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Records of the Welsh estates of the dukes of Beaufort, earlier the earls of Worcester and William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (d. 1469), including records for the Breconshire lordships of Crickhowell, from 1382, and Tretower, from 1532; ministers' accounts for Monmouthshire lordships from 1387 and manorial records for the lordship of Chepstow, from 1568, Monmouth, from 1416, Porthgaseg, from 1262, Raglan, from 1364, Treleck, from 1508, and for the lordship of Usk, from 1517; records for the Seignory of Gower and Kilvey from 1366 and for the borough and manor of Swansea, 1657-1835; deeds from the 13th cent.relating to the Badminton estate in Monmouthshire, Breconshire and in Gower, Glamorganshire; records from the 16 cent. relating to the coal and iron industries in Monmouthshire and Glamorgan; and estate management records including rentals, 1638-1933, accounts of rent arrears, 1669-1839, bailiffs, collectors and stewards' accounts, 1652-1858, and registers of leases, 1629-1918.

Family papers and estate records, 1370-1941, of the Baker-Gabb family of The Chain, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, and their antecedents, mainly deeds and documents relating to lands in Monmouthshire and Herefordshire, mainly from the second half of the sixteenth century, when the Bakers first appear as stewards of the lordship of Abergavenny, including deeds relating to the town and castle of Abergavenny, the Priory of Abergavenny, and the Priory of Llanthony Prima; records of the following Monmouthshire manors: Cwmyoy, Llanthony, Stanton, Redcastle, Oldcastle, Triley, Abergavenny, Ewyas Lacy, Crickhowell, Hothneslade, and Newton or St Margaret's from 1632 onwards, including court books, perambulations and rentals; a breviary in the English style of the fourteenth-fifteenth century (NLW MS 16147A); papers relating to David Lewis, Catholic bishop of Llandaf, including his speech at the place of his execution, 1679; and diaries etc. of John Baker Gabb, private chamberlain to Pope Leo XIII, 1859-1892; a poll of burgesses of Monmouth, Newport and Usk, 1715, and material on the genealogy of the Baker Gabb family. -- Many of the letters and deeds belong to the solicitor's practice established by Thomas Gabb in 1760.

Invoices from booksellers, British and several from German dealers, for books and stationery purchased by the Theological College at Bala.

A collection of 297 items, regarding various individuals and matters associated with the Bala-Bangor College. They include registers and account books of chapels; (Rev.) William Ambrose's (Emrys) Manuscripts; notebooks of notes and/or sermons; manuscript copies of sermons; diaries; pictures; college registers; bank books; papers relating to Cilgwyn Chapel; papers relating to Rhaeadr Gwy; a file of papers concerning the attitude of the students towards military obligation; letters; papers of the Headmasters Thomas Rees and John Morgan Jones and of the Rev. R. H. Williams.

A ballad relating to a foxhunt in Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire.

Ballads of local interest by John Jenkins, Ffynonforgan, Felinfach, Cardiganshire.

Typewritten copies of Y bwth lle cês fy magu, Yr ymfudwr (yn hiraethu am gartref), and Cynghor hen fardd o Gaerphili i'w fab pan ar briodi.

A collection of some Welsh ballads and songs current among the old ballad-singers of Aberdâr, made by John Davies ('Pen Dâr', 1864-1940) about 1936 with a view to a radio programme. Words and sol-fa notation for nine ballads or songs, words only of several others. A letter and proposed script (ff. 1-5) contain some information about the singers.

Baledi printiedig, sef torion o'r County Echo (Abergwaun) wedi'u pastio ar bapur, yn dwyn y ffugenwau 'Y Giach', 'Christy', 'Gwynodl' a 'Glynfab'; ac emyn-donau mewn llawysgrif gan [?ac yn llaw] Christopher B. Williams ('Alaw Ingli') = Printed ballads in the form of cuttings from the Fishguard County Echo pasted onto paper and bearing the pseudonyms 'Y Giach', 'Christy', 'Gwynodl' and 'Glynfab'; and manuscript hymn-tunes by [?and in the hand of] Christopher B. Williams ('Alaw Ingli').

Cyfrol a drosglwyddwyd gan Adran y Llyfrau Printiedig yn cynnwys cerddi gan y baledwr Mathew Richard Williams ('Mathew Bach', 1876-1964), Caergeiliog, a gasglwyd ynghyd yn 1971 gan T. D. Hughes, Bodedern; ymddangosodd y mwyafrif ohonynt yn Y Clorianydd, papur newydd wythnosol sir Fôn; cyhoeddwyd nifer o'r casgliad hwn yn John L. Williams (golygydd), Cerddi Mathew Bach (Caergeiliog, 1974).

A manuscript containing a note by J. P. Harris, Rhyl, and a copy by him of a ballad dealing with the murder of a Scottish pedlar by 'Evan Hugh Shon a Marged ei wraig', Wtra Wen, Llanfair Caereinion.

Bank book recording transactions made by officials of the Devil's Bridge Sheep Dog Competition, co. Card. See also NLW MS 23180D.

Typescript schedules of the Banks archives in private hands, containing papers relating to Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806-1863) and to James Watt, Junior and Senior.

The baptismal register of Soar Free Methodist or United Methodist Chapel, Aberystwyth, 1868-1892.