegwad, Llanfair ar y Bryn, and St. Clears, co. Carmarthen; the free chapel and manor of Philberts, the manor of Southcott otherwise Cercott, Blewbury, Denchworth, East Hanney, Garford, Lyford, Marcham, Milton, Upton, and West Hanney, co. Berks.; Bledlow, Brill, the borough of Chepping Wycombe, Hughenden, Ipstone, and Stokenchurch, co. Bucks.; St. Briavells and Wollaston, co. Gloucester; and Aston Rowant, Burcott, Clifton, Dorchester, and Lewknor, co. Oxford. About a quarter of the deeds relate to properties in England. The bulk of the remainder is of industrial interest and refers to collieries (names mentioned include Blaengwrach, Forchgoch, Pwllfaron, and Verallt) in the parishes of Cadoxton iuxta Neath, Glyncorrwg, and Llantwit iuxta Neath, and to wharfs at Giants Grave and Port Tennant, all in co. Glamorgan, and to an iron ore furnace (1751) and Gwainclawdd colliery, in the parish of Ystradgynlais, co. Brecknock. There are also correspondence; a rental and valuation relating to the St. Donats estate, 1881-1902; wills mainly relating to the family of Williams of Aberpergwm and associated families; papers, mainly eighteenth century, relating to the Forest of Dean, co. Gloucester, consisting of copies of documents, extracts from records, cases and opinions and letters relating to the rights of the inhabitants, the mines law court, etc.- and an essay entitled 'Hanes Iestyn ap Gwrgan' submitted by 'Adolpos' to the eisteddfod held by Cymdeithas Cymreigyddion y Fenni in 1837. The non-Welsh portion of this archive has subsequently been transferred to the Berkshire Record Office, Reading. Mynegai Cilybebyll, Llandegfedd, Trefethin Nodiadau No's 2124-643. Schedule Available.

J IORWERTH WILLIAMS 1965171 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Iorwerth Williams, M.A., LL.B., Oswestry. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description About 200 apprenticeship indentures and associated documents, 1730-1831, relating to the parish of Llanrhaiader in Mochnant, cos. Denbigh and Montgomery.

THE RECORDS OF THE CHURCH IN WALES 1965172 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1964-65 Disgrifiad / Description The following items were added during the year: DIOCESE OF BANGOR RURAL DEANERY OF ARLLECHWEDD:- Act book of the Chapter, 1873-1910 (Bangor B1964). ARCHDEACONRY OF BANGOR:- Archdeacon's Visitation Returns, 1960 (Bangor B1964).

DIOCESE OF MONMOUTH PARISH OF GWERNESNEY:- parish registers, 1783-1812 and 1813-40 (marriages) (NLW CPD 492). PARISH OF LLANGEVEW:- parish registers, 1709-1812 (with one entry dated 1814), 1755-1812 (marriages), and 1813-41 (marriages) (NLW CPD 509). PARISH OF LLANGWM:- parish registers, 1663-1733, 1734-1812 (marriages to 1752, baptisms inserted for 1720-33), 1755-1810 (banns), and 1813-40 (marriages) (NLW CPD 507). PARISH OF MATHERN:- parish registers, 1565-1739 (baptisms from 1576, marriages from 1565, burials from 1565),1742-92 (baptisms and burials), 1754-1812 (marriages), 1813-35 (marriages) and 1819-35 (banns) (NLW CPD 518); and an assessment and account book of the petty constables and overseers of the poor, 1727-95 (Llandaf Parochial Records 1).

DIOCESE OF ST. DAVIDS PARISH OF LLANSTEPHAN:- parish register, 1756-1812 (banns and marriages) (NLW CPD 231). PARISH OF LLANWNNEN:- churchwardens' accounts, 1718-1801 (St David's Parochial Records 2), together (beginning from the end) with vestry minutes, 1748, and marriage banns, 1765-1801; and vestry minutes, 1801-14 (with gaps). PARISH OF TALLEY:- account book of the churchwardens and overseers of the poor (fragment), 1829-30 (St David's Parochial Records 1)

DIOCESE OF SWANSEA AND BRECON PARISH OF BUILTH (LLANFAIR-YM-MUALLT):- parish registers, (?) 1681-1730, 1750-65, 1767- 1805, and 1767-1813 (baptisms and burials) (partly duplicates), 1770-1812 (marriages), 1813-48 (baptisms), 1813-47 (marriages), and 1813-59 (burials) (NLW CPD 160). PARISH OF LLANDDEWI'R CWM:- parish registers, 1754-1812 (banns and marriages), 1765-1810 (baptisms and burials), and 1814-37 (marriages) (NLW CPD 158).