A Commonwealth warrant, dated 4 May 1655, issued to Gualter Frost and signed by Henry Lawrence (Lord President of the Council of State), Philip Jones (member of the Council and governor of Cardiff), Francis Rous (Speaker of the little parliament) and others, to pay the sum of 'threescore and eighteene pounds' to Robert Roberts, 'being for Satisfaccon to ye Souldyers who recovered ye horses of ye Lord Cheife Justice Rolls and Mr. Baron Nicholas Seized upon by the Rebells at Salisbury', endorsed with the receipt and signature of Robert Roberts.
An autograph letter, 1789, from Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759-1817), painter, written from South Wales to William Anderson (1757-1837), marine painter, Southwark. The Merthyr Tydfil iron-works are mentioned in the letter.
The Rules and Regulations of the Savings Bank for the Town of Bala,. and Neighbouring Parishes; established At Bala, November 9th, 1819 . . .', containing the names of the officials of the bank at Bala, its original and amended rules, and its annual statements of accounts from 1821 to 1833.
One of four volumes containing a full account of A Universal Alphabet devised by William Jones, Merthyr Tydfil, 1923, with letters relating thereto, illustrative examples, etc.
A copy of Marwnad y diweddar Barch. J. Morris, Cwmifor [near Llandilo, Carmarthenshire] ... gan Watcyn Wyn [i.e. Watkin Hezekiah Williams] (1844-1905), printed at Llandilo in 1877 and described by Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas (1863-1940) in a manuscript note added to the volume as probably the earliest work of Watcyn Wyn [which is] printed in book form; with the book is a cutting from Y Darian, 7 October 1926, containing an article by David James (Defynnog) (1865-1928) describing the book.
The original manuscript of The Union Jack, a patriotic poem written by Thomas Michaeliones (1880-1960), Rhyd-y-parc, Caersws, Montgomeryshire, 1925, together with press cuttings.
Michaeliones, Thomas, 1880-1960 The Union Jack, original manuscript (1925), NLW MS 5430D The Union Jack, press cuttings relating to, NLW MS 5430D
Transcripts of the titles of Welsh ballads contained in a manuscript at one time [1925] in the possession of Hugh Davies, Lluest, Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire, together with transcripts by Hugh Davies of the titles of books of local Montgomeryshire interest, with notes by the transcriber on the authors and subjects of the ballads and books.
One of two volumes consisting of an interleaved copy of William F. Skene: The Four Ancient Books of Wales . . . (Edinburgh, 1863), with manuscript notes, additions, and corrections in the autograph of the author.
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes), 1809-1892 'The Four Ancient Books of Wales...', by, with manuscripts notes, NLW MSS 4974-4975C
A copy of Y Brython: sef Cylchgrawn Llenyddol Cymru, Cyfrol V, 1862-3 . . . (Tremadog, 1863) which belonged to Owen Wynne Jones ('Glasynys'), who has inserted a list of his contributions to the volume- 'Ysgrifeniadau Glasynys yn y gyfrol hon'.
An account of Thomas Thomas (1805-1881), president of the Baptist College, Pontypool, written by his son T. H. Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) (1839-1915) for J. Vyrnwy Morgan: Welsh Religious Leaders of the Victorian Era, 1905.
Thomas, T. H. (Thomas Henry), 1839-1915 Account of Thomas Thomas, his father (1905), NLW MS 5418E
Over sixty autograph letters, 1806-1815, from Major-General (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Sir Thomas Picton (1758-1815), most of them written to Lewis Flanagan, London. Some of these letters were printed in West Wales Historical Records, Vols XII and XIII.
Picton, Thomas, Sir, 1758-1815 Letters from (1806-1815), NLW MS 5416E
Summonses, dated 25 April, 15 [?Charles I, i.e. 1639], to James Bridgman and Samuel Law, commanding them to appear before the Council of the Marches at Ludlow on 7 May.
A memorandum book, 1870-1887, kept by David Mathias, registrar, to enter notices of marriages in the Cardigan district, with statistics of marriages by licence and by certificate.
Mathias, David, Cardigan Memorandum book (1870-1887), NLW MS 5411A
Memoranda, 1871-1887, relating to Bethania Baptist Church, Cardigan, including particulars of preachers and their texts and notes of resolutions and proceedings of the church, by David Mathias.
Mathias, David, Cardigan Memoranda relating to Bethania Baptist Church, Cardigan (1871-1887), NLW MS 5410A