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A copy of Walter Davies [Gwallter Mechain]: Rhyddid: traethawd a ennillodd ariandlws eisteddfod Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion ... Llanelwy, B.A., M,DCC,XC ... (Llundain, 1791), with annotations and comments in the hand of Thomas Evans ('Tomos Glyn Cothi') (1766-1833).

A notebook containing memoranda and accounts of Evan John, farmer and weaver, of Gwernogau, Llanfihangel Rhos-y-corn, Carmarthenshire, and father of Thomas Evans ('Tomos Glyn Cothi'; 1764-1833), from 1769 to 1780, with later entries for 1788. The volume mainly contains weaving patterns, entries of hiring agreements by his children as farm-servants (e.g. Thomas Evans at Salach and Pantybetws, Llanfihangel Rhos-y-corn, etc., 1775-6), and particulars of the purchase of barley, oatmeal, peeled corn, and timber, and of the sale of butter, beeswax, honey, hides, and tallow. The volume also includes a stanza of a hymn in a later hand.