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ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1935-36 ALPHABET OF ARMS AND CHESHIRE PEDIGREES 1936001 Ffynhonnell / Source Major Frederic A Bates, Llanasa. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description Two genealogical manuscripts:- (a) An alphabet of arms, written about 1650 probably by Sylvanus Morgan, and formerly owned by Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms, who made some additions, and by Lord Charlemont and Sir Thomas Phillipps (NLW MS 10611D). (b) Pedigrees of families mostly of Cheshire, copied for W H Rylands in 1907 from a number of Ashmole and Rawlinson manuscripts at Oxford (NLW MS 10612E). Mynegai Swydd Gaer, Rhydychen. EDWARD THOMAS, HEART OF ENGLAND 1936002 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Jesse Berridge, Little Baddow, Chelmsford. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description The original manuscript of The Heart of England, by Edward Thomas, which was first published in 1906 and an autograph letter sent by the author when presenting the manuscript to the donor (NLW MS 10617B). Mynegai Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. ABERDARE BRITISH SCHOOLS 1936003 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T Botting, Director of Education, Aberdare. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript report of the Committee of Management of the Aberdare British Schools to the Annual Meeting of Subscribers, 1866 (NLW MS 10586E). Certain emendations are probably in the autograph of the late Dan Isaac Davies, HMI, who was then headmaster of the schools. Mynegai Aberdâr. TEIRTREF MANOR 1936004 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H M Cashmore, City Librarian, Birmingham, Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description A photocopy of an extract from the roll of the Easter Leet of the manor of Teirtref, 1679, recording the execution of Richard Bowen for high treason, the confession of his daughter, Susan Peate, that he was the owner of a tenement occupied by Edward Bright, and a query as to the right of the lord of the manor to the same tenement, which was claimed by John Peate, who had been pardoned by the King. Photocopies of four autograph letters in the Birmingham Reference Library which relate to the copper trade, 1781-5. Three were written by Matthew Boulton to James Watt and one by Thomas Williams of Treffôs, Anglesey, agent for the Parys Mountain Copper Mines, to Boulton. Mynegai Treffos. ROBERT OWEN 1936005 Ffynhonnell / Source The Co-operative Union, Ltd., Manchester, per Mr Fred Hall. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy of a 'List of Letters and Documents included in the Robert Owen Correspondence now in possession of The Co-operative Union Ltd., Holyoake House, Hanover Street, Manchester' (NLW MS 10783E). Mynegai Manceinion. WILLIAM DAVIES, ABERGELE 1936006 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Arthur Davies, Abergele. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description Eleven volumes of Letts's Diary, ranging from 1848 to 1876, and containing entries by the donor's grandfather, William Davies of Brynffanigl Farm, Abergele, relating to personal, domestic and agricultural matters (NLW MSS 10755-65B). LLANYBYDDER BENEFIT SOCIETY AND LLANLLWNI BLACKSMITH 1936007 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr D Ernest Davies, Lampeter. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description Four account books of the Cross Hands Inn (Llanybyther) Benefit Society during 1851-1910, containing lists of members and the amounts of their monthly contributions and of payments in respect of illness, burial, etc (NLW MSS 10559E, 10560B, 10561E, 10562B). An account book kept by a blacksmith at Glanafon, Llanllwni, Carmarthenshire, 1847-77 (NLW MS 10558F). Mynegai Llanybydder. E W DAVIES 1936008 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend G Sorton Davies, Barry. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description A Welsh essay, in two volumes, on 'Y Diwydiannau Cymreig: Eu Hanes, a'r Moddion Goreu i'w Datblygu', by the donor's father, the late Rev E. W. Davies, Ton Pentre, Glamorgan. (NLW MSS 10364-5). This essay was successful at the National Eisteddfod which was held at Liverpool in 1900. Mynegai Lerpwl. OWEN OWENS, RHES-Y-CAE 1936009 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H Owen Davies, Manchester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description A group of papers of Rev Owen Owens (1791-1862), Congregational minister, of Rhes-y-cae, Holywell, Flintshire. It includes notes of over 100 Welsh and English sermons (1828-60) by, and in the autograph of, Owen Owens (NLW MS 11085B); a notebook recording the names of those who preached at Rhes-y-cae, Waendymarch, Holywell, etc., between August 1829, and November 1830, together with the texts of their sermons; notes of sermons preached at the Association meetings at Talybont, Cardiganshire, on June 5-6, 1816, in the autograph of Owen Owens; nine autograph letters (1828-58) to Owen Owens, relating mainly to his preaching engagements; and Dyddiadur: neu Gydymaith i'r Almanac for 1833, with entries in his autograph (NLW MS 11086B). This group supplements previous groups of similar material which have been presented by the same donor. Mynegai Tal-y-bont. CHARLES DAVIES 1936010 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Jocelyn F Davies, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts which belonged to the donor's father, the late Rev Charles Davies, Baptist minister, of Cardiff (1848-1927), including:- (a) Fifty-seven volumes of diaries, consisting of Llawlyfr y Bedyddwyr Cymreig, 1869-84, Llawlyfr Undeb Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1885-1905, and Dyddiadur a Llawlyfr y Bedyddwyr, 1906-25, with manuscript entries, mainly in Welsh, by Rev Charles Davies (NLW MSS 10372-428A). (b) A list of revival converts, and other membership statistics relating to the Tabernacle Welsh Baptist Church, Cardiff, 1904-5 (NLW MS 10428-32A). (c) Notes of sermons and addresses, in Welsh and English, by Rev Charles Davies (NLW MS 10433C). (d) Autograph letters to Rev Charles Davies from Rev E. T. Jones, Llanelly, and Rev Thomas Lewis, Newport, 1895-1908, being replies to requests for information relating to Rev Griffith Davies, minister of the Tabernacle Church, Cardiff, from 1815 to 1827 (NLW MS 10435B). (e) A volume of sermon notes by Rev David Jones, minister of the Tabernacle Church, Cardiff, c. 1842-50 (NLW MS 10434A). Mynegai Caerdydd, Llanelli, Casnewydd-ar-Wysg. L TWISTON DAVIES 1936011 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr L Twiston Davies, Monmouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description Four miscellaneous documents:- (a) A letter from Sir Henry Sidney, President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, to his servant, Robert Walker, 1583. (b) A grant from the Privy Council to John Lloyd, Receiver-General of the Aid in Denbighshire, of an allowance of £13 6s. 8d. towards the expenses incurred by him in collecting the Aid, 1689 (NLW Misc Records 10) (c) An Order, signed by George III, William Pitt, and others, authorising the payment of £597 in connection with the 43rd Monmouthshire Regiment of Foot and other Army expenses, 1791 (NLW Misc Records 11). (d) An exemplification of a recovery of property in the parish and county of Monmouth, suffered between Edward James Hector Jones, demandant, and William Lyon, tenant, 1796. Three autograph letters, the writers being the Earl of Powis, [1749], John Parry, 'Bardd Alaw', 1822, and Sir Lewis Morris, 1892 (NLW MS 11092D). Mynegai Sir Ddinbych, Sir Fynwy, Trefynwy. G A EDWARDS, BALA 1936012 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Professor G A Edwards, Bala. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description The original manuscript of a Welsh treatise by the donor on the subject 'Teyrnas Dduw yng Ngoleuni Syniadau Apocalyptig yr Efengylau' (NLW MS 10571C). This work formed the Presbyterian Church of Wales 'Davies Lecture' for 1933, and was published in 1935. O M EDWARDS 1936013 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Ifan ab Owen Edwards, Aberystwyth, and Mrs D Hughes-Parry, New Malden. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description Forty-four volumes (1891-1913) of Cymru, edited by the late Sir Owen M. Edwards (NLW MSS 10622-65C). The volumes formed a part of the editor's own set, and contain not only manuscript notes by him but also the original manuscripts of some of the articles and letters from correspondents, many of which have been bound in the volumes. A O EVANS 1936014 Ffynhonnell / Source The Venerable Archdeacon A O Evans, Llanfaethlu. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1935-36 Disgrifiad / Description Miscellaneous manuscripts, including material relating to a dispute concerning the Llanfair-juxta- Harlech National School, 1904; Bangor diocesan papers; an abstract of the log of the steamship 'Highland Laird', 1904-5; a copy of 'Instructions' issued to local 'observers' of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society, and correspondence relating thereto, 1913; questionnaires, issued by the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments, relating to the parishes of Llanfaethlu and Llanfwrog, 1915; miscellaneous autograph letters, 1893-1933; and a packet of letters to the donor which is not to be opened until 1944 (NLW MSS 10359E, 10360-1D, 10362E, 10363D). Mynegai Harlech (Llandanwg), Sir Fôn. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, PANTYCELYN 1936015 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H W Evans, Solva. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol