Legal papers, including a draft leaseof Llanberis British School, etc. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 96.) English. Between boards. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.
Legal papers, including transcripts of love letters relating to two instances of breach of promise. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 95.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.
Legal precedents and a transcript of presentments at the court leet and court baron of the manors of Llangwest (sic), Wrexham Abbott and Stansty Isaf, 14 November 1791 and 29 June 1792.
A book of legal precedents, 1782-1788, containing notes of legal opinions and of cases heard before numerous courts, including those of King's Bench and the Montgomeryshire Great Sessions, together with transcripts of legal documents. The volume was probably compiled by John Hughes of Llain-wen, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, notes and transcripts relating to whose articles of clerkship (with John Dickin of Welshpool, 1781, and with George Griffin of Lincoln's Inn, 1785) are found on pp. 95-114. A portion of the volume was 'Copied out of Mr Dickin's Manuscript Book' (p. 94); transcripts of an affidavit of service of John Hughes and of his admission as attorney at the Court of King's Bench, both 1787, have been tipped in at the end of the volume (pp. 119-122).
A collection of specimens of writs, pleas, and other legal instruments mainly of the Tudor period, made by Charles Rogers in 1656. One of the cases quoted relates to a dispute between John Cole, clerk, and Laur' ap Harry over a presentation to the vicarage of Monmouth, and the others relate to several counties mainly in southern England.
A group of eleven parchment bifolia written in the same hand, and which form about one fourth part of a manuscript of the second half of the fourteenth century, containing a version of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-ca. 1298), archbishop of Genoa.
Photocopies of two press cuttings relating to the Welsh singer Leila Megane (Margaret/Maggie Jones, 1891-1960), wife of the composer T. Osborne Roberts (1879-1948), purchased with NLW MSS 15281-310 in February 1980 (see Annual Report 1979-80, p. 63), one showing her congratulating the winner of the Osborne Roberts prize at the National Eisteddfod at Ebbw Vale, 1958, and the other an undated cutting in Italian giving an account of the welcome concert arranged for the Prince of Wales at Rome which included a performance by Leila Megane.
A copy of John Cottrell's PhD thesis, 'Leinster, South Wales, Bristol and Angevin Politics: 1135-1172. Some Influences on the Earliest English in Ireland' (University of Bristol, 2000)
A holograph copy of the poem 'Leisure' by W. H. Davies, signed and dated 8 May 1914. The poem was first published in William H. Davies, Songs of Joy and Others (London, 1911) and thereafter appeared in various collections and anthologies, including William H. Davies, Collected Poems (London, 1916), The Essential W. H. Davies (London, 1951) and The Complete Poems of W. H. Davies (London, 1963). This fair copy was possibly written whilst the poet was in Gloucestershire visiting friends among the Dymock poets (see Selected letters of Robert Frost, ed. by Lawrance Thompson (London, 1965), pp. 122-124).
