Papers including letters, mostly relating to Welsh Martyrs; together with a leaflet by the Rev. J. M. Cronin, A Few Notes in the Cause of the Welsh Martyrs (extracted from the Almanac and Directory for the Archdiocese of Cardiff, 1930).
Photocopies including a lecture delivered by Bishop Daniel J. Mullins, 'Catholicism in Wales in the Eighteenth Century', later published in the Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical History, 2, 1985; and of early Catholic publications and works by Christopher Haigh.
Miscellaneous papers including photocopies from lists of Papists in the dioceses of Llandaff, St Asaph and Bangor, 1767, in the House of Lords; and a copy of J. M. Cleary, A Checklist of Welsh Students in the Seminaries 1568-1603 (Cardiff, 1958), with annotated notes.
Papers including some relating to the Welsh Martyr Father John Kemble (1599-1679); a book of press cuttings, 1923 and undated, from St Peter's Magazine (St Peter and St Joseph parishes, Cardiff), mainly relating to 'The Titus Oates Plot in South Wales and the Marches' and to Welsh Martyrs; papers relating to the Welsh Martyr the Blessed David Lewis (1616-79); 'Some Welsh Franciscan Nuns in Penal Times' and 'The Decline of Catholicism in South Wales 1680-1780'; and photocopies from St Peter's Magazine containing undated articles by Martin Cleary.
Martin Cleary Research Papers,
Biographical sketches of Welsh priests, 1568-1795; research notes and papers on the education of Welsh recusants, 1579-1648; research papers relating to Welsh Catholic printed books, 1579-1777; research papers relating to Catholics in Breconshire, 1799-1830; press cuttings, 1953-1957, mainly from The Tablet, relating to Ronald Knox (1888-1957), and to the Carmelites in Wales; letters, 1953-1958, relating to Welsh Martyrs; undated notes on the Welsh clergy in Seville, 1591-1671; the Clifton diocesan archives, 1827-1828; letters, 1989-1993 and undated, from Emeritus Professor R. Geraint Gruffydd; Welshmen at Rheims, 1579-1593, and Catholic Record Society letters, 1993-1994; press cuttings, 1938-1993 and undated on reviews of religious books and archaeology; photocopies relating to Holywell, Caerwys and Llanfechain in the seventeenth century; photocopies of correspondence and papers of James Peter Coghlan (1731-1800), 1797-1799; Sir Edward Carne (c.1496-1561); Father John Kemble (1599-1679); the Blessed David Lewis (1616-1679); letters, 1956-1963, relating to the publications of The Catholic Recusancy of the Barlow Family of Slebech in Pembrokeshire the XVI and XVII Centuries (Cardiff, 1956), and A Checklist of Welsh Students in the Seminaries, 1568-1603 (Cardiff, 1958); letters, 1939-1997; genealogical notes on the Cleary line and radio scripts.
Cleary, J. M. (John Martin)
Papers, including press cuttings, mainly from The Tablet, relating to Ronald Knox (1888-1957) and articles by him; and to the Carmelites in Wales.
Press cuttings relating to an article 'The Welsh: a nation without a State' by Henry Edwards in the Cardiff Times, and letters from Martin Cleary and others responding to his comments on Welsh Catholicism.
Typescript by C. W. Field, 'The Province of Canterbury and the Elizabethan settlement of religion' with references to Thomas Havard and Morys Clynnog.