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Phonological Features of London Dialect by Barbara Alida Mackenzie (typescript). (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 16.) English. Cloth. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Three notebooks of Dr Thomas Jones as a student at the University of Glasgow, 1897-1901, containing notes on lectures delivered by Professor Henry Jones on ‘Moral philosophy’.

Pedigree and coat of arms of Henry Philipps (d. 1731), eldest son of Thomas Philipps of Cilsant, Llanwinio, co. Carmarthen, traced from Cydifor Fawr, lord of Dyfed, and Bleddyn ap Maenyrch, lord of Brecon, with thirty-six other coats of arms, all emblazoned and painted, compiled, [1687] x [1690], by David Edwardes (d. 1690, DWB) of Rhyd-y-gors, co. Carmarthen.

A copy of Philip M. Freeman's study 'Ireland and the Classical World', submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 1998.

A photostat copy of a document belonging to the Birmingham Reference Library, being a petition, [c. 1620]-1636, by one John Feild of Kings Norton, Worcestershire to the Rt Hon. William Compton, Earl of Northampton (d. 1630) and President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, requesting the Council to compel certain tenants of the manor of Kings Norton to fulfil their promise to bear a part of the expenses of Feild's action, while holding the office of bailiff of the manor, against one Thomas Rea in a dispute concerning the goods of two women who had been executed for witchcraft.

A volume containing the petition of William Hurst, formerly of Gabalfa and Dinas Powys, to the Court of Exchequer concerning his claims in Dinas Powys, Rumney, Llandough, Highlight, Cibwr, St Andrews Major, Merthyr Dyfan, Cogan, Roath, St Brides-super-Ely, Llanedern, Llandaf, Ystradyfodwg, Peterston-super-Ely and Cardiff. Also included are: a sale bill, 1825, from the Roath estate; a promissory note, 1821, from Harford's ironworks, Machen; the probate record, 1845, of Noah Morgan, Cymer; and an election address, 1851, from General Sir George Tyler to the voters of Glamorgan, with manuscript notes on the contents by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher.

A volume containing a holograph translation made in 1810 by the Reverend Ebenezer Richard (1781-1837), Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Tregaron, etc., of an unknown Welsh treatise written in support of the Ordination movement. The title-page reads: 'The Complaint of the Calvinistic Methodists in Wales On account of their being destitute of the Ordinances of Christ in his Churches, viz. Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. Translated from the Ancient British 1810'. According to the dedicatory letter, the translation was undertaken at the request of Ebenezer Richard's friend and patron, Captain James Bowen of Cardigan and subsequently of Llwyn-gwair, Pembrokeshire.

Two albums containing over two hundred and thirty letters, 1949-50, received by the Port Talbot Forum in support of its petition for the award of a Civil List pension to the poet Huw Owen Williams ('Huw Menai', 1888-1961), together with related press cuttings.

Transcripts of entries of the births and baptisms, 1828-45, of the children of Thomas and Dorothy Peters of Brynyorkin, Hope, Flintshire, taken from the parish registers of Hope, Northope, and Flint, and the register of Northope [Calvinistic Methodist] Church.

Notes on Welsh biography, history and topography in the hands of the Reverend Peter Roberts (1760-1819), rector of Halkyn, co. Flint, and Angharad Llwyd (1779-1866), written in the margins and on the interleaves of a copy of William Owen [-Pughe], The Cambrian biography ... (London, 1803).

Typescript text of a lecture by Peter Hain, MP, entitled 'Wales and the World', delivered at the Welsh Centre for International Affairs, Cardiff, 28 July 2000.

Photocopy of Robin Chapman Stacey of Corpus Christi College, Oxford's thesis, 'Personal suretyship in early medieval Irish and Welsh law', for the degree of M.Litt (Oxon.), 1982. Copy made from Prof. Dafydd Jenkins of Aberystwyth's copy of her thesis.

Personal papers of Alan Spilsbury (1913-45) eldest son and assistant of Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877-1947), criminal pathologist; the papers comprise pocket diary for 1943, passport and family photographs.

Memoranda, 1816-1817, of John Williams of Street, Llanfwrog, co. Denbigh, farmer, relating mainly to his family, farming, preaching engagements and local events, written in an interleaved volume containing the almanacs Cyfaill Tangnefeddus (Dublin, 1816) and Cyfaill Galarus (Dublin, 1817).

A collection of biographical, ethical, and novelistic material.

Peroriaeth Hyfryd (1837), ynghyd â thonau mewn llawysgrif. Nodiant cerddorol.