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ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1940-41 PANTYCLOCHYDD MSS 1941001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Miss Mary Thomas, Llanwenog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1940-41 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of local folk-rhymes, riddles, customs and superstitions (NLW MS 10553E); accounts of 'Ffair Wenog' and of events in Llanwenog and district (NLW MS 10551B); press cuttings and transcripts from printed sources (NLW MS 10552B); a commonplace book containing tailoring measurements, weaving patterns, recipes, etc., c. 1860 (NLW MS 10554A); and books, mainly Welsh, including several 'Amryw' volumes containing pamphlets printed and published by local Welsh presses before 1866 (Dept of Printed Books). CHILDREN'S BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY RICHARD DOYLE 1941002 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W E R Allen, Blackaldern, Narberth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1940-41 Disgrifiad / Description Four interesting specimens of children's books, 1851-89, three of which are illustrated by Richard Doyle (Dept of Printed Books). TREFEGLWYS AND LLANGURIG SCHOOL AND POOR LAW RECORDS 1941003 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Ashton, Fan, Llanidloes. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1940-41 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript psalm-tune book of Jeremiah Richards, 1788 (NLW MS 18456A). Poor rate assessment books, 1845-92, a cattle plague rate book, 1867, overseers' receipt and payment books, 1849-84, unpaid rates statements, 1854-83, an overseers' balance book, 1866-72, and a valuation list, 1871, all for the parish of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire. A land tax assessment book, 1860-1, for Bodaioch, Montgomeryshire. Records of the Trefeglwys school board,- a letter book, 1871-8, a petty cash book, 1872-8, stock and stores books for the schools at Llawryglyn, 1873-90, Staylittle, 1874-93, and Trefeglwys, 1883-97, accounts of payments and receipts for Gleiniant school, 1871-3, and a census register of children, 1881. Records of the Llangurig school board,- stock and stores accounts for the schools at Cwmbellan, 1874- 91, and Pantmawr, 1874-97, an account of fees for Llangurig, 1874-91, sales accounts for Pantmawr, 1879-91, and Cwmbellan, 1880-91, a census register of children, after 1876, and printed matter. Mynegai Bodaeoch (Trefeglwys), Llawr-y-glyn, Staylittle (Penffordd-wen) (Trefeglwys), Cwmbelan (Llangurig). Nodiadau Scheule Available BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION 1941004 Ffynhonnell / Source The British Broadcasting Corporation, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1940-41 Disgrifiad / Description A record in typescript, press cuttings and photographs, of broadcasts during the National Eisteddfod, 1940 (NLW MS 13699F). Gramophone records of a sermon by Rev Philip Jones, Porthcawl (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Porth-cawl (Newton Nottage), Yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol. BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION (BRA) 1941005 Ffynhonnell / Source The British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1940-41 Disgrifiad / Description Deeds and documents relating to the Gwydir estates in cos. Caernarvon, Denbigh and Merioneth, 1608-1886; correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the Wynn estates, 1670-1719; documents in an action between Lord Willoughby d'Eresby and the Earl of Cholmondeley and others, 1719; and deeds relating to lands in cos. Cardigan, Carmarthen, Pembroke, Brecknock, Denbigh, Flint, Montomery and Salop, 1627-1892. A commonplace book called 'Thomas Salusbury's Book of Scraps and Diversities', compiled by Thomas Salusbury of Denbigh (b. 1761), third son of Robert Salusbury of Cotton Hall (NLW MS 9669E). Extracts taken by the same Thomas Salusbury from John Reynolds: The Scripture Genealogy . 1739, with some additional matter, e.g. a pedigree of the Salusburys of Bachegraig to 1807, and a transcript of the text of John Reynolds: A Display of Heraldry . 1739 (NLW MS 9670D). Rentals and accounts of the Gwydir estates, 1684-1822 (NLW MS 9720D). Carmarthenshire Records. An Act for Lighting with Gas the town and neighbourhood of Llanelly, . 1835; An Act to enable William Chambers . to grant . leases . ., 1840; Particulars . of Sale of . property . belonging to William Chambers . ., 1856; and an abstract of the title of William Chambers to the the South Wales Pottery, 1857. Notes for a pedigree of the Salusbury family, with drafts of other pedigrees, letters from William Cole and William Chapman to Sir Thomas Robert Salusbury and from Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon') and John Montgomery Traherne to Rev Charles Salusbury, afterwards Sir Charles John Salusbury, and an autograph letter by the latter. A manuscript plan on vellum of lands in the parish of Burton, Denbighshire, made under the supervision of Ri: Norwood in 1631. See The National Library of Wales Journal, Vol. II, pp. 89-90. Mynegai Sir Gaernarfon, Sir Ddinbych, Sir Feirionnydd, Gwedir, Sir Aberteifi, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Sir Benfro, Sir Frycheiniog, Sir Fflint, Sir Drefaldwyn, Swydd Amwythig, Dinbych, Bachegraig (Tremeirchion), Llanelli, Yr Wyddfa, Richard Norwood. E L CHAPPELL 1941006 Ffynhonnell / Source Alderman Edgar L Chappell, Rhiwbina. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1940-41 Disgrifiad / Description A group of manuscripts including records of evidence of employers and labour organisations submitted to the Industrial Unrest Commission for Wales (1918); correspondence and evidence relating to the Agricultural Wages Board enquiry into conditions in rural South Wales (1918); and documents and reports of the South Wales Regional Survey Committee submitted to the Ministry of Health (1920). BLUE BOOKS RELATING TO SOUTH AFRICA, INDIA ETC 1941007 Ffynhonnell / Source The Lady Clwyd, Abergele. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1940-41 Disgrifiad / Description Blue Books relating to South Africa, 1878-1904, India, 1892, and the Lunacy Commissioners, 1900 (Dept of Printed Books). Mynegai De Affrig. A L DAVIES, BALA 1941008 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr A L Davies, Bala. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1940-41 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts and correspondence of Revs George Lewis, DD (NLW MS 13713D), and Michael Jones (NLW MS 13714C), both of Llanuwchllyn (NLW MSS 13708-22); and two collections of miscellaneous books and pamphlets, foremost in bibliographical interest among the printed material being a copy of Y Seren Foreu (1867), which the author, Lewis D. Jones ('Llew Tegid'), published at the early age of sixteen (Dept of Printed Books). DAVIES, GREGYNOG 1941009 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Gwendoline E Davies, CH, and Miss Margaret S Davies, Gregynog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1940-41 Disgrifiad / Description Cyrupaedia: the institution and life of Cyrus, the first of that name, King of Persians. Eight bookes treating of noble education, of princely exercises, military discipline, warlike stratagems, preparations and expeditions: written in Greeke by the sage Xenophon. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine and French translations, by Philemon Golland of the City of Coventry, Doctor in Physick. (Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1936) (Dept of Printed Books) No. 13 of 150 copies hand-set and printed under the direction of Loyd Haberly. Printed in black and red with capitals in red and green. First printed by J. L. for Robert Allott, to be sold at the Sign of the Beare in Paul's Churchyard, 1632, and now fully re-printed from the 1632 edition at the Gregynog Press, Newtown, Mont. Bound in maroon morocco, with conventional design in blind and gold and inlays of green and red. Raised bands on the spine, with panels in blind tooling, red leather inlays and gold lettering. Top edges gilt. Caelica, by Fulke Grenville, Baron Brooke, edited by Una Ellis-Fermor. (Gregynog: The Gregynog Press, 1936.) (Dept of Printed Books) No. 14 of 225 copies printed on unbleached Arnold hand-made paper. Bound in dark blue morocco, with inlays of vellum and lines in gold and blind, the design continued on the spine, top edges gilt. Welsh books published in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (Dept of Printed Books). A copy of Sermones aurei de sanctis, by Leonardus de Utino, printed at Nuremberg, by A. Koberger, in 1478; the reprints, published in 1844 by W. Pickering, of the early editions of The Book of Common Prayer, dated 1549, 1552, 1559, 1604, 1637 and 1662 respectively; early editions of works by seventeenth century theological writers, such as George Hicks, dean of Worcester, Rowland Stedman, nonconformist divine, and James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh; some standard biographies and law books; etc. (Dept of Printed Books) See The National Library of Wales Journal, Vol. II, pp. 86-7, and Supplement, Series I, No. 2, p. 4. Mynegai Y Drenewydd, Caerwrangon, Ireland, Iwerddon. J G MORRIS-DAVIES 1941010 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J G Morris-Davies, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1940-41 Disgrifiad / Description A game and vermin book of Morris Davies, Rhydgaled, 1873-1917 (NLW MS 13876C); scrapbooks, mainly of sporting events, 1865-1918 (NLW MSS 13873B, 13874F); a volume of autographs of celebrities (NLW MS 13875E); letters mainly relating to Rugby School, 1905-18 (NLW MS 13870C); deeds of properties in Aberystwyth and district, 1857-20th cent., and in Narberth, co. Pembroke, 1890- 1905 (NLW MSS 13878A, 13879D); and letters (NLW MSS 13871B, 13872C), legal papers and some printed matter, 19th-20th cent (NLW MS 13877E). Mynegai Arberth. J GLYN DAVIES 1941011 Ffynhonnell