The series comprises diaries detailing farming activities on the farms of Penyffridd, 1883-1891, Felindre, 1892-1914, Cil, 1926, all in Berriew, Wales, and Lower House farm, Little Ness, England, 1933. 1/1-5, 1/8 also include notes on the sermons of Rev. E Thomas at Byrwyrdd chapel, Castle Caereinion, Wales.
Lists of the overseers, surveyors of highways, and petty constables for the hamlets of Energlyn, Rhydyboithan, Hendredenny, and Glyn Taf, 1713-1860, and of Park, 1713-1758, and of the churchwardens of Eglwys Ilan, 1713-1844.
A typescript copy, 1940, of 'The Tribal System in Wales Examined' by Timothy Lewis (1877-1958), a version of which was published as 'The Tribal System in Wales' in the Economic History Review, second series, 6 (1954), 297-304, and also 'Seebohm's Tribal System of Wales' in ibid., second series, 9 (1956), 16-33.
Deeds and plans, 1759-1879, relating to a farm called Penygeulan, Llangurig, Montgomery, comprising conveyances, mortgages and an abstract of title of Penygeulan, 1759-1879, with sale plans, 1921, of portions of the Clochfaen estate, Montgomery, including Penygeulan.
Papers, 1849-1927, of the Simons family, including a diary of William Simons, 1849; a commonplace book, 1891, of Elsie Simons; letters, 1893, relating to the Dolgellau gold mines; probate copies of wills, 1908-1927; and an issue of The Merthyr Express, 29 April 1982, with an article on the family.
Deeds, 1728-1850, relating to the manor of Golon and other properties in Radnorshire, and Ludlow, Shropshire; deeds and documents, 1778-1808, relating to the manors of Brilley and Eardisley and other properties, Herefordshire, and the manor of Aberedw and other properties in Radnorshire; and a schedule of the Whitehead estate in Radnorshire, [early 20th century].
Deeds and documents concerning lands in Evenjobb, in the parishes of Old Radnor and Presteigne, Radnorshire, 1631-1894; bonds and quitclaims of moneys, 1715-1766; Inland Revenue accounts, 1903-1905, of duty payable on the estate of Thomas Duggan Stephens; and documents relating to Upper Rowley Farm, 1923-1970.
Correspondence and other papers used in preparation towards the Wales Assembly of Women's report for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on the status of women, Beijing, 1995.
Original text in typescript form, 2000, of the recollections of Dillwyn Miles published as A mingled yarn, (Gwasg Dinefwr, 2000), together with addenda.
A draft tract entitled 'Proofes drawne from authorities and other reasons why Cadelh prince of Southwales was the eldest sonne of Roderic the greate (kinge of Wales) and that he and his issue after him had a superioritie over the rest of Wales and his two bretheren and the descendantes from them' by, and in the autograph of, Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. The substance of this tract was subsequently incorporated in Vaughan's British Antiquities Revived (Oxford, 1662). The volume contains both the arguments and answers set forth by Vaughan and therefore differs considerably from Peniarth MS 277 which contains only the arguments. Pasted inside the front cover is a short description of the volume in the form of a cutting from Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge’s Sale Catalogue of the Mostyn Library (1919), p. 22.
Notebooks of A. Foulkes-Roberts, [c. 1882]-[1941], containing extracts from parish registers, mainly from Denbighshire and Flintshire; transcripts of tombstone inscriptions and church memorials, copies of probate records from the Dioceses of Bangor and St Asaph, and the Principal Probate Registry; and notes and extracts from marriage licence bonds, clergy subscription books and other St Asaph diocesan records. The copies were made by A. Foulkes-Roberts and his brother R.D. Roberts.
Records relating to parliamentary elections for the county of Brecon, Brecknockshire, 1874-1880, apparently emanating from the Conservative Party organisation in the Crickhowell and Tal-y-bont Polling Districts.
Conservative Party Crickhowell and Tal-y-bont Polling Districts..
Thirty deeds and documents, 1657-1914, relating to properties in Broad Street and Scotland Street, Presteigne, Radnorshire, with copies of two wills of inhabitants of Presteigne, Radnorshire, 1764 and 1823, and a letter of administration, 1824.
Deeds, 1564-1857, relating to the Bachegraig estate, Flintshire; brief diary entries of Gabriel and Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1797-1812 (NLW MSS 11096-102); correspondence, 1756-1823 (NLW MS 11103D); heraldic and genealogical records, 1813 (NLW Rolls 223); and a survey and valuation of the Bachegraig estate, 1790, which also includes accounts, 1788-1807 (NLW MS 11104C).
Deeds, 1568-1959, relating to the Cyfronnydd estate mainly in Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire; records relating to the Aberllefenni Slate Quarry, Merioneth, 1850-1946; a pedigree of the Pryce family [post-1699]; and faculty papers relating to an application for a grave space, 1937-1943.