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A photostat facsimile of an Abergwili (Bishop's Palace) manuscript containing a contemporary record - comprising bills, writs, returns of commissions, interrogatories and depositions - of a case begun 4 Edward VI (1560) concerning the status, whether collegiate or parochial, of the church of Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire. At the beginning of the volume is a valuation of the temporalities and spiritualities of the diocese of St Davids, with a note dated 1582.

Record of work done on specified ships in the hand of Griffith Owen ?of Aberdyfi. English. Boards. Donated by Mrs T. Wynne Thomas, Kingsheath, Birmingham, July 1971.

A photostat facsimile of the record of the trial of Michael Tillert, alias Michael Morgan, a native of St Bride's, Glamorgan, for heresy before the Inquisitorial Court in New Mexico, 1572-1574.

Record of sufferancies for the landing and shipping of goods in the hand of William Hughes, Aberdyfi. English. Vellum. Donated by Mrs T. Wynne Thomas, Kingsheath, Birmingham, July 1971.

A list of household goods, agricultural implements, crops and livestock of Mrs Elinor Davies which were sold by auction at Rhydwhied Issa, Llanllwchaiarn, Cardiganshire, 12 October 1799, with the names of the purchasers and the amounts paid.

Record of apprenticeships in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. (Formerly Llanmaes MS 77.) English. Vellum. Purchased from E. P. W. Nicholl, Llanmaes House, Glamorganshire, 1939-1940.

A notebook giving the names of the purchasers and the prices realised at a sale of crops, livestock, farm implements and furniture at Lanlanisa farm, Cellan, Cardiganshire, 1864, with the prices of dairy produce, etc. sold in 1901-1902.

A copy of Mrs Ruth Evans's typescript recollections, 1983, of her late husband, Ifor L. Evans (1897-1952), Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1934-52, including extracts from family correspondence and diaries.

Recollections of Edward Williams by Elijah Waring: copy byLady Coffin Greenly and another. English. Full calf. Purchased from Lowe Brothers, Birmingham, December 1953.

'Recollections of a Ruthinian', i.e., R. J Edwards, being an account of Ruthin from about 1860, written by R. J. Edwards, and printed in the Denbighshire Free Press, March 10, 1917 - April 15, 1922, together with other press cuttings and broadsides.

A volume, [c. 1825]-1881, apparently mainly compiled by Morgan Rice James (c. 1791-1855), solicitor, and his wife, Mary Ann James (née Crymes, c. 1790-1871), of High Street and later of Hill Lane, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. The volume was originally used for legal notes but now contains chiefly veterinary, household and culinary recipes, in various hands, acquired partly from relatives, including the compilers' daughter Elizabeth (f. 30 verso), and from acquaintances in Haverfordwest, Milford Haven and Narberth, but also from printed sources, notably John Bartlet, The Gentleman's Farriery (London & Eton, 1753) and Francis Clater, Every Man his own Farrier (Newark, 1783).

A manuscript containing recipes for dyeing wool and cotton; household and medical recipes; miscellaneous accounts, 1852-1867; a copy of Reynolds' Original Birmingham Almanack ... 1850.

An imperfect manuscript of the second half of the seventeenth century containing medical and culinary recipes based partly on printed sources (e. g., John Gerard: The Herball . . ., 1597), together with a few eighteenth century additions including recipes, stanzas of a Welsh hymn, and musical scores.

A volume, 1716-67, containing culinary, medical and veterinary recipes, mainly compiled by Mary Edwards, probably of Great Ness, co. Salop, later the wife of the Reverend William Parry of Ness (will proved at PCC, 1767), with additions by other hands. The recipes were mainly acquired from relatives and friends from the same county, but a few are drawn from printed sources such as The Gentleman's Magazine. An index is included on pp. 299-310.

Notebook, c. 1865-80, containing culinary recipes compiled by William Edward Davies or his wife Mary Evered Davies (née Poole); Davies was a grocer and provision merchant at Haverfordwest and Pembroke Dock until the late 1870s and thereafter baker and confectioner at Pier Street, Aberystwyth.

A 19th century volume containing miscellaneous culinary and medical recipes.

A manuscript volume, begun in about 1709, belonging initially to an Elizabeth Salusbury, containing numerous medicinal remedies and culinary recipes (pp. 1-186, 197-236, 238-242), together with a series of 'amlegues', diagrams displaying collections of dishes for different meals (pp. 187-196, 237). The volume appears to be in at least two different hands, the second appearing on pp. 122-207 passim. The contents of pp. 1-40 are listed at the front of the volume (pp. i-iv).
Also included is a small group of loose papers, 1756-1792 and undated, some relating to the Jones family of Llantisilio Hall, Llangollen, mostly consisting of further recipes (pp. 243-276). Elizabeth Salusbury is likely the daughter of Peter Salusbury of Abergele, who married firstly Thomas Peirce of Llysvaen in 1715/6 and secondly John Lloyd of Llansilin in 1720; her daughter Mary Lloyd married Thomas Jones of Llantisilio Hall in 1740. A letter, 1756, from John Leche (p. 275) refers to 'you and Mrs Jones' and to 'good Mrs Lloyd'.

Culinary and medicinal recipes, collected apparently by Jane Tonyn of Berwick-on-Tweed, co. Northumberland, with some early nineteenth-century additions by Rice Hughes, son of Richard Hughes, rector of Dolgellau, co. Merioneth. Sources are frequently named, and dates sometimes given.

Miscellaneous printed, typescript, and manuscript material, August - September 1939, relating to plans for the reception of evacuees from Liverpool at Aberystwyth.