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ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1963-64 CHARLES JOHNSON 1964001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr Charles Johnson, C.B.E., M.A., F.S.A., per Mr A A Leach, Chatham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of eighty-three special issues of newspapers from the late nineteenth century and a number of books of miscellaneous interest (Dept of Printed Books). CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY, ABERDARE 1964002 Ffynhonnell / Source The Central Public Library, Aberdare, per The Librarian. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description Several volumes of music periodicals such as The musical times and singing class circular, Y Cerddor, and Y Cerddor Newydd which have helped to complete sets of these journals in the Duplicates Section (Dept of Printed Books). D ARTHEN EVANS 1964003 Ffynhonnell / Source Faculty of Education, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description Two letters to D. Arthen Evans, Barry, from [Sir] John Edward Lloyd, Bangor, 1903-27, and one from Evan Rees ('Dyfed'), [19]16 (NLW MS 16726A). THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW 1964004 Ffynhonnell / Source The United Theological College, Aberystwyth, per The Reverend Professor R Buick Knox, M.A., Ph.D. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description A very useful run comprising the first 53 volumes of The North British Review (Edinburgh, 1844-71) (Dept of Printed Books). DAVID ADAMS 1964005 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss S J Adams, Llanfihangel-ar-Arth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description A supplementary group of the manuscripts of the donor's father, Rev David Adams (1845-1922), Congregational minister. They include scrapbooks, sermon notes, and poetry. An extensive, if incomplete, run of Y Dysgedydd (1886-1957), and printed collections of Welsh prose and poetry by David Adams, J. Ceulanydd Williams, and William Roberts ('Gwilym Eryri'). W S ATKIN & PARTNERS 1964006 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs W S Atkin and Partners, Epsom, per Mr G E Newsom. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description A number of pamphlets relating to the activities of the donors, a firm of consulting engineers, recently or currently engaged on several large constructional projects in Wales, including the Spencer Steel Works, Llanwern (Dept of Printed Books). Publications of this class, privately printed and distributed by some of the larger firms responsible for changing the face of the Principality, are most welcome, as they contain much technical information which will not otherwise be readily available to the future historian. Y GORWEL 1964007 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Huldah Bassett, M.A., Gowerton. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description The first eleven numbers, issued between 1948 and 1963, of Y Gorwel, the magazine of the Girls' Grammar School, Gowerton (Dept of Printed Books). SIR H IDRIS BELL 1964008 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir H Idris Bell, C.B., O.B.E., D.Litt., F.B.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description The journals of foreign learned societies which Sir Idris regularly passes on to the Library are among the most valued donations received each year by the Department of Printed Books (Dept of Printed Books). Over a period of twenty years or more when the Library's book purchase fund was very meagre this practical interest has enabled it to acquire extensive runs of several expensive journals. PERCIVAL BEVAN 1964009 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr and Mrs Percival Bevan, Aberaeron. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description A group of miscellaneous deeds and documents relating mainly to the Wynnstay estates in co. Montgomery. The original documents, etc., belong almost entirely to the second half of the 19th century, whilst the copies of earlier records appear to have been made in the same century. Montgomeryshire. Court rolls (precepts, jury lists, presentments, etc.,) of the manor of Arwystli Iscoed, 1884, 1887, 1889 and 1895; the manor of Arwystli Uwchcoed, 1884, 1889, and 1895; the manor of Carno, 1884, 1889 and 1895; the manor of Clas, 1887, 1889, and 1895; the manor of Cyfeiliog, 1845-63, 1865-8, 1871, 1873, 1884, 1887, 1889, and 1895; the manor of Talerddig, 1884, 1889 and 1895; and the town, borough and liberty of Machynlleth, 1845-7, 1849-73, 1876, 1887, 1889 and 1895. Assignment of the manor of Talerddig, 1548 (copy); breviate of bond lands and escheat lands within the manor of Cyfeiliog, 1573; particular of the manors of Arwystli and Cyfeiliog according to a survey of 1609 (copy); assignment of the manor of Cyfeiliog, 1635/6 (copy); presentments at the court of the manor of Cyfeiliog, 1675 (copy Latin and English translation); copies of interrogatories, answers, depositions, etc., in seventeenth century suits relating to the manors of Arwystli, Cyfeiliog and Talerddig; estreats from the records of the court of the manor of Arwystli in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (copies); bundles of correspondence relating to the holding of courts leet, leet dinners, etc., in connection with the above-named manors, 1884, 1887, 1889 and 1895; notes on the mears between the manors of Talerddig and Cyfeiliog, undated; and notes on the customs of the manor of Cyfeiliog, undated. Copies (translations) or abstracts of grants to the abbey of Strata Marcella by Elis ap Madog, 1183, Gwenwynwyn ab Owen, 1185, 1190/1, 1200, 1206, Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, ? c. 1208, and Madog ab Owen, 1215; notification (copy) by Alan, bishop of Bangor, that Cadwaladr ap Howel had made grants to the same monastery (undated, c. 1195-6); copy (translation) of the award made by the Abbot and General Chapter of the Cistercian order in a dispute between the abbeys of Strata Marcella and Cwmhir, 1227; and exemplifications (copies) made temp. Elizabeth I of various grants to the abbey of Strata Marcella. (For most of these charters, etc., see Montgomeryshire Collections, Vols. IV, LI, and The National Library of Wales Journal, Vol. V). A copy (translation) of the findings of the commission set up by Edward I to enquire concerning the laws and customs of various cantrefi in Wales, 1280-1 (see Y Cymmrodor, 1915, 1-20). Offers by the trustees of the fourth district of Montgomeryshire roads to lease the Abercegir, Lledfair, Maengwyn, Maespandy, Talerddig, Trip and Tynrhos toll houses, and draft conveyances by the same body of the Abercegir, Lledfair, Maengwyn, Maesypandy, Talerddig and Tynrhos toll houses, 1882. A lease (draft) of mines in the township of Uwchygarreg and parish of Machynlleth, 1856. A minute book, 1896-7, of the committees formed in connection with the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Machynlleth in June 1896; a letter book of the Machynlleth Town Hall Company Ltd., 1893-1908; and one bundle of papers relating to the same company, 1872-3. Correspondence (original and copies) of David Howell, solicitor, Machynlleth, and David Jones of Plas Llwydiarth, agent for Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (1850s). Merioneth. One bundle of correspondence, agreements, etc., relating to Madoc House, Towyn, co. Merioneth, c. 1900-10. BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION 1964010 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Brundrett, Randall, & Whitmore, London, per The British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description Parcel 1106. Seventy-five documents, 1867-85, relating to the Holyhead Shipbuilding and Trading Company Ltd. Nodiadau Schedule Available. SIR JOHN CECIL-WILLIAMS 1964011 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir John Cecil-Williams, M.A., LL.D., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description A minute book of the London Welsh Charitable Aid Society, 1920-62 (with gaps) (NLW MS 12068C). The volume is largely in the hand of T. E. Morris, Portmadoc and London. Over ninety volumes of miscellaneous printed books dating from the early seventeenth century (Dept of Printed Books). They include A voyage round the world . by George Anson (Kilmarnock, 1785); The good mans death lamented . by Simeon Ashe (London, 1655); The saints happinesse . by Jeremiah Burroughs (London, 1660); Gogoniant hynafol y Cymmry . by Evan Davies, 'Myfyr Morganwg' (Pontypridd, 1865); Ffurf yr ymadroddion iachus, neu lais y durtur yn y wlad . by Christmas Evans (Aberystwyth, 1811); Y Traethodydd yn America am y flwyddyn 1858 (New York, 1858); and Gilbert White's The natural history of Selborne ... (London, 1870). COLWYN BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY 1964012 Ffynhonnell / Source The Public Library, Colwyn Bay, per The Librarian. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description A small collection of early nineteenth century printed books (Dept of Printed Books), including Geology and mineralogy . by W. Buckland, 1836, On the adaptation of external nature to the physical condition of man by J. Kidd, 1837, and Astronomy and general physics . by W. Whewall, 1836. JOYCE COULTHARD 1964013 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Joyce Coulthard, Poole. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1963-64 Disgrifiad / Description A selection of theological books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Dept of Printed Books). It includes The whole treatises of the cases of conscience by M. W. Perkins, 1635; A looking glass for saints