Ffeil NLW MS 12694B. - Emynau Thomas Williams, Rhes-y-cae, Sir y Fflint,

A volume containing two hundred and seventy numbered hymns (four-stanza sections of longer hymns, in some instances, being numbered as one hymn), ? by, and in the hand of, Thomas Williams [weaver, hymn-writer, and lay preacher], of Rhes-y-Cae, Flintshire. Some of the hymns are annotated, ? to denote the specific occasion for which they were written, e.g., 'Dydd ympryd, 1831 Ionawr 19' (No. 18); 'Cyfansoddwd [sic] ar [a]mser pla yn y flwyddyn 1834' (Nos 19-20 ); 'Jubili yr ysgol sabothol yn y flwyddyn 1831' (No. 61); '. . . iw chanu wrth gychwyn corff Meistres Owens tu ar bedd, sef gwraig y Parch. O. Owens, Rhes y Cae' [Anne, first wife of the Reverend Owen Owens, Congregational minister at Rhes-y-cae] (No. 65); 'Canwyd y rhan gyntaf o'r hymn isod yngladdedigaeth Parch. R. Williams, gweinidog yr efengyl yn y Wyddgrug [the Reverend Robert Williams, Congregational minister at Mold]. A'r ail ran yngladdedigaeth Parch. D. Jones, gweinidog yr efengyl yn dref ffynon' [the Reverend David Jones, Congregational minister at Holywell] (No. 68); 'Dydd ympryd Mawrth 21, flwydd [sic] 1832 ' (No. 69); 'Cyfansoddwyd y penillion hyn yn y flwydd [sic] 1832, pan ydoedd llawer meirw gin pla oedd y pryd hynu' (No. 121); 'Diolchgarwch am y cyheuaf [sic] yn y flwyddyn 1832' (No. 126); 'Penillion a ganwyd wrth agor Capel Salem' [Salem Congregational chapel, parish of Cilcain, built 1826] (No. 215); and 'Cyfansoddwyd yr hym hon ar ryddad y Caethion' (No. 268). Inset is a biographical note (typescript) on Thomas Williams [being an extract from the Reverend W[illiam] A[lonzo] Griffiths: Hanes Emynwyr Cymru (Caernarfon [1892]), p. 152]. At the beginning of the volume is a first-line index to the hymns.