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A notebook originally used as a subscription book for the [Llanfihangel Crucorney?] Whit-Monday athletic sports, [c. 1878]. It was subsequently used by John Davies to record house, hay, coal, maids' wages, and other accounts, 1879-1916; accounts with Pandy C. M. Church, 1883-1916; accounts of a Dairy School at Pandy, 1899; and notes on Monmouthshire genealogies and antiquities.

Notes on the doctrine and the rite of baptism and on philosophy; a paper on Sir John Oldcastle, styled Lord Cobham (d. 1417), read to the Cambrian Archaeological Association at Abergavenny, [18] August 1876; notes from Edmund Jones: ... Account of the Parish of Aberystruth (Trevecca, 1779); notes of visits to Gloucestershire and to Bala, 1882-1883; etc.

A notebook containing notes on forms of church government, philosophy, the early history of Capel-y-ffin Baptist Church, border antiquities (Ewyas Harold, Kilpeck, Kenderchurch, Rowlstone, Michael Church, Patricio, Craswall, etc.), characteristics of early architecture, the 'arrangement' of Llanthony Abbey, etc., together with some statistics of a Bible class at Pandy, 1873.

A notebook containing notes on logic; Latin exercises; a commentary on portions of the Greek text of chapters 6-7 of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans; and notes on Roman history.

An essay, with appendices, written [c. 1870], on 'Methodistiaeth Cymru Hyd 1811' [the history of Calvinistic Methodism to the Ordination of 1811]. At the end of the volume are some accounts of purchases for the house (food, etc.) and payments of taxes made by John Davies during the period 1877-1879.

A notebook containing minutes of the committee of the Abergavenny District of the Welsh Nonconformist Council, 1891-1897, the secretary of the committee being John Davies; draft reports (undated) of South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association meetings; particulars of receipts and disbursements on behalf of Forest British School, 1903-1904; extracts from memorial inscriptions at the churches of Llanfihangel Nant Brân, Brecknockshire, and Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, transcribed during the period 1908-1909; and an address entitled 'The First Chapter in the History of Nonconformity of the [Abergavenny] District', delivered at Mozerah [Calvinistic Methodist Church, Llanfihangel nigh Usk], in 1911.

A notebook containing minutes of the committee of managers of Forest B[ritish] School, parish of Llantilio Pertholey, 1888-1906. Almost the entire volume is in the hand of John Davies, who was originally correspondent and subsequently became chairman of the committee. On the inside upper cover is a note by John Davies, dated 22 March 1907, that by order of the Board of Education the school was henceforth to be called 'Llantillio Pertholey Forest Undenominational School'.