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A volume of transcripts, in Church Slavonic, from the 'Lives of the Saints', of the life of Christ, the life and suffering of Varvara, the martyr, the life of Varlaam, the first abbot of the Cave monastery of Kiev, and the life of Tito, the presbyter. The title-page, which is misleading, reads as follows: 'Mykola Koval' malorossiiskaya povi'st' nyneshnavo vremi'ni sochinenie Nikolaya Vengera Nikolaev 1832g.' [Mykola, the smith. A Ukrainian tale of the present time. The work of Nikolai Venger Nikolaev, 1832].

A List of Catholics connected with Wales who suffered death for the Faith, 1539-1680 A.D., with an addition and a corrigendum in manuscript by Thomas Peter Ellis.

Account book, 1876-1929, of the Treasurer of Montgomeryshire Presbytery in respect of the Ministers' Fund of the North Wales Association of the Calvinistic Methodist Connexion.

'Maxims on the political, social, and domestic economy of the English country gentleman in his public and individual capacity', written in 1823 by Thomas Netherton Parker, Sweeney [Hall, near Oswestry]'.

Accounts of Dr Williams's Trust, 1778-1808, with particulars of payments to ministers, apprentices, and exhibitioners in North Wales, and to students at Northampton, with miscellaneous receipts, 1808-1821, and a statement of accounts of the estate of Edward Parry, vicar of Baschild (d. 1798), with Abraham Rees of Hackney, executor, and residuary legatee.

5 photographic portraits / group portraits connected with Blaenau Ffestiniog. Some are annotated on the reverse.

Six miscellaneous photos including a child playing on a beach, family portrait, a view of Cricieth Castle, two anonymous portraits and a studio portrait of Rev Owen Evans DD, Congregationalist minister, Liverpool.

Two accounts of a tour through North Wales, beginning at Erthig, 12 August 1775, and proceeding by way of Llangollen, Corwen, Bala, Dolgelley, Barmouth, Harlech, Penmorfa, Llanllyfni, and Caernarvon, to Bangor; with a brief account of a journey to Brussells.

A dictionary of Welsh biography compiled by Henry Blackwell (1851-1928), New York.

Register of the company of corvisers of Oswestry, 1587-1750.

Two volumes, written at the end of the nineteenth century, by Thomas Morgan Joseph-Watkin, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms, serving as an index to the Gilfach Pedigree Books (now NLW MS 23967i-iiE).
The first volume (23968iE) contains letters A-Pe of an index to family names, continued with letters Ph-Y in the second volume (23968iiE, pp. 181-315), which also contains an index to place-names (pp. 2-172). A pedigree chart by Joseph-Watkin, compiled [1894x1913] (NLW Rolls 62), shows that he was himself related to the Gilfach family.

A two-volume collection of pedigrees, mainly of South Wales families, compiled during the 1830s (23967iE watermark 1828; 23967iiE watermark 1831), with some later additions, by David Jones Lewis, Gilfach, Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire.
A duplicate set of these volumes, also written by David Jones Lewis, are the 8 volumes of Gilfach MSS in the College of Arms, London (see Francis Jones, A Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts in the College of Arms (London, 1988), pp. 69-71), which are dated by colophon to 1830. This duplication is mentioned in a note, dated 8 July 1895, in 23967iE, p. 1, by Lewis's grandson, David Jones Lewis of Llwyncelyn, Llanwrda, who has also overwritten parts of the earlier text, as well as adding pedigrees relating to the Lewis family, [1895] (pp. 1438-50), and a copy of 'an account of the Lewis family in the handwriting of my late grandfather', 1896 (pp. 1494-6). There are minor additions relating to the Lewis family, to at least 1978, in several different hands (pp. 1438-41, 1448-50). A copy of an unpublished account, [1990s], of the Lewis family of Gilfach and Llwyncelyn, including references to the Pedigree Books, is now NLW ex 2511. An index to these two volumes is now NLW MS 23968i-iiE.

Photostat facsimiles of Rural Deans' Visitation Queries and Answers for the diocese of St. Davids, 1717-1829. The original records are in the Palace at Abergwili.

A manuscript music book belonging to Owen Jones (Owen y Cantwr), Penycae, Wrexham.

A volume of sermons lettered 'Pregethau Cymraeg 4'. The sermons were preached at the following places: Rumney, 1747-1751, Llanedern, 1748-1756, St. Mellons, 1749-1754, Llanvihangel y Vedw, 1754-1759, Llanhennock, 1762-1773, Malpas, 1759-1767, Caerleon, 1759-1770, Aberyskir, 1748-1752, Battle, 1750-1751, and Trallong, 1750-1751.

Minutes, 1894-1899, of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Celtic Society.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register of Llandough, Glamorganshire, 1583-1812.

A list, [September] 1795, by the artist John Malchair of Oxford, of drawings made by him on a tour of north Wales, 22 July-21 August 1785, written on returning to Oxford.
The drawings are described in chronological order, with some additional details and comments on the surroundings, people and weather. The itinerary includes Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire (f. 1), Dinas Mawddwy (f. 2 recto-verso), Barmouth (f. 3) and Harlech (f. 3 recto-verso), Merionethshire, and Beddgelert, Caernarvonshire (f. 3 verso). For a transcript of the list see Colin Harrison, John Malchair of Oxford: Artist and Musician (Oxford, 1998), pp. 150-152.

Papers of the donor, 1987-1988, relating to organising Walk for the world in Wales in 1987, comprising correspondence and publicity material. = Papurau'r rhoddwr, 1987-1987, yn ymwneud â threfnu Taith yn erbyn tlodi yng Nghymru yn 1987 yn cynnwys gohebiaeth a deunydd cyhoeddusrwydd.