ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1947-48

J D EVANS, TALYBONT 1948001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late the Reverend J D Evans, Talybont, Cards. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A miscellaneous collection of books, mainly modern Welsh. Although mostly duplicates, they will be available for loan purposes, especially in connection with extra-mural classes (Dept of Printed Books).

HERBERT MORGAN 1948002 Ffynhonnell / Source The late the Reverend Herbert Morgan, M A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Supplementary Report. The National Library was granted by the executor, Professor Aaron, the first choice of books from the valuable and extensive collection of the late Rev Herbert Morgan, MA (Dept of Printed Books). The books selected have now been catalogued and classified. Approximately 1,500 books and pamphlets were chosen, of which some fifty were transferred to the Department of Duplicates. The books selected for the general library are mainly foreign works, German, French and Italian. Most of them are on doctrinal and Biblical theology and on the philosophy of religion, with a few on modern German metaphysics. There is a considerable number of books on the sociological implications of Christianity, a subject in which Mr Morgan was keenly interested. Several important trends of Roman Catholic and Protestant religious thought in Western Europe are well represented, including, in particular, a large number of the works of Loisy and the Catholic modernist school, written mostly in French and Italian. In fact, there seems to be a copy of practically everyone of Loisy's books in the original French edition. It is no exaggeration to say that there is in the collection a copy of practically every important foreign book on the subjects named, published during twenty or thirty years of Mr Morgan's active life as a student and preacher. A feature of the collection is the large number of volumes belonging to German and Italian series of popular books on educational subjects, especially theology and philosophy. Many of these belong to the well-known Sammlung Goschen, while there are over eighty volumes of the interesting and useful series of Religionsgeschichtliche Volksbucher founded by Michael Schiele. The value of the whole bequest to the Library cannot be over-estimated. It ranks with the bequests of Dr Witton Davies and Dr Tudor Jones, and the three collections taken together form what must be a unique collection of books on religion in general and Christian theology in particular - subjects which should make a special appeal to Welsh students. English books on these subjects, and the few Welsh ones, are received under the Copyright Act, and it is the Library's good fortune that bequests like these secure for it the best of the foreign books also.

DAVID ADAMS 1948003 Ffynhonnell / Source The Misses Adams, Llanfihangel-ar-arth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A gold medal awarded the donors' father, Rev David Adams, BA, BD, (' Hawen '), at the Liverpool National Eisteddfod, 1884, for an essay on Hegel (Dept of Pictures and Maps); a silver crown awarded him at the Swansea National Eisteddfod, 1891, for an epic poem entitled ' Oliver Cromwell ' (Dept of Pictures and Maps); and a silver crown awarded him at the Tregaron Crown Eisteddfod, 1880, for a ' pryddest ' entitled ' Gwyrth Gyntaf Crist ' (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

HOLYWELL HUNT AND WREXHAM MEETINGS 1948004 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R H Adcock, C.B.E., Preston. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Three broadsheets relating to the Holywell Hunt meetings, 1823 and 1824, and the Wrexham meeting, 1824 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Wrecsam

MANOR OF BISHOPSTON COURT LEET BOOK 1948005 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Roland Austin, M A., F.S.A., Records Officer, Gloucester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A court leet book, 1771-1806, of the manor of Bishopston, co. Glamorgan (NLW MS 16918D).

SIR HAROLD IDRIS BELL 1948006 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Harold Idris Bell, C.B., O.B.E., D.Litt., P.B A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Four volumes of Catalogus Colicum Astrologorum Graecorum and one of Catalogue les manuscrits alchimiques grecs, the former published by M. Lamertin of Brussels, and the latter by the Union Academique Internationale (Dept of Printed Books).

BRITISH MISSION FILMS 1948007 Ffynhonnell / Source The British Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, per Mr James R Cunningham, Dewsbury. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description 112 microfilms of genealogical records, parish registers and wills taken at the National Library of Wales.

BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION 1948008 Ffynhonnell / Source The British Records Association, per Miss C Jamison, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Perambulations of the manor of Gollon and the lordship of Cwmhyre, co. Radnor, 1672-1760; deeds relating to properties in Trefnanney and Llanllwchaiarn, co. Montgomery, 1682-1809, Clocaenog, co. Denbigh, 1762, and Iscoed, co. Flint, 1821; and the marriage settlement of Richard Newcome, warden of Ruthin, 1807. Four documents (1864-88) relating to property in Anglesey, Denbighshire and Brecknockshire. A plan of an estate near Bettws-y-Coed, Caernarvonshire, 1867. A few sheets of the first edition of the 6 inch and 25 inch Ordnance Survey maps relating to Denbighshire and Flintshire (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Trefnannau, Cwmhir, Llanllwchaearn, Rhuthun.

RICHARD GWYNNE, TALIARIS 1948009 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Francis Buckley, Greenfield, Yorks. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description An autograph letter, 31 January 1775, of Richard Gwynne, junior, of Taliaris (NLW MS 14005E).

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS 1948010 Ffynhonnell / Source The University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description About thirty numbers of University of California Publications in Classical Philology and twenty-five of Publications in Modern Philology (Dept of Printed Books). These supplement the Library's file of these two valuable series.

SOUTH WALES NEWSPAPERS 1948011 Ffynhonnell / Source Cardiff Public Libraries Committee, per Mr E J Rees, F.L.A., Librarian. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Long runs of South Wales newspapers, including Cardiff Times 1863-1911, Evening Express, 1891- 1921, and South Wales Daily News, 1905-1928, mostly in bound volumes, and about 100 loose numbers of various other newspapers (Dept of Printed Books). There are some gaps in the long runs and they duplicate, to some extent, the files already in the National Library, but between the two files each of the three newspapers named is now practically complete.

LLANGWM PARISH REGISTER 1948012 Ffynhonnell / Source The Librarian, Central Library, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy of the parish register of Llangwm, co. Monmouth, 1663-1733 (NLW MS 14826E).

SAMUEL ROBERTS (`SR') 1948013 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Leah Chalmers, Teddington. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A letter from Samuel Roberts (' SR') to P. Chalmers, concerning the history of Postal Reform, 4 May 1881 (NLW MS 14351A).

G H CHARLES 1948014 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr G H Charles, Queen's Ferry. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A music manuscript book of hymn-tunes and anthems transcribed by Thomas Charles, Brymbo, 1856, and scrapbooks relating to Brymbo and district, 1861-87, and to Wesleyan Methodism, 1888-97.

JOHN CLEMENT 1948015 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John Clement, Llanelly. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Minutes of the Committee of the Annual Welsh Summer School held under the auspices of the National Union of Welsh Societies, 1917-29 (NLW Amryw 38/7).

MISCELLANEOUS PAMPHLETS 1948016 Ffynhonnell / Source Colwyn Bay Public Library, per Mr Ifor Davies, A.L.A., Librarian. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Four bound volumes of miscellaneous pamphlets, mainly political and sociological, 1787-1890 (Dept of Printed Books). Three volumes of pamphlets, containing over forty items relating chiefly to religious and social conditions and services of the nineteenth century (Dept of Printed Books).

J C H CROSLAND 1948017 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs J C H Crosland, Amroth, Pembrokeshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A Welsh Armory relating to and associated with Pembrokeshire, compiled by the late J. C. H. Crosland of Colby Lodge, Amroth, 1938 (NLW MS 14881B).

CEIRIOG MEMORIAL INSTITUTE 1948018 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Alfred T Davies, K.B.E., C.B., Brighton. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Letters, addresses and papers relating to the Ceiriog Memorial Institute (NLW MS 16215D).

MEDICAL RECIPES 1948019 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Dan Davies, Machynlleth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of manuscript medical recipes.

LEWIS WILLIAMS AND MARTHA WILLIAMS 1948020 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr David Lloyd Davies, Narberth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Diaries of Lewis Williams, a student at Pontypridd, who died before his ordination as a Congregational minister, containing sermon notes, poetry, and memoranda, 1852-9 (NLW MS 17346A), and of his sister, Martha Williams (afterwards Mrs Lloyd of Llwyn Garreg, Cwmbach, Whitland), 1877-8 (NLW MS 17347A).

LLANLLYFNI RECORDS 1948021 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs J B Davies, Bontnewydd, Caernarvon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Miscellaneous papers relating mainly to the parish of Llanllyfni, Caernarvonshire, including a receipt book of Salem cemetery, 1878-1924, and minutes of parish meetings for Llanllyfni Ward, 1894-1922, and of the council school managers, 1904-16.

THOMAS JAMES, CUSTOMS OFFICER ETC 1948022 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs J J Davies, Ffostrasol. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Eight documents, 1796-1852, relating to properties in Llangunllo and Troedyraur, co. Cardigan, and Reynoldston, co. Glamorgan, appointment of Thomas James to be an officer of customs, 1771, and a plan of property in Cydplwyf-Llanina, co. Cardigan, 1839 (NLW Deeds 352-9).

CARDIGAN BOOK SOCIETY 1948023 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J O Davies, B.Sc., Glynarthen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A record-of-issue label and a printed list of members, 1855-6, of the Cardigan Book Society (NLW MS 17743E).

YORWERTH DAVIES, ABERYSTWYTH 1948024 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Yorwerth Davies, B A., B.D., B.Litt., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description An autograph letter by W. Griffith, Drws-y-Coed, 1777 (NLW MS 16098E), and a pedigree chart of the descendants of Evan Griffith and Ellen, daughter of William Pritchard, Clwchydernog.

EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS 1948025 Ffynhonnell / Source De Hostos Centenary Commission Santurce, Puerto Rico. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The complete works, in twenty volumes, of Eugenio Maria de Hostos, published to mark the 100th anniversary of the author's birth (1839) (Dept of Printed Books). In addition there are Indice hemero- bibliografico le E. M. de Hostos and America y Hostos: coleccion de ensayos acerca le . . . Hostos.

THEOLOGICAL BOOKS 1948026 Ffynhonnell / Source Denbighshire County Library, per Mr E R Luke, F.L.A., Librarian. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Six books on various theological topics (Dept of Printed Books).

MONTGOMERYSHIRE AND RADNORSHIRE DEEDS 1948027 Ffynhonnell / Source Capt Philip Dunne, M.C., Leominster. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Twelve deeds and documents (1745-69) relating to properties in Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, and Knighton, Radnorshire (NLW Deeds 317-28).

THOMAS & ROBERTS (TIMBER MERCHANTS) 1948028 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards, M.A., and Lady Edwards Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A group of twenty-five ledgers, day books, cash books, letter books and a bank book, 1855-1916, of the firm of Messrs Thomas and Roberts, afterwards Messrs Richard Roberts and Sons, timber merchants, Aberystwyth. Miscellanea from the papers of the late Sir David Charles Roberts:- a militia ballot notice served on Robert Davies, Aberystwyth, 1 Sept., 1810 (NLW MS 16627D); autograph letters of Alfred T. Davies, 1873, Henry Lloyd, 1876, Henry V. Cobb, 1882, David Davies, Llandinam, 1882, and R. Geddes Smith, 1889 (NLW MS 16343E); a letter signed by J. W. Marshall, J. E. Lloyd, H. Lloyd Snape, J. Brough, and Arthur Warrington, 11 December 1889, relating to a bachelor's dance at Aberystwyth (NLW MS 16343E); and copies of Rheolau Cymdeithas Blodau yr Oes, signed by Robert Owen Morris, Portmadoc, 1868 and 1872 (NLW MS 16627D). Correspondence, accounts and vouchers of the Aberystwyth schooner ' Nerissa ', 1878-91; and insurance policies, etc., of the schooners ' Edith Eleanor ' and ' Gowerian ', also of Aberystwyth. A miscellaneous collection of English and Welsh books and music, mostly modern (Dept of Printed Books). A collection of twelve miniature engravings depicting Welsh costume, from the series published by Newman, c. 1850 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). A collection of navigation charts probably used on ships sailing from Aberystwyth during the nineteenth century (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Porthmadog

INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOODFELLOWS 1948029 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R J Ellis, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Records of Llynlleoedd (Machynlleth) Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, consisting of cash books, 1870-1921, contribution books, 1868-1922, receipt and expenditure books, 1879-1921, and a record of sickness, 1913-20.

T I ELLIS 1948030 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T I Ellis, M.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A minute book of Undeb Dirwestol Merched Cymreig Llundain, 1895-1905, with notes of an address given by Mrs Peter Hughes Griffiths during the celebration of the thirty-first birthday of the Union in 1926, and correspondence containing reminiscences of original members (NLW MS 16922C).

W J ELLISS, ABERDARON 1948031 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W J Elliss, Aberdaron. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Two volumes of household and personal accounts by Lady Llanover, 1845-6 (NLW MS 14888B). A letter from [Sir] Owen M. Edwards to Ernest Rhys, 29 March 1903 (NLW MS 14350A).

ISAAC LEWIS, LLANDYBIE 1948032 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Evans, Penygroes, Carmarthenshire, per The Reverend J Dyfnallt Owen, M.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Two manuscript hymn-tune books, c. 1845, belonging to Isaac Lewis, Green Hill, Llandybie (NLW MSS 16930-1A). Mynegai Llandebie

A B EMLYN EVANS 1948033 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs A B Emlyn Evans, Gwalchmai. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description An account of a voyage from London to Chubut by Rev William Phillips (NLW MS 16509B), and records of the Welsh Patagonian Goldfields Syndicate, Ltd, 1891-2 (NLW MS 16956E).

CHARLES EVANS, HEREFORD 1948034 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Charles Evans, Hereford. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A sheet of Bell's Weekly Messenger, Oct. 21, 1822, containing an account of the death of Mrs Garrick; an obituary notice of ' King Anthony '; a copy of Wyatt's Report on Hereford Cathedral, 1788; notes on John Nash as bridge restorer at Hereford and extracts relating to Nash from Herefordshire Quarter Sessions Records. Mynegai Henffordd

GRIFFITH EVANS 1948035 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Erie Evans, M.B.(Lond.), Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript book of quotations and extracts of prose and verse collected by Dr Griffith Evans (1835- 1935), and continued by his daughter, the donor. Nodiadau Schedule Available

GRACE E EVANS 1948036 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Grace E Evans, Carmarthen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Correspondence, biographical notes, miscellaneous data, press cuttings and printed matter almost entirely relating to the search begun in 1860 by Walter D. Jeremy, as secretary of the Presbyterian Board, and pursued and completed by Walter J. Evans, after his appointment to the principal chair of the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, in 1888, in an attempt to make a complete list of all the old students of the College. Correspondence and press cuttings (1887-8) relating to a protest registered by a body of Unitarian ministers at a meeting held at Pantdefaid in December 1887 against the appointment of Walter J. Evans as principal. The correspondents include Walter D. Jeremy, Treasurer of the Presbyterian Board, E. Pan Jones, Mostyn, Michael D. Jones, Principal of Bala Independent College, G. Vance Smith, Carmarthen, and D. Garllwyn Williams (' Ap y Freni Fach '). Mynegai Caerfyrddin.

HENRY RICHARD 1948037 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend H R Evans, M.A., Broadhempston Vicarage, Totnes. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The diploma of the admission of Henry Richard to the Pantheon Dei Virtuosi Cosmopoliti, Naples, 9 August 1783 (NLW MS 14884E); an address presented to Henry Richard by the Societa operaia di Bologna, 23 April 1876; a portfolio containing the scores and words of the Dutch national song and a song of peace presented to Henry Richard at the Hague, 24 Sept. 1873; and press cuttings of articles on the Peace Society and kindred subjects. A minute book, 1834-9, of the Church Rate Abolition Society. Mynegai Italy, Holland.

`FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARIES' 1948038 Ffynhonnell / Source ' Friends of the National Libraries '. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of The Linnet's life: twelve poems, by Ann and Jane Taylor, London, 1822 (Dept of Printed Books). (See also Miss Margaret F. Irvine.)

WILLIAM GEORGE, BOOTLE 1948039 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr William George, Bootle. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A minute book of the Liverpool ' Cymanfa Ysgolion ' Committee, 1903-4, the J. Ambrose Lloyd Celebration, 1915, and the flag days of the Welsh National Fund for the Welfare of the Soldiers and Sailors of Wales, 1917-18 (NLW MS 16938A). Minute books, 1900-12, of the Bootle Young Wales Society (NLW MSS 14895-6C). Mynegai Lerpwl.

MRS GILMOUR 1948040 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Gilmour, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Collections of legal precedents, cases and opinions, pleadings at common law and conveyances, eighteenth-nineteenth centuries; and drafts of essays and papers on historical and antiquarian subjects by Thomas Owen Morgan, author of A new guide to Aberystwyth and its environs, 1848.

T ALLEN GLENN 1948041 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr T Allen Glenn, Abergele. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Typescripts and transcripts of records, including Ruthin and Yale and Isaled Heath Tax, temp. Charles II, wills of Evan Lloyd of Garn, Llanvawr, Merioneth, 1671, and Thomas ap Evan Lloyd of Llangwm, 1650, extracts from Merioneth and Flintshire Lay Subsidy Rolls and Plea Rolls, and genealogical data for the families of Parry of Newmarket and Whitley of Ewloe. Mynegai Hearth Tax, Rhuthun, Llanfor, Iâl, Is-aled.

D W EVANS 1948042 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R P Griffiths, Birkdale, Lancs. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph letters of D. W. Evans, chairman of ' Cymdeithas Llawfer Gymraeg ', 1906.

BROGYNTYN 1948043 Ffynhonnell / Source The Right Hon Lord Harlech, K.G., P.C., G.C.M.G., LL.D., D.C.L., F.S.A., Brogyntyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Letters addressed to members of the Owen, Ormsby and Ormsby-Gore families by F[rancis] G[odolphin], 1733, L[ewis] Owen, 1741, Ell[en] Godolphin, 1747, J. Kynaston, Penrhose, 1777, M. Owen, Datchet, 1777, W. Ormsby, Liverpool, 1777, H. R. Williams, Penrhos, near Caernarvon, 1825, Robert Vaughan Richards, Caerynwch, 1831, Lord Powis, 1836, and others. The majority of the letters are of a personal nature, but Lord Powis refers to preparations against rioters, and Francis Godolphin states that ' they talk of nothing at Oxford but a Publick Act, which Mr Handel is to Celebrate with two Oratorios and a very fine new Composition of Musick but yet does not take his Degree but will assist any body else . . .' Letters relating to the management of the family estates in Merioneth and Caernarvonshire, addressed principally to Mary Jane Ormsby-Gore by James Spooner, Secretary and Engineer to the Ffestiniog Railway Company, 1851, Robert Barker, Glyn, Talsarnau, estate agent, 1851-2, J. J. Brown, rector of Llandanwg, 1855, Thomas Jones, vicar of Llannor and Denio, 1856-7, John Edward Parry, Glynn Hall, Talsarnau, estate agent, 1856-60, and others. The main subjects of discussion, apart from estate repairs and property leases, are the building of Harlech church, 1855, the construction of the Portmadoc Railway, 1856, and the re-building of Llannor church and the purchase of the vicarage house, 1856-7. Rentals of estates in cos. Merioneth and Caernarvon, 1775, 1787-8, 1815-6, and of the Abertanat estate in cos. Salop, Denbigh and Montgomery, 1743-7. Miscellaneous documents. They include proposals by the freeholders of the manor of Whittington [co. Salop] relating to the enclosure of commons, 1766; a pedigree of the family of Godolphin, 1789; eighteenth-century English verses by William Gore and others; a balance sheet of Barmouth National School, 1851, a printed list of subscriptions for the restoration of the parish church of Cemmes, co. Montgomery, 1858; accounts and correspondence relating to the liquidation of Ardudwy Farmers' Association, Ltd, 1912, and the formation of the Talsarnau Farmers' Co-operative Society, 1914; and some deeds relating to properties in the townships of Maesgwyn, Llanerchrochwel and Broniarth, co. Montgomery, 1754, the parish of Cricieth, co. Caernarvon, 1839, and in co. Roscommon, Ireland, 1770. Miscellaneous documents relating to the Brogyntyn estates. They include a commission to Sir Francis Eure and Anthony Blinco to hear and settle disputes between Thomas Whorewood and Elizabeth Brome, 1614/5; a copy of a lease of Tythyn William ap Griffith ap Rees in Llechiddior; a brief in an action between John Weld and Richard Adams, 1654; an agreement between Dame Margaret Owen and Richard Wynne of Ryton, 1698; settlements before the marriages of William Owen and Mary Godolphin, 1735, and William Ormsby and Hannah Wynne, 1743; articles of behaviour and misdemeanors against Nicholas Davies of Maesbury; letters by Edward Owen, 1735, Francis, Baron Godolphin, 1767, W. Nanney, 1789, Lord Newborough, 1825, Lord Palmerston, 1834, T. Assheton Smith, 1834, P. H. Pepys, 1858, Lord Mostyn, 1858, and N. J. Senior, 1858; and a rental of the Caernarvonshire estate, 1815. A photograph of Their Majesties the King and Queen leaving the Royal Chapel of St George at Windsor, 23 April 1948, following the Ceremony of Installation of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, among whom was the donor (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Deneio, Porthmadog, Cemaes, Cemais, Llannerchrochwel, Llannerchfrochwel, Criccieth, Llecheiddior [Dolbenmaen], Caernarfonshire, Caernarfon, Bermo. Nodiadau Schedule Available

WILFRID J HEMP 1948044 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Wilfrid J Hemp, M.A., F.S.A., Criccieth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A notebook containing addresses on various subjects by a Ouaker, and extracts from J. Kelsall's accounts of Friends and notes of meetings in Wales, 1701-12 (NLW MS 16917A).

JOHN L HOBBS 1948045 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John L Hobbs, F.L.A., Shrewsbury Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Three documents (1686), relating to property in Trevenant Vechan alias Trefnanney, co. Montgomery (NLW Deeds 312-4). Mynegai Trefnannau, Trefnant Fechan.

M HOPKINS, WHITCHURCH 1948046 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs M Hopkins, Whitchurch, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph letters, 1882-4, of Octavius Morgan, the Hon. F. C. Morgan, Brinley Richards, T. C. Evans (' Cadrawd '), and Sir Thomas Isambard Owen, with miscellaneous autographs (NLW MS 16343E).

ARTHUR HUGHES, GRAY'S INN 1948047 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Arthur Hughes, Cuffley, Herts. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A selection of books of Welsh interest from the library of the late Arthur Hughes, barrister-at-law, Gray's Inn, London, including some volumes, now out-of-print, of the Old Welsh Texts series edited by Dr J. Gwenogvryn Evans, and other standard works (Dept of Printed Books).

`FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARIES' 1948048 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Margaret F Irvine, Oxford, per ' Friends of the National Libraries '. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Five works (Dept of Printed Books), namely : A Coale from the Altar, by Peter Heylyn, 1636; The Holy Table, name and thing by John Williams, Archbishop of York, London, 1637; Constitutions and canons ecclesiasticall, 1603; The Book of Common Prayer, etc., 1703 [2], and A Pisgah-sight of Palestine, by Thomas Fuller, London, 1662. (See also ' Friends of the National Libraries '.)

D AMBROSE JONES 1948049 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Canon D Ambrose Jones, M.A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Twelve volumes of holograph hymns, poems and essays by the donor.

BIBLE & WYCLIFFITE BIBLE 1948050 Ffynhonnell / Source The Representatives of the late Prebendary D Lester Jones, B.A., Prestatyn, per Mr H M Cleaver, St. Asaph. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A fragment of a fifteenth-century manuscript of the second version of the Wycliffite Bible, covering S. Matthew VI, 14-XIII, 4 (NLW MS 7855A). The Holy Bible, Cambridge, 1640/39, The New Testament, in Latin, London, 1781, Llyfr Gweddi y Catholig (Catholic Prayer Book), Liverpool, 1837, and other books on religious topics (Dept of Printed Books).

CATALOGUES OF PLAS NEWYDD CORRESPONDENCE ETC 1948051 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Emyr Gwynne Jones, M.A., Librarian of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Typescript catalogues of the Plas Newydd Correspondence and the Penrhos Papers (Open Shelves).

ROBERT PARRY (`ROBIN DDU ERYRI') 1948052 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Griffith R Jones, Barry. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph Welsh ode in memory of Rev John Prichard, Amlwch, by Robert Parry (' Robin Ddu Eryri '), 1891 (NLW MS 16799D).

H HUGHES JONES, MORVA NEVIN 1948053 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr H Hughes Jones, Morva Nevin. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description An account book, 1848, of John Evans, general merchant, Liverpool 9NLW MS 16369D); letters, 1872, by Richard Edwards (NLW MS 19981E) and Thomas Gee (NLW MS 19979A); and a collecting book for the Gyffylliog Fife and Drum Band, 1878 (NLW MS 19981E). Mynegai Lerpwl, Y Gyffylliog.

DR IORWERTH HUGHES JONES 1948054 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Iorwerth Hughes Jones, Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The deed of constitution of the Carmarthen Gas Company, 1822, and other papers. Mynegai Caerfyrddin.

SHOEMAKER'S ACCOUNT BOOK AND EBENESER CHAPEL, TOWYN 1948055 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr and Mrs J E Jones, Goginan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description An account book (1845-51) of a shoemaker at Melinbyrhedyn, near Machynlleth (NLW MS 14871A). An account (1878-89) relating to Ebeneser Methodist chapel, Towyn (NLW MS 14872C). Mynegai Tywyn.

JACK JONES, CARDIFF 1948056 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Jack Jones, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The complete first draft in manuscript of the donor's first novel, Rhondda Roundabout, with the major part of the first draft of his Off to Philadelphia in the Morning written on the verso of the leaves (NLW MSS 14822-4D).

JAMES JONES, LLANGWYRYFON 1948057 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr James Jones, Llangwyryfon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A survey of rural lore in the Llangwyryfon district, with maps and notes; and a conveyance of land on Mynydd Bach by Augustus Brackenbury, 1827 (NLW Deeds 952).

J W JONES 1948058 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J W Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph elegy by Thomas David Thomas ('Glan Padarn') and correspondence by Dr Thomas Gwynn Jones. J. Morrison: Commentary on the Gospel according to Matthew, 1870, interleaved with notes by R. D. Rowland (' Anthropos '), and press cuttings; and a sermon entitled ' Duw fel Tad ' by ' Anthropos '. ' Blodau'r Cysgodion ', by Robert W. Owen, Llanfrothen, transcribed by ' Ioan Brothen '. Nodiadau Schedule Available

MARIA JANE WILLIAMS, ABERPERGWM 1948059 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Katie Jones, Llandysul. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph letters, 1867-70, of Maria Jane Williams (Aberpergwm).

R TUDUR JONES 1948060 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend R Tudur Jones, B.A., B.D., D.Phil., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy of the donor's D.Phil. thesis on ' The Life, Work, and Thought of Vavasor Powell (1617-70) ' (NLW MS 14879C). A record of houses and buildings erected in the Llanystumdwy district by Robert Williams and others, 1859-72; an account of building work done by Robert Williams for Sir Hugh J. E. Nanney, Bt, 1893- 1902; draft information by Nathaniel Humphreys, Plas Hen, concerning poaching in the river Dwyfor, 1794; and other documents.

JOHN AMBROSE LLOYD 1948061 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs R Vaughan Jones, Bethesda. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Letters and documents relating to a singing festival held in Liverpool in 1915 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of John Ambrose Lloyd. Mynegai Lerpwl.

LAMMAS STREET WELSH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 1948062 Ffynhonnell / Source Lammas Street Welsh Congregational Church, Carmarthen, per The Reverend J Dyfnallt Owen, M.A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A conveyance of the site of the chapel at Lammas Street, 1725; account books of receipts and expenditure, 1735-94, 1845-1910; a certificate of registration, 1838; pew registers, 1835-62; minutes, 1824, 1865-74; a list of subscribers towards the erection of a schoolroom, 1889; a translation into English of part of David Peter's History of Religion in Wales; annual reports, 1892-8, 1900-1, 1903-5, 1907-35, 1938-44; and miscellaneous printed matter. Mynegai Caerfyrddin

B E PARKER LEIGHTON 1948063 Ffynhonnell / Source Major B E Parker Leighton, D.L., Sweeney Hall, Oswestry. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Letters by H. S. Milman and G. A. R. FitzGerald, 1891 (NLW MS 16343E), and a pamphlet by the former entitled Wales Present and Wales Past (Dept of Printed Books).

GWASG GOMER 1948064 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs J D Lewis and Sons, Gwasg Gomer, Llandysul. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description An account book, 1908-13, of the Gomerian Press, Llandysul (NLW MS 21450A). Mynegai Gwasg Gomer.

A R LLEWELLIN-TAYLOUR 1948065 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A R Llewellin-Taylour, M A., F.R.S A., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description About thirty books, largely on military topics, but including a fine set of Lytton's novels. The donation also contains many early numbers of The Times (Dept of Printed Books). About twenty volumes, including, like so many of the collections previously presented by the donor, a number of early editions of English legal works (Dept of Printed Books). Among the other works are catalogues of pictures exhibited in the National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts, and half-a- dozen of R. S. Surtees's works with illustrations by John Leech (Dept of Printed Books).

SIR JOHN EDWARD LLOYD 1948066 Ffynhonnell / Source Lady Lloyd, Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The original manuscript of Sir John Edward Lloyd's History of Wales, 1911 (NLW MSS 15071-3E).

AUDLEY M O J LLOYD 1948067 Ffynhonnell / Source Lt.-Col Audley M O J Lloyd, M.C., D.L., Court Henri, Dryslwyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description About 100 parts of various periodicals, especially early parts of The Graphic Newspaper, The Illustrated London News, and The Monitor, and a miscellaneous collection of music (Dept of Printed Books).

DOLAUCOTHI 1948068 Ffynhonnell / Source Major Herbert Lloyd-Johnes, Monmouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Three volumes of Dolau Cothi Correspondence, including a letter-book of John Johnes, 1836-44, and autograph letters of John Johnes, 1816-29, Sir John Moore, S. Johnes Knight, and Lady Louisa Shelley. A miscellaneous collection of twelve works in five volumes, of interest chiefly because of the autograph signatures and book-plates contained in them. For example, there is a presentation copy of James Beattie's The Minstrel to Mrs Siddons. Another volume contains the autograph and book-plate of William Cowper and a third the autograph of Lord Tennyson. Correspondence relating to the Northern Carmarthenshire Agricultural Society, 1873-4; and obituary notices of Colonel Bassett, 1842, and Dr Rowland Williams, 1870. A piece of sculpture, in the form of an ornamental vase upon a pedestal, made in 1803 by Thomas Banks, RA (1735-1805), for Thomas Johnes of Hafod. The relief on the vase represents a girl (according to the traditional story Mariamne Johnes, the only child of Thomas Johnes) seated at a small altar mourning the death of a robin which she had tamed. On the pedestal are the following verses, which had become almost illegible, by Samuel Rogers (1763- 1855): AN EPITAPH ON A ROBIN RED-BREAST.

Tread lightly here, for here tis said When piping Winds are hushed around, A small Note wakes from under Ground, Where now his tiny Bones are laid.

No more in lone and leafless Groves, With ruffled Wing and faded Breast, His friendless homeless Spirit roves: Gone to the World where Birds are blest.

Where never Cat glides o'er the Green Or School boy's giant Form is seen; But Love and Joy and smiling Spring Inspire their little Souls to sing.

The sculpture, which formerly stood in the grounds of Hafod mansion, about twelve miles from Aberystwyth, has been set up in the grounds of the National Library. Mynegai Dolaucothi Nodiadau Schedule Available

PEN DINAS EXCAVATION FUND 1948069 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr P B Loveday, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Correspondence and accounts, 1933-48, of the Pen Dinas Excavation Fund (NLW Amryw 34/31).

F F MADAN 1948070 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr F F Madan, M A., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of pamphlets, mostly dated 1871, relating to the ' Battle of Dorking ', including a copy of the work bearing that title by Sir George Tomkyns Chesney (Dept of Printed Books). The majority of the pamphlets are of a semi-political character, written in a style similar to that of the original work but dealing exclusively, and almost invariably adversely, with the international policy of the British Government of that date.

CHANDOS ESTATE & CASTLEMARTIN RECTORY 1948071 Ffynhonnell / Source The Clerk to the Middlesex Standing Joint Committee, per Colonel William Le Hardy Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Twenty documents (1734-82), relating to the Chandos estate in Radnorshire, and a conveyance, 1615, of the rectory of Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire (NLW Deeds 927-46).

ABERGAVENNY CHRONICLE 1948072 Ffynhonnell / Source The Monmouthshire County Council, per Mr J Conway Davies, M.A., Llanelly. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description An advertisement ledger, 1885-1901, of the Abergavenny Chronicle (NLW MS 16365E).

MONTGOMERYSHIRE COUNTY LIBRARY 1948073 Ffynhonnell / Source Montgomeryshire County Library, per Mr Glyn Davies, A.L.A., F.R.S.A., Librarian. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Sets of The Treasury of the English CM Churches of Montgomeryshire and Shropshire and Glad Tidings, 1922-37 (Dept of Printed Books).

IWAN MORGAN 1948074 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Iwan Morgan, M.A., Abergavenny. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Two extensive collections of books of a miscellaneous character but mainly religious, topographical and historical (Dept of Printed Books). Both collections include some interesting sixteenth-century editions of the classics as well as books in French and German. A framed water-colour by Joshua Cristall (1767-1847) entitled ' Reverie- A Peasant Girl, Barmouth, N. Wales ', and signed ' J. Cristall, 1842' (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Manuscripts from Moynes Court, near Chepstow, Monmouthshire. They include account books of John Jones, Llansanfrede, 1822-6; accounts with a diary of a tour in South Germany by E. Jones, 1842; household and garden accounts, 1862-93; farm memoranda, 1852-3; poor rate books for the parish of Llansantfread, 1849-75; a diary of the Monmouthshire hunt, 1892-3; notes on numismatics; and correspondence. Photographs of Moynes Court (reconstructed c. 1609 by Francis Goodwin, bishop of Llandaff, 1601- 17, according to Sir Joseph A. Bradney: A History of Monmouthshire) and a collection of engraved topographical prints of Monmouthshire interest (Dept of Pictures and Maps). A framed pencil portrait, heightened with white, by W. Smith, of Apollonia Mary Jones, February 1830 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). She was probably the daughter of John Jones of Llanarth and Treowen (d. 1828) and Mary his wife (d. 1855) and later married Mons.-- Rio of Brittany. Further extensive collections of books (Dept of Printed Books). These, like earlier collections presented by the same donor, came from country houses chiefly in South Wales. Most of them are leather-bound and many bear bookplates of former owners, including several members of the family of Lord Glanusk. They cover a wide range of subjects and include many books in foreign languages, including works in Latin, French, German and Italian. Over eighty printed works, including a large number of English comedies and farces published by T. Hailes Lacy in the first half of the nineteenth century (Dept of Printed Books). Sixteen volumes of The Art Journal; a water-colour portrait drawing, 1835, of a Monmouth family, a collection of woodcuts from early printed books, and a miscellaneous collection of engravings (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Llansanffraid, Llandaf.

CYMDEITHAS CYMRODORION GLENNYDD Y GARW 1948075 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J J Morgan, B.A., Bow Street, Cards. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A minute book, 1909-15, of Cymdeithas Cymrodorion Glennydd y Garw, Pontycymer, Glamorgan (NLW MS 14843B).

MONMOUTHSHIRE NEWSPAPERS 1948076 Ffynhonnell / Source Newport Public Library, per Mr John Warner, F.L.A., Librarian. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of Monmouthshire newspapers (Dept of Printed Books), including Monmouthshire Merlin, 1837-80 (odd numbers only), South Wales Daily Telegram 1878-9 (imperfect), and a few numbers of The County Observer and Monmouthshire Central Advertiser, 1867-82, Monmouthshire Evening Post, The Star of Gwent, and The South Wales Argus.

NANHWYNAN MANOR COURT BOOK 1948077 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Hugh Owen, M.A., F.S A., Llanfair P.G. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A court book of the manor of Nanhwynan, 1797-1827 (NLW MS 7854A).

J DYFNALLT OWEN 1948078 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend J Dyfnallt Owen, M A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A lithograph copy of an official plan, September 1, 1886, of the Welsh Colony at Chubut, Patagonia, showing the division of land amongst the holders and giving the names of the tenants (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

DOLGELLAU BRITISH SCHOOL $$T 1948079 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs J M Owen, Llandudno. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A file of papers relating to the Dolgelley British School, 1845-51 (NLW MS 16943C). Mynegai Dolgellau.

ELUNED MORGAN AND J H JONES, PATAGONIA 1948080 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John Owen, Abergavenny. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph letters, 1928-37, of Eluned Morgan, Gaiman, and J. H. Jones, Trelew, Chubut, Patagonia (NLW MS 16098E). Mynegai South America.

WILLIAM PARRY (`SARPEDON') 1948081 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H Parry, Nevin. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A volume of ' awdlau ', ' englynion ', and other poems written between 1866 and 1875 by Capt. William Parry, ' Sarpedon ', of Morfa Nevin (NLW MS 14844C).

OLWEN PARRY, BOOTLE 1948082 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Olwen Parry, Bootle. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscript hymn-tunes by Thomas Hughes and G. J. Hughes, New Ferry, and a manuscript volume of Welsh airs transcribed for the harp.

R J PRITCHARD MSS 1948083 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Myfanwy Pritchard, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts of the late Rev R. J. Pritchard (NLW MSS 15131-7). They include a dissertation on ' The " servant " idea in the Old Testament ' (NLW MS 15131D); a biography of John Davies, Iet Wen, which was awarded the prize at the National Eisteddfod held at Fishguard in 1936 (NLW MS 15132C); a short biography of Beriah Gwynfe Evans, which was awarded the first prize at the National Eisteddfod held at Denbigh, 1939 (NLW MS 15133C); minute books of University Extension courses conducted at Cemmaes in 1935-6 on ' Hanes yr Eglwys Fore ' and in 1936-7 on ' Barddoniaeth yr Hen Destament ' (NLW MSS 15136-7B); material for a history of Tabernacle Congregational Church, Belmont Road, Liverpool (NLW MS 15135C); and letters and sermon notes, 1874-82, by John Davies, Iet Wen (NLW MS 15134B). Mynegai Abergwaun, Dinbych, Cemaes, Cemais, Lerpwl.

DR H ELVET LEWIS 1948084 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend J Seymour Rees, Seven Sisters. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript volume of the English hymns of Dr H. Elvet Lewis (NLW MS 14828C).

CAERNARVONSHIRE REGISTER OF SHEEP EARMARKS 1948085 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs K Olwen Rees, Dolgelley. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A register of sheep earmarks in the parishes of Llanllechid, Llanbeblig, Bettws, Beddgelert, Llanddeiniolen, Capel Curig, Dolwyddelen, Bryncir and Dolbenmaen, Caernarvonshire (NLW MS 16479A). Mynegai Dolwyddelan.

KEIDRYCH RHYS 1948086 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Keidrych Rhys, Llanybri. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Original manuscripts and corrected proofs of contributions to Wales (NLW MS 20029E).

YR EISTEDDFOD GENEDLAETHOL 1948087 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Cynfab Roberts, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description An essay on education in Wales submitted by Hugh Pritchard, Llanerchymedd, for competition at the National Eisteddfod held at Caernarvon, 1880. Mynegai Caernarfon. Nodiadau Schedule Available

E C ROBERTS 1948088 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr E C Roberts, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A scale model in wood of the National Library of Wales made by the donor and awarded the prize, at the Colwyn Bay National Eisteddfod, 1947, for a model of any well-known building in Wales (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Bae Colwyn.

`THE SWANSEA AND GLAMORGAN CALENDAR' 1948089 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W C Rogers, Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description ' The Swansea and Glamorgan Calendar, Part II,Vol. III, Miscellaneous documents ', the continuation of a typescript collection made by the donor (Open Shelves). Mynegai Abertawe.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 1948090 Ffynhonnell / Source The Royal Agricultural Society of England, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of 260 books and periodicals, mainly American and German, but including a set of the Results of the magnetical and meteorological observations, published by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1912-36 (Dept of Printed Books). Other serials in the collection are Arbeiten der Deutschen Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft. 1909-14, and Reports of the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, 1861-1936.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTO DOMINGO 1948091 Ffynhonnell / Source The University of Santo Domingo. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description About fifty recent books and pamphlets and a few periodical parts (Dept of Printed Books). With the exception of one or two works in English, the publications are all in Spanish, the great majority having been published in Ciudad Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. Many of these are official publications of the University of Santo Domingo and include monographs on various subjects, mainly historical and political, in addition to calendars and other works dealing with the University itself. The periodical parts consist of sixteen numbers of Anales de la Universidad de Santo Domingo, four of Juventud Universitaria and three of Notas de Salud Publica.

THE NORTHERN STAR OR YORKSHIRE MAGAZINE 1948092 Ffynhonnell / Source Sheffield University Library, per Mr S Peyton, Librarian. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A copy, in three volumes, of The Northern Star, or Yorkshire Magazine, 1817-18 (Dept of Printed Books).

PRINTED BOOKS 1948093 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mrs Roma B E M Slingsby-Jenkins, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description About a dozen volumes (Dept of Printed Books), including three Italian books on art, namely, La Nuova Pinacoteca Vaticana, by P. d'Achiardi, La Gallerie d'Europa (5 vols., Bergamo), and Le Logge di Raffaele, incise la G. Ottaviani e G. Volpato (Nuova edizione).

ALFRED F SOTHEBY 1948094 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Alfred F Sotheby, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The original model in clay by G. F. Watts, OM, RA, for the memorial to the donor's great-uncle, the Hon. William Owen Stanley, 1802-84, Penrhos, Anglesey, at St Cybi's Church, Holyhead (Dept of Printed Books). The memorial was executed by Hamo Thornycroft, R.A. Mynegai Caergybi.

`MEDIAEVAL DOCUMENTS CONCERNING STORA KOPPARBERGET' 1948095 Ffynhonnell / Source Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags Aktiebolag, Falun, Sweden. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of " Mediaeval Documents concerning Stora Kopparberget " (Monumenta Historica Cuprimontana Melii Aevi), Stockholm, 1947 (Dept of Printed Books). A publication issued by the Company in commemoration of the 600th anniversary of the renewal by Magnus Eriksson, of Sweden, of the Royal Charters of Privilege to Kopparberget. The Company is engaged in forest industry, saw milling, mining, iron and steel manufacture, pulp and paper industries, chemical industries and other related activities. It is probably the oldest and largest industrial enterprise in Sweden. The work presented by the firm is an imperial folio containing reproductions, in photogravure, of the original documents preserved in the Company's archives in Falun. The work has been edited by Professor Elias Wessen, of the University of Stockholm, with an introduction, which is in Swedish with an English translation, by Bertil Boethius, Keeper of the State Records of Sweden.

ALEXANDER POPE 1948096 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Richard E Thomas, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The works of Alexander Pope, in nine volumes, London, 1753 (Dept of Printed Books).

ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS CAMPAIGN 1948097 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J E Tomley, C.B.E., Montgomery. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Minutes of the meeting held at Welshpool, 12 November 1910, which approved of the proposal for a national memorial to King Edward VII in the form of an Anti-Tuberculosis Campaign (NLW MS 14919D).

SIR LEONARD TWISTON-DAVIES 1948098 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Leonard Twiston-Davies, K.B.E., D.L., LL.D., F.S.A., Rockfield Park, Monmouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of law books and books relating to local government (Dept of Printed Books). A volume containing over sixty engravings of drawings by famous artists, including sixteen engravings by Richard Earlom (l743-l822) after drawings by Claude Gellee or Lorrain (1600-82) included in Liber Veritatis . . . (J. & J. Boydell, London, 1777-1819) (Dept of Printed Books). Water-colour drawings of Dolgelley by H. O'Neill (1784-1822), Aberystwyth Castle [by John Varley, (1778-1842)], and (per The Contemporary Art Society for Wales) Pengwern Old Hall, near Ffestiniog, by John Steegman (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Dolgellau.

URDD GOBAITH CYMRU 1948099 Ffynhonnell / Source Urdd Gobaith Cymru (The Welsh League of Youth). Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description One of thirty copies of a special issue of Y Llinyn Arian, the gift book published by the ' Urdd ' to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its foundation (Dept of Printed Books). Nine of the thirty copies, printed on hand-made paper, were bound at the National Library in full green polished levant morocco and twenty-one copies were bound in full green hard grain morocco by the publishers. The copy presented to the National Library is one of the nine copies bound for the ' Urdd ' at the Library.

THE APOSTOLIC VATICAN LIBRARY 1948100 Ffynhonnell / Source The Apostolic Vatican Library, Vatican City. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The Books published by the Vatican Library, MDCCCLXXXV-MCMXXXXVII: an illustrated analytic catalogue. Vatican City, 1947 (Dept of Printed Books). A catalogue of all the material published by the Vatican Library from 1885 to 1947, grouped in three classes - Catalogues of manuscripts, ' Studies and Texts ', and illustrated works, the last including the photogravure reproductions of famous manuscripts, documents and maps. Apart from the usual typographical and bibliographical descriptions, copious notes on each book have been added by Dr Nello Vion, Professor at the Vatican School of Library Science. The introduction consists of a complete survey of the editorial work of the Vatican Library since the art of typography began. The volume contains six plates in photogravure, and other illustrations, zincographs, illustrative of the books published by the Vatican Library. Mynegai Italy, yr Eidal.

H M VAUGHAN, TENBY 1948101 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr H M Vaughan, M.A., F.S.A., Tenby. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript volume entitled ' A miscellaneous collection containing great variety of matter, both sacred and moral . . . 1743 ', enclosed in an Elizabethan needlework binding with an elegant design in gold thread on black or deep purple silk with jet insertions (NLW MS 14882B). A fine copy of the German translation of Historia Animalium, by Conrad Gesner, the Zurich doctor and professor of medicine (1516-65) (Dept of Printed Books). This work, first published in four volumes in 1551-8, and later in an enlarged edition of five volumes in 1669-70, was the outstanding zoological work of the Renaissance. The German translation was apparently published in three separate parts, the Vogelbuch in 1557, and both the Fischbuch and the Thierbuch in 1563. This copy consists of the three parts bound in one volume, the second part, however, coming first, followed by the first and third. It is a large folio volume bound in stamped pigskin vellum elaborately tooled. The very numerous woodcuts of animals, birds, and fishes, some of them startling in their imaginative ingenuity, have been skilfully painted in by hand, the result being a realistic presentation of natural colouring. See the National Library of Wales Journal, Summer 1948. Mynegai Germany, yr Almaen.

J GLYNDYRUS WILLIAMS 1948102 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Glyndyrus Williams, Merthyr Tydfil. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The musical compositions of Lewis Morgan, Merthyr Tydfil, collected and transcribed by the donor, together with a volume of his own compositions (NLW MS 14892D). Mynegai Merthyr Tudful.

JOHN HUGHES, WERN 1948103 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Rhys Williams, Eastham, Cheshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Notebooks containing abstracts of sermons by Calvinistic Methodist ministers made by John Hughes, senior and junior, of Wern, Llanrhaiadr-in-Kinmerch, 1827-59. Mynegai Llanrhaiadr-yng-Nghinmeirch.

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU 1948104 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor Mary Williams, M.A., D.U.P., Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The complete works, in seventeen volumes, of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Paris, 1830-3 (Dept of Printed Books).

MAENTWROG RATE ASSESSMENT BOOKS 1948105 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Powell Williams, Trawsfynydd. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Rate assessment books for the parish of Maentwrog, - poor rate, 1841-6 (NLW MSS 16935A, 16936D), and highway rate, 1870-4 (NLW MS 16934A).

PRESS CUTTINGS ON LIVERPOOL WELSH BIBLIOGRAPHY 1948106 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr and Mr. William Williams, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A set of press cuttings of articles by the late Hugh Evans on Liverpool Welsh bibliography, with correspondence relating to the same (NLW MS 14825C). Mynegai Lerpwl.

T GWYNN JONES 1948107 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W Emyr Williams, LL.B., Wrexham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Records of the Dr Thomas Gwynn Jones Testimonial, 1944. Nodiadau Schedule T Gwynn Jones vol. VI (1993), ii + 14pp.

ACREFAIR 1948108 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W Emyr Williams, LL.B., Wrexham, and The Reverend S T Hughes, Ruthin. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description 'THE ACRE HOUSE, ACREFAIR, COLLECTION' A large collection of material has been received from the library of the late Rev Ebenezer J. Williams, Acrefair, through the good offices of the donors, his executors. It consists mainly of manuscripts (letters), books and pamphlets, and prints relating to the Calvinistic Methodist or Presbyterian Church of Wales, Liberalism, and local history. The material is being sorted and arranged, the Librarian having been given full authority to select any likely to be of interest to the National Library and to dispose of the remainder. A fuller report on the collection will be prepared in due course. Nodiadau Schedule Available

W GILBERT WILLIAMS 1948109 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W Gilbert Williams, M.A., Rhostryfan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Minutes, 1919-20, of church officers' meetings at Moeltryfan, Rhosgadfan and Rhostryfan. ' Hen deuluoedd Rhostryfan ', a study by the donor of the history of Rhostryfan families in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, - two volumes in typescript.

W ISAAC WILLIAMS, LONDON 1948110 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W Isaac Williams, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Letters to Thomas Burgess, bishop of St Davids, from Archdeacon Thomas Beynon, Archdeacon H. T. Payne, John Jenkins, Kerry, and Ch. Griffith, Brecon, concerning an inscribed stone discovered at Myddfai in 1825 (NLW MS 14883C); and a letter by Dr Burgess relating to the Hengwrt MSS, 1796 (NLW MS 14005E). Mynegai Ceri, Aberhonddu.

PETER WILLIAMS, BYRDIR 1948111 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W U Williams, M.A., Rhewl, Denbighshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript collection of Welsh poems by Peter Williams, Byrdir, parish of Llanynys, Denbighshire.

WREXHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY 1948112 Ffynhonnell / Source Wrexham Public Library, per The Librarian. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of 158 volumes of Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1883-1930, mostly unbound (Dept of Printed Books).

YALE UNIVERSITY 1948113 Ffynhonnell / Source Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of 100 volumes published and presented by Yale University in memory of Edward Stephen Harkness, B.A. (Yale, 1897), LL.D. (Saint Andrews, 1926), First President ot the Commonwealth Fund in the United States and Founder of The Pilgrim Trust in Great Britain (Dept of Printed Books). The volumes cover a wide range of subjects, but naturally include a number of works on the history of the United States and other countries of the American continent. Mynegai USA, Unol Daleithiau.

CARTULARY 1948114 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A cartulary of the Benedictine abbey of S. Peter at Shrewsbury, compiled and written between 1278 and 1292, with a few leaves containing miscellaneous charters entered in the fourteenth century, and a pedigree of the descendants of Guillaume, seigneur de Bellesme, written in the sixteenth century. See the National Library of Wales Journal, Vol. V, No. 3, pp. 175-8. Mynegai Amwythig

SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS 1948115 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A ' List of Monasteries, &c., in Great Britain to which is added a List of Monastic Cartularies with an index, 1835 '. The monasteries, churches and castles are arranged alphabetically under counties, and particulars are given of the dates of foundation and situation of the monastic houses and of the orders to which they belonged. The list of monastic cartularies was drawn up by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt, to whom the manuscript once belonged.

THOMAS CHALONER 1948116 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description ' A booke of sundrye and diuers noats of evidences, of tymes, and wytnesses of Cheshire, Lancashire, Wales, etc., collectede and written by Thomas Chaloner ', 1592. The first section of the book consists of abstracts made in 1592-3, for genealogical purposes, by Thomas Chaloner of Bridge Street, Chester, ' student of the Lawe of Armes and Armory ', of documents relating to the families of Gamull of Kneghton, Venables and Leighes, Vawdray, Newton, Leighton, Molyneux, Heskayth, Grosvenor, Cholmondeley, Holland, Savage, Dutton, Trevor and others. The remainder of the book contains an extensive collection of genealogies, with arms in trick, all written in a hand of the early seventeenth century, with an index to the whole volume by the same hand. Mynegai Caer.

`TRIOEDD YNYS PRYDAIN' 1948117 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description An incomplete holograph manuscript of an exposition, by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, of the triads called ' Trioedd Ynys Prydain ' (NLW MS 7857D). See The National Library of Wales Journal, Vol. V, No. 3, p. 227. Mynegai Peniarth.

COURT OF THE PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL IN THE MARCHES 1948118 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Copies of instructions and letters relating to the court of the President and Council in the Marches of Wales and the lieutenancy of Merioneth, 1577-1600 (NLW MS 6620D).

PEDIGREE ROLL OF ANNE, DAUGHTER OF WALTER GRYFFIN 1948119 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description An armorial pedigree roll of Anne, daughter of Walter Gryffin, compiled by Thomas Jones, Fountain Gate, Tregaron, 1593 (NLW Rolls 46). Mynegai Twm Sion Cati.

GRANT OF LAND IN LLANDINGAD ETC 1948120 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A grant of land in Llandingad, Carmarthenshire, witnessed by Rice Prichard (Vicar Prichard), 1611; a transcript of the diary (1729-74) of Morgan Williams, Tynycoed, relating to the Congregational churches of Cefnarthen and Pentretygwyn; papers of the Gwynne family of Buckland, 1723-1800; and notes on Harries, Cwrtycadno, by the late Rev H. Lloyd, Cynghordy. Mynegai Rees Prichard, y Ficer Prichard.

WILLIAM BUCKLAND AND LADY ANNE ERSKINE 1948121 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph letters of Wm Buckland, geologist, 1825 (NLW MS 14005E), and Lady Anne Erskine, 1790-1801 (NLW MS 7794E). Mynegai William Buckland.

R D BLACKMORE 1948122 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Notebooks (1843-67) of R. D. Blackmore.

JOHN CEIRIOG HUGHES (`CEIRIOG') 1948123 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Two manuscripts containing drafts of poems and a volume of press cuttings by John Ceiriog Hughes (' Ceiriog ').

RHYS JONES O'R BLAENAU 1948124 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A copy, made by Cadwalader Pugh in 1788, of the poetical works of Rhys Jones o'r Blaenau, with transcripts and extracts in prose and verse taken from various newspapers between 1836 and 1849. Mynegai Blaenau Ffestiniog.

WILLIAM ELIAS, PLAS Y GLYN 1948125 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description An anthology of Welsh verse in strict and free metres, with some prose, begun by William Elias of Plas y Glyn in 1752. The manuscript contains selections from the works of Owen Gruffydd, Llanystumdwy, and Goronwy Owen.

ARTHUR MACHEN 1948126 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The correspondence of Arthur Machen with Harry Spurr, publisher, 1887-1946, relating mainly to the publication of his works (NLW MS 14935C).

T R ROBERTS (`ASAPH') 1948127 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts of T. R. Roberts (' Asaph ') - the original manuscript of Chapters I-XXI of ' Llewelyn Wyn Nofel Grefyddol. . .' with press cuttings from Papur Pawb, 1905, containing the entire text of the novel; unpublished biographical sketches of ' selfmade Welshmen '; a selection of English translations of Welsh hymns; a collection of ' Welsh poetry in English rhyme '; and an essay on ' Noted Shoemakers '.

D E JENKINS, DENBIGH 1948128 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Holograph manuscripts of D. E. Jenkins, Denbigh, including sermons and essays, and correspondence; and minute books of Cyfarfod Dosbarth Dinbych, 1873-1900, and Pwyllgor Dyledion Capeli Dyffryn Clwyd, 1909-11.

T LLECHID JONES ETC 1948129 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The holograph manuscript of a Welsh biography of Archbishop John Williams by T. Llechid Jones; a manuscript copy of The Battle of B-ng-r or the Church's Triumph. A Comic-Heroic Poem in Nine Cantos, by [Dr Geddes]; and notes on Robert Jones, Llangynhafal, friend of William Wordsworth.

JOHN MORGAN (`CREUNANTYDD') ETC 1948130 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of the poems of John Morgan (' Creunantydd ') 1887-1911; an interesting letter from John Williams, ab Ithel to ' Myfyr Morgannwg ', 1855; verses written at Pen-y-gwryd by Charles Kingsley, 1856 (NLW MS 16799D); and an adjudication, by Charles Wilkins, of essays on 'Eminent Men of the parishes of Merthyr and Vaynor'. Mynegai Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tudful, Faenor.

JOHN GWYDDNO WILLIAMS 1948131 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscript biographical dictionaries and other works by Rev John Gwyddno Williams. They include ' Enwogion Cymreig, 1700-1900 '; ' Llawlyfr adgof am Weinidogion Bedyddwyr Cymru a fuont feirw yn ystod y ganrif ddiweddaf '; ' Mynegai egwyddorol i Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru a'r Bedyddwyr Cymreig yn Lloegr '; ' Gweddau Cyfreithiol Hanesiaeth Eglwysig . . . 1932 '; ' Llyfryddiaeth Baledi Cymraeg a argraffwyd yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg '; a Welsh novel, ' Jo yr Henblas ', 1926; two dramas: ' Hanes am Syr John Oldcastle ' - a translation of the English drama attributed to William Shakespeare - 1931, and ' Gwen yr Hafod '; a volume of lecture notes; hymns; and certificates.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF J CUNNINGHAM 1948132 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of The Poetical works of J. Cunningham (London, C. Cooke, 1795), bound in full red morocco, with a fore-edge water-colour of Conway Castle and Bridge (Dept of Printed Books). Mynegai Conwy.

WORKES OF GEFFREY CHAUCER 1948133 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of the Workes of Geffrey Chaucer, published by J. Kyngston for J. Wight, London, 1561 (Dept of Printed Books). The copy lacks the title page and the four pages of ' Contents '. Otherwise, it is a very good copy, and is the issue containing the ' Prologues ', with illustrations by Pynson, in nine leaves instead of five as is the other issue, without illustrations, of the same date.

CORPUS CODICUM SUECICORUM MEDII AEVI 1948134 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Corpus Codicum Suecicorum Medii Aevi, Copenhagen, 1943, etc. (Dept of Printed Books) Seven volumes of this work have already been published. The aim of the promoters of this undertaking was to preserve, by means of facsimile reproductions, all the most important medieval manuscripts of Sweden. The result has been the publication of a work worthy to stand by the side of the great Corpus Codicum Islandicorum Medii Aevi. In many respects, indeed, the two works supplement each other, especially in the field of law. The law manuscripts form the oldest class of Swedish manuscripts, the earliest dating from the early thirteenth century. They contain rich material for the study of Scandinavian ways of life in the period when Christian culture was only just beginning to make its influence felt. Manuscripts of religious content, especially those in Swedish, were largely written and preserved in the Convent of St. Birgitta at Vadstena, founded in 1384, while those of secular interest, such as romances, chronicles, court records, etc., were chiefly preserved by laymen. The volumes of this work vary in size from small to large quarto according to the size of the original manuscripts. All are uniformly cased in half vellum. The reproduction of the facsimiles has been markedly successful and the text is clear and easy to read. The introductions are in Swedish and English.

ANATOMIE OF ABUSES BY PHILIP STUBBES 1948135 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of the Anatomie of Abuses, by Philip Stubbes, London, 1583 (Dept of Printed Books). This work was printed by Richard Jones, a prominent Welsh stationer of the sixteenth century, although it does not contain his device ' Heb Ddieu heb ddim '. Bound in full grained sheepskin, with gold and blind panels on sides, le gascon panelled back, inside borders and gilt edges.

HANS FURSTENBERG 1948136 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Das französische Buch im achtzehnten Jahrhundert und in der Empirezeit, by Hans Fürstenberg (Weimar, Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1929) (Dept of Printed Books). A full account of a noteworthy period in the history of the art of book-production in France. The appendix contains chronological lists of authors, illustrators and engravers, genealogies of the Padeloup, Derome, and Didot families, and a table recording the sale and purchase of important collections of French books in the eighteenth century. Classified indexes add to the value of the book as a work of reference.

THE GOLDEN COCKEREL MABINOGION 1948137 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description No. 12 of 75 specially bound copies of The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion: a new translation from the ' White Book of Rhydderch ' and the ' Red Book of Hergest ', by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, with illustrations by Dorothea Braby. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948 (Dept of Printed Books). The copy is signed by the translators and the illustrator. Designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandford, in Caslon Old Face type, on mould-made paper. Bound in full morocco with Celtic ornamental design in gilt, stamped on covers, by S[angorsky] and S[utcliffe], London.

UNDEB Y BRYTHONIAID 1948138 Ffynhonnell / Source Undeb y Brythoniaid, Birmingham, per Mr R Y Bickerstaff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Minute books of the society from February 24, 1886, to March 20, 1931 (NLW Minor Deposits 275- 8B).

GEORGE FLORANCE 1948139 Ffynhonnell / Source The Executors of the late the Right Hon George Florance, 6th Baron Boston, per Major The Hon C E Irby, M.C. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description About 230 deeds, documents and plans ranging in date from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, and relating to properties principally in Ceirchiog, Gwredog, Hen Eglwys, Holyhead, Llanallgo, Llanbadrig, Llanbedrgoch, Llandrygarn, Llandyfrydog, Llanddanielfab, Llanddeusant, Llanddona, Llanddyfnan, Llanedwen, Llaneilian, Llanfachreth, Llanfaelog, Llanfaethlu, Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf, Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Llanfihangel-yn- Nhywyn, Llanfwrog, Llangaffo, Llangefni, Llangeinwen, Llangoed, Llanidan, Llanrhydlad, Llantrisant, Llechylched, Newborough, Penmynydd, Penrhoslligwy, Rhodogeidio, Rhoscolyn and Treverwith, co. Anglesey, and Bangor, Llanddeiniolen, and Llanfair-Isgaer, co. Caernarvon; together with a few isolated deeds relating to properties in Hodgeston, Lamphey, Manorbier and St Florence, co. Pembroke, and in the county borough of Carmarthen and co. Radnor. They include a parcel of title- deeds (1821-48) of the property on which Salem CM Chapel, Penrhoslligwy, was erected, and a lease (1755) from the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Bangor, Governors of the Free Grammar School of Jeoffrey Glynne, LLD, in Bangor, to Sir William Irby of Llanidan, Bt, of mineral rights in Penrhoslligwy. The Welsh portion represents in bulk about one third of the entire collection. The remainder contains earlier material, dating from the middle of the fourteenth century and relating to properties in cos. Buckingham, Stafford, Lincoln, Middlesex, Southampton, etc., and in Ireland. Mynegai Caergybi, Llanrhyddlad, Penrhosllugwy, Treferwydd, Caerfyrddin, Iwerddon, Ireland. Nodiadau Transferred to University of Wales, Bangor, 1954

BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION 1948140 Ffynhonnell / Source The British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Twelve documents, 1685-1753, relating to Croxton, parish of Hanmer, co. Flint.

LLANERCHFROCHWEL 1948141 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr O Gilbert Davies, Welshpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Deeds and documents (1689-1883) relating to the Llannerchfrochwel estate in Buttington, Castle Caereinion, Guilsfield, Llandrinio, Llandysilio, Meifod and Pool, co. Montgomery. Mynegai Castell Caereinion, Cegidfa. Nodiadau Schedule Available

ABERTHIN 1948142 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W A H Fisher, Aberthin, near Cowbridge. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description 161 deeds and documents (1631-1913) relating to properties in the parishes of Cadoxton iuxta Barry, Cowbridge, Coychurch, Llanblethian, Llandaff, Llangan, Llanilid, Llanmaes, Llansannor, Llantwit Major, Pendoylan, Peterstone-super-montem, St Athan, St Mary (Cardiff), St Mary Hill, Welsh St Donats, and Ystradowen, co. Glamorgan; in High Leigh, co. Chester; and in Warminster, co. Wilts. They include estreats from the court rolls of the manors of Talyvan (1767-1882) and Boviarton and Llantwit (1801). Mynegai Pen-y-bont-faen, Llandaf, Tal-y-fan, Boverton. Nodiadau Schedule Available

BROGYNTYN 1948143 Ffynhonnell / Source The Right Hon Lord Harlech, K.G., P.C., G.C.M.G., D.C.L., LL.D., F.S.A., per Mr J Iorwerth Williams, M.A., LL.B., Oswestry. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A group of records being a further part of the Brogyntyn muniments and consisting of: (a) Records relating to Cricieth, Caernarvon, including:- Court books and court roll of the manor and borough, lists of burgesses, etc., 1680-1831; an English translation of the charter of 1284, with the opinion thereon of John Bowen of Shrewsbury, 1828, and the confirmation charter of 1517/18, with an English translation; a title deed of property, 1496, a copy will of Robert Owen of Ystumcegid, 1627, and the original will of Henry Roberts of Caernarvon, a native of Cricieth, 1644/5, with a letter from Henry Roberts to William Wynn of Glyn, 1637; notes on the castle by William Owen of Brogyntyn (late 17th cent); articles of agreement for a horse race on Cricieth Course, 1727; cases and opinions, 1830-9, relating to a proposed lease to William Ormsby Gore, and to the development of waste land in the borough; a draft petition, 1831, of William Ormsby Gore to the King for letters patent to enjoy the office of constable of the castle, and letters of John Gore, Windsor, etc., 1831-5, relating thereto; a case and opinion, 1838, relating to the claim of William Ormsby Gore to the office of mayor of Cricieth by virtue of his marriage to the heiress of Ystumcegid, notes thereon, and letters relating thereto from H. Rumsey Williams, Penrhos, 1838, James Howard, Office of Woods, 1857, and W. W. E. Wynne, Peniarth, 1857; a copy petition of the recorder, bailiffs, burgesses and landowners of the borough, [1831], against a proposed clause in the Reform Bill depriving them of their right to vote in the parliamentary election for the county boroughs, a letter relating thereto from William Ormsby Gore, 1831, and a list of houses and inhabitants in the borough, 1831; a case and opinion, 1713, relating to the legality of the election of burgesses at Nevin and Pwllheli, and a draft petition against the election as member for the county boroughs of Thomas Wynn of Bodvean, who defeated William Owen of Brogyntyn; a map of Cricieth based on the OS map of 1831, and a map of corporation property in the borough drawn by John Price, surveyor, 1839. (b) A few miscellaneous items. They include letters, 1857 and undated, to William Ormsby Gore from his son J. R. Ormsby Gore, J. E. Parry, Glyn, etc., relating to the development of Portmadoc and Borth [y Gest], and to a search for documents at Dolbenmaen and Penmorfa, with a reference to Ellis Owen, Cefnymeusydd; notes on the parish of Ffestiniog; and a draft case relating to the adjournment of a Caernarvonshire parliamentary election (early 18th cent.). Mynegai Criccieth, Amwythig, Caernarfon, Nefyn, Bodfean, Buan, Porthmadog. Nodiadau Schedule Available

THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF HAVERFORDWEST 1948144 Ffynhonnell / Source The Town and County of Haverfordwest, per Mr R Ivor Rees, Town Clerk. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Records of the town and county of Haverfordwest ranging from 1284 to the end of the nineteenth century, with a few deeds and documents of the nineteenth century (the borough charters and late records remain in local custody) (NLW Films 355-63,100): Over 650 deeds, being grants and leases of burgages and properties, 1284-1876; and charters of incorporation of the trade-guilds of feltmakers, 1587, 1613, taylors, 1618, glovers, 1613, sadlers, 1659, smiths, 1690, and carpenters, 1692. Extracts made in the nineteenth century from the Council Books of the admission of burgesses, 1655- 1811; burgess rolls, 1765-1812; a case concerning the admission of burgesses, 1810-12; and petitions for admission of burgesses, 1747-1829. Mayors' accounts, 1565-1712; chamber reeves' accounts, 1583-1724; serjeants' accounts, 1585-1673; bailiffs' accounts, 1583-1696; sheriffs' accounts, 1659-68; miscellaneous accounts, 1558-1757; churchwardens of St Mary's accounts, 1586-1665; chamber rent books, 1620-1781; assessments of the monthly rate for the maintenance of the forces, 1647-51; accounts of the Charity school, 1649-69; and accounts of the repair of the quay, 1777. The will of John Button, burgess, 1463; an award in a dispute, 1475; documents in a dispute in the Council of the Marches against a mayor, 1588; papers relating to charities, 1596- ; a schedule of deeds touching Thomas Lloyd's bequest for the maintenance of a schoolmaster, 1613; a case touching Canon's bequest, seventeenth century; documents relating to the church of St Mary, 1605-1717; petitions concerning the monthly assessments, 1650- ; a petition by and against Samson Lort in respect of his election as M.P., 1660; a petition for the renewal of the lease of the meeting house in St Thomas Green, post 1719; poor and other rates, 1574-1693; documents relating to the offlce of Lord Lieutenant, 1619, the free school, 1635, relief of the poor, 1636, parliamentary elections, 1645- , relief of the Army in Ireland, 1646, the Civil War, 1646- , Haverfordwest Mills, 1650, monthly assessments, 1651-79, the plague, 1651-2; apprentices, 1664, the militia, 1684, the rectory of Narberth, 1690, and land tax, 1714-42. Letters from Sir John Stepney, 1640, Ethelred Wogan, 1640, Rowland Laugharne, William Lenthall, 1650, Herbert Perrott, Thomas Davids, 1652, Erasmus Phillips, Sam. Lort, William Phillips, 1652, Anne Laugharne, 1660, John Upton, 1654, Capt. W. Barlow, 1688, Sir Robert Needham, 1660, Roger Lort, 1660, John Wogan, 1666, John Phillips, MP, 1717-18, and others. The following volumes: five order books of the Mayor and Council, 1540-1849; extracts from the book of acts of the Council, 1530-54; a register of the company of corvisors, 1668-1807; disbursements of the trustees of the Charity School to schoolmaster and scholars, 1707-1816; two hundred court books of the town and county, 1746-1838; a common council pool book, 1820; a book of precedents and oaths of the officers of the town, nineteenth century; declarations by the mayors on acceptance of office, 1836-46; a register of contracts, mortgages and bonds, 1836-1920; a volume containing copies of cases involving the town, oaths of officers, benefactions, lists of officers, corporations of tailors, blacksmiths, and carpenters, and a translation of the charter of 7 James I; a precedent book, 1827-82; drawings, plan and contract for the gas works, 1836; and a letter book of James Phillips, town clerk, 1833-6. Miscellaneous documents. These include orders of the common council for the government of the town, 1628; depositions relating to the boundaries between Temperness and the common of Portfield, 1592; copies of letters and petitions relating to the appointment of the Lord Lieutenant of Haverfordwest, 1596; an order of the council to force open the coffer containing deeds, 1616; a schedule of deeds and writings relating to Tempernance, the Charnel house, the rectory of St Mary's, and burgages, 1626; a writ of execution of a decree upon the statute of charitable uses for the poor of Rudbaxton, 1650; a legacy to the parish of Rudbaxton, 1653; a petition concerning Canon's Charity, 1650; particulars and schedules of town deeds and grants, seventeenth century; an order of the common council to appoint a man to administer the ordinances and catechize the youth of the town, seventeenth century; translations of charters, eighteenth century; orders concerning Portfield, 1640- 1723; a document touching Narberth market, 1652; cases relating to the town, eighteenth-nineteenth century; Portfield enclosure, 1838; a case relating to the Thursday market, 1745; cases touching the title and rights of the mayor and corporation in the church of St Mary, 1745; particulars of the Perrott Trust and Thomas Lloyd's endowment of a school, eighteenth century; an indenture of member of parliament for Haverfordwest, 1832; documents touching the tolls of the fair and market, c. 1744; an opinion on the charter of Carmarthen, 1740; an augmentation to the church of St Mary, 1654; petty constables' returns; a memorandum on the duties on coal and culm, c. 1803 ; and an advertisement of the sale of tolls, 1867. Many of the records are in a state of considerable deterioration and need immediate attention. In their present fragile and tattered state they are not in a fit condition to be issued to readers. Mynegai Hwlffordd, Caerfyrddin. Nodiadau Originals returned to Pembrokeshire RO. Microfilm copies available.

PLAS HEATON 1948145 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W J Heaton, Plas Heaton, Denbighshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description About 250 deeds and documents (1380-1908), and a few maps and surveys, relating to lands in Cerrig- y-Druidion, Denbigh, Henllan, Llanarmon-yn-Yale, Llanrhaiadr-yn-Cynmerch, Llannefydd, Llansannan, Llanynys and Nantglyn, co. Denbigh, Dymeirchion, Mold and Rhuddlan, co. Flint, the city of Chester, and Stoke Ferry, Wereham and Wretton, co. Norfolk. Of particular interest is a deed of assignment in trust (Nov. 26, 1748), for defraying certain debts, made between Rev William Samuel of Nantglyn and Rev Edward Samuel of Llangar. Mynegai Dinbych, Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, Llanrhaiadr-yng-Nghinmeirch, Tremeirchion, yr Wyddgrug, Caer. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

CARPENTERS' ACCOUNT BOOKS 1948146 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T J Jenkins, Machynlleth, per The Dovey Valley Social Studies Society. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Account books (1844-1930) of David and Jenkin Jenkins, carpenters, of Pontrhydfendigaid (NLW Minor Deposits 626-7A).

MERIONETHSHIRE SCHOOLS LOG-BOOKS 1948147 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr B Maelor Jones, M.A., LL.B., Director of Education for Merioneth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description School log-books of Glan y pwll, 1868-1933, Ffestiniog, 1863-1922, Tanygrisiau, 1868-1916, Maenofferen, 1875-1912, Manod, 1868-1900, Bronaber, 1905-42, Gellilydan, 1906-36, Penrhyndeudraeth, 1863-1934, Llanfrothen, 1865-1912, Rhyd, 1897-1944, Brontecwyn, 1905-37, and Croesor, 1873-1922. Nodiadau Transferred to Gwynedd RO, Dolgellau.

DOCUMENTS RELATING TO `THE GILBERT' FIELD 1948148 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr D I Richards Jones, per Mr D Ll Jones, B.Sc., Barry. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Eight documents (1828-63) relating to ' The Gilbert ' field in the parish of St Andrew Major, co. Glamorgan

BUCKLEY FAMILY MISCELLANEA 1948149 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Ella King, Bala. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A grant of arms to Edmund Buckley of Ardwick, 1864 (NLW Rolls 219), a grant of the name and arms of Buckley to Edmund Peck of Dinas Mawddwy, 1864 (NLW Rolls 220), the patent of baronetcy to Edmund Buckley, 1868 (NLW Rolls 221), and an address to Sir Edmund Buckley, Bart, MP, from the inhabitants of Dinas Mawddwy and its neighbourhood, 1868 (NLW Rolls 222).

MAP AND ENCLOSURE AWARD OF LETTERSTON 1948150 Ffynhonnell / Source Letterston Parish Council. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A map and enclosure award of the parish of Letterston, Pembrokeshire, 1863 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

LLANBEDR (MERIONETH) PARISH COUNCIL 1948151 Ffynhonnell / Source Llanbedr (Merioneth) Parish Council, per Mr Ellis Jones, Clerk. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Parochial records- a register of marriages, 1754-1811; vestry minutes, 1788-1851, 1847-1926; churchwardens' and overseers' accounts, 1829-37; poor relief accounts, 1825-34; an assessment book, 1838-41; receipts and expenditure accounts, 1838-48; and a parcel of accounts, 1802, and precepts, 1847-9. Nodiadau Transferred to Gwynedd RO, Dolgellau 20/3/87.

LONGUEVILLE 1948152 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Longueville and Co., Oswestry, per Mr J Iorwerth Williams, M.A., LL.B. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Thirty-nine deeds (thirteenth century-1695) relating to properties in Burleton, Stanwardyn and Ellesmere, co. Salop. A grant by William son of Baldewin of land in Montgomery, 1298. A deed of partition of land in Stansty Issa, Broughton and Wrexham Vawr, 1555. See also under The Right Hon. Lord Harlech. Mynegai Wrecsam Fawr, Trefaldwyn. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

COALOWNERS' ASSOCIATION 1948153 Ffynhonnell / Source The Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners' Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description 166 files of the Association's classified correspondence and ancillary material, such as Government White Papers, Statutory Rules and Orders, periodicals, printed pamphlets, typescript reports, etc., 1913-46; and twenty-five volumes of press cuttings relating to coal and allied industries, 1924-47. Sixty-five framed portraits, consisting of: (a) Portraits of the following sixty-two chairmen of the Association from its inception in 1864 to 1941:- John Nixon, R. Fothergill, MP, David Davies, William Menelaus, Archibald Hood, Sir W. Thomas Lewis, Bt, Edward Jones, Edward P. Martin, T. Forster Brown, Jas. Colquhoun, James Lewis, C. B. Holland, Edward Davies, Graeme Ogilvie, Fred L. Davis, William Evans, William Thomas, James Williams, Henry Lewis, Henry William Martin, G. W. Wilkinson, William Jenkins, J. Boyd Harvey, H. E. Gray, T. H. Deakin, Henry T. Wales, Sir Clifford J. Cory, Bt, W. W. Hood, J. Fox Tallis, W. J. Heppell, Joseph Shaw, KC, Thomas Griffiths, William Stewart, Evan Williams, E. M. Hann, Hugh Bramwell, W. H. Mewton, B. Nicholas, Howell R. Jones, A. S. Tallis, Sir John W. Beynon, Bt, CBE, Percie O. Ward, Sir Leonard W. Llewelyn, KBE, Charles E. Cleeves, Robert Gibb, W. North Lewis, Edmund L. Hann, William Johnson, Thomas Evans, CBE, Sir David R. Llewellyn, Bt, D. Farr Davies, W. D. Wight, W. D. Woolley, F. Llewellin Jacob, Trevor L. Mort, H. H. Evans, John H. Lones, W. M. Llewellyn, W. Brynmor Davies, Frederick H. Davies, John Griffiths, and Morton H. Llewellyn (Dept of Pictures and Maps). (b) Portraits of the first two secretaries of the Association, Alexander Dalziel and W. Gascoyne Dalziel (Dept of Pictures and Maps). (c) A composite portrait of the members, of 'The Sliding Scale Joint Committee' for 1896 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Nodiadau Schedule Available

LLANDRINDOD WELLS CONVENTION TRUST DEED 1948154 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend O M Owen, Middlesborough. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The Llandrindod Wells Convention Trust deed, 12 October 1906, with an endorsement ending the Trust, 24 June 1947.

CWMGWILI 1948155 Ffynhonnell / Source Lieut.-Colonel Grismond P Philipps, D.L., C.V.O., Cwmgwili. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A. Manuscript volumes, deeds and documents relating to the family of Philipps of Cwmgwili and to the Cwmgwili estate, consisting of : (i) About 500 deeds, abstracts of title, etc., relating to properties in Abergwili, Abernant, Brechfacothi (Breghvacothy), Carmarthen, Conwil Elfed, Cwmgwili, Kidwelly, Llanarthney, Llandefaelog, Llanddarog, Llandeilo Fawr, Llanegwad, Llanfihangel Aberbythych, Llanfihangel Yerorth, Llangyndeyrn, Llangynnor, Llangynog, Llanllawddog, Llanllean, Llanllygein, Llanpumpsaint, Llanwinio (Lanonyo), Meyhaythen, Merthyr, Mydrim, Newchurch, St Peter (Carmarthen), and Trelech-ar-Betws, co. Carmarthen, Llanafan Fawr and Llangamarch, co. Brecknock, and Llanllwchaiarn, co. Cardigan, 1576-l919. The properties include Cwmgwili Mill, 1765-1846, Cwmgwili Factory, 1897-1909, and a weir and water running to tin works at Carmarthen, 1853. (ii) About 650 personal and estate vouchers and accounts, ranging from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. (iii) About seventy deeds, autograph letters, plans, etc., 1892-1900, relating to the negotiations for the purchase by the corporation of Carmarthen, under the Public Hcalth Act (1875), the Carmarthen Improvement Act (1898), etc., of land in the parish of Newchurch required for the corporation's water supply. The correspondents include Grismond Philipps, Cwmgwili; R. M. Thomas, town clerk of Carmarthen; John Morgan Davies and Cyril Froodvale Davies of Froodvale, Llanwrda; H. Grismond Philipps, solicitor, Llandilo; W. Morgan Griffiths, solicitor, Carmarthen; and John Francis, auctioneer, Carmarthen. (iv) Twenty-three autograph letters, plans, and other papers relating to the sale of Cwmgwili weir and the old Carmarthen Tin Works, 1916-26. The correspondents include Grismond Philipps, Cwmgwili; Messrs Lloyd and Thomas, auctioneers, Carmarthen; and Messrs Ungoed Thomas and King, solicitors, Carmarthen. (v) (a) Eight records of manors in co. Carmarthen- a survey of the lordships of Widigada (Whidigada) and Elvett, l630; presentments, 1726-7, and a roll of freeholders, 1733, of the manor of Elvett (Elveth); and appointments of members of the family of Philipps of Cwmgwili and others to be stewards of the lordships and manors of Iskennen, Elvett, and Widigada, 17l4, Mabelview, Mabedrud and Forest Glyn Cothy, 1727, and Widigada, 1727-40. (b) Three documents relating to the surrender of copyhold interest in the manor of Wem, 1924. (vi) Thirty-four personalia, consisting largely of naval and military commissions granted to members of the family, 1741-1865. (vii) Four manuscript volumes- a log-book of a naval expedition in the Mediterranean Sea, 1757-8, bearing the name of William Roberts; a rental of the Cwmgwili estate, 1819-41, with additional accounts, memoranda of bulbs sown, 1833-5, and a journal of fox-hunting meets in the districts of Llangain Sarnau, Glangwili, etc., 1830-1; and account books of Miss -- Philipps, Cwmgwili, 1850-61, and Grismond Philipps, Cwmgwili, 1862-78. (viii) Thirty miscellaneous documents- tithe books for the parishes of Abergwili, Llanllawddog and Llanpumpsaint, 1752-73; documents relating to the county borough of Carmarthen, including a presentment of town lands, 1757, a memorandum relating to the proposed petition for a new charter, [1764], a roll of burgesses, 1764, a list of subscriptions towards the erection of a new hall, 1765, and a list of persons to be added to the Commissioners for executing the Land Tax, [1798]; a list of haymakers at the Cwmgwili harvest, with details of hours worked and of wages, 1789; and minutes of a meeting held at Llandilo to form the Vale of Towy Fishing Club, 1858, with a printed appeal for subscriptions. (ix) Nineteen miscellaneous autograph letters, including six from L. B. Page, Solicitor's Office, G. W. R. Station, Paddington, and Messrs Lloyd and Thomas, auctioneers, Carmarthen, relating to the water supply to Conwil GWR Station, 1916. (x) About sixty printed items. These include the Case of the Duke of Beaufort, etc., on the proposed Swansea Canal, [1793]; addresses by J[ohn] G[eorge] Philipps, 1796, and J[ohn] G[eorge] Philipps [his son], 1831, to the electors of the borough of Carmarthen; sale catalogues of parts of the Cwmgwili estate, 1858-1919; rules and subscriptions list of the Union Hunt Club ' formed to provide a Fund for . . . the better Preservation of Foxes within the limits of the Country hunted by the Maesgwynne [co. Carmarthen] Fox Hounds ', 1861; John Valton: Reasons for Abstaining from West India Rum and Sugar (London, 1792); and Observations upon a late Pamphlet, entitled, Miscellaneous Thoughts, &c. in a Letter To the Noble Author (London, undated). (xi) Five miscellaneous plans, including that of Cwmduhen, Merthyr, co. Carmarthen (undated). B. Deeds and documents relating to the family of Jenkins of Cilbronnau, Llangoedmore, co. Cardigan, and to the Cilbronnau estate, consisting of: (i) About 150 deeds, abstracts of title, autograph letters, etc., relating to properties in Aberporth, Llangoedmore, Llechryd, Mount and Verwick, co. Cardigan, and in cos. Brecknock, Carmarthen, Montgomery, Pembroke and Wilts., 1742-1927. They include draft conveyances, specifications, autograph letters, etc., relating to the erection of a new schoolhouse at Llangoedmore, 1848; particulars of the letting of grassland at Cilbronnau, 1863-75; a late nineteenth-century plan of Noyaddwilym, Llangoedmore; a typescript inventory and valuation of furniture, pictures, plate, china, glass, linen, etc., at Cilbronnau, by George Fisher, art expert and valuer, London, 1912, rentals of tithe-rent charges in the hamlet of Kippin, co. Pembroke, 1912-29; and furniture sale books, 1926. One member of the family who figures among the deeds is Rev John Jenkins, ' Ifor Ceri ', vicar of Kerry, co. Montgomery. The correspondents include John Heyward Heyward, formerly John Heyward Jenkins, son of ' Ifor Ceri ', 1848-71, Elizabeth Heyward, his wife, 1871, Richard David Jenkins, Cilbronnau, 1848-71, Ellen Webley Parry, Treforgan, 1848, and Rowley Lascelles, Noyaddwilym, 1848. (ii) A few personalia of the Right Hon. Sir Hugh Lawrence Jenkins, KCIE, PC, Chief Justice, High Court, Bengal, etc., and of Cilbronnau, including his commissions as lieut.-colonel, 1897, and colonel, 1901, in the Volunteer Forces of India. Mynegai Llandyfaelog, Llandilo Fawr, Llanfihangel Iorath, Llanpumsaint, Meidrim, Caerfyrddin, Elfed, Ferwig, Is Cennen, Ceri. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

H J RANDALL 1948156 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H J Randall, M.A., LL.B., Bridgend. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Deeds and documents (1854-76) relating to Newcastle House, Bridgend. Seven documents (1885-1902) relating to property at Porthcawl. Mynegai Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr. Nodiadau Deeds and documents relating to Newcastle House returned to Depositor 12/12/49.

GERDDI BLUOG AND CRAFNANT 1948157 Ffynhonnell / Source Lt.-Colonel G E Roberts, M.C., and Mr H O Roberts, Glanafon, Talybont, Merioneth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Seventy-one deeds and documents (1572-1840), relating to the Crafnant and Gerddi Bluog estates and to lands in Bala, Barmouth, Dolgelley, Harlech, Llanaber, Llanbedr, Llandanwg, Llanddwywe, Llanfair, Llanfihangely-Traeth, Llantecwyn, Llanuwchllyn, Llanycil, Maentwrog and Trawsfynydd, co. Merioneth. A few deeds of particular interest include the marriage settlement of Morgan, one of the sons of Rev Edmund Prys, archdeacon of Merioneth, and a bond entered into by the archdeacon for the observance of the settlement. Mynegai Bermo, Dolgellau, Llanfihangel-y-Traethau, Llandecwyn. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

G NEWELL ROBERTS 1948158 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend G Newell Roberts, Liverpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description A watch in a silver case which belonged to Thomas Griffiths, husband of Ann Griffiths, the Welsh hymnwriter (Dept of Pictures and Maps). A copy of the 1807 edition of ' Beibl Peter Williams ' presented by Rev Thomas Charles of Bala to Elizabeth Griffiths (afterwards Newell) in 1809 (NLW Misc Volumes 364). It contains full genealogical memoranda of the Newell and Roberts families.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT ASSOCIATION, PORTHDINLLAEN 1948159 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J E Roberts, Edeyrn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Records, 1928-47, of the Porthdinllaen branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (NLW Minor Deposits 164-8B).

NORTH CARDIGANSHIRE BAPTIST QUARTERLY MEETING 1948160 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend O E Williams, Penrhyncoch. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Minute books, 1895-1939, of the North Cardiganshire Baptist Quarterly Meeting (NLW Minor Deposits 283-5A).

PLAS NANTGLYN 1948161 Ffynhonnell / Source Lieut.-Colonel J C Wynne-Edwards, Plas Nantglyn, Denbighshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description The original manuscript of a diary of contemporary events compiled and kept by Robert Parry of Eriviat (b. 1564). As the ' diary ' now stands it begins with the year 1559, with only a few words remaining of the entry for 1558. It ends with a copy of ' An answer to the menacinge and warr- denouncing l[ette]re of the great Turke by Sigismond Kinge of Polonia & Sweden . . .', 1613. The ' diary ' contains many references to Denbighshire families, accounts of court activities, and a lengthy account of the author's tour in Italy in 1600. Two pedigree rolls (a) the achievement and part of the pedigree of Gilbard Gearrarde, esquire, with the pedigree and achievement of Edward Almor of Pant Yockyn, compiled by Rys Cain, 1602, and (b) the pedigree and achievement of Lady Elizabeth Salesbury, daughter of Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove, and wife of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Salesbury of Llewenny, compiled by John Cain, 1623. A notebook, partly written by Robert Wynne in 1637, containing copies of warrants and precepts to the high constables of the hundred of Isaled in connection with their duties (apprehension of petty constables, mizes, assessments for bridge building and repair, relief of prisoners, musters, examination of weights and measures, alehouse recognizances, house of correction, &c.), 1636-57; pedigree of the Wynne families of Garthmeilio and Nantglyn; englynion by Foulk Wynne, Edmund Price, Roger Kyffin, and Richard Phylip; a copy of the survey of the commote of Isaled, 1608; rentals of Isaled and Kinmerch; a copy of a letter from the King of Morocco to the King of England; directions concerning pigeons; an account of the Caerwys Eisteddfod, 1567; a chronology of events during the civil war period; notes of books lent; a list of sheriffs of Denbighshire to 1693, and other memoranda. A small notebook containing an incomplete essay on bleeding; an estimate of the lands in Nantglyn liable to mize, 1667; pedigrees of North Wales families; a catalogue of books, English and Welsh; a list of hearths in Isaled; particulars of mizes and of the division of the decays of Ruthin. A volume of Welsh poetry and some prose items written late in the eighteenth century. The poetry includes ' cywyddau ', ' englynion ', and ' cerddi ' by Watkin Klywedog, John Davies, Edward Morris, William Ellis, Hugh Morus, Huw Machno, Edward Cadwaladr, Llywelyn ab Owen, Robin Ddu o Fon, Thomas Prys, Sion Cain, Sion Tudur, Sion Cent, Sion Phylip, Ellis Rowland, Myrddin, Taliesin and David Morris. The prose consists of proverbs, a fragment of a work entitled ' Trysor Cyfoethog o bris isel ', and a translation of John Sayer's Office and Duties of Constables, Churchwardens and other Overseers of the Poor . . . 1641, under the title ' Swydd a Dyled Penagiaid sef Constablied Adilad sef Wardenied Eglwysydd ag eraill golygwur y Tylodion '. A miscellany partly written by Foulk Wynne of Nantglyn and partly by Robert Lloyd of Segroyd, millwright, c. 1670-90. It contains English and Welsh poems and acrostics by Ffoulk Wynne, and ' cywyddau ', ' englynion ', and ' cerddi ' by Harry Salusbury, Edward Cadwaladr, Edward Moris, Ifan Brydydd Hir, Edmunt Prys, Sion Cent, Dafydd Nanmor, Robin Ddu, Simwnt Vychan, Sion Tudur, Edward Sirck, William Llyn, Gruffydd Hiraethog, Edward Rowland, Hugh Owens, John Gruffydd ap Ieuan, Hugh Morus, Mathew Owen, Rice Cadwaladr, Edward Rowlant, John Richard and Watkin Klywedog; sermon notes in Welsh and English; and miscellaneous memoranda. A volume, mainly consisting of prayers, in the autograph of Ffoulk Wynne. The majority of the prayers are collected under the title ' Gweddiau Gerard gwedi eu dosparthu am bob dydd o'r wythnos '. The same hand has written some curious prophecies, ' englynion ' by Gabriel Wynne, and verses by ' Brenin Jerusalem '. A notebook containing Latin exercises by Ithel Jones, fragments of poems in Welsh and English, including an English poem on the coronation of James II; notes relating to Hopeowen tithe; and accounts for barley, malt and straw. A notebook containing Latin and Greek exercises; a list of books for the education of a daughter; lines on the death of the bishop of Salisbury; tithe hay accounts and accounts by M. Wynne. The manuscript was written from 1721 to 1727. The London Almanack for 1742 with diary entries for 1741-7 by an alderman of Denbigh. Mynegai Rhuthun, Is Aled. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

YALE 1948162 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs E Yale, Llanbedrog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1947-48 Disgrifiad / Description Journals of tours in America, India and Italy by Thomas Lewis, MP, of Bangor; a small group of letters, 1862-86, addressed to the Rev. Roger Edwards (1811-86), of Mold relating mainly to Y Drysorfa; and a larger group of letters, 1872-1915, addressed to his son, Rev. Principal Ellis Edwards, MA, DD (1844-1915), of Bala Theological College. Among the subjects discussed in the latter group are the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, the establishment of a Welsh University and the Davies Lecture, 1903. The correspondents include the following: Lord Aberdare, A. H. D. Acland, Matthew Arnold, Horatius Bonar, [Sir] R. A. Cunliffe, R[ichard] Davies, MP, A. G. Edwards, [Sir] Owen M. Edwards, Thomas E. Ellis, A. M. Fairbairn, A. Campbell Fraser, David Lloyd George, R. F. Horton, A. Taylor Innes, [Sir] Henry Jones, J. Puleston Jones, J. Viriamu Jones, Michael D. Jones, R. A. Jones, James Kitson, [Sir] Henry Lewis, Charles F. G. Masterman, Lyon Mayfair, A. J. Mundella, Daniel Owen, [Sir] Hugh Owen, [Dean] John Owen, [Dean] John Pryce, Owen Prys, W. Rathbone, [Sir] Henry R. Reichel, Stuart Rendel, Henry Richard, David G. Ritchie, John Roberts, MP, J. Bryn Roberts, [Sir] J. Herbert Roberts, T. F. Roberts, Bertrand Russell, James Ward, Richard Williams, Celynog and [Sir] T. Marchant Williams.