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Addresses on 'Ymweliad a Chanada a'r Unol Dalaethau ...', 'The Manners and Characteristics of the Welsh People', 'The Disestablishment of the English Church in Wales', etc., written by E. Ceredig Jones, and genealogical particulars concerning his parents and their children compiled by his niece, Mary Evans, Tannerdy, Ciliau Aeron.

A school exercise book containing the text of three short papers on the topics 'Sefyll allan a'r Canlyniadau' [Strike Action and its Consequences] (10 pp.), 'Yr Mesur er Dad-sefydlu a Dadwaddoli yr Eglwys yn Ngymru [1894]' [The Bill for Disestablishing the Church in Wales] (9 pp.), and 'Hap Chwareu' [Gambling] (8 pp.). At the head of the first paper is a pencilled note reading '1894 Cymdeithas Lenyddol Gymreig Crewe', and the three papers may have been prepared for reading at meetings of that society. On blank pages opposite sections of the papers on strikes and gambling are the names of persons, ? who were present when the papers were read, with, in some instances, what appear to be summaries of contributions they made to an ensuing debate.

A minute book of the executive, emergency, and sub-committee meetings of the Bangor Diocesan Branch of the Central Church Committee and of the Bangor Diocesan Church Committee for Church Defence and Church Instruction, 1895-1906. Among the insets is a holograph letter, 1904, from H[enry] L[ewis] James, the Rectory, Llangefni, to the secretary, Canon [Edward] Hughes [rector of Barmouth].

The series includes papers linked with the clergy of Llanaber, 1727, application of the Poor Law in Henllan, 1764, and disestablishment in Wales, 1912.

A holograph concordance of the Bible by Robert Roberts ('Y Sgolor Mawr'). Several leaves have been cut away, and the early part of the volume has subsequently been used as an album for press cuttings relating to the disestablishment of the Church in Wales and to Mr Gladstone's electoral reform. Beginning from the end is a list of floruits, and in some cases of the works, of mediaeval Welsh bards.

A volume lettered 'Detholion', containing printed matter and press cuttings mainly relating to Welsh eisteddfodau. The printed matter includes an announcement, 1849, of the sale of building land on the Gloddaeth estate of the Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn, M.P.; correspondence, 1836, between the Reverend D. James, Kirkdale, Liverpool, and Arthur James Johnes, Garthmyl, concerning a resolution of thanks by the Liverpool Society of Ancient Britons to Arthur James Johnes 'for his laudable attempt to remove the abuses which have crept into the established church in Wales through the appointment of English bishops and English incumbents ...'; a prospectus of an eisteddfod to be held at Liverpool on 1 March, 1838, under the auspices of the Liverpool Society of Ancient Britons; an appeal by the London Society of Ancient Britons for subscriptions to a fund for the delivering of lectures in Welsh on scientific subjects and for the translation into Welsh of scientific treatises, etc.; minutes of proceedings of the Liverpool Gordovigion Royal Eisteddfod, 1840; etc. The majority of the press cuttings are from The Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald, The North Wales Chronicle, The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, and The Merthyr Chronicle, and include a report on the Beaumaris Royal Eisteddfod, 1832; a letter, 1837, by John Parry ('Bardd Alaw'); a report of a meeting of the Wrexham Literary Association [1859]; letters of John Jones ('Talhaiarn') and others relating to the failure of the London Eisteddfod of 1855; a report of a concert given by the Liverpool Welsh Choral Society [1849]; letters relating to criticisms of adjudications at the Cardiff Athenaeum eisteddfod, 1851; poetry; songs; etc.

A group of ecclesiastical papers, 1917-1919, of William Morgan, vicar of St. Ann's, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, including letters addressed to him, 1917, in connection with the Welsh Church Act, the Convention of the Church in Wales at Cardiff (1917), elections in the diocese of Bangor to the Representative Body and the Governing Body of the Church in Wales, etc.; manuscript, typescript, or printed balance sheets, 19171918, of the Queen Victoria Clergy Fund [in the diocese of Bangor], Bangor Diocesan Tract Society, Bangor Diocesan Church Building Society, the Church Defence and Instruction Committee [in the diocese of Bangor], Bangor Diocesan Board of Education, Bangor Clerical Education Society, Bangor Branch of the S. P. C. K., and Bangor Diocesan Church Extension Society; typescript schedules for the dioceses of St. Davids and Llandaff of incumbents with vested interests who had moved since 18 September, 1914; two printed letters by Watkin [Herbert Williams], bishop of Bangor, 1917-1919, relating to the implications of the Welsh Church Act, and the election of delegates in the diocese of Bangor for the Convention of the Church in Wales; a printed list for the Bangor Diocesan Conference, 14 November, 1917, of clerical and lay nominations for the Representative Body and the Governing Body of the Church in Wales; and manuscript and typescript notes, memoranda, and financial accounts by William Morgan.

Two groups of holograph letters addressed to [Mary] Louisa Williams (aft. Lady Ramsay), together with some miscellaneous material:- (a) Sixty letters, etc., written by Charlotte A. M. Cookman, D[olau] C[othi], etc., 1862 and undated (the writer's Italian holiday, the writer's ascent of Snowdon, personal), Cornelia A. H. Crosse, Heidelberg, 1860 (personal), [General Sir] Ja[me]s Fergusson [from London] [18]65? (the battles of Vimeiro and Corunna, personal), Tho. Graham [Master of the Mint], 1866 (thanks for vignette of recipient's husband), [Mrs.] S. M. Hall, Albany [New York], 1861 (relations between America and Great Britain, comments on 'our doomed country'), Mary Hunt, Glangwna [Llanrug], etc. [1852] and undated (the recipient's marriage, the engagement of a gardener), T[homas] H[enry] Huxley, Geological Survey of England and Wales, 1871 (the occupation of a house), J. R. Milbanke Huskisson, The Hague, 1866 (news of Jules Huguenin on the island of Java, news of the campaign against Italy), [Sir] Henry James, from Southampton, 1873 (thanks for ordering Welsh flannel, the recipient's dinner with the bishop of Winchester, personal), Charlotte A. M. Johnes, Dolau Cothy, etc., 1880-1903 and undated (the recipient's visit to the Italian lakes in search of health, reference to the British Association meeting at Swansea, comments on the writer's holiday in the Isle of Wight, a fire at Abergwili Palace, Carmarthenshire County Council election, Welsh industrial exhibition at the Albert Hall, news of friends, etc.), C. E. Lloyd, Plas Cadnant, etc., [18]52-1880? (the recipient's marriage, personal), Ellen Morris, Ballarat [Australia], 1864 (the writer's voyage of sixty-one days to Australia, impressions of Ballarat, personal), Alfred J. S. Quekett, Lincolns Inn Fields, 1881 (opinion on claims by recipient's tenant), E. Ramsay, the recipient's mother-in-law, Edin[burgh], Glasgow, and Bridge of Allan, 1856-1857 (personal, news of friends), E. E. Ramsay, the recipient's daughter [from London], undated ( thanksgiving service for the recovery of the Prince of Wales, personal), J[ohn] C. Ramsay, the recipient's brother-in-law, London, 1857 (personal, news of friends), W. Allan Delg B. Ramsay, the recipient's son, from Clogau Mine, Bont Ddu, Dolgelley, 1881 (the writer's Christmas holiday), F. S. Roberts, Glan y Menai, undated [1857] (the recipient's marriage, personal), Emily S. Thompson, undated (enclosing 'Little Sweetness' by Mrs. Hemans), T. Venedey, Heidelberg, undated (Mr. Ramsay's missing geological compass), E[dmund] Ll[oyd] Vincent, Gorddinog [Aber], 1851 (the recipient' s marriage), James Crawley Vincent, Gorddinog, 1851 (the recipient's marriage, family news), James V[incent] Vincent, Gorddinog and the Deanery, Bangor, 1851-1874 (the recipient's marriage, thanks for a photograph of the recipient's mother), Louisa Mary Walker, Hendregadredd [near Portmadoc], 1852 (the recipient's marriage, news of friends), Sophia Wallace, Belfield, undated (the recipient's marriage, personal), . . . H. Weigall, painter, 1852 (casts for the recipient, the recipient's marriage), Ja[me]s Williams, rector of Llanfairynghornwy, the recipient's father, 1856-1871 (personal, news of friends, the county nomination (1868), church meetings at Bangor and Valley, 'Dissenting attack on Llanddeusant School'), J[ohn] Williams, Treffos, the recipient's uncle, 1874-1876 (the recipient's account of the upper Rhine, personal, the production of granite in Anglesey), T[homas] N[ orris] Williams, Llanddeiniolen, Aber, and Treffos, 1851-1878 (the recipient's marriage, family news, the keeping of Dr. [Heinrich] Schliemann's Trojan remains, the visit of 'the late Holyhead character' Owen Hughes to London, a shield left to W. E. Gladstone), 'Bethan'?, Llanfair, undated [1858] (references to the Llangollen Eisteddfod), etc. (b) Thirty-one letters, etc., written by W. S. Brown, London, 1895 (biography of Sir Andrew Ramsay), Philip H[ermogenes] Calderon, Hastings, 1893 (an exhibition at the Royal Academy?), W[illiam] Edwards, The Vicarage, Bangor, 1896 (Welsh-speaking bishops of Bangor, the progress of the Hostel, the writer's visit to Switzerland), [Professor] A[lexander] H[enry] Green, Oxford, 1891 (the revision of Sir Andrew Ramsay's book i.e. The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain), T. M. How, Barmouth, 1898 (epitaphs in St. Giles of the family of John Rowland, rector of Llangeitho), William M. How, Shrewsbury, 1900 (the appointment of a trustee), Wm. Walsham [How], bishop of Wakefield, 1895 (the writer's engagements), W[illiam] Hughes, Llanuwchllyn Vicarage, Bala, 1902 (Bishop William Morgan's Welsh translation of the Bible), [General Sir] J[ames] Hills Johnes, Dolaucothy, [19]07 (the writer's election to the County Council), [Colonel] T[homas] L[ewis] Hampton Lewis, Henllys, Beaumaris, 1900 (the Army career of the writer's son Jack), David[aniel] L[ewis Lloyd ], bishop of Bangor, undated (copies of a translation of a Jubilee hymn), J. B. Lloyd, Shrewsbury, 1899 (the writer's willingness to act as recipient's trustee, personal), C. Lloyd Morgan, Clifton, Bristol, 1893 ( the revision of Sir Andrew Ramsay's book), Elizabeth Owen, Waterloo, Liverpool, [18]98 (an account of a rescue at Crosby by Eyton Pritchard Owen), Harriett Owen, Rhyllon, St. Asaph, undated [1851] (the recipient's marriage), Wm. Preston [of Lleiniog] from Mount Desert [near Cork], 1897 (the writer's crossing from Anglesey, personal), Hugh Prichard, Gaerwen, Anglesey, [18]93 (the history of the Tan-yr-afon harp), W[illiam] Ramsay, London, the recipient's nephew, 1902 (personal), M[aria] E[mma] E[lizabeth] C[onway] Reade, Carreglwyd, The Valley, [18]98 (the arms of the Holland family), [General Sir] Hugh Rowlands, Plastirion, Llanrug, (19]03 (the death of the writer's son [Captain Hugh Barrow Rowlands, in Somaliland]), J[ames] Edmund Vincent, from London, [18]95 and undated (a review of the biography of Sir Andrew Ramsay, comments on an article on the recruitment of Welsh clergy, Penrhyn Quarry strike, personal), G. Williams, Treffos, 1895 (the engagement of a cook, disestablishment), Jno. Evan Williams, Llanwenllwyfo Rectory, 1897 (assistance to needy clergymen, the writer's Welsh translation of Sintram, Lady [Gwyn Gertrude] Neave's non-attendance at church), [ ], Headquarter House, Mafeking, 1905 (no vacant billet for Hampton [Lewis's] boy, the writer's meeting with Lord Selborne, personal), etc.

Over two hundred letters, 1898-1915, and related papers, [c. 1904]-[c. 1919], of David Lloyd George, 1st earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to Lloyd George but there are also a few notes in Lloyd George's hand. Most of the letters relate to Welsh affairs, and in particular to the Disestablishment question and the contentious Welsh Church Commission, 1906-1907; other subjects include education, the investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1911, and the First World War. For the most part the correspondents are Welsh politicians and public figures; there are also letters from the 1st earl of Halifax (1) 1914, Randall Davidson, archbishop of Canterbury (1) 1906, and Herbert Gladstone (2) 1907-1910. The main correspondents are A.G. Edwards, bishop of St Asaph (5) 1906-1915, Sir Francis Edwards, MP (18) 1903-1915, Sir Samuel T. Evans, MP (6) 1907-1908, Sir Henry Jones (8) 1906-1907, Sir J. Herbert Lewis, MP (5) 1906-1907, Sir J. Herbert Roberts, MP (9) 1906-1907, and W. Llewelyn Williams, MP (21) 1906-1915.

'Llythyr y Rheithor at blwyfolion Llanystumdwy', being a letter (4 pp., printed) from the Reverend J. P. Lewis, Rheithordy, Llanystumdwy, Dydd Mercher Lludw [Ash Wednesday], 1914, to his parishioners, opposing Disestablishment and Disendowment of the established church; together with some manuscript notes by John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'), possibly in preparation for an article.

Thomas Gee's temperance pledge card, August 1836; Friendly Suggestions for a Change in the "Permissive Bill" of the United Kingdom Alliance, 1866, and Suggestions for a Change in the Licensing Laws, 1869, both by Thomas Gee; Cynllun y Dadwaddolwyr Cymreig a gyhoeddwyd gan y Parch. Thomas Gee; a circular and poster relating to Denbigh sewage farm, 1881; The Welsh Land, Commercial, and Labour League, and its Objects containing a letter by Thomas Gee, 1888; programme of the Llangollen County School Opening and Oriental Bazaar, 14 September 1898, at which Thomas Gee spoke; the order of service and hymns sung at the funeral of Thomas Gee, 3 October 1898; old notation and solfa editions of a memorial anthem by David Jenkins, 1899, and press cuttings of obituary notices and appreciations of Thomas Gee.

Notes and press cuttings relating to Board and Voluntary schools in England and Wales, the disestablishment of the church in Wales, and the history of Brecknockshire, including transcripts of documents relating to Builth.

Miscellaneous documents, including a certified copy of the entry of marriage, 1863, at the Welsh Chapel, Jewin Crescent, East London, Middlesex of Robert Joseph Davies, Aberystwyth and Frances Humphreys, Islington; a printed memorial card of the Reverend Robert Roberts, Llangeitho, 1878; two printed circular letters from Thomas Gee, Denbigh to ministers or deacons of Nonconformist churches in Wales, December 1886, in connection with the campaign for the Disestablishment of the Church of England in Wales, requesting a census of hearers at Nonconformist and Established churches on 9 January 1887; a receipt from E. Penllyn Jones to J. H. Davies, [18]95, for holograph letters 'on loan for the College' [i.e. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth]; press cuttings, some containing particulars relating to Cardiganshire, of 'The Religious Census' of 9 January 1887 and accounts of proceedings of the Board of Guardians of the Tregaron Union, undated; etc.

A manuscript of the Reverend Jeffrey Davies, Penrhiw, Llangamarch, Brecknockshire containing mainly notes of sermons, scriptural addresses and meditations. The first page is dated 28 August 1833 and the last 14 June 1835, but there are a few intermediate dates within the period 1839-40. The text on pp. 270 ff. is entitled 'y pumed pwngc i araithio arno yn Ngyfarfod blynyddol yr Ysgol Sabbath yn Defynog Mawrth 13 1835'. At the end of the volume are verses entitled 'Cymanfa Cader Idris. Hanes cymanfa a gynhalwyd ar gopa Cader Idris ... i ystyriaid y modd mwyaf effeithiol i dynu i lawr yr Hen Eglwys Loeger ac i ymwrthod ar degymau'.

Papers, 1907-1915, amassed by the donor's grandfather, the Rev. Sydney Cooper, comprising ephemera, notes, press cuttings and various periodicals relating to the campaign against Welsh Church disestablishment.

A typescript copy of a memorandum [by D. E. Jenkins] on 'The Records of the Established Church in Wales and their Disposal by Disestablishment', in which it is proposed that, in the bill being prepared for the disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Wales [1912], provision should be made for (1) the retention of the diocesan and parochial records of that church 'as the property of the Nation', (2) the conversion of existing diocesan registries into national repositories with a salaried official in charge, (3) making the records available to holders of research permits, and (4) the granting of Treasury subsidies for the publication of parish registers, etc. Also a typewritten copy of a letter from [D. E. Jenkins] from Denbigh, to T. Huws Davies, Home Office, Whitehall, January 1912 (requesting recipient to bring an enclosed copy of the above mentioned memorandum to the notice of the Home Secretary).

Papers relating to the Welsh Church Commission, disestablishment, etc.

Papers of, and acquired by, the Welsh Church Commission, 1283-1960, including records of the Commission, 1914-1960; records relating to border parishes, 1914-1915; accounts, 1920-1958; papers relating to Sir Alfred Watson, 1916-1941; records concerning compensation to lay holders of freehold offices, 1915-1931; records relating to burial grounds, 1934-1947; records relating to the destination of records, 1914-1960; records relating to parish lands, 1844-1946; manorial records and court books, 1842-1925; transfer of documents, 1822-1947; deeds of properties, 1566-1929; and rentals and surveys, 1919-1947.