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A volume, [1798x1810], containing anthems and psalm-tunes.

Notes and extracts, [c. 1565]-1574, from manuscripts and archives, by several hands, the main one being that of Thomas Talbot, the antiquary, clerk of the records in the Tower, who according to personal memoranda on f. 75 was deprived of his living in April 1560 and apparently lived near Clitheroe, Lancashire, in 1563. The notes were compiled on loose bifolia which were later gathered haphazardly into four large quires stitched into two bifolia of a 14th century noted missal (ff. 1-2, 140-1); this arrangement results in wide separation of related matter on the two leaves of some bifolia.
The matter mostly relates to early English history: pedigrees of Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Angevin royal and noble lines, extracts from records in the Tower (e.g. patent rolls, ff. 26-8 verso), chronicles (e.g. Geoffrey Baker, f. 31 verso, Nicholas Trivet, f. 78 verso, Walter Hemingford, f. 109, William of Jumieges, f. 114, John Pyke, f. 118). Other items include a working list of records in the Tower in 1572 [William Bowyer was then Keeper] which gives the numbers of rolls or bundles in each class for each reign from John to Edward IV (ff. 101-2 and 139): a list of forty-nine evidently manuscript books and fragments, mostly connected with English history and by Northern writers, at least one in Anglo-Saxon (ff. 24, 29 verso) [cf. Talbot's list of MSS printed by A.G. Watson, The manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London, 1969), pp. 78-81]; arms blazoned and in trick, including blazon of arms in 'Mr. Boldes Hall' in Salisbury (f. 6); part of a martyrology for England and Wales (f. 51 recto-verso); pedigree of Sir Ralph Eure compiled by Thomas Pickeringe, precentor of Whitby Abbey in 1458 (ff. 86-7), and, among contemporaries, of Elys ap Howell ap Day ap Ithel [of Tegeingl, co. Flint], in Welsh (f. 110 recto-verso), the Hagerth family, 1571 (ff. 120 verso-121) and the Doyley family (f. 132); an inquisition from Lancashire Quarter Sessions, 1568 (f. 3 recto-verso); poetry in English, apparently original and autograph (ff. 15, 23, 75, 119, 124 verso, 133) and in Latin (f. 111, Walther 3934); the order of burial of Sir Thomas Chaloner, 1565, with a list of personal expenses in London at that time (f. 52 recto-verso); f. 112 was first used to begin a draft deed to which Thomas Heneage, esq., was party, 1574 [Sir Thomas Heneage succeeded Bowyer as Keeper of the Queen's Records in the Tower].

A volume compiled, [c. 1790], by the Rev. Thomas Edwards of Mount Sion, Selattyn, Shropshire, rector of Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire, containing lists of incumbents for each parish in the Diocese of St Asaph, arranged mostly alphabetically by parish (pp. 1-4, 7-260), together with lists of the bishops, deans, archdeacons, prebendaries and chancellors of the diocese (pp. 261-289). The volume contains later additions by Edwards and, to about 1853, in the hand of the Rev. Richard Bonnor Maurice Bonnor.
The lists are written on rectos, often with notes inserted on the versos opposite. The volume also includes an index of parishes (pp. 540-543), notes on 'Antient Usages & Customs in North Wales' (pp. 293-295) and ecclesiastical wakes (pp. 299-302) and a poem (p. 297).

A notebook, 1809-1825, of the Rev. Peter Bailey Williams, Llanrug, containing a transcript, 1809, of Henry Rowlands's 'Antiquitates Parochiales' (pp. 1-107). The volume also contains a note (in Latin and English) concerning Mathew de Englefield, Bishop of Bangor's response to a writ of quo warranto (pp. 108-112); transcripts (in Latin and English) concerning the Merioneth Commission of the Peace for 1649 (pp. 113-119); part of a translation into English of the Statute of Rhuddlan of 1284 (pp. 121-122); 'A short account of Holyhead Church by L[ewis] Morris' (pp. 123-131); and a variety of transcripts and notes mostly concerning impropriations and other aspects of Church finances in the Dioceses of St Asaph and Bangor (pp. 132-182).
The 'Antiquitates Parochiales' was transcribed from a manuscript, apparently in the hand of Henry Rowlands, then in the possession of the Rev. J[ohn] Williams of Treffos, Anglesey (see p. 1); an additional section concerning Beaumaris, found in some manuscripts (see for instance NLW MS 115B), is not present. 'Antiquitates Parochiales' remained unpublished on Rowlands' death in 1723. The initial portions were first published in The Cambro-Briton, 2 (1820-21), 52-55 and 151-154, in an English translation by Peter Bailey Williams, possibly based on the present transcript (see the marks and marginal note on pp. 5 and 9, coinciding with the end points of the two articles), although the preamble (p. 1) differs significantly. The work was published in its entirety, in parallel Latin and English versions, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1 (1846), 126-135, 305-317, 389-396; 2 (1847), 6-13, 135-140, 215-222, 292-298; 3 (1848), 55-60, 164-169, 240-243, 291-301; 4 (1849), 36-44, 101-114, 176-193, 261-291. The names entered by Williams inside the covers and on pp. i-ii provide an informal, partial, index to the 'Antiquitates Parochiales'.

A transcript of the will, 26 June 1846, of Mary Senhouse Anwyl of Charlotte Town in Prince Edward Island, spinster, together with a case relating thereto and the opinion, 3 May 1850, of R. Hodgson, Ch[arlotte] Town; an attested power of attorney, 30 January 1850, from Mary Senhouse Annwyl to Isaac Gilbertson of Bryney groes, Bala, co. Merioneth, for the management of her estate in co. Merioneth; three letters from the Inland Revenue Office, London, to Thomas P. Anwyl, Llanycil, 1852-1854 (legacy duties payable under the will of Mary Senhouse Anwyl), and three similar letters to Rice Hugh Anwyl, Llanycil, Bala, and Isaac Gilbertson, solicitor, Corwen, 1856 (duties payable under the will of Thomas Pryse Anwyl); a holograph letter from Messrs. Townsend & Roberts, Doctors Commons, to I. Gilbertson, solicitor, Bala, 1850 (the next-of-kin of Miss [Mary Senhouse] Anwyl); five holograph letters from John Barrow, Prince Edw[ar]d Island, to Isaac Gilbertson, Bala, 1851-1853 (a proposed tablet in Bala Church, the Anwyl estate, the weather, the Protestants' noble stand in the British Dominions, an offer of a likeness of Robt. Anwyl, references to relatives) (enclosed is a form of the tablet inscription, in memory of members of the Anwyl family); a holograph letter from Jno. Jones, W[elsh] Pool, to I. Gilbertson, Bala, 1855 (an offer to buy Lane Farm); bills of exchange, 1850-1853, from John Barrow, Charlottetown, P. E. Island, to Isaac Gilbertson, Bala; the escutcheon of John Barrow (in the form of a bookplate); etc.

Sermon notes, and a list of sermons preached at 'Ysgoldy Hirael' [Hirael Schoolroom, [Bangor] during 1865-1866, in the hand of Robert Thomas ('Ap Vychan'), Congregational minister; a transcript by D. V. T[homas], son of 'Ap Vychan', of notes of a sermon preached by his father at Ebenezer Chapel, Bangor, 6 May 1866; and seven holograph letters from D. V. Thomas, La Grange, Illinois, U. S.A., to W. Gwenlyn Evans, Carnarvon, 1919- 1920 (manuscripts of 'Ap Vychan', the purchase of Welsh periodicals, etc., the weather, personal).

A copy of John Henry Newman : Apologia pro vita sua ... (London, 1883), with an autograph notes from the author to George Eyre Evans.

Application of Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards (1895-1970) for the post of Director of Extra-Mural Education at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Three appointments by royal warrant, 1959, 1961, 1963, for commissioners under the Local Government Act, 1958, together with the appointment by royal warrant of Carwyn Howell Jones to the office of the Counsel General to the Welsh Assembly Government, 31 October 2007, under the Government of Wales Act 2006.

Appointments of Rees Lewis to examine pilots, etc at Aberdyfi. English. Between boards. Donated by Miss M. A. Lewis, Aberdyfi, September 1963.