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Music manuscripts, notebooks, papers relating to the National Museum of Wales and the University of Wales, and other miscellaneous material belonging to Dr Mary Davies (1855-1930) and her husband, W. Cadwaladr Davies (1849-1905). Amongst the papers is a later copy of a collection of Welsh airs, compiled and arranged by 'Orpheus' [James James] for the Eisteddfod at Llangollen, 1858 (now NLW Minor Deposit 150B).

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.

'Cywyddau' and 'englynion' by Ellis Rowland, Syr Dafydd Trefor, Thomas Prys, John Davies, Siôn Tudur, Edward Morus, Rowland Price, Wiliam Phylip, Gruffudd Prys, Owen Gruffydd, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Cadwaladr Cesel, John Roger, Huw Morus, Dafydd Manuel, Richard Abram, Mathew Owen, Edward Williams, William Wynn, Margaret Davies, Rhys Jones, Hugh Hughes, and E[dward] Wynne, [Gwyddelwern].

Records relating to properties in Wales, mostly from London solicitors' offices, including court rolls and other records of the following manors of the Earl of Ashburnham: Brecknock-Alltmarcham, 1644-1826, Cantercelly, 1658-1810, Killonow, 1644-1826, Cwmdu, 1659-1839, Talgarth Borough, 1631-1826, and Wernfawr, 1644-1826; deeds and documents relating to the Earl of Ashburnham's estates in Breconshire and in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, [1706]-[1863]; the estates of the Griffith family of Cefnamwlch, Caenarfonshire, 1707-1842; a portion of the Glanusk estate, 1771-1918, in the counties of Brecon and Radnor owned by the Bailey family of Nant-y-glo; the Glandyfi estate, Cardiganshire, [1787]-[1904] including probates of the family of Jeffreys of Shrewsbury and Glandyfi Castle; the Slwch, Breconshire, and Bow, Middlesex, estates of the barons Tredegar, 1757-1913; the families of Tickell of Whitechapel and Cheltenham and Jones of Gwynfryn, Cardiganshire, 1769-1855, relating mainly to properties in Llangollen and Ruabon, Denbighshire, Llanbadarn Fawr and Llangynfelyn, Cardiganshire, and in cos. Middlesex, Surrey, Kent and Cambridge; papers relating to the development of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, 1790-1921; records relating to the affairs of the Milford Haven Dock & Railway Company, the Milford Dock Company, the Milford Haven Railway & Estate Company Ltd, and the National Provident Institution, London, in its connection with the Milford estate; records of the manor of Nethergorther, Montgomeryshire, 1750-1781; papers relating to the Holyhead Shipbuilding & Trading Company Ltd, 1867-1875; together with a large number of miscellaneous deeds and documents relating mainly to properties in all the Welsh counties and in Shropshire and Herefordshire, 1362-1925.

Pedigree of Thomas Morgan (d. 1603) of Tredegar, traced from [Gwrtheyrn] and William the Conqueror, with thirty-four coats of arms, all emblazoned and painted, probably in the hand of Hopcyn ab Einion of Brecon (fl. 17 cent, first ¼), and continued by a later hand to include the pedigree and achievement of Sir William Morgan (d. 1653).

One of two assessments for a highway rate in the parish of Llangollen, 1894.

One of two assessments for a highway rate in the parish of Llangollen, 1892.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.

One of twenty-two in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish of Llangollen, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902-1907, 1909-1914.