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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.

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 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.

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 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 autographs, including those of Lieutenant E. G. R. Evans and Azariah Shadrach.

Miscellaneous bills, vouchers and accounts, 1917-58, of J M Stephens and T J Stephens, Crynfryn Mawr, Llanfarian, livestock and general carriers (NLW ex 1032). Notebook of R R Davies, c 1875, containing scriptural notes and texts, including notes on sermons delivered at Rhiwbwys, Llanrhystud, Calvinistic Methodist chapel in January 1875 (NLW ex 1033).

Miscellaneous biographical notes by Rees Jenkin Jones. (Formerly Rees Jenkin Jones MS.) Welsh, English. In boards. Donated by Dr Goronwy Jones, Swansea.