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Account book, 1748-1756, of Roderick Richard (d. 1753) and Roderick Rees (d. 1772), glovers, of Pen Bont, Llanbadarn Fawr, co. Cardigan, containing particulars of wool and skins purchased, together with other accounts and memoranda.

Gloucester Fire and Life Insurance forms and registers. (Formerly Thomas Dyke MS.) English. Between boards. Purchased from Mr Grenfell Jones, Abergavenny, June 1971.

Glossary of North Country Words, with MS notes, by John Trotter Brockett. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 26.) English. 1/2 morocco. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Glossary by Leonard Owen of personal names extracted from his own transcripts of lay and clerical subsidy rolls, etc in the Public Records Office. English. In a file. Donated by Leonard Owen, Gerrard's Cross, October 1965.

A volume containing 'A Glossary To Explain The Original, the Acceptation, and Obsoleteness of Words and Phrases. And to Shew the Rise, Progress, and Alteration, Of Customs, Laws, & Manners. From [White] Kennett's Parochial Antiquities'; 'A Scottish Glossary Annex'd to Robert Burns's Scottish Poetry'; 'A Catalogue of Animals described by Mr. Pennant in his British Zoology, with their British Names, by Richard Morris, Esqr.'; and an incomplete transcript, with some additions by the scribe, of 'Some part of the Substance of a Letter to the Bishop of Carlisle, about the signification of the Names of Places in the British. by Edw. Llwyd, late Keeper of the Ashmolean Musaeum, in Oxford. Called 'D. E. Luidii Adversaria', & annexed to [William] Baxters Gloss[arium] Antiq[uitatum] Britannic[arum] 8vo Lond[ini] MDCCXXXIII'. There are slight variations in the script, but the volume is probably entirely in the hand of Henry Thomas Payne, archdeacon of Carmarthen.

A volume of notebooks of Robert Williams, rector of Llanbedrycennin, Tal-y-cafn, Caernarvonshire (author of 'The History of Charlemagne', Cymmrodor, vol. XX, 1907), containing material towards a glossary of Welsh words taken largely from Thomas Powel: Ystorya de Carolo Magno ([London], 1883). Inset is an autograph letter, 1922, from the Reverend J. Bodvan Anwyl ('Bodfan'), Aberystwyth, to Robert Williams.

A poem by Gwyneth Lewis written when she was the National Poet of Wales in 2005, commissioned by Glas Cymru to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its founding in 2000, and printed by the Gregynog Press.

Includes two group portraits taken outside a country house by Peters, Photographer of Oswestry; carte de visite of Robertson, consul in China (possibly Sir Daniel Brooke Robertson, consul in Canton, 1864); an un-named steam locomotive made at the Atlas Works, Manchester in 1861 (possibly no 1297); a panorama taken at Garthmyl, Otago, New Zealand.

Glanrhyd, Edern, Caernarvonshire farm account books in the hand of G. Hughes Roberts. Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by J. E. Roberts, Glanrhyd, Edern, January 1968 or 1969.

Documents, including several copies and drafts, 1795-1796 and undated, of the Company of Proprietors of the Glamorganshire Canal Navigation, relating especially to a petition for An Act to Amend an Act of the Thirtieth Year of His present Majesty, for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from Merthyr Tidvile, to and through a Place called The Bank, near the Town of Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, and for extending the said Canal to a Place called The Lower Layer, below the said Town. They include the printed Act, 1796; notices and minutes of the Company; a letter to the Company from Cha. Hassall; and letters to John Wood, Cardiff, law clerk to the Company, from Edwd. Barwell, Abingdon Street [London], Rd. Crawshay, Cyfa[rth]fa, etc., W. Taitt, Cardiff, Benjamin Hall, Landaff, C. Brown, Cardiff, W. Richards, Abingdon Street [London], and Tho. Key, St. Fagans.

Draft heads of agreement, 1865, between the Glamorganshire Canal Navigation Company, vendors, and the Trustees of the Marquess of Bute, concerning the purchase of the canal (ff. 15-19), together with related draft and carbon copy letters, 7-9 June 1865, from John Boyle, Bute trustee, to R. T. Crawshay, chairman of the Canal Company (ff. 3-14).

A typewritten copy of the poem 'Glamorgan terriers' by Private William Owen ('Ryrdinfab') of the 5th Welsh Regiment, Haverfordwest, and great-grandfather of the donor, written during the First World War.

A rental of the estates of the Earl of Plymouth in Glamorgan, 1767-1770.

A poll book of the Glamorgan parliamentary election of 1857, in the form of cuttings of printed lists of voters, with manuscript columns for the candidates [Christopher Rice Mansel] Talbot [of Margam and Penrice Castle ], [Henry Hussey] Vivian [of Singleton, etc.], and [Nash Vaughan Edwards-] Vaughan [of Rheola] and a similar column for 'Remarks'.

Additional indexes on microfiche to Glamorgan parish registers, as follows, all prepared by members of the Glamorgan Family History Society: Ewenny (priory church of St Michael); Llangennith (St Cennydd); Cheriton (St Cadoc); Aberpergwm and Blaengwrach (St Cadoc and St Mary); Swansea, Waunarlwydd (St Barnabas); Coity (St Mary); Llanmadoc (St Madoc); and Briton Ferry/Llansawel (St Mary and St Clement).

Indexes, on microfiche, to the 1861 census index for the Swansea registration district.

Transcript and index on microfiche of the 1891 census returns for Merthyr Tydfil, co. Glamorgan.

Transcripts, on microfiche, of the 1861 census index for Cardiff & Caerphilly, and Methyr (Upper and Lower).