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This collection, which came from Castle Green, Cardigan, contains material relating to railways in West Wales, the Tivy Improvement Scheme and other matters of Cardiganshire interest.

Estate and family records, [c. 1260]-1935, of the Loxdale family of Shrewsbury and Castle Hill, Cardiganshire, and of the Williams family of Pant y Seiri and Castle Hill, comprising deeds, valuations, surveys, correspondence, etc., mainly relating to the estate in the parishes of Caron, Llanbadarn Fawr, Llanddeiniol, Llanddewibrefi, Llangwyryfon, Llanilar and Rhostïe, Cardiganshire, Wednesbury, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, including from [c. 1750] deeds relating to coal and iron mines, in these three Staffordshire parishes, and Brace Meole, St Julian and Wellington, Shropshire. -- The archive also includes records of a number of Shrewsbury guilds, including ordinances of the stewards and warden of the craft of weavers, 1416, and a revision, 1609; accounts, minutes and records of apprenticeships of the Company of Shearmen, 1468-[c. 1632], and the ordinances and constitution of the Guild of Clothworkers, 1614; accounts relating to the office of town clerk of Shrewsbury, 1655-1755; copy translations of royal grants to the town of Shrewsbury, 1189-1396; a session book for the hundred of Condover, Shropshire, 1744-1774; game books, 1828-1942; papers, 1873-1909, relating to Llanilar National School; and deeds and letters about Shrewsbury Free Grammar School, [c. 1870]-[c. 1890].

Castleton Social and Literary Club minute bookin the hand of T. E. Ellis and others. English.(Formerly Thomas Levi MS.) English. Leather/Cloth. Donated by the late Professor Emeritus T. A. Levi, Aberystwyth, 1954.

Catalogue of books by Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'). English. 1/2 purple grain. Donated from the library of the Reverend D. Eurof Walters, M.A., B.D., per Mrs Walters, May 1952.

Notebook containing a list of the contents of the library at Caerynwch, Merionethshire, 1848, 'corrected to August 21st 1860'. cf. the NLW typescript list Schedule of Caerynwch Documents (1946).

A typescript, classified catalogue [of the books in the library of David Robert Daniel, in his London home].

Catalogue of Dictionaries, etc., by William Marsden (printed text and MS interleaved). (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 34.) English. 1/4 leather. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

A catalogue of the library at Easton Court, co. Hereford, illustrated with skilfully executed pen-and-ink vignettes. The volume may well have been compiled and illustrated by Sir Joseph Russell Bailey (1840-1906), 2nd baronet and 1st baron Glanusk, shortly before the death of his grandfather, Sir Joseph Bailey, the first baronet, in 1858. The frontispiece bears the name J. Bailey, one vignette depicts an event in 1856 (f. 6v) and no books published after 1858 appear to be catalogued.

A volume containing a catalogue of the books, paintings and sculptures at Glanrheidol, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire (ff. 31 verso-50), compiled 1856-1858, by James Hughes, Glanrheidol, and an amanuensis, with additions in pencil in Hughes' hand regarding the relocation of some of the paintings within the house. The books, mostly on the subjects of biography, English literature, history, law, religion, science, topography and travel, were mainly published in London during the late eighteenth century and first half of the nineteeth century; very few are in Welsh or about Wales. The library and works of art were transferred after Hughes's death to Llidiardau, Llanilar, the home of his daughter Elizabeth, wife of George Williams Parry (1811-74), Llidiardau, and an inventory in her hand of the books, jewellery, paintings, etc., brought there in 1861 is tipped in on f. 51; a supplementary catalogue in her hand of books at Llidiardau, 1866, is added on ff. 1 verso-3, 4, 5. A memorandum, 1874, in her hand in pencil recording the loan of a book occurs on f. 48 verso. The volume was previously used, [c. 1820], for a catalogue of the contents of an unnamed library (ff. 3 verso, 4 verso, 5 verso-30 verso). These books, arranged under broad subject headings and mostly on agriculture and horticulture, biography, history, law, literature, religion, science and travel, were mainly published during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; a small number are in Welsh or about Wales. A few memoranda in pencil, [c. 1820], record loans of books to individuals (ff. 1, 6, 9).

A manuscript containing a catalogue of sixteenth to eighteenth century books in the library at Gregynog, Montgomeryshire.

A catalogue, 1906, of the library [of the late William Basil Tickell Jones, bishop of St. Davids] at Gwynfryn, Taliesin, co. Cardigan.

A catalogue of charters and other documents relating to Margam Abbey, Glamorgan, preserved in the British Museum manuscript department, prepared for Miss Talbot of Margam by Walter de Gray Birch, 1912, and including a letter from the compiler to her.

Catalogue of manuscripts, papers, etc., of the Rev. William Rhys Jones (1863-1938), in the possession of his daughters compiled by Robin Gwyndaf.

A catalogue of the pamphlets, mainly medical, presented by Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones to the National Library in 1929.

Catalogue of periodicals in the library of Bob Owen, Croesor in the hand of Bob Owen. Welsh, English. Leather back. Donated by Bob Owen, CroesorNovember 1958.

A catalogue of hardy plants cultivated at Penlle'rgaer, 1875.

A catalogue of the library of Frederick Richard West (1799-1862) at Rhuthun Castle, co. Denbigh, August 1859, arranged in shelf order, with pencilled valuations and additions to the original list in a later hand.