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Memorandum of the East Glamorgan Presbytery of the Calvinistic Methodists relating to the Welsh language. Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by W. Rosser Jones, Trealaw, May 1965.

Memorandum by Watkin Powell and Plaid Cymru on behalf of the Wales & Chester Circuit to the Royal Commission on assizes and Quarter Sessions. English. Between boards. Donated by D. Watkin Powell, London, December 1969.

A memorandum book of the Reverend William Lloyd, Caernarvon, son of Robert Lloyd of Nefyn, and one of the three clergymen in North Wales who did not sever their connection with the Calvinistic Methodists after the first ordination in 1811. The volume contains statements of the writer's expenses at Jesus College, Oxford, 1798-1800; memoranda of the payment by Mr. Grindley of the writer's salary, 1802-1808 (£15 15s., being quarter's salary, 1802; £15 2s., being balance for serving Rhoscolyn, 1808); particulars of agricultural and household disbursements, 1811-1812; theological and sermon notes; a list of sermons preached at seventeen specified places in Anglesey, 7-23 December, 1827; and medical recipes.

A volume in the hand of William Williams (1738-1817), Llandygái, co. Caernarfon, author, antiquary, and official of the Cae-braich-y-cafn slate quarry, containing accounts and memoranda, 1778-1791 (ff. 1 verso-34), including particulars of payments to servants and labourers, 1778-1789, churchwarden's accounts, 1778-1780, and accounts, 1779-1781, relating to the 'Bangor Building'. Also included are draft letters, 1807-1809, mostly addressed to the Rev. Dr Samuel Bulkeley (d. 1809), Prebendary of Bristol, and relating mainly to the building of a schoolhouse at Coedana, Anglesey (ff. 35 verso-76 verso, inverted text), and notes in Welsh and English (ff. 77-82 verso, inverted text).

Memorandum book of Robert Griffith, schoolmaster at Dr Daniel Williams's Charity School, Merionethshire. (Formerly A. E. Jones, Y Goppa MS.) English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs A. E. Jones, Trawsfynydd, 1959-1961.

Memorandum book of Peter Davies, Glyn, Llangeitho. (Formerly Jane Morgan MS 1.) Welsh, English. Parchment. Donated by Miss Jane Morgan, Llangeitho, August 1944.

Memorandum book, 1770-[c. 1810], of John Evans, shipwright, containing records of his employment and of letters received, addresses of manufacturers and vendors of pottery and household goods, medicinal recipes, household accounts, references to Wesleyan Methodist sermons heard in England, and professional and family notes.
Numerous references suggest that Evans was a native of Pembrokeshire, perhaps of Haverfordwest, and that he left the county in November 1770 (f. 1) to enter into employment at 'the king yeard' [?the Royal Dockyard at Devonport, Plymouth] (f. 2). Further family memoranda, up to about 1852, were added by his children, John, Ann and Charles Evans and Mary Pow(e) and Mary's daughter Ann Chegwiden Powe.

Memorandum book of Evan Evans, schoolmaster of Llanbedr, Merionethshire. (Formerly A. E. Jones, Y Goppa MS.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs A. E. Jones, Trawsfynydd, 1959-1961.

Memorandum book of Dr Edward Roberts. (Formerly E. I. Williams MS 14.) English. Cloth. Donated by E. I. Williams, Pontypridd, November 1944.

Notebook of John Rees (1819-1900), Granant, St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, containing intermittent memoranda in diary form, including entries of Baptist interest, 8 January 1841-23 May 1847, and verse in Welsh. Rees family births, 1813-1836, are listed inside the front cover.

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.

Hadden, Best, & Co.'s Annual Memorandum Book and Letter Case 1909, containing notes and other memoranda in Welsh and English, 1909-11, by the Reverend David Rhagfyr Jones (1858-1915), relating mainly to Bethania Welsh Congregational church, Treorci, co. Glamorgan.

Memoranda, notes and surveys by Stanley Price Morgan Bligh, William Davies and Dr. J. Griffiths-Davies. English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs Alice Davies, B.Sc., Capel Hendre, Ammanford, April 1973.

Memoranda relating to Nantgwynant Board School. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 34.) English. Between boards. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

Memoranda of searches into the genealogy of the family of Selby by Evan Evans, Nantygll. (Formerly Jane Morgan MS 2.) English. Boards. Donated by Miss Jane Morgan, Llangeitho, August 1944.

A notebook containing memoranda, 1781-1794, of Isaac Lloyd, an excise officer stationed at Pwllheli and later Bangor, mainly relating to his work. They include petitions requesting transfers of duties, examples of summonses and other legal documents, chemical tests for beers, wines and spirits, medical recipes and personal and family memoranda (ff. 1-21, 25-28 verso, 29 verso-31, 40 verso-41, 42 recto-verso, 43 verso-45, 46 recto-verso, inside back cover). The volume was subsequently used to record farming accounts and memoranda, 1803-1809, probably by Thomas Edwards, a farmer in the vicinity of Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, and Church Stoke, Montgomeryshire (ff. 11, 28 verso-29, 32-40, 41-43, 45 verso-46, inside back cover).
Family births and deaths were later recorded in the volume by Edwards and his descendants, the last entry being made in 1911 (ff. 10, 11, 21-24 verso, 28 verso, 41, 44 verso).

One of six volumes of memoranda, accounts, and miscellaneous notes and extracts mainly relating to the industrial development of South Wales, compiled between 1806 and 1849 by Thomas Ellis (b. 1781), a patternmaker at Tredegar.