Dangos 611 canlyniad

Deeds, mainly mortgages and associated documents, relating to Cefn Trefor Bach and other properties in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, Merionethshire, 1648-1878.

Deeds and documents mainly concerning the Kemeys family of Bertholey, parish of Llantrisant, Monmouthshire, Oystermouth, Glamorgan, and elsewhere, 1481-1780; letter from Lord Arthur Capel to Colonel Davyes at Hawarden, 1643, and an account of the raising of the siege of Montgomery Castle, 1644.

Deeds relating to the Davies family of Pencoed, Llanglydwen, Carmarthenshire, 1785-1991.

A transcript, [c. 1878-1879], by the Rev. John Evans (1843-97), Westerly, Rhode Island, of extracts from the Welsh portion of the 'Ilston Book', containing records, 1649-1660, of the Baptist church established in 1649 at Ilston, near Swansea (see The Ilston Book, ed. by B. G. Owens (Aberystwyth, 1996); for a discussion of this transcript see pp. lxxiii-lxxvi). It was made at the request of the Rev. John Jones (1834-87), Felin-foel, Llanelli (see D. Rhys Phillips, 'Cefndir Hanes Eglwys Ilston, 1649-60', Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1928, 1-107 (pp. 54-5)) and was later used by the Rev. Thomas Shankland, Bangor (see f. 1v and Seren Gomer, 21-3 (1900-2)).

Account book, 1898-1918, of John Thomas, Rhoshelyg, Dinas Cross, co. Pembroke, undertaker and carpenter, with a few entries for 1880 and later additions, 1932-1942.

Notebook, 1842-1853, of Thomas Williams, Felin-fach, Pumsaint, afterwards of Talley, co. Carmarthen, surveyor, and schoolmaster at Cwmdwr (Llanwrda), and Gwynfe, containing memoranda relating to rates, etc. in the parish of Talley; mathematical exercises; accounts, with names of pupils, relating to schools at ?Salem (Llandeilo) and Llan-crwys (inverted text ff. 72, 75 verso-6); and miscellaneous notes.

Minute-book, 1904-1929, of meetings of the managers of Tavernspite Non-Provided school, co. Pembroke, with related enclosures, 1923-1936.

An autograph album of Elizabeth Sarah Roberts, Llanrwst, wife of the Reverend Thomas Roberts ('Scorpion'), containing entries, 1859-1879, by Ellis Thomas Davies, Abergele, Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai'), Hugh Pugh, Mostyn, William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), William Williams ('Caledfryn'), and others.

Autograph hymn-tunes, 1947, by J. T. Rees , Bow Street, co. Cardigan. 'Copied' on some indicates the copying of tunes into the two MS volumes which appear to be the composer's definitive collection of his hymn-tunes (NLW Minor Deposits 779-80).

A volume containing transcripts, 1778-1781, by Thomas Evans, Cydweli, of pastoral poems (bugeilgerddi) by Edward Richard, Ystradmeurig, dated 1764-1776, together with a few other eighteenth-century poems in Welsh and some medical and veterinary recipes.

A volume containing attendance registers, accounts, committee minutes and memoranda, 1854-1856, of the charity school at Llansadwrn, co. Carmarthen, in the hand of the schoolmaster, John L. Butler. Also included are accounts, memoranda and correspondence in Butler's hand, 1858-1861, relating to his activities as a tea dealer and grocer in Dowlais, together with a signed temperance pledge witnessed by Butler (f. 37 verso), temperance verses in Welsh (ff. 39 verso-40), and a letter from J. J. Thomas, Carmarthen, 1930 (f. 24).

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.

Minute-book, 1951-1960, of 'Clwb Herber', the Caernarfon and district Ministers' Fraternal.

The first of three volumes (see also NLW MSS 23702-3D) of typescript and manuscript accounts by women from Wales of their experiences in the Second World War, selections from which were published in Parachutes and Petticoats: Welsh Women Writing on the Second World War, ed. by Leigh Verrill-Rhys and Deirdre Beddoe (Dinas Powys, 1992). The material was submitted in response to an appeal in 1991 by the publishers, Honno. A copy of the complete archive has been donated to the Imperial War Museum, London.

School attendance officer's report book, 1877-1894, for Llanddeiniol National School, co. Cardigan. Later used to record rules in English orthography (ff. 47v-50) and proverbs in English and Welsh (ff. 56-9).

An anthology of Welsh verse ('cerddi', 'dyriau', 'carolau', 'cywyddau', and 'englynion') and some prose, begun by William Elias in 1752, and including several selections from the works of Owen Gruffydd of Llanystumdwy and Goronwy Owen. Other poets represented are 'Aneuryn Gwawdrydd' ('englynion y misoedd'), Dafydd ap Gwilym, 'Dic y Dawns', William Elias, Wm. Gough, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Huw Llyn, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Morgan ap Hugh Lewis, Edward Morus, Hugh Morus, Lewis Morris, Richard Parry, William Phylip, Robert Prichard o Bentraeth, Edmund Prys, Morus Roberts, Thomas Prys, Tudur Aled, Wiliam Llyn, and William Wynn. Miscellaneous items include 'Anherchion Gwyr Cybi', 'englynion brud', 'Breuddwyd Goronwy Ddu o Fon', 'Gorchestion Dafydd Nanmor', 'cywydd hanes Criccieth a suddodd Tawchfor', a valuation of land including Plas y Glyn, and recipes.

A transcript by Thomas Charles Townsend, Prestatyn, Flintshire, dated 1 August 1943, of the Order in Council of 1860 creating the ecclesiastical parish of Prestatyn (formally 'The District of Prestatyn', p. 3) from parts of the parishes of Meliden and Llanasa.
Included as part of the text are schedules describing the boundaries of the new district (pp. 6-8) and listing landowners and occupiers, with details of rent charges due, within the townships of Prestatyn and Meliden (pp. 8-11).

Notebook of Henry Harris, Ystrad Rhondda, begun in 1921, containing lists of place-names and field names in the Rhondda. Some of the names are taken from a tithe map of 1847 (ff. i, 1-51).
Also included is a typescript list of the same place-names, on loose sheets, the names numbered and in alphabetical order (ff. 52-98); typescript and manuscript notes, [?1938], on the Rhondda in the year 1737, including transcripts of Overseers of the Poor accounts (ff. 103-109); notes, 1938, relating to bird life in the Rhondda (f. 110); and three letters to Harris, October 1921-May 1928, including two from M. H. Jones, Penllwyn (ff. 99-102).

A typescript M.A. dissertation, 1957, for Liverpool University Department of Celtic by J[ohn] G[lyn] Penrhyn Jones, entitled 'A history of medicine in Wales in the eighteenth century'.
The dissertation includes chapters on social conditions in Wales, the impact of the Industrial Revolution, 'folk' medicine and herbalism, and biographies of prominent medical men. Supplementary material, including extracts from printed and manuscript sources, is to be found in the Appendices (ff. 164-329). Two tables of contents are included (f. iii, 163a).

A copy of 'Speech of the Earl of Powis [i.e. Edward, second earl] in the House of Lords on Tuesday, May 23, 1843, on moving the second reading of a bill for preventing the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor . . .' (London, 1843), with letters and printed papers relating to the threatened union of the sees, the object of which was to transfer the income of the see that would be suppressed to a see of Manchester. Among the papers are letters from the earl of Powis, George William, fourth baron Lyttelton, and Charles Scott Luxmoore, dean of St. Asaph.