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Deeds and documents relating to the estate of the Foley family of Ridgeway, Llawhaden, Pembrokeshire, mainly in that county, 1365-1869, together with letters, 1815-1851, from the agents and solicitors of Mrs Emily Foley relting mainly to her estate in Kent.

NLW MSS 3641-4252 belonged to William Floyd (?1810-?1898), who spent many years at the Public Record Office - he applied for a ticket as from Bridgend, Glamorgan in 1856 - and in the British Museum engaged in research in the various types of records relating to the history of England and Wales preserved in those two institutions. With a few exceptions, most of which are described at the beginning of the collection, all the volumes are Floyd's notebooks and memoranda books. His collection, which had been presented to the London Library, of which he had been a member since its foundaton in 1841, was by that body transferred in 1899 to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth at the time when the Welsh Library Committee of the College was accumulating material of Welsh interest to form a nucleus for the projected national library for Wales.

Scrapbooks of photographs, notes and press cuttings, 1862-1992, relating to Penrhyn-coch and to St John's Church; an essay by Florrie Hamer's aunt, Sarah Ann Hamer, concerning the history of St John's, 1897; accounts and balance sheets, 1930-1988, of St John's Church; undated notes relating to the Church and to Penrhyn-coch, [1909x1989]; notebook, 1925-1931, of Daniel Hamer; and letters, 1964-1965, to Florrie Hamer concerning Plas Tanybwlch, Aberystwyth.

Records of the Fishguard Harbour Improvement Company comprising minutes, 1857-1864; other administrative papers (notices, reports, bye-laws, specifications and estimates), 1857-1897; financial papers (account books, receipts and vouchers), 1857-1897; and correspondence with the Admiralty, the Board of Trade, firms of lawyers and others, 1857-1897. There are no records relating to the later history of the Company.

Ratebooks of the parish of St Athan for 1880-1905.

Records of the Ffynone estate, Manordeifi, and Rhosygwilen estate, in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, comprising deeds, probate records, settlements, etc., 1441-1915; estate and family letters, 1679-1915 (mainly 1733 onwards); rentals, 1837-1853, 1914-1915 (Ffynnone estate) and 1827-1837 (Rhosygwilen estate); and letters and accounts, 1787-1852, relating to various collieries in Pembrokeshire including Creswell, Jefferston Mountain, Hook, Amroth and Redlangoige. The archive also includes bank-books of the Tivyside Hunt, 1851-1855; muster rolls, letters, orders, orderly books, circulars, etc., of the Pembrokeshire militia, 1778-1876, but mainly 1778-1800 when Lt. Col. John Colby commanded it, including papers relating to the militia's tour of duty in Ireland, 1799-1800, which include papers relating to the trial and execution of Walter Baker, sentenced to death for conspiracy at Mallow, Ireland, 1799; papers relating to John Colby's court-martial, 1800; and deeds, accounts, and estate and family letters, 1786-1823, relating to the Orielton estate in Pembrokeshire and Anglesey, following the appointment of John Colby as receiver of that estate as a result of a legal dispute between members of the Owen family over the administration of the estate during the minority of Sir Hugh Owen.

Deeds, plans, wills, marriage settlements and other papers, 1709-1940, relating to the Ffrwdgrech estate, Llanfaes, Brecknockshire, and to lands in neighbouring parishes.

Papers of Ffransis G. Payne, 1920-1990, including letters to (and copy letters from), 1924-1981, relating mainly to his study of Welsh folk history and in particular his research into the history of agriculture in Wales; letters to Ffransis Payne, 1938-1978, relating to his research into the history of the plough and agricultural implements; general correspondence, 1932-1989; and letters from Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate, 1927-1971. Also research notes and other miscellaneous material including articles, letters, photographs, illustrations, transcripts of poems, and printed items relating to the donor's study of early agriculture in Wales, Welsh folk culture, Radnorshire poets and their patrons, Welsh poetry, and pedigrees. There are also some papers of Mrs Helly Payne.

Records, mainly deeds, of the Ffosrhydgaled estate, mostly in the parish of Llanychaearn, Cardiganshire, and Aberystwyth, 1733-1920.

A collection of manuscripts of Edmund James Jones (d. 1914), Fforest Legionis, Pontneddfechan, comprising miscellaneous papers, mostly poetry.

Material largely relating to scripts and screenplays submitted to Ffilm Cymru; together with further Ffilm Cymru material, which includes proposals for film/television adaptations, casting and funding applications, employment enquiries, contracts and agreements, accounts and invoices, card indexes and correspondence.

The fonds comprises records of the Fellowship of Reconciliation ('Cymdeithas y Cymod yng Nghymru'), 1939-2001, including minutes, correspondence, newsletters, periodicals and newspaper cuttings. A further collection of newspaper cuttings were received in October 2014.

Deeds and other documents, [early 14th cent.]-1820, relating to properties in Wales and England; and other material, including miscellaneous wills and a remembrance roll for Monmouthshire Assizes, 1586.

Papers of Frederick G. Gurney, 1886-1947, including family correspondence, mainly from him to his nephew, Robert G Heley, concerning family, genealogical, literary, and antiquarian matters; drawings and watercolours by him; and books on Welsh literature.

Papers, 1789-1891, of, or relating to, the Eyton family of Leeswood, Flintshire comprising two diaries, 1789 and 1799, containing mainly agricultural and other accounts and memoranda, respectively by Robert Lloyd of Swanhill and the Reverend Hope Wynn Eyton of Leeswood Hall; and a memorandum book, [c. 1845]-1891, of Katherine Eyton of Leeswood Hall.

Title deeds and papers, 1734-1893, of the Mesham family of Ewloe Hall in the parish of Hawarden, Flintshire, and the associated family of Bennet of Glan y Wern in the parish of Llandyrnog, Denbighshire.

Research papers of Evelyn Southall Whiting, 1689-1970, relating to the history of Quakerism in Wales and the Welsh Border, including documents, 1689-1839, relating to Quakerism; papers and notes on Quakers and Quakerism in Wales, 1875-1970; and correspondence, 1950-1969.

Diaries of Mary Caroline Evans Williams of Bryntirion Hall, Rhaeadr, Radnorshire, 1861-1906, and of her daughter, Elizabeth Alice Evans Williams, later E. A. Lewis Lloyd, 1889-1903. Most of the entries are brief, apart from those detailing vacations in Germany, 1861-1862, and Belguim, 1897 and 1906.

General account books, 1868-1911, including cash books, 1884-1900, coal sales and general ledgers, 1872-1903, coal shipment books and files, 1868-1911, and receipt files, 1882-1906; and colliery account books (by colliery), 1865-1912.

Business records of Evan Vaughan, consisting of financial records, 1862-1910; records of work undertaken by staff, 1887-1890; and records of contributions paid by chapel members for seating, 1879-1882.