Dangos 15051 canlyniad

A register of members' contributions, 1973-1991, at Bwlchnewydd Congregational church, Carmarthenshire.

An album, [19 cent., second ¼], probably compiled by a member of the Clay family of Liverpool and St Asaph, which includes some thirty-one items, (1545/6)-[1716], relating to John Jones, son of Col. John Jones, the regicide, and his family (ff. 1-14, 16-19).
Among these items are some fourteen letters addressed to John Jones, Junior, 1663-1714 (ff. 1-3 verso, 4 verso, 5-6, 16, 17), and two to his wife (f. 3); three letters to Thomas Jennings, Dudleston, 1633-1634 (ff. 7 verso-8); a copy of The Post Man, And the Historical Account, &c., 230 (27-29 October 1696) (f. 9); a poem on the Battle of Oudenaarde, 1708 (ff. 10-11); a handbill for a performance of Henry IV, [Part I], [1716] (f. 13); a final concord levied on properties in Salisbury, (1545/6) (f. 18); and a letter from Robert [?Nedham] to Roger Puleston of Emral, [?1582] (f. 19). The album also includes papers of the Clay family, 1739, 1743, 1806-[?1843], being mostly letters addressed to Henry Clay (onetime Mayor of Liverpool) from correspondents including aristocrats connected with Liverpool (ff. 66 verso-73 verso passim, inverted text); various pencil or pen and ink sketches and watercolour paintings, [19 cent, first ½], at least some of which are by Henry's daughter B[arbara] F[rances] C[lay] (ff. 57 verso, 60 verso, 61 verso, 62 verso, 76 verso-81 verso (versos only), 84 verso, 85 verso, 86 verso); newspaper cuttings, [1831]-[1841] (ff. 26 verso-35); and miscellaneous engravings, 1809-[?1840s] (ff. 14 verso, 36-37, 39-43, 88 verso-90 verso). Items found loose within the volume have been tipped in, either in situ or on blank leaves (some 22 ff.).

Records of Mancot Presbyterian Church, Hawarden, including Sunday School daybook, 1946-1980; accounts books (4)1935-1989, 1961-1981, 1981-1992 and 1960-1980; Treasurer's book, 1904-1934; minute books (2) 1987-1995 and 1996-2000; income & expenditure book with minutes of meetings, 1969-1986; ministry collections (2) 1944-1960 and 1961-1979; insurances, 1980-1999; men's fellowship book 1958-1988; and miscellaneous papers -correspondence, organ fund, plans and building contracts etc.

Visitors' book of the Capel Curig Inn, co. Caernarfon, 1801-1836 (with gaps).

Papers, 1956-2012, of the professional artist exhibiting association 56 Group Wales (formerly the 56 Group) which include publicity material (including catalogues and posters); printed publications; audio-visual footage; photographic print blocks; financial records; insurance papers; agendas and minutes of annual general meetings, extraordinary general meetings and Group meetings; and a voluminous correspondence, largely between the Group’s secretaries and its executive committee and other members, the Welsh Arts Council, exhibition venues, accountants and auditors, etc.

Account book, 1968-1982, and secretary's cash book, 1972-1982, of Bethany Presbyterian Church, Caerau.

A volume, 1794-[1827] (watermark 1794), in the hand of Capt. Frederick Jones of Brecon, Breconshire, and Pencerrig, Radnorshire, younger brother of the artist Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, comprising a short narrative account, [1794], of his military career in India while serving as an officer in the army of the East India Company, 1777-1788 (ff. 37-40 verso), and brief diary entries for October 1788-February 1827, described as 'Memorandums extracted from Pocket book ledgers &c of my own' (ff. 41-168, rectos only). The diary entries record his life after his return to Britain from India and refer mainly to family matters, excursions, journeys, and visits to and from friends, with occasional comments on local, national, and European events.
The diary is bound together with copies of Jones's two published volumes, A Brief Account of the Tullaugaum Expedition from Bombay… (Brecknock: W. and G. North, 1794; Libri Walliae 4972, ESTC T113094), published anonymously and based on diaries which he subsequently destroyed (ff. 1-15); together with Copies of Letters, merely intended for, and by the Desire of Intimate Friends (Brecknock: W. and G. North, 1795; not in ESTC), also published anonymously, being three letters from him, two sent from Canton, China, in 1787 and 1788, and the third from Paris, September 1789 (ff. 16-32, the stub of f. 16 apparently being the remains of the title page). The diary includes references to the French landing at Fishguard in 1797 (f. 59), family monuments erected in Nantmel Church and Caebach Chapel, 1810 (ff. 84, 86), and the introduction of gas lighting in Brecon, 1822-1823 (ff. 143, 145). The stubs of ff. 34-36 contain fragments of text. For extracts of the diary see 'The diary of Captain Frederick Jones', ed. by R. C. B. Oliver, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 53 (1983), 28-56; 54 (1984), 41-57; 56 (1986), 52-71; 60 (1990), 41-65; and 61 (1991), 54-70.

A book of Hours, of unidentified Use, in Latin with a few rubrics in Catalan, [first half of the fifteenth century], from Catalunya or the Pyrenees, containing Calendar (ff. 1-11 verso), Gradual Psalms (ff. 12-27), the Hours of the Virgin, the Mass of the Virgin (ff. 80-6 verso), the Office of the Dead (ff. 87-140), the Penitential Psalms (ff. 141-56), and Litany (ff. 156-66 verso).
The Calendar includes many saints whose cult was particularly important in Spain and Catalunya, including Agatha, Eulalia (of Barcelona, Feb. 12, and [?of Merida], Dec. 10), Baudelius, Quiteria, Justa and Rufina of Seville, Abdon and Senen of Cordoba, Laurence, Felix of Gerona, Theccla, patron of Tarragona, Callistus, patron of Seville, Cecilia, Barbara; similarly the Litany includes Just and Pastor of Alcala de Henares, Cyricus, Theccla and Eulalia; others, such as Radegunde of Poitiers, Tropimus of Arles and Rufus of Avignon mentioned are associated with south and western France. Prayers to St Eulalia are also included in Lauds (f. 51 verso) and Vespers (f. 74 verso). Rubrics by hand I in Catalan on ff. 85 verso-86 verso crossed out, but mostly legible, confirm provenance in the paísos catalans.

A manuscript volume in English and Welsh, 1854-1858, compiled by Griffith Griffiths, shopkeeper, Pen-y-graig, Llangwnnadl, Caernarvonshire, mainly containing medicinal recipes (NLW MS 23711iA).
A medico-botanical map of the world, [c. 1868], and two pamphlets, [1930s], relating to his grandson, the medical herbalist Griffith Griffiths, Bangor, and the family's cure for 'wild warts' ('y ddafad wyllt') are filed separately (NLW MS 23711iiC).

Research papers of Kenneth E. Skinner, 1911-1979, mainly notes, photocopies and manuscript and typescript transcripts of unpublished material collected by Dr Skinner while undertaking research in Britain and Argentina for his doctoral thesis 'The relationship between the Welsh colonies in Chubut and the Argentine government'; printed material and periodicals, 1921-1979; and a photograph album of views of Chubut.

Records of the Unemployment Assistance Board (Cardiff) Sports and Social Club, 1935-1945, including committee minutes, correspondence, annual reports and financial accounts, and programmes; papers relating to Unemployment Assistance Board (Wales) eisteddfodau, 1938-1939; and papers concerning the Cardiff Channel Dry Docks and Pontoon Co. Ltd, 1927-1930, and the Civil Service Clerical Association, 1938. There are no records of the Board's official activities.

Papers of Trevor Lloyd Williams, 1859-1946, comprising scrapbooks of press-cuttings, letters, notebooks and ephemera relating mainly to his family, in particular to Rev. John Morris, Rev. John Lloyd Williams, Rev. Thomas Nicholson, Rev. W. Pedr Williams, and Ivor Percy Nicholson; also included are notebooks of Trevor Lloyd Williams containing transcripts of documents and notes relating to Welsh history.

A typescript list of transcripts and indexes of parish registers and monumental inscriptions, mostly co. Monmouth, compiled by David Woolven and available for consultation at the Society of Genealogists, London. A typescript list of transcripts of Monmouthshire parish registers compiled by David Woolven and available for consultation at the Society of Genealogists, London. A typescript list of transcripts of Monmouthshire parish registers compiled by David Woolven and available for consultation at the Society of Genealogists, London. A further typescript list of transcripts and indexes of Monmouthshire parish registers and other parochial records compiled by D Woolven, sent to the Society of Genealogists, London, and to the incumbents of the parishes concerned. A further typescript list of transcripts and indexes of Monmouthshire parish registers compiled by D Woolven and available for consultation at the Society of Genealogists, London. A further typescript list of transcripts and indexes of Monmouthshire parish registers and bishop's transcripts compiled by D Woolven and available for consultation at the Society of Genealogists, London. A further typescript list of transcripts and indexes of Monmouthshire parish registers and bishop's transcripts compiled by David Woolven and available for consultation at the Society of Genealogists, London.

A copy of James Howell: Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren . . . (London, 1645). A short genealogical table tracing the ancestors of the author for three generations is found on a fly-leaf.

An account book containing audited annual accounts of Penmorfa [Calvinistic Methodist] Church [co. Cardigan], 1865-1903.

Four note-books containing rough notes of daily receipts and expenditure (domestic and estate), 1809-1814, ? in respect of the Penrhos estate, co. Anglesey.

A volume containing extracts [by Craven Ord, antiquary] from various rotuli (rotulus hospicii, rotulus donorum, rotulus . . . pro robis, etc.) of the reign of Edward I, with occasional annotations. On a piece of paper pasted in at the beginning of the volume is a note on William de Cusancia, rector of Liminge, co. Kent, ob. 1361.