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Six contemporaneous volumes, [1690s], of pedigrees and armorials of royal and noble families of mainland Europe, written in the same hand.
These include French, Burgundian, Hungarian and Dutch heraldry and genealogies. A whole volume (15057B) is devoted to the de Croy family who may have commissioned the work.

One of two manuscripts containing a copy of S. R. Meyrick, ed.: Heraldic Visitations of Wales and part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613 ... by Lewys Dwnn, deputy herald at arms ... 2 vols (Llandovery, 1846) presented to Meyrick (1783-1848) by the Committee of the Welsh Manuscripts Society, with letters from John Evans, secretary to the Society, Augusta Hall (1802-1896), Benjamin Hall (1802-1867), Joseph Morris and Thomas William King (Rouge Dragon).

One of two manuscripts containing a copy of S. R. Meyrick, ed.: Heraldic Visitations of Wales and part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613 ... by Lewys Dwnn, deputy herald at arms ..., 2 vols (Llandovery, 1846) presented to Meyrick (1783-1848) by the Committee of the Welsh Manuscripts Society, with letters from John Evans, secretary to the Society, Augusta Hall (1802-1896), Benjamin Hall (1802-1867), Joseph Morris and Thomas William King (Rouge Dragon).

A German heraldic manuscript, written mainly in 1598 with further additions written before 1611, containing painted coats of arms with banners. About half the paintings relate to families belonging to the Patriciate of Nuremberg, including the families of Imhoff, Oelhafen, Haller, Muffel and Kress.
The original folios have been cut out and mounted in an album of the 19 cent. The title page (f. 1) reads 'Hernach Volgende herrn und Junckhern haben den Andern Becher machen lassen. Anno Christi 1598'.

A manuscript armorial of English and Welsh families entitled The nomenclature or Heralds Alphabett of Surnames, A-K (vol. I), with additional notes by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King at Arms. Painted coat-of-arms have been affixed to the manuscript at relevant points throughout the work.

A manuscript armorial of English and Welsh families entitled The nomenclature or Heralds Alphabett of Surnames, L-Z (vol. II), with additional notes by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King at Arms. Painted coats-of-arms have been affixed to the manuscript at relevant points throughout the work.

The 1976 group comprises autobiographical data, reminiscences and impressions of Aberystwyth, 1900-1904, recollections of Welsh colleagues, correspondence, 1951-1967, notes and working papers, 1904-1910, notes and drawings for lectures, 1906-1907, copies of addresses, slides, maps, and ordnance survey charts of Aberystwyth, 1905 and 1912; brief manuscript and typescript account of life in the Channel Islands under German occupation during World War II mainly Guernsey, 1944-1954; letters of condolence to Mrs. Fleure; cash books, 1869-1914, which, for the period 1869-89, was kept by Fleure's father; research papers and correspondence relating to the distribution of blood groups in the United Kingdom, with particular reference to Wales. The 1982 group comprises the research notes of Herbert John Fleure, 1966-1967, mainly concerned with the distribution of blood groups in the United Kingdom, with special reference to Wales, comprising notes and drafts for Ada C. Kopc, The Distribution of the Blood Groups in the United Kingdom (London, 1970), lecture notes of Dr. Kopc, 1963-1965, and offprints of articles by Elizabeth S. Brown and I. Morgan Watkin, 1963-1967; correspondence, 1963-1968, mainly from Ada C. Kopc, A.E. Mourant and R.A. Pelham; miscellaneous papers and correspondence on the archaeology of the Channel Islands, Cornwall and Devon, 1963-1965.

The Herbert Manuscripts belonged or relate mainly to Edward, first baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648; D.N.B., xxvi, 173), philosopher and metaphysician, and to his brothers, Sir Henry Herbert (1595-1673; D.N.B., xxvi, 195), Master of the Revels, and George Herbert (1593-1663; D.N.B., xxvi, 185), poet, and to other members of the Herbert family.

Manuscripts and papers of the Herbert families of Cherbury, Dolguog and Powis Castle, [1550x1600]-1808, and in particular those of Edward Herbert, 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury (d.1648), including his literary, philosophical, political and personal papers. The archive also includes political, estate and personal papers of the Herbert families of Cherbury and Powis Castle, 1565-1808. Many of the letters in the 1959 deposit are calendared in W. J. Smith, Herbert correspondence: the sixteenth and seventeenth century letters of the Herberts of Chirbury, Powis Castle and Dolguog, formerly at Powis Castle in Montgomeryshire (Cardiff, 1963).

Papers mainly relating to the published work of Herbert Stanley Jevons, 1895-1963, correspondence on overseas development, coal and economics, 1909-1949; correspondence on housing in Wales, 1912-1914; papers relating to Ethiopia, 1935-1955, including correspondence with Emperor Haile Selassie I, 1937-1953; letters between Herbert Stanley Jevons and John Maynard Keynes, 1930-1936.

Letters, 2001-2010, from Herbert Williams, writer, freelance journalist and radio producer, to the donor, mainly discussing his literary work.

Welsh Black Cattle Society Private Herd book, 1913-1920, of Owen Griffith, Tan-y-llyn, Chwilog, and afterwards of Derlwyn, Pwllheli, co. Caernarfon. Related papers, 1921, found loose inside have been tipped in at the beginning of MS 22850. With NLW MS 22850A.

Welsh Black Cattle Society Private Herd book, 1913-1920, of Owen Griffith, Tan-y-llyn, Chwilog, and afterwards of Derlwyn, Pwllheli, co. Caernarfon. Related papers, 1921, found loose inside have been tipped in at the beginning of MS 22850. With NLW MS 22851A.

A manuscript, [1826x1845], entitled 'The Morris, and all other Officers attending upon it', relating to the meeting of veteran Morris dancers at Hereford races in 1609, an event reputedly arranged by John Hoskins. The manuscript is a transcript of part of a larger work which was published as a tract, Old Meg of Herefordshire for a Mayd Marian and Hereford Towne for a Morris Daunce ... (London, 1609). Also included are two letters, 1845, from William Cooke, vicar of Banbury, to an unnamed descendant of John Hoskins at Harewood, Herefordshire, concerning 'a celebrated Morris Dance exhibited before his Sovereign by yr [sic] memorable and learned Ancestor - Mr Sergeant Hoskyns'.

One of two manuscripts containing notes and abstracts of wills, Chancery proceedings and other documents relating to Herefordshire families, collected by George Sherwood, together with a few original documents.

One of two manuscripts containing notes and abstracts of wills, Chancery proceedings and other documents relating to Herefordshire families, collected by George Sherwood, together with a few original documents.

Llyfr cofnodion, 1931-1969, yn ymwneud â chyfarfodydd Arolygwyr Addysg Cymru a gynhaliwyd ym Mhîl a Chynffig a mannau eraill i gystadlu am her-gwpan golff.

An elderly lady wearing a shawl and hat standing outside her whitewashed and thatched cottage.