Abstracts of deeds, 1771-1866 [of Calvinistic Methodist churches in cos. Caernarvon, Denbigh, and Flint].

Typewritten copies of letters from the Reverend Tho[ma]s Jones (Calvinistic Methodist minister), Denbigh, to Joseph Tarn (assistant secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society), Spa Fields, London, 1813-1815 (5 + 2 by inference) (local branches of the Bible Society in Denbighshire, the supplying of Bibles and Testaments by the parent Society, problems relating to the price of Bibles, a proposed memoir of the Reverend [Thomas] Charles in English, the writer's progress with his 'Life' of Thomas Charles in Welsh [Cofiant neu Hanes Bywyd a Marwolaeth y Parch. Thomas Charles . . . wedi ei gyfieithu a'i gasglu gan y Parchedig Thomas Jones . . . (Bala, 1816)]); an obituary article on the Reverend Thomas Jones, Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Carmarthen, extracted from Yr Efangylydd . . ., 1831, tt. 133-7; a letter from E[van] Evans from Shacklewell [London], to the aforementioned J[oseph] Tarn, London, 1814 (the establishing of local branches [of the Bible Society] in different parts of London, the illness of Mr. [Thomas] Charles, the writer' s experience of stereotype printing, his application to go to Russia with an acquaintance named Alexander Smith, under the patronage of the Bible Society, to set up a stereotype printing office); and a letter from John Roberts [Calvinistic Methodist preacher] from London, to his son Michael Roberts [also C.M. preacher] in Liverpool, 1803 (the writer's visit to London, matters relating to C.M. churches in London).

Miscellaneous material (correspondence, returns, etc.), 1909-1920, relating to Calvinistic Methodist churches within the administrative sphere of the Vale of Clwyd Monthly Meeting. Most of the material relates to (a) a contributory scheme adopted for improving payments made by churches to visiting ministers and preachers in respect of Sunday services, (b) the reduction or liquidation by individual churches of debts incurred (mainly building debts), and (c) the valuation of church property for Inland Revenue Office purposes.

A volume of holograph sermons, c. 1790, by John Davies, Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Glythe, Nantglyn, co. Denbigh. At the beginning is a list of places at which the sermons were preached.

An imperfect scrap-book containing miscellaneous material mainly of Calvinistic Methodist interest including press cuttings, pages extracted from periodicals, manuscript notes, etc., 1854-1868 and undated, relating to the activities of the Calvinistic Methodist Presbytery of Cheshire, Lancashire, and parts of Denbighshire and Flintshire, and to the activities and history of individual churches within the said presbytery; imperfect copies of a few numbers of The Monthly Herald for the period 1858-1860; pages extracted from various numbers of The Treasury, 1868-1876, containing biographical sketches or obituaries of [the Calvinistic Methodist] ministers Richard Baxter of Peniel, near Newtown, John Jones of Wrexham, Owen Jones of Gelly, co. Montgomery, and Ebenezer Powell of Chester; pages extracted from The Monthly Herald, May 1860, containing an obituary of the Reverend William Smith, C.M. minister, Rossett; a booklet containing the published version of the Memorial Sermon on the occasion of the death of the Rev. Ebenezer Powell, Chester, . . . by the Rev. John Williams . . ., June 18th 1876; two holograph letters from [the Reverend] W[illia]m Evans [C.M. minister], Hoylake, to Tho[ma]s Jones, [18]77 (sums collected by the writer for church building, etc., [during his pastorates] at Chester and Hoylake), and [ ], undated (enclosing answers to a questionnaire relating to his career, his pastorate at Chester, etc.); manuscript notes on the Reverend Phillip Oliver of Chester, and the church he founded at Boughton; etc.

Typescript and printed material relating to the Reverend John Jones [Calvinistic Methodist minister] of Tal-y-sarn [co. Caernarvon], and his family. The typescript items include two copies of the reminiscences (35 pp.) of Mrs. Fanny Jones, daughter of the Reverend John Jones, which, under the title 'Adgofion Mebyd yn Nhal y Sarn', had been published as a series of weekly articles in Y Dinesydd Cymreig, 15 Awst - 7 Tachwedd 1917; two incomplete copies of a biographical essay (30 pp.) on Mrs. Fanny Jones, wife of the Reverend John Jones, by 'Adgof Uwch Anghof', which likewise, under the title 'Bywyd, Cymeriad, a Dylanwad Mrs. Fanny Jones, Tal y Sarn', had been published as a series of weekly articles in the same paper, 14 Tachwedd 1917-13 Mawrth 1918; extracts from Hugh Hughes ('Tegai'): Cofiant John Jones, Talsarn [(Pwllheli, 1858)], typed on the dorse of printed copies of a circular letter in Welsh addressed by D. E. Jenkins from Denbigh to the officers of [Calvinistic Methodist] churches in the Vale of Clwyd, 1907, drawing their attention to recently published Welsh books on religious topics, and offering suggestions with regard to the formation of reading groups or societies for buying and studying these and other works of a similar nature; a copy of a letter from [the Reverend] J[ohn] Jones from Talsarn, to William Roberts, Nefyn, 1855, announcing his inability to fulfill a preaching engagement owing to pressure of work at the quarry (see Y Goleuad, 7 Tachwedd 1934, t. 4); and notes of sermons preached by John Jones ?at Denbigh in 1846. The printed material consists of a copy of Y Pulpud, cyf. II, rhif I, containing notes of a sermon preached by John Jones in Liverpool, 16 May 1853; and cuttings from Y Darlunydd, Ionawr 1877, [Y Drysorfa, 1897], and [Baner ac Amserau Cymru], 26 Gorffennaf 1905, all containing reminiscences of, or biographical notes on, the said John Jones.

Papers of William Roberts including letters to him, 1850-1886, and notebooks containing drafts and copies of letters from him, 1869-1878; sermons and sermon notes; notes and notebooks on genealogy and local history, 1867-1885, and papers relating to his work as minister and evangelist, 1861-1884; material relating to the Denbighshire Monthly Meeting (Presbytery) of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, [c. 1868]-1870; literary compositions including poems and essays, 1863-1881; newspaper cuttings, 1870-1889; family papers including biographical material of William Roberts compiled by Charles Williams, [c. 1916]; letters, especially to Charles Williams and Mrs Edward Thomas, 1874-1954; a diary of a sea voyage, [1892?]; and sermons of Rev. John Bevan Roberts, [1930s]-[1940s].