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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 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.

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

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).

A notebook containing the bidding account of John Davies, 'Account of what we received 22 Decr 1807 being our Wedding Day at The 3 Compassess' (ff. 1-6); an incomplete copy of his elegy Marwnad ar Farwolaeth Owen Rees o Gaerfyrddin ... yn 68 Oed (Caerfyrddin, 1808) (inverted text ff. 8 verso-11 verso); and sermon notes.

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

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

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

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

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].

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

An address on 'Welsh Castles'.

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').

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

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 the history of religion in Abergavenny.

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

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

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.