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A commonplace book kept by the Honourable John Scott, M.P. [? for Boroughbridge, 1802-5, son of the first earl of Eldon], in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It contains poems, epigrams, epitaphs, parodies, metrical translations of the classics, etc., by J. Scott, W. 'Spencer, J. Fenton, and others, including ' Prologue to - Nothing, spoken at a Masquerade at Wynnstay, Septr. 1800, by a Character of a Strolling-Player' ; letters and copies of letters mainly to and from John Scott ; ' An account of the present State of England', by C. Heberden ; a copy of an address delivered at Oxford, June 25, 1800, by William Crow[e], entitled 'Oratio Crewiana'; miscellaneous quotations and extracts; etc.

Extracts from printed works, journals, etc., 1817-1829.

A commonplace book containing poetry, Latin axioms, and extracts relating to religion, theologym philosophy, etc.

A commonplace book [?of John Jones, Ioan Triphlyg] containing Welsh poems, mainly in free metre, prose extracts, arithmetical and astronomical exercises, etc.

The commonplace book, 1699-1715, of John Copner, vicar of Abergwili.

A commonplace book of Robert Edwards, Tai Draw, near Bala. It contains notes on astrology, witchcraft, legerdemain, geography, natural history, Biblical history, medicinal and household recipes, arithmetical and other tables, algebraical problems, poems, and a copy of a Welsh letter written in 1722-3, by a man born and bred in America to his kindred in the Bala district.

A pocket-book containing memoranda and household and parish accounts kept possibly by a member of the Anwyl family of Llugwy.

A commonplace book containing prognostications, weather lore, chronology, calendars, a table of Easter dates for 1600-1701 compiled by Rice Jones in 1598, an account of the English alphabet, historical 'englynion', and miscellaneous verse. The volume belonged in the eighteenth century to David Jones, Trefriw, who copied into it extracts from William Salesbury: A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe ... and from the almanacks of Thomas Jones, and some genealogical memoranda.

Day-book of Hugh Owen, Tal-y-sarn, co. Caernarfon, cobbler, with entries in Welsh, 1894-1896.

A commonplace book containing poetry, prose extracts, culinary recipes, etc.

Commonplace book, 1866-1916, in Welsh, of Owen Roberts (1848-1917), Frondeg, Tre-garth, co. Caernarfon, containing transcripts of hymns and secular verse, and notes of local events, including notes concerning chapel activities and the Penrhyn slate quarry.

An album or commonplace book containing a romance, illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, entitled The Cuckow and the Hedge-Sparrow or Mr. Jacques & Mr. Lockit ...; a poem entitled The Humble Petition of the Bryn morfydd Oak to John Price, Esq., Llanrhaiadr Hall, with a reference to the meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological Society at Ruthin, September 1854; Prologue to the Eunuch of Terence, 1854; the script of a charade; songs of the Royal British Bowmen; cartoons and other miscellaneous items, many of them illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches, of north-east Wales and Cheshire interest.

A commonplace book containing poetry, prose extracts, medical recipes, etc.

A pocket book containing miscellaneous verse, 1748-1787, and particulars of cocks sent to Dyffryn, Penmachno, Ffestiniog and Carmarthenshire, 1757.

A commonplace book, [19 cent., second ¼], probably written in the vicinity of Henllan, Denbighshire, containing poetry, prose, medical recipes and proverbs in English and Welsh.

Commonplace book, 1829- , of Thomas Lloyd Jones (‘Gwenffrwd’).

A manuscript volume, 1832-44, belonging to Catherine Wood, containing transcripts in various hands of verse and prose extracts.

A commonplace book of Jane Jenkins, Llandilo, 1810-1853, containing miscellaneous poems, including some of local interest by Julia of Swansea, Miss Beale, and T. Lotherington.

Commonplace book, [c. 1817]-[1883x1887], of John Price (Old Price), containing entries relating mainly to the natural sciences (with a few drawings and specimens) and the niceties of classical philology, some entries indicating that Price was also interested in the Welsh language. There are references to members of the Darwin family of Shrewsbury on ff. 20, 31v, 46, 47v, 50v. An index is on ff. 144-156v.

Memorandum book, 1852-9, of Evan Davies Jones, Esgergraig, Betws Ifan, co. Cardigan, containing a brief account of his education at Glynarthen School, Adpar Academy, Lampeter Grammar School, and St David's College, Lampeter, 1848-59, and of books read; monetary accounts, 1850-7, including details of books purchased from John Richards Davies, printer and bookseller, Newcastle Emlyn and Thomas Evans, bookseller, Carmarthen (ff. 2-6, 14-15); miscellaneous memoranda and verse in Welsh and English.