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Two volumes of a research study by Dr E. O. Davies, the late Miss Monica Davies's father, entitled 'The Credibility of the Miracles of Jesus'.

Copies of the Queen's instructions to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, Lord President of the Council in Wales and the Marches, 1586; the commission of the lieutenancy of Wales and the Marches to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, March 22, 1600, with power to make deputations to persons named in the commission for the different counties within the lieutenancy; a petition by six members of the Privy Council to the Lord Keeper to renew the commission of lieutenancy for Merioneth and to leave out the names of John Lewys Owen and Cadwalader ap Ris, who had been arraigned before the Court of Star Chamber for misdemeanours, and to appoint Griffith Vaughan and Robert Lloyd to be deputies for the Earl of Pembroke for that county; a Privy Council letter to the same effect covering a renewed commission to the Earl of Pembroke, March 31, 1600, with a list of justices of the peace for Merioneth; and orders for the reformation of the Court of the Marches, 1577.

A contemporary copy of Queen Elizabeth's Instructions, 1586, to the Earl of Pembroke, Lord President of the Council in the Marches of Wales [?in the hand of George Owen, the historian of Pembrokeshire].

A transcript by Dr Timothy Whelan of NLW MS 13587F, comprising the correspondence of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould Flower, 1794-1808, together with an introduction and some notes.

Original typescript copy, with MS notes by the author, of the comedy The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams.

An essay by Reverend David Davies, Penarth, awarded the first prize of £100 at the National Eisteddfod held at Corwen in 1919, together with a few press cuttings.

A manuscript volume, 1883-1891 (NLW MS 24109iC), in the hand of Arthur W. Wrigley, a member of the Toller Congregational Chapel, Kettering, Northamptonshire, containing an eyewitness account of his visit to 'The Training Institute for Congo Lads at Colwyn Bay', dated November 1890, given as an address to the Toller Chapel Christian Band (ff. 39-50). The Congo Training Institute was established by the Baptist missionary William Hughes at Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, in April 1889, to train African children who would then be sent home as missionaries.
The volume also contains 'A Short History of the Toller Chapel Sunday Schools', June 1883 (ff. 1-4 verso), addresses on the subjects of 'The Sabbath', 1885 (ff. 5-14), and 'Peace', 1890 (ff. 29-38), annual reports of the Christian Band, 1889-1890 (ff. 18 verso-25), and copies of religious poems and hymns (ff. 14-18, 26-28 verso, 37 verso-38, 49 recto-verso, 50 verso-51). Also included is a further volume, [?1910], entitled 'Reminiscences' (NLW MS 24109iiC), containing manuscript copies, in an unknown hand, of various people's memories of the Toller Sunday Schools, apparently intended for a centenary souvenir (ff. 1-22, rectos only).

The Complete Pocketbook; or Gentleman's and Trademan's Journal, with memoranda and accounts in the hand of Matthew Wayne (c. 1780-1853), ironmaster and coalowner of Aberdare, etc. English. Leather. Donated by Peter Pagan, Bath, March 1963.

A photostat facsimile of Balliol MS 353, a commonplace book of Sir John Price (1502?-1555). The manuscript contains genealogical memoranda relating to the family of John Price (Siôn ap Rhys) and his wife, Johan Williamson, notes on Welsh bardic grammar, proverbs, triads, and miscellaneous memoranda; transcripts of Welsh poetry including eulogies of the compiler and of his ancestors. The poets represented include Bedo Brwynllys, Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Dafydd Llwyd ab Einion Llygliw, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd [Dafydd Llwyd Mathafarn], Dafydd Nanmor, Gruffudd ap Maredudd, Gruffudd Gryg, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen, Huw Pennal, Hywel Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Rhys, Mr Harri (Cydweli) [Harri ap Hywel ('Mastr Harri')], Hywel Llwyd ap y Gof, Hywel Swrdwal, Ieuan Deulwyn, Ieuan ap Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd, Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn, Ieuan Du'r Bilwg, Ieuan Gethin ab Ieuan ap Lleision, Ieuan Tew, Iolo Goch, Lewis ap Richard alias Morgannwg, Llywelyn ap Maredudd ab Ednyfed, Llywelyn ap Owain, Madog Benfras, Rhys Nanmor, Siôn Cent, Siôn Mawddwy, Thomas Vychan [Vaughan], Taliesin ('yr awdl fraith'), and Tudur Aled. The principal items of Welsh prose are anecdotes relating to Coch y Powtsh, Christopher Mathew of Glamorgan, and Tudur Aled, under the title 'Geiriau digri yr hwnn ny ellir y hadrodd mewn Iayth arall'; a text entitled 'Kyngor y wr ddwyn y vuchedd yn galh ac yn gymedrol'; and a bardic grammar.

The Clergy-man's Vade Mecum. Name of Ellis Wynne on title page. (Formerly Bontddu MS.) English. Leather. Donated by Mrs Anne Pugh, Bontddu, March 1940.

Miscellaneous material relating to the city of Hereford, consisting mainly of newspaper cuttings and reprints from The Hereford Times and The Hereford Bulletin, 1936-1939, containing articles, correspondence, etc., relating to old street names, taverns, medieval schools, St. Guthlac's priory, and St. Peter's church; also a transcript of a royal brief, 15 January 1790, authorising collections to be made throughout England, and in the counties of Denbigh, Flint, and Radnor, in Wales, for the restoration of St. Peter's church, with an accompanying holograph letter, 24 June 1936, from Martin Havergal, [London], who had made the transcript from the original document in the British Museum, to [Charles] Evans, [Hereford], who had asked for the copy.

A series of eleven lectures on the Catechism, etc.

The Chronicles of Brawdy by Major Francis Jones (typescript). English.

A copy of Thomas Edwards: The Chester Cambrian Societies, 1760-1906 ... (Chester, 1906), with two letters, 1904 and 1906, to the author from Hugh Lloyd, Liverpool.