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The holograph manuscript of [Peter Williams] 'Pedr Hir': Bugeileg: Owen Puw (Lerpwl [1922]).

A ledger, 1880-1907, of Richard Jones, builder, contractor, and wheelwright, of Twrog Mill, Llanwnda, Caernarvonshire. Some of the accounts relate to the 'Book Depository', Caernarvon, to the Fletcher Slate Yard, Caernarvon, to Penyrorsedd Slate Company, and to schools and Nonconformist meeting-houses in the county.

Account book of John Jones (b. 1815), Llwyn-gog, Pontrhydfendigaid, co. Cardigan, carpenter and stonemason, containing accounts and other memoranda, 1857-1904, mainly relating to building and maintenance work undertaken and including details of payments to craftsmen and labourers. Included are accounts relating to the construction of the English Wesleyan chapel, Aberystwyth, 1869-70 (ff. 109-17, 124 verso-5). The volume also includes diary entries, 1854-9, written in Welsh and comprising mainly a daily work record but also including references to family and local affairs (ff. 1-51); and other miscellaneous material. A letter, 1862, from the Reverend John Phillips, Normal College, Bangor, to Thomas Hopkins, Pentonville, found loose inside, has been tipped in at the end of the volume (f. 324).

Papers of the Waddington, Bunsen and Chisholm families, consisting mainly of letters to Mrs Georgina Waddington of Llanover from her eldest surviving daughter, Frances, and her husband Christopher Charles Bunsen, 1817-1825, mainly written from Rome where Bunsen was Charge d'Affairs; letters to Thomas Waddington mainly from his his wife Janet Waddington (nee Chisholm), 1825-1866; letters to Janet Waddington, [c.1825]-1845, from members of the family; letters to Catherine Chisholm, 1826-1843, mainly from Janette Waddington; letters to Mrs Eliza Chisholm, 1825-1845; and letters to Frances Chisholm, 1822-1841.

Deeds, mostly relating to the estate of the Burchinshaw family, Denbighshire, 1668-1750, and the Tremadog, Caernarfonshire, estate of the Roche family, 1895-1900.

Family papers and estate records of the Burchinshaw family of Llansannan, Denbighshire, 1557-1863.

Deeds and documents, 1719-1855, relating mainly to the Peniarth estate in Merionethshire and Caernarfonshire, mainly leases, bonds and mortgages, 1728-1767.

Burhan-i Qati, a dictionary of the Persian language, including words borrowed from the Arabic and other languages, compiled by Muhammad Husayn ibn Khalaf Tabrizi Burhan. It was dedicated to Sultan 'Abd Ullah Kutubshah, who reigned in Golconda from A.H. 1035 to 1083, and was completed in A.H. 1062 (A.D. 1651-1652). The work was edited by Thomas Roebuck, Calcutta, 1818, and was incorporated in its entirety by J. A. Vullers in his Lexicon Persico-Latinum.

A survey of the burial ground of Y Graig Independent church, Machynlleth, undertaken by Machynlleth Women’s Institute, October 1984. = Arolwg o fynwent Eglwys Annibynnol y Graig, Machynlleth, gan Sefydliad y Merched y dref, Hydref 1984.

A volume compiled, c. 1846-1874, by Robert Chambre Vaughan, Burlton Hall, co. Salop [see DWB under Wynn (aft. Nanney, etc.) family of Maesyneuadd, Llandecwyn], containing pedigrees of families from whom he claimed descent, mostly Welsh or co. Salop, in particular those of Chambre of Burlton and Petton, and Vaughan of Burlton. Pasted or tipped into the volume are additional biographical, genealogical and heraldic documents and memoranda, mid-seventeenth cent.-1874, drawn from diverse manuscript and printed soruces, including certificates of baptism, marriage and burial and copies of monumental inscriptions, over a hundred emblazoned coats of arms, and letters, 1846-52, to Robert Chambre Vaughan, together with a list of sources and an index to the pedigrees (ff. 63-4).

This collection comprises account books relating to the erection of the Welsh Calvinistic Chapel at Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, 1836; correspondence and papers, 1886-1900, relating to The Cambro-Briton Society, London and to some other aspects of the London Welsh community; material relating to the Welsh Hospital for South Africa, to the National Eisteddfod held in London, 1887, and to preaching activities in Croydon, Enfield, Harrow and Willesden.

See also NLW Misc. Vol. 15.

See also NLW Misc. Vol. 241.

Day-book, 1875-1916, of Benjamin Williams (later E. Williams & Co.), Maes-y-Felin, Cilcennin, co. Cardigan, family butcher.

Records mainly of the Glamorgan estate of the marquesses of Bute and of their predecessors, the earls of Pembroke. These include letters, 1588-1855, including letters of the Herbert family of Cogan Pill, 1588-1719, but primarily the personal and estate correspondence of John, second marquis of Bute, 1804-1855, (including letters relating to Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire (Kirtling: Lady Bute's property) and County Durham estates); deeds, [1319]-1937; surveys, 1570-1842; rentals of the Glamorgan estate, 1728-1893, and the Cardiff estate, 1842-1895, estate and manorial accounts, 1573-1873; manorial records and deeds of over seventy manors, mainly in Glamorgan, [?1373]-1847; family settlements, [early 17 cent.]-1902; family probate records, 1612-1900; and legal and case papers, 1642-1921; correspondence of Alice, Lady Windsor, 1757-1776; a substantial number of copies of Acts of Parliament, relating mainly to roads, canals, docks and harbours, railways, public works and utilities, 1771-1928; and miscellaneous records. -- The archive illustrates the history of Glamorgan; the corporate life of the boroughs of Cardiff, Cowbridge and Llantrisant; the urbanization of the South Wales valleys, especially Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare; the Glamorgan Commission of the Peace; the county militia and yeomanry, 1815-1837; the development of the coal and other industries (it includes papers relating to minerals and ironworks 16th-early 20th cent., accounts of coal shipped from Neath, etc. 1626-1682, quarry and lime kiln accounts 19th cent. Cardiff railway, dock and harbour papers and plans, 19th-20th cent.); labour and political unrest, including Chartism, Scotch Cattle, Rebecca riots; early trade unions; and the history of Cardiff castle, 16th-19th cent., including inventories 1581, 1585, estimate of repairs 1590 and plans of grounds.

Deeds, 1629-1833, relating to the families of Lucas and Matthews of Bwlch-hafod-y-gof, Llangurig, Montgomeryshire.

One of three volumes containing newspaper cuttings mainly from the Byegones column of The Oswestry Advertiser, 1871-1882, with the names of the contributors added in manuscript in many instances.