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Notes pertaining to the Montgomeryshire Place-names Project, including bibliographies, with copies of a paper by Emyr W. Williams entitled 'Montgomeryshire Place Names Project. An Overview', and a paper by Professor Gwynedd O. Pierce, Place-Name Survey of Wales. A brief guide to the collection and recording of place-name forms (The University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies, March 1990).

Papers pertaining to an article on 'Machynlleth and Penegoes Land Tax 1794', edited by J.S., in Montgomeryshire Collections, vol. 73 (1985), 135-43, with related letters, 1984-5, from E. Ronald Morris, editor of Montgomeryshire Collections, R. Geraint Gruffydd and the Earl of Powis.

Papers pertaining to various conferences and seminars, 1983-95, including Welsh Law Seminars held at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (82) and the Centre's Forums (83, 85 and 95), and conferences and day schools on place-names (87-9, 91 and 94).

Papers relating to the revised edition of Cyfreithiau Hywel Dda yn ôl Llawysgrif Coleg yr Iesu LVII, ed. Melville Richards (Cardiff, 1990); 'Consbectws Argraffiadau and Indexes' by J.S. and Dafydd Jenkins, including draft copies of 'Consbectws Argraffiadau and indexes' ('word lists'); draft typescript notes on Welsh law, 1986-90, and draft letters by J.S.

Papers, 1979-93, mostly relating to planning matters/applications and conservation area and listed structures in the Machynlleth area, including letters from Alex Carlile, MP, and Esme Kirby, Chairman, Snowdonia National Park Society (96-9); correspondence, 1979-89, including letters from Delwyn Williams, MP (100); copies of the Society's Newsletter, 1980-93 (101-2); balance sheets (103); and manuscript and typescript notes by J.S. (104).

Papers, 1991-5, relating to the Society's Annual Name Studies Conferences, including programmes, minutes and correspondence, with copies of the society's constitution and newsletter.

Papers, mostly planning applications, concerning the development of Aberystwyth harbour (112) and the Station Yard (113-14), an application to demolish Capel Seilo (115), and the proposed extension of the town's conservation area, 1993-4 (116); together with papers relating to the Council for British Archaeology, 1990-4, including agenda and minutes of its meetings, copies of the Council's Newsletter, 1991-2, and letters from Ray Caple, Historic Buildings Secretary, CBA, and Richard Morris, Director, CBA; and correspondence, 1991, with CADW concerning listed buildings in Aberystwyth (117).

Photocopies of surveys of the manor of Cyfeiliog, c. 1573 and early 16th cent. [Powis Castle Deeds and Documents 16561-2], with related notes by J.S.

Photocopies of the minutes of the Society's Annual General Meeting, January 1993 (118); a draft letter by J.S., September 1993, to the editor of The Cambrian News, regarding the 'Bathing Water Quality' notices on Aberystwyth promenade (119); a newspaper cutting from the Cambrian News, 7 October 1994, concerning Aberystwyth Town Centre Consultative Forum (120); and a copy of a letter, November 1994, from J.S. to Dr R.F. Walker, Chairman of the Society, concerning J.S.'s resignation as Chairman of the Society's Planning Sub-Committee (121).

Roads and turnpike trusts, mostly in Montgomeryshire, including indexes to turnpikes and photocopies of parliamentary acts, together with notes on milestones, and drafts of a 'Provisional Gazetteer of Milestones between Aberystwyth and Machynlleth', 1995.