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Miscellaneous airs, dances, etc. . (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 53.) Musical notation, English. Leather. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

Miscellaneous accounts of Capel y Graig, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 46.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

Miscellaneous account book with references to the Catherine and other vessels of ? New Quay. English. Vellum. Donated by Mr T. Brisbane Jones, New Quay, February 1965.

A number of miscellaneous documents, 1781-1843, including correspondence of the Maxwell family of North Shields, and papers relating to the Percy Main Colliery, and to the Percy Main Missionary Society.

Miscellaneous documents including a statement of account due from the Reverend W[illiam] Griffith, Jesus Coll[ege, Oxford], to D. A. Talboys, in respect of books, 1830; an essay entitled 'Nadolig 1869'; and holographs and transcripts of poetry, among them being 'Englynion ar Briodas Maggi a Iago' by [Rowland Williams] ('Hwfa Môn'), 1882, and 'Ychydig fyfyrdod ar Uniad fy mrawd hoff Mr. James Venmore mewn glan briodas a Miss Hughes, Wylfa, Cemaes, Mon' by [Henry Jones Williams] ('Plenydd').

Extracts by Charles Ashton from Dufief's Master Key to the Correct Pronunciation of French, an essay on 'Dwyfol sefydliad y Sabboth a pharhad y rhwymedigaeth o'i gadw', and an unfinished story entitled 'The Mendicant'.

Material of Welsh interest extracted from The Liverpool Mercury, 1811-1816, and miscellanea, including two letters written in 1905 by John Strachan (1862-1907), professor of comparative philology at the University of Manchester.

Lists of persons who supplied horses to the Swansea Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry, 1799-1803; a return of the Swansea Gowerland and Cilvey Volunteer Legion, 25 September - 6 December 1800; a notice issued by Lieut.-Col. Thomas Morgan, 3 May 1803, to the Swansea Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry; an invoice by Edward Davies, London, for military equipment, 10 September 1803; a sawyer's bill, 1798, and a receipt for House and Window duties, 1803, made out to Thomas Morgan; a tithe notice, Llanrhystud, 1842; a poor rate receipt, and an account for Pentre farm and garden, Manordeifi, 1845; a letter by James Butler, 1773; a notice by Thomas Morgan, steward to the Duke of Beaufort, prohibiting the erection of buildings adjoining Swansea Castle, 1797; a letter by Rhys Davies, 1804; a note by David Evans, tailor, on Llanfair trefhelygen, Cardiganshire; a draft of an article 'on the Union of Church and State' by Mr. FitzWilliams; and extracts from Llangollen Church Sunday School Catechism, 1870.

Press cuttings, including the issue of Y Drafod, 12 June 1925, containing obituary notices and appreciations of Mrs. Anne Lloyd Jones, widow of Michael D. Jones; press cuttings relating to the Chubut Settlement; a patent to Mihangel ap Iwan to practise as a doctor in the Argentine, 1927; autographs of guests at a banquet given to Mihangel ap Iwan, 1923, programme of the consecration of the 'St. David's' Lodge, No. 3952 of Freemasons at Buenos Aires, 1920; and a memorial card for Ebenezer M. Morgan, Trelew, 1910.

A holograph letter from H. L. Piozzi, from Brussells, to William Pearson [the poet] in London, 1787 (references to arrangements for the writer's return, to her Continental tour, to Mr. [Willey] Revely's 'Acc[oun]ts of Egypt', etc.); 'Ode from Horace', signed 'H.T.'; and an order, 30 March 1649, from the Council of State for the Admiralty and Navy to the Commissioners of the Navy for the consideration of an enclosed letter. The latter document is signed by Rowland Wilson, junior, Valentine Wauton [regicide], and Jo[hn] Jones [regicide, of Maesygarnedd, Merioneth], and is endorsed: 'Crs. Adm. wth. ye Generalls lre. to them for ye frigotts yt carrie 130 & 150 men to haue Chirurgeons mates'.

A return of privy seals for the county of Chester, 3 September, 1604 (total sum, £2615); a statement of the Provost-Marshal's accounts, 1613/14-1615/16 (references to commissions to Sir William Selby, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Sir Jo. Fenwick, and Sir William Hutton, and to expenses in respect of horsemen, etc.); and an acquittance, 10 April, 1619, from John Sturt, gent., to Adam Newton, esq. [aft. Sir Adam Newton], Treasurer or Receiver-General to the Prince [aft. King Charles I] for the payment of one quarter's pension of £10.

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.

Miscellanea, including incomplete adjudications by Owen Jones on essays on the antiquities of the vale of Conway ('Henafiaethau Dyffryn Conway'), the foundation of Maenan Abbey ('Sefydliad Mynachlog Maenan'), etc.; the Elementary Certificate of the Tonic Sol-fa College awarded to William Rowland Williams, 1889 (the signatures include that of David Jenkins, examiner); a typescript copy of a poem in Welsh on the secession of Edward Stephen ('Tanymarian') to the Tory Party in 1874, with an accompanying note by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, to the effect that the verses were printed on the back of a postcard addressed to W. J. Parry, Bethesda, in 1877; mounted cuttings from The North Wales Chronicle, 19 October, 1934, of a report by R. D. Roberts on 'Two Gold Half Nobles of Richard II ... found in Caernarvonshire' [the one at Llanfairfechan and the other at Gerlan, Bethesda], together with manuscript notes by the author; and a typescript copy of verses by A. S. Hamilton, Union Bay, British Columbia, entitled 'Little Dyvie' [i.e. David Lloyd George, O.M., M.P.], printed in a Canadian newspaper during the Great War (1914-1918).

A notebook containing recipes; an account of a storm on 23 January 1796; 'composition to prevent the scab in sheep'; 'Church Curiosities' - notes of tombs and epitaphs in Dalkeith, Kendal, Kirby Stephen, Isel, Port Royal (Jamaica), Lymington, and Battersey; extracts from curious wills; and accounts, 1796.

A holograph letter, 1865, from J. H. Preece, for the Great Western Railway New Swindon Mechanics Institution, to Mr. Hanty (thanks to Mr. [Harry H.] Davies for the gift of a drawing); 'half-yearly report of conduct; or, lady's school register' of Miss F[lorence] M[ary] Davies, 1870; the return of the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Rumney, Monmouthshire, 1901; a short pedigree of the family of Edmunds of Rumney, and of the family of Davies of Rompney Castle, with whom they intermarried; and two school arithmetic books, one of which belonged to Miss Hannah Edmunds and contains in addition some copies of her accounts, etc., 1879-1886 and undated.