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Returns by incumbents and others to a questionnaire issued by Albert Owen Evans, September, 1902, relating to the religious denominational adherence of members of staffs of schools within the diocese of Bangor; together with holograph covering letters to A. O. Evans from Evan Davies, rector of Llanllechid, E[van] T[homas] Davies, vicar of Pwllheli, E[dward] Hughes, rector of Barmouth, S[imon] F[rederick] Davies, curate of Llangybi, E[van] B[enar] Thomas, rector of Llanberis, J. H. Parry, Llithfaen, Pwllheli, and Anthony Davies, rector of Llandyfrydog.

A large group of postcards and letters, 15-24 September, 1906, from incumbents of the diocese of Bangor to the bishop, Watkin Herbert Williams, acknowledging the receipt of a questionnaire and relevant papers in connection with the Royal Commission on the Welsh Church.

Papers compiled by Albert Owen Evans, inspector of schools for the diocese of Bangor, relating to religious instruction in schools of the Bangor Diocesan Board of Education. They include returns to a questionnaire issued in Caernarvonshire, February, 1908; printed analysis, issued by the Caernarvonshire Education Committee, of denominational religious instruction in diocesan and other schools in Caernarvonshire, with marginal notes, together with copies of the syllabus used in specifed schools; an undated analysis by A. O. Evans of returns to a questionnaire in Caernarvonshire; a letter, 1903, from J. Henry Thomas, clerk to the Caernarvon School Board, to D. Alban Lloyd, Caernarvon, and a draft letter from the latter to A. O. Evans; and press cuttings.

Papers relating to the ecclesiastical career of Albert Owen Evans:- declaration of assent on ordination, 1898; receipts for ordination fees, 1898-9; stipendiary curate's licences, Aberffraw, Connah's Quay, 1898, Pennal, Llangadwaladr, 1899, Llanfachreth (Mer.), Capel Curig, 1900, Llanllyfni, Carno, 1901, Bryncroes, 1902, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Bodedern, 1904, Bangor, Llanystumdwy, 1906, and Caerhun, 1907; appointment as sequestrator of Dolwyddelan, 1933; a bill for printing the Bangor Diocesan Calendar, 1915; a file of returns of 'fixtures' paid for or added by incumbents in the diocese of Bangor, 1920-1; returns of communicants in the archdeaconry of Bangor, 1933; and letters of deacon's orders of John Evans, Trinity College, Dublin, 1841.

Papers, including letters, circulars, annual reports, programmes of meetings and services, etc., relating mainly to the activities of the Church in Wales, particularly in the diocese of Bangor.

A commonplace book of Evan Evan ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), with additions by William John Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'). The volume contains extracts on the constitutional conflict between King Charles I and Parliament; a list of ratepayers of the parish of Christleton, Cheshire, 1835-6; lists of ecclesiastical impropriations in the dioceses of St Asaph and Bangor; rules of music ('Things prohibited', etc.); orders of the Trustees of Jno. Seller's Charity in Christleton, 1787; poetry by 'Ieuan Glan Geirionydd' ('A mi un diwrnod teg o Vai...') (dated 'Glan Llyn Geirionydd Mai 1853'); lists of benefices in the dioceses of St Asaph and Bangor arranged according to valuation (under £100, above £100 and under £200, etc.); lists of incumbents and 1st and 2nd wardens [of the parish of Ince, Cheshire], 1773-1846 (with gaps); a transcript of a bill of sale, by way of mortgage, of a saddler's stock-in-trade, book debts, household furniture, etc. in Llanrwst, 1871, together with a notice thereof to the bailiff of the county court of Denbighshire held at Llanrwst; gardening and orchard accounts and memoranda and plans of planting, 1843-7 and undated; an undated list of books sent to be rebound and repaired; a mortgage to the Blaenau Festiniog New Benefit Building Society of leasehold property along the road from Festiniog to Rhiwbryfdir, 1861; etc. The insets include an adjudication on 'englynion' by 'Gwilym Cowlyd'; and a transcript of a mortgage of lands in the parish of Gwytherin, Denbighshire, 1873. On the inside upper cover is written in pencil a hymn entitled 'Codiad y Wawr' ('Cydunwn yn awr...'). Watermark: 1826.

The second of two volumes of scrap-albums compiled, 1937-1940, by R. D. Roberts containing press cuttings of a series of articles entitled 'Hanes Offeiriaid Plwyfi Esgobaeth Bangor' by Richard Rhys Hughes, vicar of Glanogwen, Caernarfonshire, published in Y Llan, August 1937-January 1940, together with cards, photographs and engravings, [mid-19 cent.]-[1930s], mostly of churches within the diocese of Bangor, pasted in on f. xiv verso, pp. 105, 180, 184 and 186; and a transcript with an English translation, 1931, by Richard Rhys Hughes of 'Awdl y caws' by Deio ab Ieuan Du from Peniarth MS 99 pasted in on p. 182.

The first of two volumes of scrap-albums compiled, 1937-1940, by R. D. Roberts containing press cuttings of a series of articles entitled 'Hanes Offeiriaid Plwyfi Esgobaeth Bangor' by Richard Rhys Hughes, vicar of Glanogwen, Caernarfonshire, published in Y Llan, August 1937-January 1940. Pasted in on pp. 6, 38, 66 and 150 and between pp. 152 and 153 are cards, photographs and engravings, [mid-19 cent.]-[1930s], mostly of churches within the diocese of Bangor. An index is added (pp. 180-181) in the hand of the compiler.

Visitation papers for the Archdeaconries of Bangor and Merioneth, 1959-1984.

Papers relating to various vicarages and church halls, regarding mainly the buildings and alterations to the buildings, including leases, together with a file relating to the closure of churches, 1894, 1927, 1942, 1954-1956, 1958-1963, 1975-1987.

Papers relating to church land and properties, 1846-1987.

Papers and correspondence relating to the administration of memorial funds, namely the Kent Fund and the J. C. Jones memorial fund, 1957-1990.

Papers accumulated by Rev. Gwynfryn Richards, including records relating to the Bangor diocese and the cathedral church of Bangor, Caernarfonshire, 1689-1971, including library loans, 1880-1881; papers relating to the Canonry, Bangor, 1947-1949; typescript copies of letters relating to the witch trials in New England, 1689-1694.

Publications by Frank Morgan, [c. 1920], correspondence mainly between Frank Morgan and C. A. H. Green, 1920-1934, and other papers, 1910-[c. 1919].

Papers relating to various matters regarding burial grounds, 1925-1927, 1950, 1957, 1959-1961, 1966, 1976.

Professional papers of Ywain Goronwy ap Griffith comprising agreements, specifications, plans and correspondence, 1927-53, mainly relating to the alteration, repair and erection of new buildings, both private and public, in Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire and Caernarfonshire; files relating to work done in the diocese of Bangor, mainly in the form of alterations and repairs to vicarages, 1932-1952; and papers, 1920-40, relating to the redemption of tithe rent-charges in various parishes of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire, Cardiganshire and Merionethshire.

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.

Estate and family papers of Panton of Bagillt, Flintshire, and Plas Gwyn, Anglesey comprising deeds of the estate in North Wales, 1507-1844; Panton family correspondence, notably that of Paul Panton and Paul Panton junior, 1752-1847; and papers of John Jones (1650-1727), dean of Bangor, including records relating to the diocese of Bangor, and antiquarian correspondence.

'A list of Welsh Poets with the periods during which they flourished' and a 'Catalogue of MSS. Welsh Poems in my possession', probably in the autograph of Evan Lloyd, Maesyporth, and copies of petitions sent to the bishop of Bangor by various incumbents in the diocese, 1813-1814.

Two copies of printed statistical returns of the Royal Commission on Welsh Church for the diocese of Bangor.