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An essay, with appendices, written [c. 1870], on 'Methodistiaeth Cymru Hyd 1811' [the history of Calvinistic Methodism to the Ordination of 1811]. At the end of the volume are some accounts of purchases for the house (food, etc.) and payments of taxes made by John Davies during the period 1877-1879.

A notebook containing minutes of the committee of managers of Forest B[ritish] School, parish of Llantilio Pertholey, 1888-1906. Almost the entire volume is in the hand of John Davies, who was originally correspondent and subsequently became chairman of the committee. On the inside upper cover is a note by John Davies, dated 22 March 1907, that by order of the Board of Education the school was henceforth to be called 'Llantillio Pertholey Forest Undenominational School'.

A transcript of the trust deed, 26 June, 1866, of a school to be erected at Cae Plockin, parish of Llantillio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, for the education of the children and adults, or children only, of the labouring, manufacturing and other classes in the several parishes of Llantillio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, Foothog, Herefordshire, Partrishow and Llanbeder, Brecknockshire, and Llanwenarth and Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, and to be conducted upon the principles of the British and Foreign School Society. The transcript is written on the dorse of an incomplete Scripture examination script of Philip Francis, Graig, Abercanaid, Merthyr.

An essay on 'Enwogion Gwent'. The essay corresponds largely to NLW MS 11418E, but contains additional biographies of Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan of Newport, and William Thomas ('Islwyn').

Y Dyddiadur Methodistaidd, 1866, 1898-1899, 1901, 1904, The Diary of the Calvinistic Methodists, 1875-1876, 1905, 1907-1908, 1910, 1912, 1914-1915, A Diary of Sundays for 20 Years, 1886-1906, Pettitt's Handy Diary, 1916, and Year Book of the Council of the County of Monmouth, 1895 (lettered 'Alderman John Davies'), 1900-1901 (lettered 'Alderman Davies'), with manuscript entries by John Davies, Pandy.

An essay on 'Cymreigyddion y Fenni and its work'.

Notebooks containing drafts of 'Nodion Cymdeithasfaol' or reports and minutes of meetings and committees of the South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association, 1896-1899; together with notes on some aspects of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, e.g. on Howell Harris.

A notebook originally used as a subscription book for the [Llanfihangel Crucorney?] Whit-Monday athletic sports, [c. 1878]. It was subsequently used by John Davies to record house, hay, coal, maids' wages, and other accounts, 1879-1916; accounts with Pandy C. M. Church, 1883-1916; accounts of a Dairy School at Pandy, 1899; and notes on Monmouthshire genealogies and antiquities.