ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1942-43

UNITED THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE 1943001 Ffynhonnell / Source The United Theological College, Aberystwyth, per The Reverend Principal G A Edwards, M. A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description About 120 volumes, mostly of English and German theological works, belonging chiefly to the first half of the nineteenth century (Dept of Printed Books). Special mention may be made of a useful number of works on ecclesiastical theology illustrating the acute controversies within and outside the Established Church during the period of the Oxford or Tractarian Movement. Among the periodicals acquired are seven volumes of The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and twelve volumes of Theologische Studien und Kritiken, all required to fill gaps in the Library's files. A few required numbers of Welsh periodicals were obtained. The collection includes also ten volumes of 'Amryw'. Nodiadau Adran Llyfrau Printiedig

BIDDING LETTER 1943002 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Thomas Anwyl, Talybont, Cardigranshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A bidding letter of Richard Richards and Margaret Rowlands, dated October 9, 1833 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

PEMBROKESHIRE DEEDS AND A SURVEY 1943003 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Roland Austin, M.A., F.S.A., Gloucester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Deeds and documents (1365-1714) relating to properties in Manorbier, Rosmayne, Saint Davids, Llanrhian, Precelly, and elsewhere in co. Pembroke (NLW Deeds 186-93). A survey (1706) of the manor of Lamphey (NLW Deeds 1010). Mynegai Maenorbyr, Rhos-maen, St Davids, Tyddewi, Prescelly, Preseli, Mynydd Preselau, Llandyfái.

BALA PENLLYN CORWEN 1943004 Ffynhonnell / Source The Bala Urban District Council. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A selection of local records of the Bala Union and the Penllyn Rural District Council, from the municipal salvage dump at Bala, viz.- minute books of the assessment (1862-1912) and workhouse building (1872-4) committees; account books of treasurer (1837-79), rural sanitary authority (1873- 94), and highway board (1880-95); a diary (1869-79) and account books of the relieving officer (1869- 1928); a vaccination register (1886-1920); correspondence (1837-43) concerning the building of Bala workhouse; valuation lists (1863-1925) and poor rate assessment books (1837-1925) of the five parishes of Penllyn; quarterly statements (1837-48) of the parish officers of Llanfor and Llangower; and valuation lists (1916) of the six parishes in Corwen Union. Official publications for the use of registrars, e.g., regulations, lists of diseases and causes of death, chapel lists, etc., together with a few general and special reports of medical officers of various urban districts in Merioneth. Mynegai Llangywer, Corfaen. Nodiadau Transferred to Dolgellau RO 25/9/96

POMPEIANA 1943005 Ffynhonnell / Source Misss Estelle Blyth, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Pompeiana . . . the result of excavations since 1819. By Sir William Gell. London, 1835. 2 vols (Dept of Printed Books).

WELSH IN EDUCATION AND LIFE 1943006 Ffynhonnell / Source The Secretary of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Papers relating to the proceedings of the Departmental Committee on 'Welsh in Education and Life', 1925-7, including minutes, memoranda prepared by institutions, public bodies and individuals on the state of the Welsh language, a summary of evidence, addresses delivered at conferences and miscellaneous papers. For a certain period access to these papers will be limited to readers who have the written permission of the Secretary of the Welsh Department.

BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION (BRA) 1943007 Ffynhonnell / Source The British Records Association, per Miss Ethel Stokes Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Sixty deeds (1609-1899) relating to properties in the parishes of Merthyr, Llanfyrnach, Llanfihangel Cwmdu, and Llanddewi'r Cwm, co. Brecknock; Llanddewi Aberarth, Llandyssul, Llangwyryfon, and Llanwenog, co. Cardigan; Llandebie, Llandilo, Llanarthney, Llangeler and Llanelly, co. Carmarthen; Aberdaron, co Caernarvon; Llanfachreth, co. Merioneth; Llanfair Caereinion, Alberbury, and Llanwnog, co. Montgomery; Haverfordwest, Hubberston, and Stainton, co. Pembroke; Boughrood, Beguildy, Colva, Gladestry, Glascwm, Llanstephan, and New Radnor, co. Radnor; etc. Two memorials concerning the stewardship of Crown manors in cos. Cardigan and Carmarthen, 1744, and a letter relating to the Kidwelly Canal, 1837 (NLW MS 14541E). Four documents out of the Carreglwyd archive,- a copy of an oration by James I at Oxford, 1605, a copy of Chancellor Ellesmere's letter of resignation, 1616, a copy of an order in Chancery in the case of Herbert v. Gruffyth, and a visitation of Ruthin hospital and school, 17th cent. Mynegai Llanfihangel Cwm Du, Llanddewi Aber-arth, Llandysul, Llangwyryddon, Llandybie, Llandeilo, Llanarthne, Llanelli, Llanfihangel-yng-Ngheintun, Llanwnnog, Hwlffordd, Bochrwd, Bugeildy, Colfa, Llanfair Llythyfnwg, Glasgwm, Llansteffan, Cedweli, Sir Aberteifi, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Rhydychen, Rhuthun.

TOPOGRAPHICAL WORKS 1943008 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Challinor, M.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Eight standard topographical works relating mainly to the British Isles, all in very good condition and nicely bound (Dept of Printed Books). They include Francis Grose: The Antiquarian Repertory, 4 vols., 1775-84, and J. S. Storer: The Antiquarian Itinerary, 7 vols in 10, 1815-18. Nodiadau Adran Llyfrau Printiedig

SIR D LLEUFER THOMAS 1943009 Ffynhonnell / Source Alderman Edgar L Chappell, Rhiwbina. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas. They include biographical and bibliographical notes, correspondence and press cuttings relating to Thomas Evans ('Tomos Glyn Cothi'); accounts of the mysteries and miracle plays of Wales; and of Carmarthenshire collectors of Welsh manuscripts; biographical notices of eminent Welshmen; notes on members of the South Wales Circuit; notes and press cuttings relating to Nonconformity in the Swansea district; an address entitled 'Welshmen and the First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays'; a memorandum on the woollen industry in Wales; notes, letters, souvenirs and press cuttings relating to his visits to South Africa, 1893-4, Canada, 1902, Paris, 1919, and Brittany, 1922, and copies of his articles to the Western Mail (1902) on Welsh settlers and Welsh Patagonians in Canada; papers and letters relating to Carmarthenshire records, and pedigrees of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire families copied from the printed version of the 'Dale Castle MS Pedigree Book'; the printed and manuscript poetry of R. Morris Lewis (1857-1926), Swansea and Brechfa, comprising original verses, ballads in dialect, translations of hymns and of Homer's 'Iliad' and Gray's 'Elegy', and letters to him from Sir Edward Anwyl, Sir Owen M. Edwards, J. Gwili Jenkins, T. Gwynn Jones, James Reid, T. F. Roberts, etc.; short accounts of 'Hen Dribannau Gwyr y Gloran' and of 'Twm Gwilym neu Twm Cilfynydd' by William Jones, Cilfynydd; letters and souvenirs relating to Llandovery School jubilee celebrations; and miscellaneous autograph letters. Mynegai Sir Gaerfyrddin, Abertawe, De Affrica, Ffrainc, France, Llydaw, Patagonia, Sir Aberteifi, Sir Benfro, Llandeilo Brechfa, Llandyfri, Llanymddyfri.

TOUR FROM HERTFORD TO NORTH WALES 1943010 Ffynhonnell / Source The Librarian and Curator, Public Library, Cheltenham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript account of a tour from Hertford to North Wales, touching places in the counties of Caernarvon, Cardigan, Merioneth and Montgomery, 1808 (NLW MS 14537C). Mynegai Sir Gaernarfon, Sir Aberteifi, Sir Feirionnydd, Sir Drefaldwyn.

CYMDEITHAS GORSEDD BEIRDD MÔN 1943011 Ffynhonnell / Source Cymdeithas Gorsedd Beirdd Môn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description The minute book of Cymdeithas Gorsedd Beirdd Môn, 1921-6 (NLW MS 4842C). Mynegai Anglesey, Sir Fôn.

POETRY, GROCER'S LEDGER ETC 1943012 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr A L Davies, Bala. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A volume of Welsh poetry, 'cywyddau' and 'englynion', which, according to a note by John Jones (Glanygors), was placed before John Edwards ('Sion Ceiriog') in London, July 11, 1790 [NLW MS 16251B]; a Llanuwchllyn grocer's ledger, 1803-10 [NLW MS 16252B]; an essay by Thomas Lloyd on 'Uwchllyn' poets [NLW MS 16253B]; correspondence and miscellanea relating to the Welsh colony in Patagonia [NLW MS 16254B]. A small number of printed pamphlets and photographs of Merioneth interest (Dept of Printed Books/ Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Jac Glan-y-gors, Llundain, Argentina, Yr Ariannin, South America, De America, Sir Feirionnydd.

DAVIES, GREGYNOG 1943013 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Gwendoline E Davies, C.H., and Miss Margaret S Davies, Gregynog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A copy number 18 of 400 copies printed, of The Praise and happinesse of the countrie-life (Dept of Printed Books). Written originally in Spanish by Don Antonio de Guevara. Put into English by H. Vaughan, Silurist, Gregynog, 1938. Bound in orange morocco with Persian block enclosed within rectangle, the lines being hand-blocked (all in blind) on front and back covers. Title within lines on the spine, t.e.g. A copy, number 23 of 300 copies printed on hand-made paper, of Shaw gives himself away; an autobiographioal miscellany, by George Bernard Shaw, Gregynog, 1939 (Dept of Printed Books). Bound in dark green levant morocco, with parallel lines and lettering in gold, t.e.g., and frontispiece engraved by John Farleigh. A copy, number 18 of 175 copies printed, of Lyrics and Unfinished Poems by Lascelles Abercrombie [with a foreword by Wilfrid Gibson], 1940 (Dept of Printed Books). Bound in bluish-grey levant morocco, with broad and narrow line ornamentation in gold, t.e.g. Mynegai Sbaeneg.

J GLYN DAVIES 1943014 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Glyn Davies, M.A., Llanarth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Additional material for the 'John Davies Collection', including letters by William Hughes, W. Kerfoot Hughes and T. G. Williams, a translation by John Davies of part of Cofiant John Jones, Talysarn, and other papers. Mynegai Tal-y-sarn, Tal-sarn. Nodiadau Schedule Available

`BLODAU CEIFIOG' 1943015 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr and Mrs J R Davies, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph manuscript of 'Blodau Ceifiog'- poems by William Hugh Evans ('Gwilim Ceifiog'), 1852 (NLW MS 4424B).

SIR LEONARD TWISTON DAVIES 1943016 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Leonard Twiston Davies, K.B.E., D.L., F.S.A., Monmouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Seventeen commonplace-books (1843-4) compiled by a Monmouthshire doctor and containing entries of Welsh and border interest; a Herefordshire drapery bill (1743-67); and a quietus to John Rolls, sheriff of Monmouthshire (1794) (NLW Misc Records 4). Printed lists of the jurors at the Monmouthshire Summer Assizes, 1824 and 1848, and other pamphlets, etc., of Monmouthshire interest. A poster announcing the Monmouth Races, 1846 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Pamphlets and leaflets advocating the abolition of slavery in the West Indies, including extracts from The (Jamaica) Royal Gazette, 1826 (Dept of Printed Books). Literature relating to Monmouthshire parliamentary elections in 1841, 1846 and 1857 (Dept of Printed Books). Correspondence (1874) relating to the dissolution of the Women's Friendly Society and draft rules (1877) of the Men's Friendly Society at Melingriffith Works, Whitchurch, Glamorgan. A diary of (?) John Hardwick, 1802. Mynegai Sir Fynwy, Trefynwy, Yr Eglwys Newydd. Nodiadau Schedule Available

CELYNIN NURSING ASSOCIATION 1943017 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss M Davies, Fairbourne Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Records (1920-38) of the Celynin Nursing Association, Merioneth. Mynegai Meirionnydd. Nodiadau Transferred to Gwynedd RO, Dolgellau.

ABERYSTWYTH CRICKET CLUB 1943018 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs P M Morris Davies, Woodford Green. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A score book (1872-6) of the Aberystwyth Cricket Club (NLW MS 3530F).

MAP OF HENLLAN ENCLOSURE AWARD 1943019 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W Lloyd Davies, M.B.E., B.A., Bournemouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description The original, together with six copies and a line-block, of a map of the Henllan, Denbighshire, enclosure award, made for the donor by H. N. Jerman in 1939 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

VICARIAL TITHES ACCOUNT BOOK 1943020 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss L E Denison-Jones, Stonehouse. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description An account book (1825-38) of vicarial tithes for the parish of Llanspythid, co. Brecon (NLW MS 4736B). Mynegai Llansbyddyd, Llanspyddid.

ALUN MABON (CEIRIOG) 1943021 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Ifan ab Owen Edwards, M.A., Aberystwyth, and Mrs D Hughes Parry, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of Alun Mabon (Ceiriog) with a title page and introduction in the autograph of Sir Owen M. Edwards (NLW MS 10437B).

CHARLES EVANS, HEREFORD 1943022 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Charles Evans, Hereford. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Transcripts by the donor of articles on the history of the parish of St Peter's, Hereford, printed in the church magazine (1885-6), of which only one complete set is known to exist, and extracts from Quarter Sessions records and other sources relating to St Guthlac's Priory and St Peter's Church. Mynegai Henffordd.

WILLIAM REES (`GWILYM HIRAETHOG') 1943023 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr D Rees Evans, Abergele. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph manuscripts of Rev William Rees, DD ('Gwilym Hiraethog', 1802-83) (NLW MSS 6332- 51), including drafts of 'Awdl ar Heddwch' (NLW MSS 6332A, 6333C), parts of 'Emmanuel', translations from the Old Testament (NLW MS 6337D), lectures and sermons, and a draft biography of Ebenezer Morris (NLW MS 6345C); and an autograph album, kept by E. Peter, wife of John Peter ('Ioan Pedr'), containing entries by eminent Welsh poets and ministers, 1864-88 (NLW MS 6351C).

DR GRIFFITH EVANS 1943024 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Erie Evans, M.B. (Lond.), Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A valuable collection of approximately 1,250 volumes from the library of the donor's father, the late Griffith Evans, MD, DSc, some of whose books formed part of a large donation of manuscripts and printed material received last year (see Annual Report, 1941-2) (Dept of Printed Books). It is the library of a scientist and thinker rather than that of a collector, and the books are practically all modern. While the owner's main interests were scientific, his library betokens a vital interest in the deeper problems of religion, philosophy and the social and political development of man. Only a complete list of authors and titles, which will be undertaken as soon as possible, could give an adequate idea of the scope and variety of this collection. Such a large collection of modern books naturally contains many which are already in the Library. The donor has given the Librarian permission to use these duplicate copies for external loan to classes and individuals. A selection will also be made of standard works of fiction and other light literature, which, again with the owner's permission, will be distributed among the sanatoria and tuberculosis hospitals of Wales.

REPORT ON THE WELSH COLONY IN PATAGONIA 1943025 Ffynhonnell / Source Principal Ifor L Evans, M.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of a report received by the Foreign Office on the Welsh Colony in Patagonia (NLW MS 17743E). Mynegai Argentina, Yr Ariannin, South America, De America.

PHOTOCOPIES OF RECORDS IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE 1943026 Ffynhonnell / Source Principal Ifor L Evans, M A., and the late Mrs E A Lewis, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A group of photocopies of records relating mainly to Cardiganshire, with some Carmarthenshire documents, temp. Edward I--Henry V. The documents, reproduced from the original records in the Public Record Office, include extents, inquisitions, rentals and surveys, subsidy rolls, court rolls, ministers' accounts and petitions (NLW Facs 84). Mynegai Sir Aberteifi, Sir Gaerfyrddin.

MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS 1943027 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr John Evans, Cardigan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Nine music manuscripts compiled by local musicians of North Pembrokeshire between 1830 and 1870, with a register of a singing school at Brynhenllan, 1835. Mynegai Sir Benfro, Dinas.

COPY OF CAERNARVON CENSUS 1943028 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Kenrick Evans, Caernarvon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of a census of Caernarvon taken in 1794 by Richard Griffith, with notes by the donor (NLW MS 17743E). The History of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II, by Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland, London, 1680 (Dept of Printed Books), and Old Karnarvon by William Henry Jones, Caernarvon, 1881 (Dept of Printed Books). Mynegai Caernarfon.

A `PEITHYNEN' 1943029 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs S J Evans, Menai Bridge. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A 'peithynen' made by David E. Williams, Llangernyw, for the Carmarthen National Eisteddfod, 1867 (NLW Rolls 108). The text is 'Cywydd i Siancyn ab Thomas ab Gruffydd ab Nicholas i ofyn curas i Gruffydd Basset', by Lewis Glyn Cothi. Mynegai Caerfyrddin. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

TITUS AND ELIZABETH EVANS 1943030 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Selina C Evans, Bibury, Gloucestershire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description 'The Titus and Elizabeth Evans MSS'- comprising transcripts of parish registers (Dinas, 1676-1812, Fishguard, 1813-54, Grandston, 1783-1813, Llanstinan, 1788-97, Llanwnda, 1799-1813, Llanychlwydog and Llanllawer, 1770-1813, Manorowen, 1779-1818, Meline, 1702-1812, Nevern, 1663-1728, and Newport, 1765-1812, all in co. Pembroke, Rockingham, co. Northampton, 1722-1812, and Stow-on-the-Wold, 1680-1812); a transcript of Fishguard churchwardens' accounts, 1822-90; a list of Fishguard schoolchildren, 1859-82, and addresses and essays by T. H. Evans ('Tomos ap Titus'); rubbings of armorials on altar vessels in cos. Gloucester and Oxford, the autobiography and memoirs of Edward John Clifford, Stow-on-the-Wold, the journal of Captain E. Charles Cocks, 1809; and letters, 1893-1929, addressed mainly to Rev J. T. Evans, Stow-on-the-Wold, and his brother, Rev A. W. Wade-Evans. The letters are not to be made available for a term of years. Mynegai Abergwaun, Granston, Treopert, Llanllawern, Marnawan, Nyfer, Nanhyfer, Trefdraeth. Nodiadau Schedule Available

`FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARIES' 1943031 Ffynhonnell / Source 'Friends of the National Libraries', London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description (a) The Reverend F. Conquest Clare, M.A., Harpenden. The Salon . . . by Roger Milès. 100 plates, photogravures and etchings. With text in English, translated by Henry Bacon. Paris [1894] (Dept of Printed Books). Together with other works on art. (b) Lt.-Col. M C. Nangle, in memory of his son, Pilot-Officer Patrick Nangle, RAAF. A very useful collection of about twenty volumes, half of which are standard works on the Japanese language, many of them published in Tokyo. The others include some valuable grammars and dictionaries of Burmese and Shan, published in Rangoon. This gift brings a very welcome addition to the National Library's collection of Oriental works, at the same time as it bears witness to the high standard of linguistic attainments demanded of military and civil servants of the Empire in the East (Dept of Printed Books). In addition to about forty volumes of modern works of general literature, the Library has received from the 'Friends' a collection of about twenty works, English and foreign, most of which treat of costume (Dept of Printed Books).

PAULI ARESII ETC 1943032 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Sir Stephen Gaselee, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.Litt., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Pauli Aresii . . . De aquae transmutatione in sacrificio Missae . . . disputatio. Derthonal, Typis Nicolai Violae, 1622 (Dept of Printed Books). Paolo (or, as he was christened, Cesare), the author of this work, was bishop of Tortona (Derthona) in Northern Italy from 1620 to 1644, and was noted in his day as a preacher, philosopher, theologian and patron of letters. Books printed at Tortona are now very scarce. This is a good, clean copy in limp vellum, and the title is printed in red and black with the arms of the bishop in woodcut. The Trial and life of Eugene Aram; several of his letters and poems; and his plans and specimens of an Anglo-Celtic lexicon. By Michael Fryer. Richmond, 1832 (Dept of Printed Books). Eugene Aram, the prototype of Bulwer's novel of that title, was born in 1704 at Ramsgill, Yorkshire. In 1759 he was found guilty of murder and executed. Aram was a self-taught scholar of undoubted ability, and specialised in languages. He was among the first, if not actually the first, to perceive the affinity of Celtic to other European languages, and his 'Anglo-Celtic lexicon,' although it is vitiated by the tendency, common in his day, to see the Asiatic relative of European languages in Hebrew, will always deserve mention in the history of Celtic philology. Mynegai Yr Eidal.

$$T `SPRING OF YOUTH' AND `THE WOODEN SPOON' 1943033 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr L. Wyn Griffith, Berkhamsted. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description The original manuscripts of Spring of Youth (NLW MS 16241C) and The Wooden Spoon (NLW MS 16240C).

CARMARTHENSHIRE AND RHONDDA PLACE-NAMES ETC 1943034 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Henry Harris, Ystrad Rhondda. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of Carmarthenshire place-names made by Dr M. H. Jones (NLW MS 16265B), notes by the donor on the Rhondda and its place-names (NLW MS 16264D) , and manuscript sermons by his father, Rev William Harris, Aberdare (NLW MS 16266B). Mynegai Ystradyfodwg, Aberdâr.

COURT OF GREAT SESSIONS ACCOUNT BOOK 1943035 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr George R D Harrison, B.A., Welshpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description An account book (1783-98), kept by Rev John Rocke, of fees collected on fines and recoveries in the Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire circuit of the Court of Great Sessions (NLW MS 4526E). Mynegai Sir Ddinbych, Sir Drefaldwyn.

DEEDS 1943036 Ffynhonnell / Source The Librarian and Curator, Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery, Hereford. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Deeds and documents (1648-1735) relating to properties in cos. Brecknock, Caernarvon, Monmouth and Radnor (NLW Deeds 194-204, 208). Mynegai Sir Frycheiniog, Sir Gaernarfon, Sir Fynwy, Sir Faesyfed.

PRINTED BOOKS 1943037 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss G Houston-Shimmin, Tenby. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A small but interesting and valuable collection of books presented in memory of the donor's friend, the late Miss Eleanor Mary Mynors, Treago Castle, Herefordshire (Dept of Printed Books). It includes several fine folio volumes containing engravings and other drawings illustrative of ancient statuary, modern scenery and other subjects. Of much bibliographical interest are copies of the first issue of the first edition of Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838), the first edition of Thackeray's The Kickleburys on the Rhine (1850) and the second edition of his Mrs Perkins's Ball (1847), all in the original binding. Mynegai Swydd Henffordd.

BOOTMAKER'S LEDGER 1943038 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs D and R Hughes, Llanuwchllyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A ledger (1887-1907) kept by the donors' father, a bootmaker at Llanuwchllyn (NLW MS 16249D).

TOPOGRAPHICAL DRAWINGS 1943039 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss M W Ingram, Cheltenham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of six topographical drawings of North Wales (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

HUGH JAMES 1943040 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Hugh James, B.A., Aberystwth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description The original manuscript of The History of Pembrokeshire by Rev James Phillips. 'Englynion annerch' and correspondence. Mynegai Sir Benfro.

ZOOLOGICAL BOOKS 1943041 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr J Travis Jenkins, O.B.E., Preston. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Over thirty books mainly bearing on the zoological, legal and commercial aspects of sea-fisheries (Dept of Printed Books). Of especial interest and value is a copy of the donor's work The Minute Anatomy of the Oyster. This was his thesis for the DSc (Wales) degree, and the present copy contains the original drawings submitted to the University. Most of the books are in German, and include the nine parts published of the important Archivfür Fischereigeschichte (1913-17). This collection must constitute a very substantial part of the whole bibliography of the subject of sea-fisheries. A supplementary gift consisting of twenty volumes, mainly of English, French and German works on oceanography and hydrography, including several copies of official reports on the results of marine expeditions organised by the USA. Government (Dept of Printed Books). Of especial interest are the contents of two portfolios (NLW Minor Collections, Dr J Travis Jenkins). One contains newspaper cuttings relating to the 'Sardine Case' of 1912, together with the correspondence between the solicitors for the plaintiffs and Dr Travis Jenkins, who was an expert witness in the case. The other contains correspondence between the Board of Education and Dr Jenkins on the question of Fishery Schools, official memoranda of the Board, and notes and reports by Dr Jenkins. Mynegai Almaeneg, Unol Daleithiau.

DAVID JONES (`DEWI CARNO') 1943042 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Annie Jones, Pontlottyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts of David Jones ('Dewi Carno'), including material on the history of Rhymney and district (NLW MS 16263E). Mynegai Rhymni.

DR GORONWY JONES 1943043 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Goronwy Jones, Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Help-book for Travellers to the East . . . by Jabez Burns, with notes by Rev R. J. Jones; a notice of Castle Howell School, Lancaster; a copy of the entry in the Pencarreg register recording the marriage of John Jones, Aberdare, and Anne Rees (NLW MS 16627D); a certificate of discharge to Dr Goronwy Jones after a voyage to Japan, 1914 (NLW MS 16627D); and an interleaved copy of the Greek text of The Prometheus Unbound of Aeschylus with an English translation and notes by R. J. Jones, 1859 (NLW MS 16267B). Two interesting works on Japan, viz., Illustrations of Japanese Life, by S. Takashima (3 vols) (Dept of Printed Books), and the second edition of Home life in Tokyo (1911), by Jukichi Inouye, the author of a well-known Japanese-English dictionary (Dept of Printed Books). Twenty volumes of guide-books and other tourist literature relating to Switzerland, Ceylon, China and Japan (Dept of Printed Books). A small collection of books of views, tourist maps, etc., relating to Switzerland and Japan (Dept of Printed Books). Mynegai Aberdâr, Siapan, Y Swistir, Tseina.

THEOPHILUS JONES: A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF BRECKNOCK 1943044 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Iorwerth Hughes Jones, Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description The author's copy, with autograph notes and corrections, of Theophilus Jones: a History of the County of Brecknock, 1805-9 (NLW MSS 14533-5D). Two volumes in three. Mynegai Sir Frycheiniog.

J D JONES, BOUNEMOUTH 1943045 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs J D Jones, Brynbanon, Bala. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts of Rev J. D. Jones, CH, MA, DD, Bournemouth, including illuminated addresses and petitions received by him during the course of his ministry at Lincoln and Bournemouth, sermons and addresses delivered by him on a wide range of subjects, etc.

J W JONES 1943046 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J W Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A diary (1877) of a Baptist minister in the Harlech district; and manuscript poems and correspondence by O. G. Owen ('Alafon'), D. R. Daniel, O. Rowland Jones, Dr T. Gwynn Jones, R. O. Hughes ('Elfyn'), W. T. Williams, John Ellis Williams and others. The original manuscript of Llinell neu Ddwy gan Ioan Brothen and correspondence relating thereto. A collection of Merioneth election songs, and miscellaneous local verse. Correspondence concerning 'Y Fainc Ysglodion' in Y Cymro. Mynegai Sir Feirionnydd. Nodiadau Schedule Available

WILLIAM D JONES (`DEUDRAETH') 1943047 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr and Mrs R D Jones, Woolwich. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Original manuscripts and press cuttings of compositions in verse and prose on Welsh and American subjects by William D. Jones ('Deudraeth', 1856-1926) (NLW MSS 16244F, 16245C); materials for a biography of the author (NLW MS 16246C); papers relating to the family of Jones, Caegwyn, Penrhyndeudraeth; and notes of sermons preached at Nazareth, Penrhyndeudraeth, 1871-5 (NLW MS 16248A). A small collection of books, Welsh and English, of a miscellaneous character, including reports, etc., of Welsh churches (Dept of Printed Books). A small collection of photographs and other miscellanea relating to the Caegwyn family (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai USA, Unol Daleithiau, Deudraeth.

PRINTED WORKS 1943048 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Thomas Jones, C.H., Harlech. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Twenty recent works dealing chiefly with the topics of social improvement and education, but including also several works on painting and painters (Dept of Printed Books). Ten volumes of miscellaneous interest, including Nos I-IV of Interim Papers by H. W. Singer, circulated in typescript by the Pilgrim Trust (Dept of Printed Books).

T GWYNN JONES 1943049 Ffynhonnell / Source Emeritus Professor T Gwynn Jones, C.B.E., D.Litt., M A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description An extensive collection of manuscripts and books made by the donor during his remarkable literary and scholastic career. Among the manuscripts are poems, lectures and addresses, including the author's holograph manuscripts of Ymadawiad Arthur a Chaniadau Eraill, 'Y Gloyn Byw', 'Morvudd gan Ddavydd ap Gwilym. Adwe o'r Chwedl gan Edvryd', poems by 'Rhufawn', 'Ymadawiad Arthur' and an English translation of the same poem, etc.; draft revised Welsh translations of the Epistles of St. Paul (to the Galatians) and St James, and notes for a translation of I Corinthians; press cuttings and notes of addresses, essays, reviews, etc. a dictionary of 'Gogynfeirdd' poetry in three volumes; a large number of notebooks containing transcripts of Welsh poetry mainly of the 'cywyddwyr', and a beautifully executed transcript of the 'Black Book of Carmarthen'; and thousands of letters addressed to the donor on literary and historical subjects. Among the manuscripts are some acquired by Dr T. Gwynn Jones. They include extracts by Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain') from a copy of 'Llyfr Coch Asaph' and other manuscripts, a small volume of elegies by Morgan Evans, Llangunllo, 1830, a collection of Welsh poetry made by Owen Williams about 1850, a notebook containing 'englynion' by Dr Robert Roberts ('Isallt'), commonplace books by 'Emrys ap Iwan', odes on 'Y Mynydd' and 'Iorwerth y Seithfed' by O. G. Owen ('Alafon'), and a school exercise book of Jane Roberts. The printed material consists of about 600 volumes, some hundreds of booklets, pamphlets, reports of societies and eisteddfodau, concert programmes and a large number of periodicals. Long runs of Welsh and Breton periodicals, some of them scarce and very difficult to obtain, form an important part of the collection. The books cover a wide range, although naturally books relating to the Celtic languages and literatures predominate. The collection also includes works in English, French and German, and a few in Italian. The booklets and pamphlets, mostly Welsh, although there are considerable numbers of Irish, French and German publications, relate mainly to literary topics, and many are autographed copies. This section contains a large number of works by minor poets not hitherto represented in the Library. Many of them were published privately or by small local presses. The reports of societies, eisteddfodau and other cultural institutions are very numerous and make a considerable addition to the already extensive collection in the Library. Three original drawings bv S. Maurice Jones and a small collection of engraved portraits and topographical prints are included in the gift. The donor has given the Librarian absolute discretion with regard to the disposal of the material. Any books which are likely to be of service in the sanatoria and tuberculosis hospitals of Wales and Monmouthshire, or to members of HM Forces, may be applied to these purposes. Books which can be of use in connection with the extra-mural classes may be transferred to the department of duplicates and sent out on loan. Of the remainder, the Librarian is authorised to offer to the university colleges of Wales and other institutions any books not required by the Library. Mynegai Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin, Llangynllo. Nodiadau Schedule of the papers and manuscripts, mainly in vol. I (1949), 148pp., the remainder in vol. II (1992), [i] + 10pp.

HUGH WILLIAMS, PIONEER SETTLER IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA 1943050 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs W J Jones, Chiswick. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Over 320 letters and postcards (1877-1922) written to members of his family by Hugh Williams, a native of Pandy Tudur, Denbighshire, and a pioneer settler in Southern Rhodesia (NLW MS 6352-3C, 6354D, 6355A, 6356C). Mynegai South Africa, De Affrig.

E A LEWIS 1943051 Ffynhonnell / Source The Executors of the late Professor and Mrs E A Lewis, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Two volumes of Aberystwyth Harbour returns, 1845-57; a rental (1831-4) of the lordship of Llanbadarn Fawr (otherwise Vaynor), co. Cardigan; dissertations on 'The History of the Borough of Kenfig to 1485' by John Harris Lewis and 'Wales and the Irish Wars of the Sixteenth Century' by J. P. Davies; an account of 'Barry and its past'; outline syllabuses of lectures given by Dr Hubert Hall at the London School of Economics, c. 1900, on palaeography, archives, historical sources, etc.; papers relating to an action tried in the Court of Great Sessions (1814) in respect of a part of Nant-ty sheepwalk claimed by the owners of Nantrhys, Llangurig; miscellaneous letters and notes relating to genealogical and historical enquiries pursued by E. A. Lewis; miscellanea relating to Llangurig; numerous transcripts and notes, mainly relating to various aspects of Welsh history, made by (or for) E. A. Lewis from deeds and records at the Public Record Office, the British Museum, the National Library of Wales and elsewhere; and original manuscripts of, and notes relating to, books and articles by E. A. Lewis, both published and unpublished. About 300 books, pamphlets and periodicals, including a large number of topographical guide books, modern Welsh books, and off-prints of articles mainly by members of the staffs of the colleges of the University of Wales (Dept of Printed Books). Among the periodicals is an incomplete set of Tan y Ddraig Goch, the magazine of the Glamorgan Training College, Barry. Mynegai Y Barri, Prifysgol Cymru. Nodiadau Schedule Available

SERMONS 1943052 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr E T Lewis, B.A., Mynachlogddu, Pemb. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A small collection of miscellaneous books, including Sermons preached upon several occasions by Isaac Barrow (London, 1678) (Dept of Printed Books).

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND INCUNABULA 1943053 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A R Llewellin-Taylour, M.A., F.R.S A., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Two interesting examples of incunabula: (1) Carmen de usu et abusu in arte grammatica, by Johannes Faber de Werden, printed by Martin Landsberg, Leipsic, c. 1500 (Dept of Printed Books). (2) De ciuitate Dei, by Saint Augustine, printed by Nicolaus Jenson, Venice, 1475 (Dept of Printed Books). Autograph letters (1765-82) of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800), authoress, and James Woodhouse (1735-1820), 'the poetical shoemaker' (NLW MS 5433C); and a scrapbook of autographs, franks, ballads and prints, compiled in the North of England c. 1830-40. A finely-bound set, in twenty-six volumes, of The Beauties of England and Wales. London, 1801-18, together with a number of books of a miscellaneous character (Dept of Printed Books). Outstanding are two early English law books, namely, A Collection of entries by William Rastell (1595) and A Collection of all the statutes now in use by Ferdinando Pulton (1670) (Dept of Printed Books). A part of the collection consists of yellow-back novels, which, added to those previously presented by the same donor, constitute a fairly representative collection of the popular reading of the English public of half-a-century ago (Dept of Printed Books).

ACCOUNTS OF TENEMENTS IN LLWYN EINION ETC 1943054 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J H Lloyd ('Peryddon'), Bala. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description An account of old tenements in the Llwyn Einion district, near Bala (NLW MS 17801B). An essay on Rolant Edwards (NLW MS 17802D).

RICHARD BENNETT ETC 1943055 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Lilian Lloyd, Harlech. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Letters on genealogy (1923-5) from Richard Bennett to Dr D. C. Lloyd Owen (the father of the donor), transcripts of Montgomeryshire wills, 1582-1661, and pedigrees (NLW MS 16278D). Mynegai Sir Drefaldwyn.

EBENEZER THOMAS ETC 1943056 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Thomas Lloyd, Ruthin. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description The original 'call' to Rev Richard Jones as minister to Ruthin, 1838 (NLW MS 16276D), verses, adjudications and notes of an address by Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd') (NLW MS 16277C), notes of a sermon by Rev William Williams ('o'r Wern'), and other papers. Mynegai Rhuthun.

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 1943057 Ffynhonnell / Source The London School of Economics and Political Science, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Eighteen volumes on economics, finance, housing and labour, chiefly in English but including a few in German (Dept of Printed Books).

CLYNNOG CHURCHWARDEN'S ACCOUNTS 1943058 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs M J Long, Aberdesach. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Accounts (1782-3) of Clynnog churchwardens, notes on poor law by R. R. Jones, Aberdesach, and press cuttings relating to Clynnog. Mynegai Clynnog Fawr.

CASTLE HILL 1943059 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R J R. Loxdale, D L., Llanilar. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Nine deeds, c. 1260-1316, relating to properties in Shrewsbury, probate wills, 1735-93, papers relating to bridge improvement at Shrewsbury, 1768-72, and a conveyance of land in Penkriche, co. Stafford, 1742. Mynegai Amwythig. Nodiadau Schedule Available

MONMOUTHSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL 1943060 Ffynhonnell / Source The Monmouthshire County Council. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Bound volumes of proceedings of Monmouthshire County Council, Quarter Sessions and Standing Joint and other Committees, 1890-6, 1898-1908, 1910-26. Mynegai Sir Fynwy. Nodiadau

`THE WELSH COAST' 1943061 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Arthur S Morgan, M.A., Shirenewton. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript of 'The Welsh Coast', a story of life in Newport (Pemb.) by the donor's father, Rev John Morgan, rector of Llanilid and Llanharan (d. 1903) (NLW MS 16258C), together with three printed works by Rev John Morgan (Dept of Printed Books) and a short biography of him .

`SOUTH WALES IN THE STUART PERIOD' 1943062 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs L Newell, Abingdon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description The original manuscript of an unpublished work, entitled 'South Wales in the Stuart Period with especial reference to Religion', by the donor's husband, the late Rev Ebenezer Josiah Newell (d. 1916) (NLW MS 4466E).

`HOWEL THE GOOD AND HIS LAWS' 1943063 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Edward Owen, M.A., F.S.A., Menai Bridge. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph manuscript of the donor's essay on 'Howel the Good and his Laws' submitted for competition at the Caernarvon National Eisteddfod, 1886, with press cuttings relating to the adjudication (NLW MS 14379C). Eleven photographic plates of records relating to Yevain de Galles in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Caernarfon, France, Ffrainc.

LITHOGRAPHS OF CLYNNOG 1943064 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Hugh J Owen, Dolgelley. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Two lithographs of Clynnog by J. Needham, 1858 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Clynnog Fawr.

J DYFNALLT OWEN 1943065 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend J Dyfnallt Owen, M.A., Carmarthen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Minutes and correspondence (1929-37) of the re-union meetings of ministers born or brought up at Cwmllynfell (NLW MSS 4623B, 4624C). A copy of the baptismal register of Holywell Independent church, 1788-1837, with original entries from 1837 to 1861 (NLW MS 4620C), and a certificate of the registration (1845) of Gellioedd chapel, parish of Llangwm, co. Denbigh (NLW MS 16627D). The original manuscript of a play by R. G. Berry on the history of Neuaddlwyd academy (NLW MS 17445D). Mynegai Llangwm Dinmael, Cwmllynfell (Llan-giwg).

LLYFR CRONICL PHILLIPIAID GWAELOD-Y-GARTH 1943066 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Evan Phillips, Llandaff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of the privately-printed book Llyfr cronicl Phillipiaid Gwaelod-y-garth, by Evan Phillips. Llandaff, 1912 (NLW MS 20079B). Mynegai Llandaf.

OBSERVATIONS ON PHARMACOPOEA 1943067 Ffynhonnell / Source Major Robin Phillips, St. Dogmaels. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Notes, taken by J. G. Caulet, 1778, of Dr Pate's observations on the pharmacopoeia used in St Bartholomew's Hospital (NLW MS 4587A).

BIDDING LETTER 1943068 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John T Powell, Bristol. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A bidding letter of Hopkin John and Katherine Williams, of Llanrhidian, 1833 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

H J RANDALL 1943069 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H J Randall, M.A., LL.B., Bridgend. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Eleven deeds and documents (1860-1938) relating to properties in City Road, Cardiff. Mynegai Caerdydd.

TRANSLATION OF GRAY'S ELEGY 1943070 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T Ifor Rees, C.M.G., B.A., British Consulate, Mexico City. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of the donor's translation into Welsh verse of Gray's Elegy. The translation is entitled Marwnad a ysgrifennwyd mewn mynwent wledig and was published by the American Book and Printing Company, Mexico, in 1942 (Dept of Printed Books). Mynegai Mecsico.

SERMON NOTES 1943071 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss C Dew Roberts, Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Sermon notes in the autographs of John Elias (1831) and Dr John Williams (Brynsiencyn) (NLW MS 5580B).

NATURAL HISTORY DIARY ETC 1943072 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R G Salter, Birmingham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A natural history diary (1867-1942) in twenty-six volumes kept by the late Dr J. H. Salter, Llanbadarnfawr, Aberystwyth (NLW MSS 14429-53B, 14458D); notes on Welsh kites, etc (NLW MS 14454B); and transcripts of letters descriptive of two visits (1915-19) to the Far East made by Brigadier William A. Salter (SA) (NLW MSS 14455-7B). Mynegai Llanbadarn Fawr.

PORTRAIT OF HENRI II OF FRANCE 1943073 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mrs M Savage, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of a portrait of Henri II of France, attributed to François Clouet (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Ffrainc.

PONTGARREG BRITISH SCHOOL 1943074 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Ben T Thomas, B.A., Llangrannog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A minute book (1870-84) of the committee of Pontgarreg British School (NLW MS 4454B). Mynegai Llangrannog.

MOSTRE I MIRACLE: EL GALL RESSUSCITAT 1943075 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Henry Thomas, F.B.A., British Museum. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Mostre i miracle: el gall ressuscitat. [Per H. Thomas.] Traduccio catalana d'Eduard Toda [i Güell] Londres, [Chiswick Press] 1942 (Dept of Printed Books). This edition was limited to fifty copies.

RENTAL 1943076 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Sir Illtyd Thomas, D L., Llandaff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A rental (1767-70) of the estates of the Earl of Plymouth in Glamorgan (NLW MS 3429F). Mynegai Sir Forgannwg.

MANAFON CHURCHWARDEN'S ACCOUNTS ETC 1943077 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J L Thomas, Newtown. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Churchwardens' accounts and vestry minutes (1810-46) for the parish of Manafon, co. Montgomery (NLW MS 17792D); accounts of the executors of John Bowen of Pentrewilly and other agricultural accounts, 1837-50 (NLW MS 17793B); and Welsh and English sermon notes.

J LUTHER THOMAS 1943078 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend J Luther Thomas, Cwmavon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description An important addition to the collection of Roberts (Llanbrynmair) Papers presented by the same donor in 1940. This additional group includes autograph letters of David Griffiths, missionary in Madagascar, 1828, with early examples of printing at the missionary press in Tananarivo; a letter by David Jones (Gosport), 1825, afterwards David Johns of Madagascar; letters and drafts of letters by Rev John Roberts, senior, 1794-1829, including letters to his son, Samuel ('SR'), when the latter was a student at Newtown; letters addressed to members of the Roberts family by relatives and acquaintances in the United States of America, 1825-82, including Ezekiel Hughes, George Roberts, B. Williams Chidlaw, William Bebb and E. R. Bebb; correspondence and circulars relating to the claims of 'SR' against the United States Government, 1871-83; miscellaneous letters addressed to 'SR', with drafts of letters by him, 1826-83, the correspondents including Henry Richard, John Griffith ('Gohebydd'), Dr Thomas Rees (Swansea), and William Ambrose ('Emrys'); a letter-book of 'SR', 1850-1; reminiscences, essays and other papers by ' SR '; correspondence and papers relating to proceedings for libel instituted by him against Thomas Gee, John Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog') and others, 1860-71; correspondence, circulars and press cuttings relating to the Bala Independent College controversy, 1873-9; miscellaneous papers including sermon notes, agreements and accounts concerning Y Cronicl and other publications, bonds, share receipts, certificates, dividend warrants, estate accounts, inventories, etc., 1803-85. Mynegai Y Drenewydd, USA, Unol Daleithiau, Abertawe, Samuel Roberts.

A PRINT 1943079 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Rachel Thomas, Llanarth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A print depicting the gathering at Llanarth Eisteddfod, 1875 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Llan-arth.

THE FAITH, DOCTRINE AND RELIGION 1943080 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T W Thomas, M.A., B.Sc., Chester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description The Faith, doctrine and religion, professed and protected in the Realm of England . . . expressed in 39 Articles . . . analysed . . . and proved. (By Thomas Rogers.) Cambridge, 1681 (Dept of Printed Books).

COURT ROLLS AND ESTREATS 1943081 Ffynhonnell / Source Canon C R Thomson, M.A., Norton. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A book of transcripts of the court rolls of the manor and borough of Norton, Radnorshire, 1678-1700, 1703-5, with transcripts of records, 1580-1661, original presentments, 1734, and estreats from proceedings of court baron, 1734 (NLW MSS 4540E, 4541D).

M P WATKINS 1943082 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr M P Watkins (Messrs. Vizard and Son), Momnouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description 184 deeds and documents (1543-1806) relating to properties in cos. Monmouth and Hereford, including forty-five copies of court rolls (1543-1732) of the manor of Dewstow, and others of the manors of Welsh Dowlas, Hencourt, Marshfield and Trelech. Seven manuscript volumes, including cases and opinions (1725-78), an account book of timber sales in the Monmouth district (1757-73), the Clerk of the Peace's list of freeholders, co. Brecknock (1769), and 'Tractatus de Re Medica Hermanni'; and five printed pamphlets relating to Monmouthshire elections, 1841 and 1846. Correspondence (1690-7) of Samuel Rogers of Monmouth and a letter by (General) Thomas Molyneux concerning Monmouth Town Council. Eleven numbers, ranging in date from 1811 to 1857, of Moore's Almanack, Vox Stellarum. Mynegai Sir Fynwy, Swydd Henffordd, Trefynwy, Sir Frycheiniog.

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND DEEDS 1943083 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Checkland Williams, St. Davids. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph letters (1844) of Thomas Keble and Isaac Williams (NLW MS 16343E) and deeds (1665- 1822) relating to properties in cos. Hertford, Surrey, Montgomery and Pembroke (NLW Deeds 210-5). Mynegai Swydd Henffordd, Sir Drefaldwyn, Sir Benfro.

`THE HISTORY AND PEDIGREE OF INIGO JONES' 1943084 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John A A Williams ('Brochmael'), Caernarvon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A translation of an essay on 'The History and Pedigree of Inigo Jones', by Robert Griffith, Manchester (NLW MS 16242B), and printed matter with manuscript notes relating to Inigo Jones and to St Beuno (Dept of Printed Books). Mynegai Manceinion.

ADAM SMITH: WEALTH OF NATIONS 1943085 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W D Williams, B.A., Barmouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A translation into Welsh of Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations, prepared, but not submitted, for competition at the National Eisteddfod, 1873 (NLW MS 14584F).

BONTDOLGADFAN MSS 1943086 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W Emyr Williams, LL.B., and Miss M Eluned Williams, Wrexham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts, correspondence and books of the donors' grantfather, William Williams ('Gwilym Cyfeiliog'; 1801-76), and members of his family (NLW MSS 16728-86). The manuscripts include a baptismal register, 1812-64, of Bontdolgadfan Calvinistic Methodist chapel (NLW MS 16728B); minutes of elders' meetings, 1835 (NLW MSS 16729-30A); lists of preachers and accounts, 1843-1925; minute and account books, 1838-80, of the Llanbrynmair auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society (NLW MSS 16732-3C); a register of the Maglona Lodge of Good Templars, Machynlleth, and other temperance activities, 1873-6 (NLW MS 16735B); a record book, 1845, of the Llanbrynmair Agricultural School Library, with balance sheets of the Friendly Society, 1858-76 (NLW MS 16736D); a list of Llanbrynmair overseers of the poor, 1744-1876 (NLW MS 16737A); draft poems and addresses, and accounts by William Williams ('Gwilym Cyfeiliog'); a Welsh Bible (Oxford, 1809) containing genealogical memoranda by Rev John James (?1777-1848), Baptist minister at Aberystwyth, Pontrhydyryn, and Bridgend (NLW MS 16743C); a manuscript music book (NLW MS 16744A); an eighteenth-century student's common-place book, containing notes of chemical experiments demonstrated by Mr Carmichael in Glasgow (NLW MS 16745B); school exercise books of members of the Howell and Williams families, 1836-77 (NLW MS 16746B); notes on the history of the Llanbrynmair district (NLW MS 16747B); correspondence, 1836-1920, of the Williams and Roberts families of Bontdolgadfan, including letters from Calvinistic Methodist ministers and from Welsh emigrants to the United States of America; letters to and from Rev Richard Williams (Liverpool), 1831-42, some relating to the foundation of the Welsh Presbyterian Mission in India; miscellaneous sermon notes from 1816, shorthand notes (? by William Howells) of sermons preached at the Llanidloes Associations of 1819 and 1822, and notes of sermons heard by Richard Williams ('Celynog'), 1845, and his brothers, Evan Williams, 1863-72, and John Williams (Rev John Williams, 1857-1908, minister at Ffestiniog, Dolgelley and Wrexham), and their sister, Sarah Williams (afterwards Roberts), 1875-1917 (NLW MSS 16751-3A); notes of addresses and examination papers of Rev John Williams at Bala College, 1880-2 (NLW MS 16755B); papers relating to various societies at Machynlleth, 1863-77, and to Maengwyn Welsh and English chapels, 1867-77 (NLW MSS 16757- 8A); accounts and balance sheets, 1912-23, of the Bontdolgadfan eisteddfod and miscellaneous papers relating to eisteddfodau and competitive meetings at Llanbrynmair and Machynlleth, 1870-1907 (NLW MS 16759D); and account and memorandum books 1884-1902, relating to the business carried on at the Post Office, Bontdolgadfan (NLW MSS 16760C, 16761D). The printed material includes a large number of reports of local societies and chapels in Montgomeryshire (particularly Machynlleth and Llanbrynmair) and Merioneth, as well as broadsides, ballads and leaflets printed in these two counties and a number of 'Amryw' volumes mostly consisting of books and pamphlets printed at Aberystuyth, Dolgelley, Llanfaircaereinion, Machynlleth and Wrexham (Dept of Printed Books). A large photograph of Richard Williams, Celynog, uncle of the donors, and a map of Llwynffynon farm in the parish of Darowen, dated 1847 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Llanbryn-mair, Rhydychen, Pont-rhyd-yr-ynn (Llanfrechfa Uchaf), Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr, Scotland, Yr Alban, USA, Unol Daleithiau, Lerpwl, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Dolgellau, Wrecsam, Sir Drefaldwyn, Sir Feirionnydd, Aberystwyth, Llanfair Caereinion. Nodiadau Schedule Available

W GILBERT WILLIAMS 1943087 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W Gilbert Williams, M.A., Rhostryfan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Press cuttings on Welsh local government, 1894-8; and three typescript booklets compiled by the donor- 'The history of Betws Gwernrhiw', 'Come old families of Dinlle (1500-1650)', and 'Llandwrog Caernarvonshire. Various Records (1600-1800)'. Mynegai Betws Gwenriw (Llandwrog), Dinlle (Llanwnda), Sir Gaernarfon.

YALE 1943088 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr George F C Yale, Llanbedrog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Documents, in Spanish, relating to an attack made by [Sir] Thomas Love Duncombe Jones Parry upon a Spanish sentry near Gibraltar, his trial, sentence and subsequent pardon, 1859. Mynegai Sbaeneg.

MORRIS PARRY 1943089 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description The Morris Parry, Chester, Collection. (See Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, July 1943, pp. 42-4.) Thanks to the good-will and co-operation of his trustees, the Library has been able to purchase the library, both books and manuscripts, of the late Morris Parry, Chester (d. 1943). For many years Morris Parry had collected copies of Welsh books printed in Chester and many English books relating to Wales which were also printed there. These he described in detail from time to time in the Welsh newspapers Y Brython, Y Clorianydd and Y Cymro. Subsequently a few copies of these press contributions were bound by him into volumes, each prefaced by a chronological conspectus. It is proposed to retain intact this collection of Chester printed books as an example of the output of the printing presses of one town. The collection is particularly strong in ballads, pamphlets and periodicals. The manuscripts include notebooks of John Price ('Ioan Machno'); a commonplace book by Isaac Ambrose Lloyd, 1823; a collection of poems by Robert Hughes (Neuadd y Blawd); sermon notes; a collection of autographs including letters by R. Brereton, 1620, and Owen Hughes (Beaumaris), 1675, and papers relating to excise, militia and ordnance, 17th-18th cent.; transcripts of letters concerning a protest against Rev William Williams ('Caledfryn') as an adjudicator, 1863; a minute book of 'Cymdeithas Cymry Caer', 1893; addresses and essays by Morris Parry and files of biographical and bibliographical material collected by him; press cuttings, loose and mountet, and the following numbers of Morris Parry's made-up volumes of press cuttings, with printed title page and preface, under the title of 'CRIBIN CAER' - Series 3, No. 5 and two unnumbered issues, Series 4, Nos 1-44 and ten unnumbered issues, and Series 5, No. 23 and three unnumbered issues. Fifty lantern slides of views of old Chester and title-pages of Chester-printed Welsh books. A large collection of engraved topographical prints, portraits, photographs and other miscellanea. Incunabula purchased during the year include: (1) Summa collationum, by Johannes Gallensis, printed at Cologne by Ulrich Zell, c. 1470. The author, usually called John of Wales, is supposed to have been a Welsh Franciscan. He was a professor at Oxford and Paris and an envoy to the insurgent Welsh in 1282. This work is considered to be the first work by a Welshman ever to be printed. This edition also is apparently the first, being earlier than the edition described in Addenda and Corrigenda to the Handlist of Incunabula in the National Library of Wales (No. 13A). Ten leaves inserted at the end contain, in manuscript, alphabetical tables of the topics and of the authors quoted in the work. Both are by the same hand and the former is dated Sept. 6, 1483. (2) De vocabulis rei militaris by Modestus, printed by Eucharius Silber, Rome, 1487. An interesting example from an early Italian press. (3) Works, with commentaries and appendices, of Publius Papinius Statius, printed by Jacobus de Paganinus, Venice, 1490. A specimen of the work of an Italian press not hitherto represented in the Library. Mynegai Caer, Biwmares.

RICHARD PARRY (`GWALCHMAI') 1943090 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts of Rev Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai'; 1803-97), including his essay on the history of the commote of Creuddyn (1864) (NLW MS 4439D), poetry (1842-50), adjudications (1858-66), and a volume of press cuttings relating to his career.

WILLIAM ROBERTS (`NEFYDD') 1943091 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A diary (1860-8) (NLW MS 14860A), an account book (1866-7) (NLW MS 14859A), and sermon notes (1835-58) of Rev William Roberts ('Nefydd'; 1813-72) (NLW MS 14856A).

`A VISITATION OF THE DEANERY OF THE THIRD PART OF BRECON' ETC 1943092 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph manuscript of ' A visitation of the Deanery of the Third Part of Brecon . . . by Henry Thomas Payne . . . Rural Dean of that District, 1785 ' (NLW MS 4278C); autograph letters of Sir Owen M. Edwards, D. Emlyn Evans, R. S. Hughes, Dr J. Cynddylan Jones, and others; a poem on ' Llyn Safaddan ' (1830); and miscellaneous documents. Mynegai Aberhonddu.

ACCOUNT BOOKS, LLANDDERFEL ASSESSMENTS ETC 1943093 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Account books of shipping at Llanelltyd (NLW MS 14903B) and Barmouth (NLW MS 14904B) (1791-1841); Llandderfel assessments (1838) (NLW MS 14905A); autograph letters and poems by Robert Parry ('Robyn Ddu Eryri') (NLW MS 14906B); and manuscript sermons (NLW MSS 14901- 2A). Mynegai Bermo, Llanelltud.

MISCELLANEA 1943094 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph manuscript of 'Hanes Cerddoriaeth a Llenyddiaeth Gerddorol y Cymry' by W. T. Rees ('Alaw Ddu'), 1901; correspondence and reports on the state of the Celtic languages in the Argentine, Brittany, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Scotland, 1914-15; 'Buchedd a Gwaith Joseph Harris ('Gomer')', 'Atgofion am Fro Morgannwg', and other essays by D. Rhys Phillips; a group of letters (1856-60) by E. A. Williams and M. J. Williams of Aberpergwm; and over 1,000 autograph letters on literary and Celtic subjects addressed to D. Rhys Phillips. Mynegai Yr Ariannin, Llydaw, Iwerddon, Ynys Manaw, Yr Alban, Cadoxton.

DR D MIALL EDWARDS 1943095 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Holograph manuscripts of books, pamphlets and lectures by Dr D. Miall Edwards.

DISSERTATION ON THE WRITINGS OF ROBERT JONES, RHOSLAN 1943096 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript of a dissertation by W. G. Williams, Bodelwyddan, on the writings of Robert Jones, Rhoslan (NLW MS 14532C). Mynegai Rhos-lan (Llanystumdwy).

THE EXCURSION DOWN THE WYE 1943097 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A volume containing The Excursion down the Wye . . . and other works by Charles Heath, interleaved with manuscript notes and letters by the author, and original drawings and watercolours (NLW MSS 14581-2B).

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF SAMUEL JONES 1943098 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph letters (1846-63) of Rev Samuel Jones (1803-77), Baptist missionary in Jamaica (NLW MS 14424C).

LETTERS OF HENRY GRIFFITHS ETC 1943099 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph letters of Rev Henry Griffiths (1811-91, philosopher) on Welsh education and other subjects; 'englynion' written for the tombstone of Jane Rowland Roberts, wife of Rev William Roberts ('Nefydd'); and two autograph albums, kept by Mrs Roberts, containing entries by well-known Welsh poets and preachers, 1841-52.

J W JONES 1943100 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph letters of Eliseus Williams ('Eifion Wyn'), O. Rowland Jones, Dr T. Gwynn Jones, Sir Owen M. Edwards, etc.; prose and verse compositions by Evan Williams ('Glyn Myfyr'); and poetry by William Thomas Edwards ('Gwilym Deudraeth').

CASTS OF SEALS 1943101 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of seventy-eight casts, made by Messrs Longman & Strongitharm, of medieval seals of Welsh or Border interest.

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS 1943102 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Autograph letters of Horace W. Billington (1810), John Thornton (1769), and J. M. W. Turner (c. 1820) (NLW 14005E).

`SIR TUNAY' AND `MARWNAD BARBRA MILTWN' 1943103 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Holograph manuscripts of 'Sir Tunay' and translations by George Borrow of 'Marwnad Barbra Miltwn' by Huw Morys and an ode to Dafydd ap Thomas by Deio ab Ieuan Du.

LOG BOOK OF HMS DORIS 1943104 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description The log book of HMS Doris (Capt. [afterwards Sir] Christopher Cole, 1770-1837) from January 31, 1808, to April 22, 1809, with the armorial bookplate of Sir Christopher Cole, which commemorates his exploit of storming the citadel of Belgica on the island of Neira in 1810 (NLW MS 3430D).

`A MOST STRANGE AND TRUE REPORT OF A MONSTROUS FISH' 1943105 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A most strange and true report of a monsterous fish, who appeared in the form of a Woman, from her waste upwards. (By P.G.) Imprinted at London for W.B. [1603] (Dept of Printed Books). The work has a certain Welsh interest, as the monster made its appearance at Gylmanes Point, Pendine, on February 17, 1603. There is no record of another copy of the work known. See 'A Tale of the Sea' in Tenby and County News, Sept. 22, 1943. Mynegai Llandeilo Pentywyn, Dinbych-y-pysgod.

`SOUVENIRS DE LA BRETAGNE' 1943106 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description 'Souvenirs de la Bretagne': a set of twenty-five coloured lithographs of Breton costumes (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Llydaw, Britanny.

SURVEY 1943107 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A copy, mounted on linen, of a survey of the estate of Wyndham Lewis, Esq., in the counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth, 1777 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Sir Forgannwg, Sir Fynwy.

ABERYSTWYTH AND CARDIGANSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL 1943108 Ffynhonnell / Source The Committee of Management of the Aberystwyth and Cardiganshire General Hospital, per Sir George F Roberts, C.B., O.B.E., D.L. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Prescription books (1843-57) of the Aberystwyth Dispensary. Reports (1927-41) of the Aberystwyth Infirmary and Cardiganshire General Hospital, now the Aberystwyth and Cardiganshire General Hospital. Nodiadau Transferred to Dyfed RO, May 1979.

BACHYMBYD 1943109 Ffynhonnell / Source The Right Honourable Lord Bagot, Blithfield. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description THE BAGOT COLLECTION OF DEEDS AND PAPERS, removed from Blithfield, Staffordshire, and numbering more than 2,000 schedule items. This is in addition to several boxes of later deeds and papers, which Lord Bagot had earlier placed on deposit, from the bomb-wrecked offices of Messrs Foyer, White and Prescott in Essex Street, London. The Blithfield section of the deposit had been removed there from Pool Park, Denbighshire, when that residence was sold in 1928. The present group divides itself conveniently into four classes: 1. MINISTERS' ACCOUNTS. These all relate to the estates of the Devereux, Lords Ferrers and Chartley and consist of twenty-one rolls ranging from 6 to 10 Henry IV and 17 Henry VIII to 5 Edward VI. The Ministers' Accounts proper number nine rolls from 17 Henry VIII to 4 Edward VI and include accounts of Bicknor, Llanthomas and Hay, Penkelly and Webley. The remaining twelve rolls consist of Receiver Generals' Accounts, two for the years 6-8 and 8-10 Henry IV and ten ranging from 17 Henry VIII to 5 Edward VI. This class forms an invaluable addition to the collection of Ministers' Accounts which the National Library is steadily building up. 2. DEEDS. The deeds, most of which have already been catalogued in detail, number 1,149. They range from 1260 to the eighteenth century and cover lands in the counties of Denbigh, Merioneth, Caernarvon, Montgomery, and Flint, though the great majority relate to the two first-named counties. The Denbighshire deeds date from the reign of Henry III to the eighteenth century, and those for Merioneth generally from the reign of Henry VIII to the eighteenth century. The great majority of the deeds for both counties cover the second half of the sixteenth century and the seventeenth century, with a few of the eighteenth century. For the respective properties in those counties, the Rhûg estate in Merioneth and the Bachymbyd and Pool Park estates in Denbighshire, the deeds are comprehensive and form a most valuable acquisition. They cover the lordships of Denbigh, Ruthin and Dyffryn Clwyd, Bromfield, Maelor Saesneg and Glyndyfrdwy, with a number by barons of Edeyrnion and Dinmael. The great interest of many of their items is evidenced by the full particulars relating to four which appear in the 1943 number of The National Library of Wales Journal. The first is the only known grant of David ap Gruffydd, 1260, of lands in the modern counties of Denbigh and Caernarvon; the second the only known grant by Owen ap Gruffydd of Glyndyfrdwy (Owen Glyndwr) of land at Mwstwr, 1392; the third an exceptional valuation in Welsh of lands of Rhys ab Elise, a baron of Dinmael, about 1530; the fourth a certificate (1657) by a Welshwoman from Merioneth of the death in 1655 in 'the island of Virginia' of a servant who had gone there with her and her husband about a year previously. 3. LEGAL PAPERS. This class numbers 219 items, most of which are concerned with the Chancery suits between William Salesbury of Rhûg, the heir of Owen Salesbury, the eldest son of Colonel William Salesbury, and Sir Walter Bagot, Bt., the husband of Jane, the daughter and sole heiress of Charles Salesbury, his second son. These causes ran from 1674 to 1677. Of greater public interest are the papers relating to the indictment of Gabriel Salesbury for forgery of a deed by Colonel William Salesbury, the defendant's flight abroad, and his subsequent repentance. 4. CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. Items in this class which have already been perused in detail total more than 400. The correspondence, which provides the greatest number of items, is mainly of the seventeenth century. The items of the sixteenth century are of special interest. Letters of 1564 and 1577 from Jenkyn Gwyn to John Salesbury of Rhûg relate to Edeyrnion, one of them stating that 'it is held by servicium baroniae every jot of it, for all are barons or hold by grant from the barons, which is one'. A letter of October 5, 1580, from Anne, Countess of Warwick, has the pathetic endorsement 'a worthy honourable letter from the Lord and Lady Warwick to my father upon his deathbed'. Among other correspondents are Sir John Trevor, later Speaker and Master of the Rolls, Godfrey Goodman, bishop of Gloucester, Myddeltons, Wynnes and Thelwalls to the Salesburys. Among valuable items in the miscellaneous papers are some relating to the tithes of Llanynys, 1652-3; the sequestration papers of William Salesbury and his son Charles; papers relating to the barony of Dinmael, 1660-1751; rentals of the Denbighshire and Merioneth estates from 1611 onwards; and Salesbury and Bagot wills. Mynegai Llundain, Llantomas (Mitchell Troy), Pencelli, Castell Weble, Weobley Castle, Sir Ddinbych, Sir Feirionnydd, Sir Gaernarfon, Sir Drefaldwyn, Sir Fflint, Y Rug, Bagot, Dinbych, Rhuthun, Maelor Gymraeg, Iâl, Edeirnion, Mystwyr, Caerloyw, Bachymbyd. Nodiadau Schedule Available

BAKER-GABB 1943110 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Blanche Baker-Gabb, Abergavenny. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of records, papers and books, exceeding 1,200 in number, relating mainly to the activities of the Baker, Gabb and Baker-Gabb families and to their properties. An interesting item is a breviary, well executed in the English style of the fourteenth-fifteenth century period. The collection falls into the following main classes: 1. Manorial documents of the lordships and manors of Cwmyoy, Llanthony, Stanton, Redcastle, Oldcastle, Triley, Abergavenny, Ewyas Lacy, Crickhowell, Hothneslade, and Newton or St Margaret's from 1632 onwards, including court books, perambulations and rentals. 2. Deeds dating from the reign of Edward I and numerous from the second half of the sixteenth century, when the Bakers first appear as stewards of the lordship of Abergavenny. Those relating to the town and castle of Abergavenny, the Priory of Abergavenny, and the Priory of Llanthony Prima are of special interest. The deeds relate to twenty parishes in co. Monmouth, three in co. Brecknock, four in co. Hereford, and one in co. Gloucester; among them are some executed by Edward Harley (Earl of Oxford), Walter Savage Landor, Sir Mark Wood, the Scudamores, the Arnolds, the Rodney, the Gunters and the Baileys of Nantyglo. 3. Diaries, consisting of twenty volumes and various papers, including the diaries, etc., of John Baker Gabb, Private Chamberlain to Leo XIII, 1859-1892, letters from Cardinals Vaughan, Wiseman and others, and a ship's journal kept by Thomas Baker-Gabb on a voyage from London to Madras, 1855. 4. Family papers and miscellanea, including the material collected by Mr Richard Baker-Gabb for his volume on the Baker and Gabb families. Among them are a speech by David Lewis at the place of his execution, August 27, 1679, a poll of burgesses of Monmouth, Newport and Usk, March 12, 1715, and letters by Walter Savage Landor. Mynegai Cwm-iou, Llanddewi Nant Hodni, Crucornau, Castell-coch, Hengastell, Crucornau Fawr, Y Fenni, Ewias (Lacy), Crucywel, Newton Nova Villa, Sir Fynwy, Sir Frycheiniog, Swydd Henffordd, Swydd Gaerloyw, Nant-y-glo, Llundain, Trefynwy, Casnewydd, Brynbuga. Nodiadau Schedule Available

LLWYNGWAIR 1943111 Ffynhonnell / Source Air-Commodore J B Bowen, C.B.E., Llwyngwair, Pembrokeshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts and records of the Llwyngwair and associated estates, particularly that of the Bevans of Laugharne, in cos. Pembroke and Carmarthen. They indude account books and rentals (1689-1939) and about 1,500 deeds (1549-1873) relating mainly to properties in Nevern and Newport, co. Pembroke, and Laugharne, Llanfihangel Abercowin, Mydrim, Eglwyscymun, and Llangunnock, co. Carmarthen; autograph letters addressed to James B. Bowen, Llwyngwair, 1858-71, and miscellaneous letters including autographs of Thomas Johnes, Hafod, 1812, and Rev Nathaniel Rowland, Parke, 1819; manuscript maps of properties in cos. Pembroke and Carmarthen, 1758-1811; and a printed pedigree of the Bowen (Ab Owen) family. Mynegai Llwyn-gwair (Nevern), Sir Benfro, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Nyfer, Nanhyfer, Trefdraeth, Llanfihangel Abercywyn, Meidrum, Eglwys Gymyn, Llangynog. Nodiadau Schedule Available

CARDIGANSHIRE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE 1943112 Ffynhonnell / Source The Cardiganshire Public Assistance Committee. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Minute books (1837-63, 1870-98, 1912-25) and ledgers (1837-1901) of the Board of Guardians for the Union of Lampeter, cos. Cardigan and Carmarthen; lists of guardians and officers, 1871-1900; an attendance book, 1895-1904; treasurer's books, 1863-1906; poor relief application and report books, 1876-1925, order books, 1876-1905, indoor relief lists, 1881-1908, and outdoor relief lists, 1877-1927; relieving officers' receipt and expenditure accounts, 1875-1921; Lampeter workhouse admission and discharge books, 1877-1915, masters' reports, 1881-1914, a medical relief book, 1883-9, a register of deaths, 1878-87, store receipt and sale accounts, 1880-1900, and visitors' books, 1889-1913; assessment committee minutes, 1862-1900; school attendance committee minutes, 1877-1904; valuation lists; some parish assessment books; vaccination registers, 1871-1916; and miscellaneous papers. Records of the Aberayron and Lampeter District Highway Board, 1852-62, and of the Lampeter District Highway Board, 1862-94. A ledger (1868-81) and rate books (highway, water and poor) of the Lampeter Local Board of Health; and ledgers (1873-94) of the Lampeter Rural Sanitary Authority. Ledgers and other account books of the Lampeter Rural District Council, 1895-1919, and of the Llanybyther Rural District Council, 1895-1920. Mynegai Sir Aberteifi, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Llanbedr Pont Steffan, Aberaeron, Llanybydder. Nodiadau Transferred to Ceredigion RO, 1986

HIGHMEAD 1943113 Ffynhonnell / Source The Trustees of the Estate of the late Major Herbert Davies-Evans, B.A., D.L., Highmead, Llanybyther, per Mr Griffith Pugh Evans, D.L., Lovesgrove, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description An additional group of Highmead manuscripts, papers, deeds and documents. The manuscripts include accounts of overseers of the poor and vestry minutes for Llanwenog, 1805-17; the common-place book (1771) of David Lloyd containing a collection of the poems of Rev John Lloyd, Alltyrodyn; a notebook (1823) of Delme Seymour Davies with poems by Rev John Williams, Lampeter, and others; an account book (1778-99) of Anne Evans, Highmead, containing particulars of exceptional interest for the historian of agricultural development in Wales; log books, 1856-8, of four ships, kept by H. D. Evans; a journal of a continental tour (1865) by Mary L. Jones, Pantglas; an orderly book (1828-30) of the 1st Battalion 3rd Guards; legal precedents, agricultural memoranda, press cuttings, school exercise books, drawings and sketches, etc. There is much correspondence (1891-1903) received by Major Herbert Davies-Evans and miscellaneous papers relating to his service in the Militia and in the South African War and to his interest in Kennedy's tangent cycle gear, 1896; a group of letters addressed to Anne Evans, 1786-1802; and letters relating to political activity in Cardiganshire in 1841. The deeds and documents supplement those received in 1941. They range from 1603 to 1832 and relate to properties in cos. Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan and Pembroke. Mynegai Alltrodyn (Llandysul), Llanbedr Pont Steffan, De Affrig, Boer War, Rhyfel y Bweriaid, Sir Aberteifi, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Sir Forgannwg, Sir Benfro. Nodiadau Working List Available.

GWRYCH CASTLE 1943114 Ffynhonnell / Source The Right Hon The Earl of Dundonald, Gwrych Castle, Abergele. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description About 3,000 deeds and documents (1535-1920) relating to the estates of the families of Lloyd, Bamford and Hesketh in Abergele, Betws Abergele, Llandrillo yn Rhos, Llanddulas, Llanelian, Llansannan, Llanefydd and Wrexham, co. Denbigh, Llysfaen and Llandrillo, co. Caernarvon, Bangor, Halghton, Rhudd]an, Rhyl, St Asaph, Willington and Worthenbury, co. Flint, Adswood, Cheadle Bulkeley, Hulme, and Moseley, Edgeley, Gatley and Upton, co. Chester, Bury, Didsbury, Liverpool, Middleton, Northen and Rochdale, co. Lancaster, and Bowden Middle Cale, Glossopp, Harthill, Long Legh and Little Roworth, co. Derby, minutes and other papers of the manorial courts of Cheadle Hulme (1735-1817); accounts of Bamford and Crimble collieries, co. Lancaster (1825-32), and of lead- mining ventures in Abergele; rentals and accounts of the Gwrych estate (1818-1920); parochialia of the parishes of Abergele and Llanddulas compiled about 1855; maps and plans; and pedigrees of the families of Lloyd of Plas yn y Gwrych and Hesketh. Mynegai Llandrillo-yn-Rhos (Dinerth), Llanddulas (Newchurch, Tiryrabad), Llaneilian-yn-Rhos (Bodlenyn), Wrecsam, Llysfaen (Llangynfran), Halton (Chirk), Llanelwy, Worthenbury (Gwyrddymp, Wrddymbre), Lerpwl. Nodiadau Purchased 1975. Schedule Available.

DUNRAVEN 1943115 Ffynhonnell / Source The Directors of the Dunraven Estate Co. Ltd., per Mr Christmas Evans, Bridgend. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Additional records, 1377-1857, including court rolls, surveys and miscellanea relating to the manors of Coity Anglia, Coity Wallia, Llanharry, Newcastle and Cefncribbwr, supplementing the collection deposited in 1941. Mynegai Coety Anglia, Coety Wallia, Llanhari, Newcastle (Y Castellnewydd ar Ogwr), Cefncribwr. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

T I ELLIS 1943116 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T I Ellis, M.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description The probate will (May 1, 1817; proved June 14, 1823) of Mary Williams of Gellylydnais, widow. Correspondence (1804-36) of the families of Davies of Carnachenwen, Aberystwyth and Cardigan and Jones of Denbigh and Mold. Mynegai Gelli-lydnais, Aberteifi, Dinbych, Yr Wyddgrug.

COURT ROLLS AND RENTAL 1943117 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr George R D Harrison, Welshpool Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Court rolls of the manors of Nethergorther, co. Salop (1827-61) (NLW Deeds 1011-17), and Overgorther, co. Montgomery (1757-1842), with a rental of the latter (1582) (NLW Deeds 1018-92). Mynegai Nether Gorther, Nether Gorddwr, Over Gorther, Over Gorddwr.

KENTCHURCH COURT 1943118 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Sybil F Lucas-Scudamore, M.B.E., Kentchurch Court, Hereford. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description An extensive collection of several thousand documents and papers, which divides itself into three main groups: 1. Kentchurch Court estates records and papers, illustrating the history of the Scudamore family from the time of Edward I. They include a series of manorial documents relating to the lordships and manors of Llangiwa, Monmouth, Usk, the Three Castles of Skenfrith, Grosmont, and Whitecastle, Caldicot and Shirenewton, Llanddewi Skirid, Llantillio Pertholey, Llanfihangel and Llangattock, co. Monmouth, and Ewyas Harold, Rowlston, Gwerngenny, Dore and Llancillo, co. Hereford. The deeds from the reign of Edward I onwards relate to twenty-one parishes in co. Monmouth and fifteen in co. Hereford. This group also contains a number of legal papers (including Council of the Marches in Wales papers), orders of Quarter Sessions, co. Monmouth, and some manuscript papers of literary interest. 2. Harford Jones Brydges estates records and papers, relating especially to the Radnorshire and Herefordshire estates of the Harford Jones family from the reign of Edward III onwards, and also to lands in the city of London and in the counties of Buckingham, Devon, Essex, Salop, Somerset, Worcester, Middlesex, Northumberland, Gloucester, Sussex, Warwick and Lincoln (including manorial documents from the reign of Edward VI). The manorial documents cover the Radnorshire manors of Burward, Bilmore, Norton and Michaelchurch, and among the twenty-two Herefordshire manors covered are Pembridge, Huntingdon, Clifford, Lugharness, Goderich, Kilpec and Garway, all sometime in the Marches of Wales. The deeds relate to sixty-six parishes in co. Hereford, sixteen in co. Radnor, especially Radnor and Presteign, nine in co. Brecknock, and five in co. Carmarthen, and there are a number of miscellaneous papers relating to co. Montgomery. 3. Diplomatic and other papers of Sir Harford Jones, afterwards Sir Harford Jones Brydges, Bt., mainly covering 1787-1810. The papers consist chiefly of letters and despatches to and from East India House and the Principal Secretary of State, and correspondence with various Ambassadors and Ministers of the Crown, the Governor-General, and other Governors. Among the correspondents are George Canning, Stafford Canning, Robert Dundas, Lord Minto, Lord Wellesley, Sir Charles Cotton, Benjamin Bathurst and General John Malcolm. There are also reports, instructions, minutes, extracts from journals, letter books and accounts, and miscellanea. The papers are in English, French, and Persian and other Arabic languages. They cover the period from Harford Jones's service as an official of the East India Company to his retirement from his post as His Majesty's first Ambassador to Persia, those dealing with the last period being the most important historically. In addition to the diplomatic and official papers, there is family correspondence of Harford Jones and of his father, also named Harford Jones, from Monmouth, and various papers and accounts relating to the re-purchase of the ancestral property in Radnorshire. A group of manuscripts from Boultibrooke, the Radnorshire home of the Harford Jones family, was acquired by the Library in 1924. Mynegai Llangiwa, Llangua, Trefynwy, Skenfrith (Ynysgynwraidd), Grosmont (Y Grysmwnt), Whitecastle (Castell Gwyn), Shirenewton (Drenewydd Gelli-farch), Llanddewi Skyrryd, Llanddewi Ysgyryd, Llandeilo Bertholau (Llandeilo Porth Halog), Llanfihangel (Llanvihangel near Roggiett), Ewias Harold, Rowlstone, Llancillo (Llansulfyw), Sir Fynwy, Swydd Henffordd, Sir Faesyfed, Llundain, Bilmore (Stannier, Old Radnor), Michaelchurch (Llanfihangel Cil-llwch), Presteign (Llanandras, Prestmede), Sir Drefaldwyn. Nodiadau Transferred to Hereford RO 26/8/83.

MERIONETHSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL 1943119 Ffynhonnell / Source The Clerk of the Peace and of the County Council, Merioneth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Records of the Poor Law Unions of Bala, Dolgelley and Ffestiniog: Minute books (Bala, 1837-50, 1852-1930; Dolgelley, 1837-9, 1841-5, 1847-55, 1859-70, 1874-98, 1901-5, 1917-21, 1925-9; Ffestiniog, 1842-69, 1876-1931), general ledgers (Bala, 1837-1925; Dolgelley, 1911-12, 1922-5, 1929-30; Ffestiniog, 1848-1928), parochial ledgers (Ffestiniog, 1837- 1927), relieving officers' accounts (Ffestiniog, 1843-52), poor law circulars (Bala, 1837-43; Ffestiniog, 1837-45), loan accounts (Ffestiniog, 1890), County Council re-payments accounts (Ffestiniog, 1900- 9), union financial statements (Ffestiniog, 1920-8), committee minutes (Bala, building committee, 1874-80; Dolgelley, assessment, 1862-80, boarding out, 1925-30, finance, 1927-30, school attendance, 1878-1903; Ffestiniog, assessment, 1884-1902, boarding out, 1912-16, school attendance, 1877-1903). Records of the Rural Sanitary Authorities of Dolgelley (minutes, 1889-94) and Ffestiniog (ledgers, 1874-89, treasurer's book, 1889-95, continued by Glaslyn RDC, 1895-1917). Records of Highway Board, Harlech district:- minutes, 1892-4, ledger, 1892-5. Records of the Rural District Councils of Deudraeth (general ledger, 1900-5) and Glaslyn (minutes, 1895-1900, general ledger, 1900-7, financial statements and loan accounts, 1907-20, declarations of councillors, 1895-1902). Minute books of the School Boards of Barmouth (1903-16), Towyn and Pennal (1883-93, 1898-1903), Llangelynin (1871-91) and Talyllyn (1892-1904); and of the Towyn School District Managers (1903- 15). Mynegai Dolgellau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Glaslyn (Penegoes), Penrhyndeudraeth, Bermo, Tywyn, Llangelynnin, Tal-y-llyn, Llanfihangel Tal-y-llyn.

GOMER S MORGAN 1943120 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Gomer S Morgan, Pontyclun Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Fifteen deeds (1817-65) relating to Sutton Mile Farm, parish of Tenbury, co. Worcester (NLW Minor Deposits I. Gomer S Morgan).

COURT LEET PRESENTMENTS 1943121 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor D Hughes Parry, M.A., LL.M., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Court leet presentments (1745-72, 1806-12) for the manor of Llangain, co. Carmarthen (NLW Deeds 1009-10). Mynegai Llan-gain, Maenor Gain, Eglwys Cain.

LETTERS TO MORRIS PARRY 1943122 Ffynhonnell / Source The Executors of the late Morris Parry, per Miss Mary Roberts, Chester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Letters addressed to Morris Parry (d. 1943), mainly on literary, bibliographical and historical subjects (NLW Minor Deposits 501-4B). The letters are not to be made available for a term of years.

H J RANDALL 1943123 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H J Randall, M.A., LL.B., Bridgend. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Twelve deeds (1857-90) relating to properties in Bridgend, Glamorgan. Mynegai Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr.

CHARTERS 1943124 Ffynhonnell / Source The Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, per Misa L. M Midgeley, M.A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Two charters, one granted by Walter de Lacy to the abbey of Llanthony, 13th cent., and the other by Jasper, 'brother and uncle of Kings', duke of Bedford, to Howell Mason, of lands in Bergevenny, 1493 (NLW Minor Deposits II, William Salt.). Mynegai Llanddewi Nant Hodni, Abergavenny, Y Fenni.

J LUTHER THOMAS 1943125 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend J Luther Thomas, Cwmavon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description An addition to the collection of papers deposited in 1940 relating to the settlement in Scott County, Tennessee, USA, projected by Rev Samuel Roberts ('SR'). The additional papers consist of correspondence, 1859-82, and notebooks containing entries relating to the land purchased by 'SR'.

PENLLE'RGAER 1943126 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Charles L Dillwyn Venables-Llewelyn, Bt., D.L., Newbridge-on-Wye. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A portfolio of additional Penllergaer papers. They include letters (1788-1839) to William Dillwyn, Lewis, Weston Dillwyn, John Llewelyn and others; copies of letters (1789-95) by George Dillwyn; letters (1746) describing the battle of Culloden; passports issued to William Dillwyn to pass through combat areas and to visit England during the American War of Independence, and certificates of membership of American institutions, 1777-1802; poems by Lewis Weston Dillwyn; commissions and other papers (1827-39) relating to the career of John Dillwyn Llewelyn; and miscellaneous family papers. Mynegai Penlle'r-gaer, Pentyle'r-gaer. Nodiadau Schedule Available

WELSH CHURCH COMMISSION 1943127 Ffynhonnell / Source The University of Wales Estates Committee, per Principal Ifor L Evans, M A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description Two instalments of deeds, files and maps, totalling 3,779, all relating to episcopal and capitular estates and manors in Wales, received from the Welsh Church Commission. The first instalment consisted of 2,315 deeds, etc., and 86 maps; the second instalment of 1,281 Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Files on episcopal and capitular estates and 97 maps. Some of the maps in the second instalment date from the end of the seventeenth century. As further deeds, documents and files complementary and supplementary to the above are to be deposited when received from the Welsh Church Commission a fuller description will be given then.

WELSH CHURCH COMMISSION 1943128 Ffynhonnell / Source The Welsh Church Commission. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1942-43 Disgrifiad / Description A group of 2,611 documents, all relating to Church property in Wales, made up of 1,417 expired leases etc., of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 233 expired leases, etc., prior to 1800, 274 miscellaneous documents, 245 Ecclesiastical Commissioners' 'County' Files, 274 Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Supplementary 'Z' Files, Bishoprics, etc. and 168 special ancient documents. The last- named are the most important, consisting mainly of court rolls and other manorial documents. The deeds and files cover all the Welsh counties. Of the same nature are the 3,779 documents simultaneously deposited by the University of Wales and briefly described above. As further deeds, documents and files complementary and supplementary to these are expected to be deposited at a later date a fuller description will be given then.