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A ledger containing miscellaneous accounts, mainly for repairs of buildings and farm implements in the Machynlleth area, by Richard Ashton, Post Office, Aberhosan, carpenter and wheelwright.

Account book, 1925-1943, of D. W. Price of Felindre, Three Cocks, Breconshire, builder, carpenter and undertaker. Miscellaneous accounts and invoices found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (MS 21885iiE).

Indenture of apprenticeship of Lewis Lewis, Llanddewi, to John Hughes, carpenter, Tynygwndwn, Cardiganshire.

Estate records, mainly title deeds, of the Carreg-lwyd and Berw estates, Anglesey, and family papers, mainly correspondence, of the Griffith family of Carreg-lwyd and the Holland family of Berw, 1329-1864, including valuable early 17th century papers relating to affairs of state, accumulated by John Griffith, secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), 1st earl of Northampton, Keeper of the Privy Seal, 1608-1614, and First Commissioner of the Treasury, 1612-1614; accounts and papers relating to the administration of the county of Anglesey, including muster rolls, 1602-1656, mainly for the hundreds of Tindaethwy, Menai and Talybolion; mise, window, house and land tax assessments, 1653-1764, mainly for the hundreds of Tindaethwy, Menai and Talybolion; rentals of Crown lands in the same hundreds; 1503-1737; papers of Dr William Griffith (1597-1648), successively chancellor of the dioceses ofSt Asaph and Bangor, and Commissioner of North Wales from 1633; account of the funerals of Elizabeth I and James I, [1625], and a census of the inhabitants of the parish of Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, August 1690.

Deeds and documents, 1586-1910, relating to the trust created by the will, 25 April 1846, of Edwin Carter of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, and afterwards of Clifton in the city and county of Bristol, and pursuant to an order in Chancery in the cause of Carter v Carter, 1905. They include title deeds relating to premises in Monmouthshire, and Clifton, in Bristol, and family probate records.

A cartulary of the Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Shrewsbury, compiled and written between 1278 and 1292, with a few leaves containing miscellaneous charters and a pedigree of the descendants of 'Guillaume, seigneur de bellesme', added later.

Papers of Caryl Roese, 1940-2016, including two scrapbooks relating to her career, copies of theses written by her and genealogical notes compiled by her husband Herbert Roese, together with the papers of Herbert Roese, 1976-2017, including copies of theses written by him.

Transcripts of cases submitted to counsel and of their opinions thereon. Many of the cases are of Shropshire and border-county interest. The volume belonged to Richard Jones, Oswestry, in 1797.

The file contains a number of letters from John Petts, Peter Petts and Brenda Chamberlain to the Vale family of Bethesda, a collection of greetings cards with drawings by the Petts brothers and Brenda Chamberlain, designed and printed at the Caseg Press, Llanystumdwy, together with copies of Caseg Press Broadsheets numbers 1 and 2.

Transcripts of cases submited to counsel and their opinions thereon. The volume probably belonged to Richard Jones, Oswestry.

Casgliad a gasglwyd gan Morris Daviesyn dwyn y teitl 'Cofio Hedd Wyn. Casgliad o'i weithiau nas cyhoeddwyd yng 'Ngherddi'r Bugail' ynghyd a chwyn coll y beirdd amdano' (teipysgrif). Byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan Mrs Elizabeth Davies, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gorffennaf-Hydref 1961.

A scrap album containing manuscript and printed items, newspaper cuttings, etc., described on the first page as 'Casgliad amrywiol o eiddo Ionawryn Williams [see the preceding manuscript] yn cynnwys engreifftiau o'i ddiddordeb a'i weithgarwch. Ceir ynddo hefyd nodiadau ychwanegol ar rai o Gymry Manceinion . . .' The manuscript material includes a copy of an anonymous election manifesto addressed to the [Manchester] Welsh, denouncing the previous Conservative administration and advocating the return of Messrs. Jacob Bright and John Slagg as [Liberal] members for the city [of Manchester] [?1880]; a holograph letter from Joseph Parry, University College, Cardiff, to Mr. [Ionawryn] Williams, 1899 (reference to the writer's fifth opera King Arthur); a holograph postcard from Owen M[organ] Edwards, Oxford, to Mr. [Ionawryn] Williams, 1898 (acknowledging the receipt of 'englynion' and hymns); poems addressed to Ionawryn Williams at Bethesda [co. Caernarvon] (1900); miscellaneous other poems; a few biographical notes on Manchester Welshmen; etc. The printed items include copies of a prospectus (with order form attached) advertising Ionawryn Williams's forthcoming volume of biographies of Manchester Welshmen [see the preceding manuscript]; a handbill announcing 'A Liberal demonstration of the north east and south east divisions of the county of Lancaster' to be held at Manchester, 24 and 25 October 1879; the rules (with balance sheet and list of members and officials) of the Manchester Welsh National Society (1894-1895); the programme of the same society's activities for the session 1895-1896; menus and programmes in connection with St. David's day celebration dinners in Manchester (1891 and undated); the programme (with rules and list of officials) of the Booth Street East Young People's Literary Society for the session 1869-1870; a commemorative article on Ellis Roberts of Manchester by Ionawryn Williams (extracted from Y Cronicl, July 1893), and a similar article on Ionawryn Williams himself (extracted from Y Cronicl, October 1907). The newspaper cuttings, which form the largest class of insets, are of a varied nature. Most refer to persons and events connected with the Manchester and Salford area from the 1860's to the early twentieth century. They include, inter alia, obituary notices of Welshmen who had some connection with Manchester (e.g., Sir William Roberts, physician, ob. 1899, Professor Thomas Jones, surgeon, ob. in South Africa, 1900), Manchester news items of Welsh interest (e.g., St. David's day celebrations, meetings of Welsh societies, a meeting in connection with Welsh disestablishment in 1883), poems by Ionawryn Williams, and other miscellaneous verse.

Casgliad detholedig o Farddoniaeth Gymreig y ganrif ... bresennol gan G. Penar Griffiths. (Gynt Penar Griffiths MS 1.) Hanner lledr. Rhoddwyd gan feibion a merched y diweddar Barchedig G. Penar Griffiths, trwy law Miss M. A. Penar Griffiths, Abertawe, Gorffennaf 1942.