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The Rebecca Riots i.e. Rebecca and her daughters (without introduction) by H. Tobit Evans. See also NLW MSS 20941D, 20942-20943E. English. Boards. Purchased from Mrs G. Hale, Penbryn, Llandysul, October 1968.

Minute-book of the Radnorshire Society, a small group of Radnorshire gentlemen living in London, from its inception in 1789 to its demise in 1812, reflecting the Society's main preoccupation, that of fostering agricultural improvements in Radnorshire by offering premiums, especially for the cultivation of turnips (see R. C. B. Oliver, The London Radnorshire Society, 1789-1812, and its Chief Officers, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 59 (1989), 79-89). The Society should not be confused with the Radnorshire Agricultural Society which was not established until 1809 (see W. H. House, Radnorshire Agricultural Societies, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 15 (1945), 28-32). The minute-book also contains the rules of the Society (ff. 2v-3v) and included is a resolution, 1791 (ff. 16, 17) to subscribe to a Welsh-English dictionary, probably that of John Walters published in London in 1794.

Drafts of letters, 1790-1797, from George, the first Marquess Townshend, to Lord Herbert (afterwards eleventh earl of Pembroke) mainly relating to the Queen's Dragoon Guards.

Genealogical notes and tables, partly in the hand of Margaret Davies of Coedcaedu, including an attested copy of a pedigree showing that Thomas Bonsall, Glanrheidol, Cardiganshire, a claimant for one of the exhibitions, was a kinsman of the founder of the Meyrick exhibition at Jesus College, Oxford, and showing the connection of the Bonsall and Meyrick families with that of Edmund Prys, archdeacon of Merioneth.

A copy of Jane L. McCormick's MA thesis 'The Prose of Vernon Watkins' (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, 1969)

A manuscript presented by His Majesty the late King George VI as a memento of the Royal Visit of 15 July 1937. It is entitled 'The Princes of Wales of the Blood Royal of England With Their Armorial Ensigns deduced from MCCLXXXIV to His Royal Highness George-Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland MDCCCXI'. The volume is the work of Sir George Nayler, York Herald and Genealogist of the Bath, who subsequently became Clarenceux king-of-arms and Garter king-of-arms. It is very finely executed on vellum, and consists of brief biographical sketches of sixteen Princes of Wales, beginning with Edward of Caernarvon (afterwards Edward II) and ending with George-Augustus Frederick (afterwards George IV). On the leaf following each sketch is the coat of arms, emblazoned in tinctures, of the Prince of Wales to whom the preceding text relates. On the leaves immediately following the coat of arms of Edward, the Black Prince, are illuminated drawings of his tomb in Canterbury Cathedral and of the Prince of Wales's crest, - three ostrich feathers with the motto 'Ich Dien'. Edward, the son of Henry VIII, who afterwards became Edward VI, has been omitted from the series, and a sheet of paper of later date than the manuscript, on which biographical data relating to him have been written, is loose in the volume. It is decorated on the upper cover with a shield inlaid in black on which are superimposed the Prince of Wales's feathers inlaid on white and outlined and feathered in gold, and which is surrounded by a design, in blind and gold, copied from that on the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral. The same design, without the shield and feathers, is repeated on the lower cover. On the spine, in gold, are one-line panels and the following lettering - 'The Princes of Wales. Nayler . . . 1811', while the inside borders are also of one-line gilt panels. His Majesty the King has autographed the volume on the first fly-leaf - 'George R. I. July 15th. 1937'.

An early 19th century manuscript entitled The Priestess of Diana or Heroick Friendship An historical tragedy compiled principally from Euripides.

'History and Pedigree of the Prendergast family from their first settlement in Ireland collected and presented to Lord Baron Kiltarton ... 1811'.

Papers of the Welsh Branch of the Prayer Book Society, c.1982-2001, comprising correspondence, membership lists, newsletters and other miscellaneous papers.

A copy of the report of a research project conducted and presented by Owen Roberts and directed jointly by Dr Richard Coopey and Professor Aled Jones. The three main objectives of the project were to write a series of narrative histories of dam building and water supply in north east Wales from the 1880s to the present day, to equip future researchers with a guide to archives and collections pertaining to the Welsh water industry, and to establish within the University of Wales an internationally recognised centre for the study of water history.

An account by Lord Rendel, prepared at the request of F. E. Hamer, of his political aims during the years 1880-1894 when he represented Montgomeryshire in Parliament, with special reference to his work in connection with education and the disestablishment of the church, together with letters from Lord Rendel and A. C. Humphreys-Owen to F. E. Hamer, 1892-1902.

An undergraduate thesis submitted by John David Fry in June 1963 as a student at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

The poems of Henry Vaughan II by E. K. Chambers, with notes by L. I. Guiney. English. Cloth. Donated by Miss Dibdin, June 1955.

The poems of Henry Vaughan II by E. K. Chambers, with notes by Isabel Southall. English. Cloth. Donated by Miss Dibdin, June 1955.

The poems of Henry Vaughan I by E. K. Chambers, with notes by L. I. Guiney. English. Cloth. Donated by Miss Dibdin, June 1955.

The poems of Henry Vaughan I by E. K. Chambers, with notes by Isabel Southall. English. Cloth. Donated by Miss Dibdin, June 1955.

A manuscript of miscellanea, including poetry and elegies to members of the Plas y Brain and Chwaen families and dates of birth of various members of the Plas y Brain family; elegiac poetry to the Reverend John Elias (1774-1841) by Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) (1802-1863); correspondence, transcripts, sermon notes; etc.

Papers, 1781-1815, relating mainly to the Mostyn estates of Plas Hen, Caernarvonshire, and Corsygedol, Merioneth, including accounts, lists of disbursements, etc., a valuation of the Corsygedol estate, 1808, a copy of the assessments of the hundred of Eifionydd, 1794, and a pedigree, compiled in the nineteenth century, of the families associated with Wern, Caernarvonshire, and Peniarth, Hengwrt, and Rhug, Merioneth.