Dangos 15043 canlyniad

Rider's (1736.) British Merlin …' with manuscript memoranda and accounts by Rich[ard] Davies [vicar of St. John, Brecon]. The entries cover the period 1737-1748 and relate to the schooling of the writer's children, the thatching of 'John Carnarvon's house, the receipt of tithe corn, agreements with servants and workmen, monetary gifts and loans to individuals, deliveries to carriers, leases of the Vicarage house, the churchyard, Spittal tithe corn, etc.

An exercise book containing an incomplete? autobiography and reminiscences of William Jones, Allt [d]du Cottage, Tregaron. The work was compiled during the period 1912-1915 and is entitled '[B]raslun o anes bywyd William dy congar ['The Conqueror'?] of Enedigaith yd yn awr'.

An account book of an agricultural sale (livestock, implements, etc.) at Waunfawr, parish of Caron Isclawdd, co. Cardigan, 1874, together with later accounts, partly unrelated, to 1877. Laid down on the inside upper cover are printed conditions of sale, witnessed by David Williams, clerk to the Board of Guardians [of the Tregaron Union].

A holograph letter from [Walter Davies, 'Gwallter Mechain'] to [ ], undated (the alliance of the Lloyds of Hendre'r Mur to the Anwyls) (mutilated); a holograph letter from T. Price to Mr. Pryse, undated (the political systems of Europe); an obituary notice of Evan Lloyd, vicar of Llanfair [Dyffryn Clwyd], 1776, directed to the printer of the London Evening Post; an incomplete and mutilated text of Evan Lloyd: The Methodist (London, 1766); three poems, in the same hand, entitled 'An Apology for Capn. S . . .y' (1780), 'A Riddle for Mrs. Grose', and 'A New Song'; etc.

A volume of holograph essays by John Minton, Treorchy, on 'Llwch', 'Glaw', and 'Hwyl'.

Two volumes of holograph poems in free metres and a few 'englynion' ('Syml Gynhyrchion') composed by John Minton, J.P., Treorchy, co. Glamorgan. Each volume contains a list of contents, Welsh syntactical rules ('Cyfarwyddiadau ieithyddol'), and addresses of editors of Welsh newspapers.

A volume originally used as a register of the Baptist church of Ffynnonhenri, parish of Cynwyl Elfed, co. Carmarthen. It contains records of baptisms, excommunications, restorations, and deaths, 1808-1842, and of births and registrations, 1790-1838; accounts, being largely particulars of collections towards meeting the debts on Baptist meetinghouses, 1810-1817 and undated; and a memorandum of the rebuilding of the third meeting-house at Ffynnonhenri in 1823. From 1815 onwards the volume is in the hand of David Evans, minister of the church, who has added copious notes of sermons (of which one is dated New Year's Day 1853) and a few personal accounts and memoranda. The first leaf of baptisms, containing thirty-two entries, is wanting. The paper is watermarked 1807. There is a list of contents ('Cynnwysiad'). The upper cover is lettered 'Coflyfr eglwysig a nodiadau yn llawysgrifen y Parch. D. Evans, Ffynnonhenri'.

Six letters to the Reverend Thomas Davies, chaplain at H. M. Prison, Cardiff, from John Thomas Lloyd, Wybunbury, near Nantwich, 1880 (personal, the writer's indebtedness to the recipient), George Rowlands (letter-head of W. Thomas & Co., millers, Port Adelaide), 1881 (personal, thanks to the authorities at Cardiff), [ ] Cardiff, 1880 (personal, the writer's reformed life) (incomplete), Prison Commission, Home Office, 1898-1903 (2) (an offer of the chaplaincy of Wakefield Prison, the notice of recipient's retirement from the Prison Service), and the Visiting Committee, H. M. Prison, Cardiff, 1904 (a resolution by the writers on the occasion of the recipient's retirement).

Three holograph letters of F. (Fanny) Humphreys (aft. Davies) [i.e., Frances, wife of Robert Joseph Davies, Cwrt-mawr, Llangeitho, co. Cardigan] from London, Edinburgh, and Cwrtmawr, to Mrs. Lewis [? her aunt Mary Lewis, Carmarthen], [18]61-1871 (personal, news of relatives and friends, the writer's wedding and honeymoon, the purchase of crockery, etc.); a list of persons present at the wedding of Frances Humphreys and R. J. Davies, 1863; a copy of a prescription issued to Frances Davies by Dr. Simpson, Edinburgh, 1863; and a card announcing the birth, 15 April 1871, to Mrs. R. J. Davies of a son [John Humphreys Davies, Principal of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth].

Seven holograph letters to John Jones, Gellifaharen, from Thos. Davies, Jes[us] Coll[ege, Oxford], 1817 and undated (4) (the tithes of Llandysil), Titus Evans, Alltyrodin Lodge, 1840 (a parish meeting) (autograph), and Saml. Griffiths, Troed[rhiw]ffenyd [Llandysul], 1841 and undated (2) ( appointments); and miscellaneous documents including an agreement to submit to arbitration a dispute concerning a lease of houses at Pencarnuket [Llandysul], 1819, and an attested extract, 1845, from the parish register of Llanfihangelar-arth recording the marriage of David Jones of the parish of Llangeler and Mary Lloyd, spinster, of the parish of Llanfihangel-ar-arth, 1823.

A collection of some forty-five unbound home-made notebooks and fragments of such notebooks containing sermons and expository notes largely in the hand of John Piers (Pierce), vicar choral of Caerwys in the diocese of St. Asaph, sinecure rector of Caerwys, and rector of Llandderfel. Two of the sermons, in English, were preached at Caerwys respectively on New Year's Day, 1641/2, and the first Sunday after Trinity, 1643, and another, in Welsh, at Llandderfel on 14 February, 1663/4. The collection also contains, in other hands, a transcript of, or selections from, the Catechism and Confession of Faith by Rob[ert] Barclay, 'a Quaker of Scotland', which was first published in 1673; a notebook of sermons by 'Mr. Turner', [16]93; and a transcript of a carol by Hugh Moris, 1707, entitled 'Ymddiddan rhwng y gwir Brotestant ar Eglwys'.

A history of Maescanner Baptist Church, Dafen, Llanelly, written [c. 1953] by Joseph Bowen, Dafen. The history covers the period from the foundation of the cause in 1864 to the retirement of the Reverend T. R. Williams in 1953.

Holograph letters from Lewis Edwards, Bala, to his son Llewelyn, 1864-1882 (5) (the recipient's health and his studies, the birth of the recipient's son and heir, the proposed opening of the Bala-Festiniog railway, personal); from Lewis Edwards, from Hyde Park, London, to his wife Jane, 1874 (personal); from T[homas] C[harles] Edwards, from Stratford-on-Avon and from Leamington, to his brother Llewelyn, 1867 (the writer's marriage and return to Liverpool); and from Thomas Charles [Edwards] to his mother, undated (the writer's proposed marriage, personal). Also included in the volume is a prayer, in Welsh, by T. C. Edwards, 1859.

An album containing a holograph letter from Howel Thomas, Local Government Board, 1916, manuscript pedigrees, and press cuttings and printed matter relating to the career of Sir Hugh Owen, K.C.B.

Holograph poems entitled 'Gardd Gethsemane' by Nathaniel Jones ('Cynhafal') (awarded the prize at an eisteddfod at Adwy'r Clawdd, 1859), 'Cywydd i'r Daeargryn' by R[ichard] Davies ('Mynyddog') (awarded the prize at an eisteddfod at Llanerchymedd, 1859), and 'Uffern' by M. Owen ('Meirig Wyn o Wynedd'), Pentrefoelas [after 1855]; an adjudication by [Thomas jones] ('Glan Alun'), William Williams ('Creuddynfab'), and [John Ceiriog Hughes] ('Ceiriog'); a press contribution entitled 'Blagur Llenyddol' by [Henry Rowlands] ('Henri Myllin'); and a holograph letter from [John Jones] ('Talhaiarn'), from Battlesden, Woburn, to [John Owen] ('Owain Alaw'), 1863 (the publication of 'penillion').

A copy of Sir John Dodridge: The History of the ancient and moderne Estate of The Principality of Wales, Dutchy of Cornwall, and Earldome of Chester ... (London, M. DC. XXX).

A volume compiled by Hugh Jones ('Cowper'), [c. 1755], and containing transcripts of 'cywyddau', 'englynion', 'cerddi', and 'carolau' by Hugh Jones, Sion Tydyr, 'mei[str?]' Williams 'or hialld', Sion ap Robert 'o farch aled', Richiart Ffolkes (Henfrun), Thomas Edward (tai'n Rhos), Edward Morys, Morgan ap Huw Lewis, Hugh Morus, Mredith ap Pres, Thomas Prichis [Prys], etc.

Sermons largely by R[ichard] A[bbott] Jones, Baptist minister successively at Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, and Swansea. The majority of the sermons are dated within the period 1851-1875.

Sermons by and in the hand of John Blackwell ('Alun'), curate of Holywell, Flintshire, and subsequently rector of Maenordeifi, Pembrokeshire. Among them are sermons preached at Devon, 1828, Hol[ywell], 1829-1831 and Chester, 1831, the last sermon preached at Manor Divy, 7 July, 1839, a sermon, 4 July, 1830, on the death of George IV, and a coronation sermon, June, 1838. NLW MS 11545C contains two sermons preached during the period 1852-1882 and attributed to John William Kirkham, rector of Llanbryn-mair, Montgomeryshire.