One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.
Jones, Marianne, Pentremawr, Abergele Accounts of tours (1824-1844), NLW MS 3595B
Miscellaneous letters, the correspondents including Thomas Charles (1755-1814), Thomas Coke (1747-1814), Wesleyan minister and missionary, John Jones (regicide) (1597?-1660), Michael D. Jones (1822-1898), etc.; two original Rebecca letters; papers relating to William Davies, Froodvale, Carmarthenshire; a note in the hand of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) (1747-1826).
Five letters, 29 January-23 February 1931, from the poet Huw Menai, Gilfach Goch, to Dermot Spence, [of William Heinemann Ltd.], concerning their attempts to publish his volume of poetry 'Back in the return' (ff. 1-3, 5-11). It was eventually published by Heinemann two years later as Back in the Return and Other Poems (London, 1933). Also included is a carbon copy typescript letter, 18 February 1931, [from Spence, on behalf of] Heinemann, to Huw Menai (f. 4). The letters contain references to Leonard Woolf (ff. 1, 4, 6-7, 11) and comments on J. B. Priestley's novel The Good Companions (London, 1929) (ff. 2-3) and Robert Graves, Poems 1926-1930 (London: Heinemann, 1931) (ff. 7-10).
Copies of a Latin letter from Llewelyn, Prince of Wales (c. 1225-1282) to Edward the First (1239-1307) written from Nefyn, 2 February 1281 or 1282, with an English translation, also portions of Queen Elizabeth I's (1533-1603) warrant for the holding of the Caerwys Eisteddfod, 1568, and of a certificate granting the degree of Pencerdd to Simwnt Fychan (c. 1530-1606) at that eisteddfod; also included is a translation of a grant to Thomas Egerton (1540?-1617) of the chantry of St John in the town of Ruthland [sic], as well as other premises and manorial rights, 1589.
Letters and papers, including a petition, circa 1722, from Sir John Philipps suggesting the preferment of Owen Philipps to the rectory of Walwins Castle, Pembrokeshire, a petition, 1745, signed by Sir John Philipps, Thomas Carew, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, and George Heathcote, to the members of the House of Commons, requesting their attendance at the House on January 16, 1746, and a Return of the number of Men that can be contained, in the Different Towns in the Counties of Carnarvon, Anglesea, Montgomery, Merioneth and Denbigh under the superintendance of Major Genl. Fisher on an emergency. Wrexham June 2nd 1805.
A lengthy doctrinal treatise entitled Give unto Ceasar the thinges of Ceasar, written not earlier than 1644, but probably before 1649, in defence of the divine right of kings; drafts and copies of letters by Edward Herbert and H. Emerson; and a few poems. As the volume was at one time in the Powis Castle collection it is possible that the author of the treatise was a member of the Herbert family, possibly Edward, 3rd baron Herbert of Cherbury, grandson of Edward, 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury, the metaphysician, and that the poems may be attributed to one of the Herberts.
Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Baron, approximately 1633-1678
A volume of reminiscences, with contributions from the members of Form II who entered Llandysul Grammar School in 1948, collated and edited by David Ioan Gwilym Jones, a former pupil of the class.
The file comprises a photocopy of a music manuscript from St Davids Cathedral Library. The manuscript, St Davids MS E3/5, is an eighteenth cent. bass part-book; recto and verso sides have been photocopied and collated separately.
A manuscript copy, [?1821] (watermark 1820), of a treatise entitled The Social System, by the philanthropist and social reformer Robert Owen, apparently in the hand of his son, Robert Dale Owen. The text differs from that published in The New Harmony Gazette, 2.8-2.24 (November 1826-March 1827), for which see Selected Works of Robert Owen, ed. by Gregory Claeys, 4 vols (London, 1993), II, 56-104.
Miscellaneous manuscript and printed material, 1775-1870, relating to Captain John Phillips of Liverpool, his heirs, and the Smalls Lighthouse on the Pembrokeshire coast, the building of which he instigated, including two broadsides, articles of agreement, legal opinions, autograph letters and the signed document by which Phillips transferred the management of the lighthouse to Trinity House.
'An Essay on the Island of Anglesey', 1832, in an unidentified hand, apparently the original version submitted by the Rev. Peter Bailey Williams in the competition for an essay on the history of Anglesey at the Beaumaris Eisteddfod, 1832, winning the second prize for its author. The essay was published in The Gwyneddion for 1832: Containing the Prize Poems, &c., of the Beaumaris Eisteddfod and North Wales Literary Society, ed. by W. Jones (London, 1839), pp. 1-97. The first prize was won by Angharad Llwyd for the work later published as A History of the Island of Mona, or Anglesey (Ruthin, 1833). Williams may have forwarded his work to the competition in the hand of an amanuensis in order to disguise the authorship from the adjudicator, his fellow diocesan cleric, the Rev. J. H. Cotton.
A record of the preaching engagements, 1927-1980, of the Reverend Owen Morgan Lloyd, minister of Tabernacle Congregational church, Dolgellau, co. Merioneth, 1955-1978, noting texts of sermons preached and remuneration received. Themes of children's addresses, 1937-1979, are also recorded (inverted text ff. 115-33 verso).
The four gospels of the passion as sung in Holy Week followed by the Exultet and other chants for the blessing of candles at the Easter Vigil. Written in a large textura, music on staves throughout. A large illuminated initial at the beginning of each gospel and other smaller illuminated initials.
Typewritten catalogue, with manuscript additions, of the library of Brigadier James O. M. Ashton (1908-1989) of Welston Court, Carew, co. Pembroke, compiled by him, c. 1960-c. 1988, and arranged according to subject. Two letters, 1895, from G. L. Thomas, Glogue, found loose inside, have been tipped in on ff. 278v-9.
Autograph letters, 1712-1769, of Thomas Tanner, bishop of St Asaph (1674-1735), Paul Panton the elder (1727-1797), Sir William Meredith, 3rd bart (d. 1790), and Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis and Baron Herbert of Chirbury (1703-1772).
Letters, 1796-[c. 1808], from Lewis Bagot, bishop of St. Asaph, and William Crowe, poet, and one signed by William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, third duke of Portland, to W. D. Shipley, dean of St. Asaph, from G. Pigot to Charles Shipley, son of the dean, from Frances Colleter to Lady (William) Jones, sister of the dean, and from G[...] to Mrs. [?William] Shipley [?daughter-in-law of the dean] and Mrs. [?C. A.] Dashwood [?daughter of the dean], together with poems by the dean and William Crowe, etc.
Bagot, Lewis, 1741-1802 Letters from (1796-c.1808), NLW MS 2409C
Transcripts by Thomas Thomas, Cefnpennar, Aberdare, of poetry in free metre by himself and by Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), Thomas Taylor, David Edwards (Gurnos), Robert Leyshon, Edward Evans (Toncoch), William Evans ('Cawr Cynon'), Howell Rees, 'William Tomos Shôn o Gilsanws Vaenor Yr hen Galchwr', and Roger Edwards; English poems; prose extracts; etc.
Copies of the issues of Seren Cymru, 3 February - 31 March 1899, containing a Welsh translation, 1897, by John T Griffith (Lansford, Pennsylvania, afterwards of Maesteg, Glamorgan) of an English work in which Dr Henry Melville King, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. refutes the contention of William H. Whitsitt that Roger Williams (1604?-1683), founder of the colony of Rhode Island, could not have been baptised by the method of complete immersion.