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An abstract of title (1774-1780) to the manor of Bradley, co. Stafford, and to properties in Bradley late belonging to John Wilkinson, esq., ironmaster, of Bilston, Bersham, etc.; and an abstract of the will and codicils of John Wilkinson (proved 1808), and subsequent title (1806-1828) to the same properties. Both abstracts were compiled circa 1830.

A group of accounts relating to the estate of John Wilkinson, ironmaster, including bills of costs of Messrs. Fitchett and Wagstaff to the surviving executor and devisee in trust to James Kyrke, esq., trustee for the sale of the estates, etc., 1825-1831, touching the sale and title of the Brymbo and other estates in Wales, the sale and title of estates in Staffordshire, the same of the Rotherhithe property, the sale of the Tividale estate, the appointment of a new receiver in the room of Thomas Turner, esq., deceased, loans of £40,000 and £13,200, general business, business in specified lawsuits, etc.; and bills of costs of Samuel Edge, 1830-1831, to Messrs. Wilkinson, Legh, and Murray, touching a mortgage to secure £40,000 and the conveyance of the Little Vownog estate. Also included in the group is a proof ('20 Feb. 1901. Stanford. Long Acre') of a photocopy of a letter, 12 July, 1712, from Abr[ah]am Darby from Madely Court to Wi[llia]m Rawlinson (Ralleson), near 'Kandell', Westmorland, relating to the writer's projects for the manufacture of iron, the enclosed Swedish method, the recipient's dispute with Hall over the increase in the price of wood, etc.

A volume containing balance sheets of the estates of John Wilkinson, ironmaster, at Castlehead, Brymbo, Bradley (Bradley Trial), and Hadley (Hadley Trial), 1820-1823.

A manuscript volume, [1825] (watermarks 1822, 1824), containing autograph drafts of poems, some of Welsh interest, by John William Bythell, attorney, of Shoplatch, Shrewsbury, with numerous emendations and deletions in pencil.
A few of the poems had previously appeared in The Salopian Journal and the Shrewsbury Chronicle; many were later published in his Salopia, The News-Room and Other Poems (London & Shrewsbury, 1841). Included is a parody of a poem by Thomas Moore (pp. 18-20).

A manuscript containing an abridgement of the New Testament entitled A Collection of Spiritual and Instructive Gleanings ... By John Williams ... 1829.

A volume containing 19th century translations by John Williams, M.D., Corwen and Wrexham, of some of the works of Alexander Pope.

A copy of John Williams, ed.: Gwaith Prydyddawl ... William Williams o Bantycelyn ... (Carmarthen, 1811), prepared for a new edition, with numerous manuscript corrections and additions, together with a few translations by John Owen (1788-1867), vicar of Thrussington.

Photostat reproductions, [1934], of six letters, 1622-1635, of John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, addressed primarily to Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon.

Memorandum book belonging, 1798-1838, to Jonathan Morgan, Pant-y-bryn, parish of Llandybïe, co. Carmarthen, farmer and joiner, containing farming, joinery and other accounts including payments to workmen, accounts of money loaned on 'Bidding Days', and accounts relating to the building of Bethel Congregational church ('Yr Hen Fethel'), Cwmaman, co. Carmarthen; furniture designs and specifications; recipes for colouring wood; and miscellaneous memoranda. Further entries, to 1883, by his son William Morgan and grandson Jonathan Morgan, both of Bodist Uchaf, Glanaman, co. Carmarthen, include rent, bidding and other accounts; and family memoranda.

A work entitled Mr. Jonathan Andrews's Book of Gardening Trees &c., written with own hand, 1690, being a descriptive list of flowers and plants arranged by season and of trees and shrubs, with particular reference to their medicinal qualities; recipes; indexes of English and botanical names.

Three undated letters, c. 1760-1764, from J[onathan] Shipley (1714-1788), dean of Winchester, afterwards bishop of Llandaff and, later, of St Asaph, to Henry Bilson-Legge (1708-1764), Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Jones family notes (typescript). (Formerly Sarah E. Miles MS 9.) English. In a file. Donated by Miss Sarah E. Miles, Pittsburgh, March 1925.

A volume compiled in 1939 by Francis Jones [of the National Library of Wales, later Herald Extraordinary for Wales], containing a pedigree of the family of Jones of Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, from the mid-fifteenth to the twentieth century, with ancillary pedigrees of the associated families of Jones of Greenston, Brawdy, Jones of Southfield, Llysyfran, Roberts of Tregidreg, parish of Mathry, Griffith of Mathry, Morgans, the Flemings, of Roose, Francis of St. Elvis, Jenkins of Mathry, Thomas of Rhydyrharding, parish of Mathry, Williams of Newport, and Harries of Binchurn, all in Pembrokeshire.

A typescript, with manuscript corrections by the author, of a part of Josef Baudiš: Grammar of Early Welsh ... (Oxford, 1924).

A volume, [17 cent., third ¼], containing manuscript copies, in an unknown hand, of at least fifty-five sermons of the Rev. Joseph Caryl, preached April 1650-May 1653, all on the Epistle to the Romans 8:9-28.
Parts of the text are accompanied by copious marginal annotations (pp. 1-125, 188-192, 213-216, 241-250, 273-278, 339-351, 372-373, 700-707, 716-727), the remainder is only very sporadically annotated. Marginal notes by the transcriber and gaps left by him (pp. 193-200, 216a-h, 446-448, 549-556, 585-588, 600-604, 629-636, 661-668, 708-712, 784-788, 861-864 and 905 onward) attest to at least twelve missing sermons. Also included are proof sheets (2 copies), [19 cent.], apparently for p. 27 of an edition of the text, corresponding almost exactly to p. 27 of the manuscript; no edition is known to have been published (tipped in on pp. 909, 911).

Two letters, dated 31 December 1902 and 10 January 1903, from Joseph Parry to T. W. David, his impresario, relating to the first performance of Parry's opera, 'The Maid of Cefn Ydfa', at the Grand Theatre, Westgate Street, Cardiff, on 15 December 1902 (ff. 1-4).
Also included is a typescript letter, dated 29 June 1906, from W. W. Jones of Evan Jones & Co., steamship owners and brokers, Cardiff to T. W. David (f. 5), enclosing a statement of accounts (ff. 6-10) relating to the 'private affairs' of the late Joseph Parry, and to his opera, 'The Maid of Cefn Ydfa'.

Transcript by ?William Lewis of the manuscript score of the 1st violin parts in Joseph Parry's opera 'Blodwen'. Musical notation.

A copy of Dyddiadur Methodistaidd for 1869, kept to record preaching and other engagements by Joseph Thomas (1814-1889), Calvinistic Methodist minister, Carno, Montgomeryshire.

Joseph Welch: A list of scholars of St Peter's College, Westminster ... (1788), with MS additions. English. 1/2 leather. Donated by Lt-Col. R. H. Richards, Dolgellau, January 1961.

A copy of Almanac a Dyddiadur, Am y Flwyddyn 1843 (Carmarthen, 1843), printed by Josiah Thomas Jones (1799-1873), Carmarthen, publisher and Independent minister, containing business and household accounts in English, 1843, in his hand, together with bills and receipts, 1841-1844.