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A volume of medical prescriptions which belonged in 1771 to Thomas Jones. A few of the prescriptions are dated within the period 1763-1766. In most cases the scribe has indicated the source of the prescription (e.g., Dr. E. Weaver, Dr. Apperley, Dr. Fruin, Bath, Dr. W. Lindop, Shrewsbury, Dr. J. Key, Dr. J. Heygarth, etc.) and in occasional cases he has added the names of patients. Inset are four pages of later prescriptions (paper watermarked 1805).

Miscellaneous documents: - 'Llanrwst Educational Movement', being a carbon copy of an appeal on behalf of the new school to be established by the British and Foreign School Society; an essay (39 pp., incomplete) on 'Buddioldeb Cymdeithasau Llenyddol ir Cymry'; an address (8 pp.) [by Robert Griffith Jones, Llanarmon-yn-Iâl] on the relation of the sexes; instructions on the marbling of edges [of books] ('Marblo Ymylon'); medical recipes; pedigrees of David Jones ('Dewi Fardd') and of the family of his wife Jane Evans of Pandy, Trefriw; publications sales accounts, 1829 and undated; a publications purchase order of Thos. Owens, Denbigh, undated; receipts for subscriptions to 'Cymdeithas Caredigion Nant Conwy', 1854-1855; a cheque book, 1877-1878; an account book (almost blank), 1907; poetry; a draft will of Richard Lloyd, ironmonger, Bala, undated; printed items including a blank list of subscriptions to 'Cystadleuaeth Llanrwst', 1859, leaflets entitled 'Home Rule i'r Iwerddon a Methodist Rule i Gymru' and 'Haelioni mewn 'geiriau' a 'gweithredoedd', Pa un o'r ddau sydd oreu?', an in memoriam leaflet of William Elias, The Abbey, Llanrwst, and memorial inscriptions of John Jones ('Pyll'), Jane, his wife, and John, their son; press cuttings relating largely to the Reverend G. Hartwell Jones; etc.

Miscellaneous papers including poetry, partly in the hand of [Owen Evan(s) Jones, Llanrwst], 1846-1887 and undated, by John Jones ('Pyll Glan Conwy'), Jno. M. Jones ('Garmon'), Richd. Williams, Portmadoc, W. J. Mollineux, Llanrwst, J. J. Lloyd, [John Williams] ('loan Madog'), and [Ebenezer Thomas] ('Eben Fardd'); printed poetry by 'Glasfryn'; 'Rhestr o Blant Dafydd Jones o Drefriw' (transcribed by 'E. J.', 1909, from a sheet lent by Dr. [ ] Jones, and based on a manuscript of David Jones himself); a short biography of John Jones ('Pyll Glan Conwy'), in the form of a copy of a letter from [his son] Evan Jones to Edward Jones ('Iorwerth Ceitho'), 1908; a printed leaflet 'At y Llenorion appwyntiedig yn Llangollen i drefnu Orgraph y Gymraeg' by R. I. Prys ['Gweirydd ap Rhys'], Denbigh, and T. Stephens, Merthyr Tydfil; a holograph letter from W. A. Parry, Llanrwst, to J. Jones, ['Pyll Glan Conwy'] at the Post Office, Port Madoc, 1857 (a request for demy mill boards) (countersigned by John Morris Jones); a receipt, 1864, by Thos. Williams, curate of St. Mary's, Llanrwst, to John Jones, Printing Office, for a sum of £8/8/0 in payment for a double vault with iron railings in the church-yard; miscellaneous press cuttings; etc.

The holograph manuscript of W[illiam] Lloyd (Yspytty [Ifan]): Pregeth ar 'Iawn Ymddygiad yn Nhy Dduw' a draddodwyd yn Ngherrig y-druidion ar Wyl Undeb Eglwysig Uwchaled . . . (Llanrwst, n.d.)

A volume containing rent accounts of Messrs. Jones & Parry with individual tenants [? in North-East Wales], 1817-1827, and the original manuscript of Richard Hughes: Rhifyddeg Gymraeg a Saesoneg . . . Welsh and English Arithmetic . . . (Llanrwst, 1832).

A volume, largely blank, in the hand of W. J. Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), containing a list of subscribers to W. J. Roberts: Y Murmuron. . . (Llanrwst, 1868), and a list, 1867, of persons to whom 'Wallia Curiosa', no. 3, and in two instances no. 4, had been sent by post. On the inside upper cover is a list of books entitled 'Yn Abertawe'.

Three notebooks [in the hand of J. T. Evans] containing a title list of 'Robert's Collection of Welsh Ballads'. Books I-II contain 58 numbered titles, and an 'Index to Printers' is pasted inside the upper cover of the first book. Book III contains 71 numbered titles.

The holograph manuscript of Henry Wynne Jones [Llanrwst]: Thoughts on Eschatology (Llanrwst, 1880).

The tune book of William Jones, 1800, containing psalm-tunes, hymn-tunes, anthems, etc., by Hugh Jones, Pen y Bwth, Llandwrog, W[illia]m Hughes, Bryn y Beddau, John W[illia]ms, Dolgellau, Robert Griffith, Caernarvon, John Evans, Ty mawr, Llanddeiniolen, and John Jeffreys. Many of the pieces are unattributed. Written on the inside covers and elsewhere are a metrical psalm by W[illiam] Williams, Llandegai, and unsigned hymns.

A small collection of psalm-tunes, etc.

Warrant to the assessors of the parish of Trefriw and the Duty of Assessors, both signed 27 November 1806, by Owen Reynolds and G. V. Smith, Commissioners for the purposes of Acts of 43, 45, and 46 George III for granting His Majesty a Contribution on the Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices. There are some manuscript additions of the period 1821-1822 in the hand of Robert Jones, printer, Trefriw.

The holograph manuscript of William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'): Y Cyfarwyddwr Crist'nogol: neu Holwyddoreg ar Brif Byngciau a Dyledswyddau Crefydd . . . (Llanrwst, 1832).

Charles Edwards, Y Ffydd Ddiffuant ..., ed. by P. Williams (6th ed., Dolgellau, [1822]), with a few manuscript notes and with nine additional tipped-in pages containing a list of eighty-six Welsh books beginning with 'Salisbury's Testament', 1567, and a list of 'Books I have not got & which I should like to have' (with annotations by J[ohn] J[ones, 'Pyll Glan Conwy'], 1845-1857).