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An address on 'Welsh Castles'.

Annotated lists of students admitted to Trevecca Calvinistic Methodist college from its opening in 1842 until its closure in 1862 and from its re-opening in 1865 until 1899. The two lists, arranged in chronological order of admission, contain respectively seventy-nine and three hundred and twenty six names, and give in each case also the date of departure.

An address on 'The Vale of Usk, and its Historic Associations', delivered at Llanvihangel nigh Usk.

A paper on 'The Origin of Sunday Schools in Crickhowell and District', read at a centenary meeting at Crickhowell, 17 June, 1885.

An essay on the history of religion in Abergavenny.

Undated sermons notes by John Davies ('Sion Gymro').

A notebook containing sermons by John Davies, 1819-1821, with a list of the places at which each sermon was preached, 1819-1838 (ff. ii-ivv).

Sermons written and delivered by John Davies ('Sion Gymro').

Undated sermons notes by John Davies ('Sion Gymro').

Sermons written and delivered by John Davies ('Sion Gymro').

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.

A volume originally used to record membership of the Pandy Medical Aid Society, 1887-1888. The list of members is largely in the autograph of John Davies, and is followed by an address (48 pp.), also in his hand, on 'Billy Bray' [William Bray, Cornish miner and preacher].

A notebook containing notes on logic; Latin exercises; a commentary on portions of the Greek text of chapters 6-7 of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans; and notes on Roman history.

An index of scriptural headings compiled by John Davies, possibly in preparation for his Allwedd Duwinyddiaeth ... (Carmarthen, 1823).

An incomplete essay on 'Monmouthshire Worthies'. The list of subjects begins with Geoffrey of Monmouth and ends with Sir Thomas Phillips, barrister, of Newport.

A notebook containing notes on forms of church government, philosophy, the early history of Capel-y-ffin Baptist Church, border antiquities (Ewyas Harold, Kilpeck, Kenderchurch, Rowlstone, Michael Church, Patricio, Craswall, etc.), characteristics of early architecture, the 'arrangement' of Llanthony Abbey, etc., together with some statistics of a Bible class at Pandy, 1873.

Notes on the doctrine and the rite of baptism and on philosophy; a paper on Sir John Oldcastle, styled Lord Cobham (d. 1417), read to the Cambrian Archaeological Association at Abergavenny, [18] August 1876; notes from Edmund Jones: ... Account of the Parish of Aberystruth (Trevecca, 1779); notes of visits to Gloucestershire and to Bala, 1882-1883; etc.

A notebook containing minutes of the committee of the Abergavenny District of the Welsh Nonconformist Council, 1891-1897, the secretary of the committee being John Davies; draft reports (undated) of South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association meetings; particulars of receipts and disbursements on behalf of Forest British School, 1903-1904; extracts from memorial inscriptions at the churches of Llanfihangel Nant Brân, Brecknockshire, and Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, transcribed during the period 1908-1909; and an address entitled 'The First Chapter in the History of Nonconformity of the [Abergavenny] District', delivered at Mozerah [Calvinistic Methodist Church, Llanfihangel nigh Usk], in 1911.

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'.