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A letter to the C. M. societies in London,

A fraternal letter from the delegates at the Calvinistic Methodist Association meeting at Llangeitho [co. Cardigan], 28-29 July 1801, to the members of the Welsh C.M. Societies at Wilderness Row and Detford (sic), London, referring to differences which had arisen amongst the members of the London Societies and which had been discussed by the Association. The signatories include John Evans, Bala, Thos. Grey, Robert Roberts, John Elias, John Prytherch, Wm. Lloyd, Nathl. Rowland, D. Griffith, Nevern, W. Jones, Clerk, John Williams, Lledrod, John Hughes, Langeitho, and John Williams, Pantycelyn. Also on the same sheet is a holograph note from the aforementioned J. Hughes (signatory) to David Elis stating that the Association had requested that the letter should be sent to him (Elis) and that he should read the contents to the Societies at Wilderness Row, Deptford, and Borough. The letter is addressed to David Elis, No. 66 Barbican, London.

A novel,

An incomplete, draft version of a novel, without title, based upon life in a fictitious North Wales village called Llanbannog in the second half of the nineteenth century. The work features the religious life of the period, more particularly that of the Calvinistic Methodists, and touches upon the occasional clash of interests between Nonconformity and Anglicanism.

A novel,

A draft copy (typescript with manuscript emendations) of a novel by Lockyer Lewys entitled 'Prim Benbow; Scenes from Rural Life in South Wales about the Middle of the Last Century'.

Lockyer Lewys.

Achau,

A typescript copy of a genealogical chart headed 'Disgynyddion Teulu Bodgarad, Rhostryfan, Llanwnda, ger Caernarfon', compiled by W. Roberts, [19]28.

W. Roberts.

Application for a teaching post,

Typescript copies of an application by D. E. Jenkins for a post as temporary master in Denbigh County School [1915], and of supporting testimonials from Professors C[harles] H[arold] Herford, University of Manchester, John Edward Lloyd, University College of North Wales, Bangor, and John Owen Thomas, The Theological College, Bala.

D. E. Jenkins and others.

Barddoniaeth,

Holograph copies and transcripts of Welsh verse in strict and free metre, including poems in strict metre entitled 'Cywydd marwnaed er Coffadwrieth am . . . Richard Owen, esqr., o Benierth, y rhwn a madawodd ar Byd . . . 1714', by Richard Edwards (y prydydd), 'Cywydd marwnaed Mr. Francis Williams ai Wraig, Mrs. Jane Williams, of [sic] Penierth ucha . . .' (1732 ), also by Richard Edwards (bardd ag athraw ysgol), 'Marwnad y parchedig Mr. Wiliam Wynn, Person Llan Gynhafal . . . a Manafon . . .', by Evan Evans, 'Cowydd Galarnad am Ynys Minorca a Phorthladd St. Philips, yr Hon a Gollwyd trwy ffalster a Llwfrdra A . . .l B . . . g', by Hugh Hughes, 'Cywydd Marwnad y parchedig Mr. Wiliam Wynn, Person Llann Gynhafal a Mynafon', by Rice Jones, 'Cywydd Marwnad Mrs. Sydney Fychan, Gwraig Howel Fychan o'r Hengwrt, Esqr., 1750', also by Rice Jones, 'Kowydd dau wr soredig wrth i gilidd o achos Merch', by Thomas Price (Plas Iolyn), 'Kowydd trafferth y byd ar Gyfraith', also by Thomas Prys, 'Cywydd Marwnad it parchedica Mr. John Nannau o faes y pandu', by Dafydd William, 'Cowydd Marwnad I William Wynn o Faes-y-neuoedd, Esqr., a ymadawodd a ni A[nn]o 1730', by Er. Will[ia]ms, 'Cowydd Marnad Mer. Robert Wynne', 'Englynion i Edward Sawdwr . . .,' by R. J., 'Englynion i annerch Edwart Hudol . . .' by Rice Jones, 'Englynnion er Coffadwrieth I Naid Mr. Hugh Pugh o Risie'r Mysseum ir Colofn gerllaw', by Mer. Lloyd, and 'Englynion'r Eos'; free- metre poems entitled 'Ychydig o ddiolch o waith William Davies i Mr. Wynn o fays yneyoedd, Dros gerdd ddorion Sir feirionydd' (1759) 'Carol y Scuthen', by Moris Lloyd, 'Cerdd o glod i Mr. William Weeinn o faes y neiodd i ofin hen wasgod' (1757), by Morris Parry, 'Carol Siani', by Phylip Richiard, 'Hanes Gwr Ifangc oedd mewn blinder achos Cariad . . .', ‘'Penhillion o foliant i Gras', 'Rhybydd ne Hanes Carwriaith drwstan dyn Ifangc', and 'Can i'r Gwydde . . .'; and other anonymous, miscellaneous compositions.

Barddoniaeth, etc.,

An exercise book containing miscellaneous transcripts, extracts, etc., including copies of two anonymous poems entitled 'Cerdd Newydd i atteb yr Ynfyd yn ôl ei Ynfydrwydd rhag iddo fod yn ddoeth yn ei olwg ei hun', and 'Cân o glod i offeiriadau ac eraill ou plaid am sefyll yn gadarn yn erbyn pregethwyr cyffredin sydd yn tramwy'r gwledydd, &c.'; seventy-four lines headed 'Pedair o Bleidiau yn cael eu dynodi: sef Dissenters, Methodistiaid, Wesleyaid, a'r Baptistiaid', being a variant version of a section of Thomas Edwards ['Twm o'r Nant']'s interlude Bannau y Byd . . . [( Treffynnon, 1808)]; a transcript of the said Thomas Edwards's poem Cân ar Berson Paris . . .[(Caerlleon, 1802)]; a transcript of the poem Thomas Edwards, yn gymmaint ac na allaf gyd fyned â chwi yn eich canu diweddaf â' r Offeiriadau, anturiais eich anrhegu a'r Gân ganlynol [(Caernarfon, 1802 )], written by W[illiam] Jones, Cefn Berain, Llanefydd [co. Denbigh] in reply to Cân ar Berson Paris; and extracts from Cylch-Grawn Cynmraeg neu Drysorfa Gwybodaeth, rhif. I-IV, 1793.

Barddoniaeth, etc.,

A folio volume, the contents of which consists mainly of transcripts, in a variety of hands, of Welsh verse in strict metre, including 'cywyddau' and 'englynion' by Tho[mas] lloyd Ienga, Cad[wala]dr Thomas, W[illia]m Phillip, Huw Lloyd Cynfel, John Davies, Owain Griffith, Robert Humphrey (y prydydd bach), John Richart, Davydd lloyd llewelyn ap Gruffyth (o fathafarn), Gutto'r Glynn, Davyd Nanmor, Lewis Môn, Theodor (Tydur) Aled, Robin ddu ap sianckin Bledrydd, Hugh Machno, John Phylyp, Gruffyth Phylip, Richard Kynwal, Ievan llwyd, John Owenes, Philip Jo[h]n Philip, Rys Cain, Jo[h]n V[ augha]n (Caergai), David Davies, Edm[wnd] Prys, and D[avi]d Lloyd ap Will[ ia]m. There is also some Welsh verse in free metre by Rowland Vaughan (Caer Gai). Other items include copies of a rental of chief rents issuing to the crown out of the hundred of Ardydwy ywch artro, and out of Isartro [co. Merioneth], 1623, and of a rental of assize rents in the vill of Llanaber [co. Merioneth], 1637; pedigrees of the families of Anwyll [of Park, parish of Llanfrothen, co. Merioneth], Wynn [of Gwydir, co. Caernarvon], and Wynn [of Maesyneuadd, parish of Llandecwyn, co. Merioneth ]; maternal pedigrees of several North Wales families; a copy of 'The message of king Hen[ry] the seventh, as he was on his march to Bosworth field, to John ap Meredith, as it is in Edward Puleston's Bk.'; a memorandum, 1676, by Robert Wynne, of a lease of lands called Moel y Glo to Gruff Owen; and a few lines of English and Latin verse.

Bibles for the army and navy,

Correspondence and miscellaneous items relating to the distribution of Bibles amongst army and navy personnel including twenty-four holograph or autograph letters, 1780-1794 and undated, addressed variously to The Committee of the Bible Society, The President of the Humane Society, Messrs. Audinet & Co., Mr. Tho[ma]s Dobson, the Reverend Mr. Foster, Mr. Keysall, Mr. W[illia]m Rogers, Mr. W[illia]m Surgey, and Mr. Thackray, all in London, by J. Cartwright, major in the Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia, Dorking, J. Catermole [Portsmouth], Luis Delvin, J. Doting, Spithead, Portsmouth, W[illia]m Fallowfield [?Newgate Prison] (2), F. Harrison, Chat[ha]m Dock (enclosing a letter from Thomas Turnbull and W[illia]m Savage, privates in the Goth Regiment), J[oh]n Hey [Warwickshire Militia], Tiptree Camp, B. Hudson, captain and adjutant, East York Militia, Dartford Camp, Rob[er]t Hudson, Haslar, [ ] Jones, captain, commandant of the Anglesea Regiment [of] Militia, Dartford, R. Langton, Cornhill, J. Lewis, Plymouth Dock, [ ] Middleton, W[illia]m Palmer, Chatham, Tho[ma] s Rankin, Rob[er]t Reynol[ds], Chat[ha]m, ?J. Saunders, Derbyshire Militia, Barnet, Samp[son] Stanniforth, Greenwich, W. Wallis, surgeon, H.M.S. Minerva, Portsmouth, Mrs. Wesley, Mary bone [London], John Wingrove, Freshford, Richard Worsley, Stratford Place, and W[illia]m Young (requests for Bibles for distribution amongst army units, crews of naval vessels, military prisoners in Newgate prison, etc., acknowledgements of receipt of Bibles, matters relating to the work of distribution); a draft of an undated circular letter written by W[illia]m Surgey, as secretary of the society founded in 1780 for distributing Bibles to the army and navy, inviting recipients to assist with the work of distribution; a 'List of Subscribers for Purchasing Bibles to be distributed among ye Army and Navy . . .' (undated); a letter from J. and J. Merrill to William Surgey, London, undated (supplies of Bibles [to the society of which recipient was secretary]); three miscellaneous vouchers, 1789-1790 and undated; an English translation of a petition from 'that Part of the Welsh Militia, Viz. the Anglesey & Caerna[r]von & the Montgomry Shires, now Encamped on Dartford Common, Kent, Sepr. 21, 1780, To the Committee of the Humane Soci[ety] for Distributing Bibles for the Use of the Fleets & Army of Great Britain & Ireland', requesting a supply of Bibles in the Welsh language; an English translation of a letter addressed by 'the Montgomry Rigm[en]t of Militia at the Camp, Sepr. 21, 1780 (Dartford Common)', to the committee of the same society expressing their thanks for the fact that Bibles, ? in the Welsh language, were being distributed (this and the preceding item had been translated [from Welsh] by Rob[er]t Rowland, Cumberland Street, London); and a copy of the Report of the Proceedings of the Naval and Military Bible Society . . . for the year ending May 1841.

Biographical sketches,

Biographical sketches of, or notes on, the Reverend David Charles Davies, principal of the Calvinistic Methodist College, Trefeca; the Reverend Lewis Edwards, principal of the Calvinistic Methodist College, Bala; the Reverend Thomas Charles Edwards, principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and later of the Calvinistic Methodist College, Bala; the Reverend John Elias ['o Fôn'], Calvinistic Methodist minister; the Reverend Christmas Evans, Baptist minister; the Reverend Evan Herber Evans, principal of Bala-Bangor Congregational College, Bangor; John Thomas ('Eos Gwynedd'), of Pentrefoelas [co. Denbigh], poet; Lewis Thomas, son of the aforesaid John Thomas; and John Thomas, of Llanrwst, son of the said Lewis Thomas.

Biography of the Reverend John Jones, Tal-y-sarn, co. Caernarvon,

A typescript copy of a thesis entitled 'A Review and Revision of the Biography of John Jones, Talsarn, By Owen Thomas', submitted by D. E. Jenkins for the degree of M.A., of the University of Liverpool, 1924. The biographical work which is analysed in this thesis is Owen Thomas: Cofiant y Parchedig John Jones, Talsarn, mewn Cysylltiad â Hanes Duwinyddiaeth a Phregethu Cymru (Wrexham [1874]).

D. E. Jenkins.

Caergeiliog C.M. Church,

Copious extracts (amounting almost to a complete transcript) from the account book of the [Calvinistic Methodist] society or church meeting at Caergeiliog [parish of Bodedern, co. Anglesey], 1782-1801; a transcript of the account book of the said society or church, 1817-1823; and a few notes on the Methodist cause at Caergeiliog, circa 1763-1786. All are written on the reverse side of copies of a printed handbill announcing a public meeting to be held in Liverpool, 15 June [ ], under the auspices of the Council of the Evangelical Free Churches of Liverpool, to 'protest against the Government Education Bill becoming law'.

Church accounts,

A volume containing copious extracts from the account book of an unspecified church recording sums paid to visiting preachers and other sundry payments made, 1812-1835. The extracts were taken from a volume then in the possession of Edward Griffith, J.P., of Dolgellau, and the church in question may possibly be Salem Calvinistic Methodist Church in that town.

Cofiant Edward Williams, Tal-y-sarn,

A copy of the Reverend William Williams: Cofiant Edward Williams, Tal y- Sarn [sir Gaernarfon] (Caernarfon, 1882), with a few manuscript annotations of a genealogical nature.

Reverend William Williams [?and others].

Commonplace book,

A commonplace book containing transcripts of a 'Humn Taken out of a prayer Book at Ty Isa in Llans[an]tffraid [co. ]', 'A psalm concerning the Glory of Paradize Writen Chiefely by St. Agustin', '[An] Ode for his Majestys Birth Day, June 4th 1765', a lease, 2 November 1761, of a messuage called Llan, parish of Llans[an]tffraid (incomplete), ? a programme of 'A Grand Festal Symphony at ye Weding of King George the third', epitaphs, letters, verses from Scripture, etc.

Copies of letters from the Reverend John Jones, Tal-y-sarn, etc.,

Typewritten copies of letters from [the Reverend] John Jones [of Tal-y- sarn as in the preceding manuscript] from Dolgelley, London, and Talysarn, to his wife Fanny, 1838-1854 (5), his son John in America, 1846-1850 (5), his brothers Richiart and William, both in America, 1846-1847 (5), his brother [- in-law] Thomas Edwart in America, 1847, 'Dafydd am Plant oll', 1856, and [ ] (possibly his son Thomas, see NLW MS 12733C, p. 265), 1850; Ann Jones [daughter of the Reverend John Jones] to her brother [John] in America, 1847; and [the Reverend] David Jones [brother of the Reverend John Jones], Caernarfon, to his brother [Richard] in America, 1847, and an acquaintance, ?Richard Jones, 1842-1853 (8). Included also is a holograph letter from George M[aitland] Ll[oyd] Davies from Maenan Hall Farm, near Llanrwst, to [D. E.] Jenkins, undated (information and suggestions relating to recipient's research work on the Reverend John Jones).

Copies of letters from the Reverend Thomas Charles,

Typewritten copies of sixteen letters from [the Reverend] Tho[ma]s Charles from Bala, Machynlleth, Milbourne Port, Oxford, Spa Fields Chapel [London], and Turk dean, near Northleach, including (a) nine letters to the Reverend Edward Griffin at Little Horwood, near Winslow, and Worcester, 1776-1788 and undated, and (b) seven letters, 1804-1812 and undated, one of which is addressed to S. Ralph, and all of which, according to D. E. Jenkins: The Life of the Rev. Thomas Charles . . ., in which they have been published (see index, s.n. Ralph, Simon), were written to Simon Ralph of Seaton (Saighton, Seighton), near Chester. The seven letters of this second section deal mainly with matters relating to the church [established by the Reverend Phillip Oliver] at Boughton.

Copies of letters from the Reverend Thomas Jones, Denbigh, etc.,

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).

Copies of letters to the Reverend John Foulkes, etc.,

Typewritten copies of thirteen letters described in an accompanying typescript note as 'Sypyn o hen lythyrau a gafwyd ymysg papyrau y Parch. John Foulkes, Ruthyn (1802-1881)'. They include eight letters addressed to the said Reverend John Foulkes [Calvinistic Methodist minister] at Abergele, Bettws Abergele, Liverpool, and Ruthin, by [the Reverend] James Hughes, Deptford, 1832 (negotiations with Messrs. Westley and Davis, London, with regard to the publishing in Y Drysorfa of portraits of Calvinistic Methodist ministers which had appeared in the Evangelical Magazine, the writer's expository edition of the [New] Testament), [the Reverend] Rich[ard] Humphreys, Dyffryn, 1849 (the collecting of names of subscribers for recipient's [forthcoming] book [? Cyfarwyddwr Teuluaidd . . . (Aberystwyth, 1850), being a translation of the Reverend John Angell James: Family Monitor]), Thomas Jones, Amlwch, 1833 (religious and moral reflections, the usefulness of secular learning to preachers), [the Reverend] John Parry, Caerlleon, 1845 (personal), [the Reverend] Moses Parry, Dinbych, 1833 (personal, religious reflections, C.M. denominational activity), [the Reverend] H[enry] Rees, Liverpool, [18]34 (advice to recipient on the achieving of happiness in married life), [the Reverend] W[ illiam] Rees ['Gwilym Hiraethog'], Liverpool, [18]74 (acknowledging receipt of a letter of condolence ? on the death of his wife), and [the Reverend] Ebenezer Richard, Tregaron, 1837 (an unspecified matter to be referred to the Spring [C.M.] Association meetings at Denbigh and Aberystwyth); a letter from [the Reverend] Henry Rees [Liverpool], by inference to the said John Foulkes, 1867 (personal, preaching engagements); and letters from [the Reverend] John Elias, Fron [Llangefni], to [ ], 1833 (personal, religious exhortations), [the Reverend] Richard Lloyd, Beaumaris, to [ ], 1832 (testimony as to the character and church membership of William Roberts), [the Reverend] W[illiam] Morris, Ty Ddewi, to [ ], 1844 (preaching engagements), and [the Reverend Henry Rees] to [ ], [1848] (the death of Thomas Lloyd).

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