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Notes on Welsh place names by Meredith J. Hughes, arranged alphabetically, with extracts from Welsh poetry.

An essay entitled 'Enwau Dysgogan gwahanol Ardaloedd, a'u hystyron' by 'Myrddin Fardd'.

Copies of two lists: (a) Places (with Post Offices) in Wales and Monmouthshire which are known by other names in addition to those given in the Post Office Guide and (b) Welsh names of Counties, this second list having been revised as a result of representation made by Undeb Cenedlaethol y Cymdeithasau Cymraeg, with a memorandum and letters from D. Arthen Evans, Barry, secretary of the Union.

An imperfect volume containing rough pedigrees of the families of Birt of Llwyndyrys, Blome of Carmarthen, etc., Brigstocke, Parkinson of Crickhowell, Leach of Corston, Vaughan of Golden Grove, etc., Hoare, Browne of Upton, co. Chester, Tenison, Nares, Jones of Fonmon, Thomas of Cwm, Llangynog, Llewellyn of Penlle'r-gaer, Griffies Williams of Llwyn-y- wermwood, Griffiths of Penwern, Llandysul, Charles of Bala, Williams of Gwernyfed and of Tal-y-llyn, co. Brecknock, etc., Thomas of Llanfair, Llandysul, Foley of Ridgeway, Fortescue, Stedman, Spicer, aft. Jones, of Abercothi, and others. The family trees are supported by extracts from printed sources, e.g., J. Foster Alumni Oxonienses . . (Oxford, 1888-1892), from the Golden Grove MS, from ecclesiastical probate records, from private sources, e.g., members of the Brigstocke families and W. G. Stedman Thomas, from family Bibles, from an armorial at Blaenpant written by David Edwards, Rhydygors, circa 1687, from an undated valuation of tenements and lands in the parish of Llanllawthoge, from parish registers of Kidwely, Llandygwydd, Laugharne, Llangyndeyrn, St. Ishmaels, Llanwinio, St. Peter's (Carmarthen), St. Clears, Abergwili, and Croydon, etc. There are also etymological notes on place- and personal names in England and Wales. Among the insets and paste-downs are a letter from John Davies, Lampeter, to [Alcwyn C.] Evans, 1901 (the pedigree of the family of Griffiths of Penwern, Llandysul), and typescript pedigree notes and extracts with additions, 1901, in the hand of W. J. E[vans, Principal of the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen].

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol III. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period May 1925-April 1926. The entries relate to domestic and international politics, the writer's removal to Chester, the writer's donation of nearly one thousand books to Llanelly Public Library, the death of the Rev. J. Towyn Jones, M.P., and of Arthur Mee, Welsh place-names, Welsh grammar, the works of Xenophon and Aristotle, numerals used by Cumberland shepherds, etc. Also included in the volume are lists of dialect words from the Llanelly district and of Welsh land measurements.

'Crynolion Hanesyddol Dyfed, Geirdarddiaeth', being miscellaneous notes by David Owen Thomas on the etymology of Welsh words and on place names and personal names, together with extracts from Irish literature, with translations, and from miscellaneous sources.

Notes on Monmouthshire and other place names mainly in the form of replies to queries sent by Daniel Lleufer Thomas, together with letters to him on the same subject from Sir Joseph Bradney, Llywarch Reynolds, T. Wilkes of the Ordnance Survey and James G. Wood, Lincoln's Inn.

Miscellanea in prose and verse, including 'News from Babel or ye Conventicle alamodu ... Vavasor Powell and his gang'; extracts from theological works; 'Rudimenta linguae Hebraicae'; lists of place names in Wales; an English vocabulary; etc.

A composite volume of transcripts, biographies and miscellaneous notes almost entirely in the hand of D. Silvan Evans. They include 'Helfa Hawdd ei Hebgor' (published in Y Geninen, 1887, pp. 200-204) (with instructions to the printer in the hand of [John Thomas, 'Eifionydd']); 'Brigant, neu Chware'r Brigant'; 'Canau' or poems in free metres transcribed by H[ugh] B[rython] H[ughes], partly in [18]74; 'Buchedd Marthin Sant'; 'Biographia Cambrensis: Intended as A Supplement to "Enwogion Cymru" by D. Silvan Evans; 'Cronfa Mawddwy ... neu Manion Mawddwy: 1863', largely consisting of rough notes on Welsh etymology, dialect words, place and personal names, etc.; etc. Mounted in the volume is a holograph letter from the Reverend E[benezer] W[ood] Edwards, Ruabon Vicarage to [D. Silvan Evans], [18]64 (date (1820) of birth and christening of [Sir] W[atkin] W[illiams] Wynn). Manuscripts in the Llanover and British Museum collections are quoted as sources of several of the transcripts. The spine is lettered 'Manion Mawddwy'.

'Llyfr Newydd Cyfochraeth ... Enwau, Ymadroddion, Traddodiad, Chwedloniaeth, a Llên, Groeg-Cymraeg, wedi eu Taflennu'n Gyfochrol, a'u hegluro ag enghreifftiau o'r clasuron. Y Gyferbyniaeth yn ol Arddull Deheubarth Cymru. Gan Gerwyn Wyn', being a glossary, with index, purporting to trace from Greek the derivation of Welsh (especially Carmarthenshire) common, personal, and place names. The volume was submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod held at Caernarvon, 1935.

An alphabetically-arranged list of place-names, mainly in Wales, with notes and references.

A mutilated index (place and personal names) to a manuscript of Welsh pedigrees, together with an incomplete index of Cheshire names.

A volume, [16 cent., second ½], probably in the hand of Thomas Powell (d. 1588), Parc y Drewen, Whittington, co. Salop, containing a much shortened text of Humphrey Lhuyd's English version of Brut y Tywysogion, upon which version David Powel based his Historie of Cambria, now called Wales ... (London, 1584) (see Brut y Tywysogion ..., ed. by Thomas Jones (Cardiff, 1952), pp. xiv-xviii). Omissions mainly involve passages relating to events outside Wales, church affairs and the papacy, anecdotes, explanations of Welsh personal and place-names, and the arguments against Polydore Vergil. Three other copies are known: BL, MS Cotton Caligula A VI; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmolean Museum MS 847; and NLW, Llanstephan MS 177. Also included are a pedigree of the kings and princes of North Wales from Cadwaladr to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (ff. iv-v verso), a painted coat of arms of Cadwaladr (f. 1), and an index of personal and place-names (ff. 168-70 verso). Six lines of English verse are added in a contemporary hand on f. 171 verso.

An account of the early history of Wales and notes on Welsh place-names, literature, etc.

A glossary of Welsh common, personal, and place-names, purporting to trace their derivation from Greek.

Miscellaneous notes on Welsh place names, notes on 'Enwogion' and press cuttings compiled by ?'Myrddin Fardd', with a postcard addressed to 'Myrddin Fardd' from 'Ioan Eifion'.

A collection of press cuttings of etymological interest compiled by 'Myrddin Fardd', with notes on Welsh names and terms by him.

Notes on place names, mainly in Wales.

A tabular view of Welsh and other churches in which the name 'eglwys' is found, with questionnaires, and correspondence, including letters by John Ballinger, 1904; E. Edwardes, Caersws, 1902; H. C. Davies, Cowbridge, 1901-1902; D. E. Jenkins, Denbigh, 1904; M. H. Jones, Carmarthen, 1904; Thomas Jones, Cilcennin, 1901; W. Arthur Jones, Wrexham, 1901; Edmund McClure, 1905; Henry Morgan, Eglwysilan, 1901; and W. H. Sinnett, Crickhowell, 1905.