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A notebook containing a transcript of Peniarth MS 236B (Hengwrt MS 119) in the hand of G. T. O. Bridgeman, consisting of copies of charters, grants, pleas, etc.
For the contents of Peniarth MS 236B see Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. 1, part 3, Peniarth (London, 1905), pp. 1061-2, and 'Catalogue of the Hengwrt MSS. at Peniarth', in Archaeologia Cambrensis, Third series, 15 (1869), 352-378 (pp. 357-358).

Account book, 1840-1851, of [the Rev. Lewis Richards] of Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire.
The volume also contains a few memoranda, as well as an 'Englyn i Barlwr y Parchg L. Richards' by Ieuan Cadfan [?Evan Breece], dated 6 January 1844 (inside front cover), and a verse by [John] Black[we]ll (on front flyleaf).

Miscellaneous papers of the Gogerddan Hunt, comprising hound pack lists, 1840-1909, the Gogerddan New Hunt accounts, 1861-1889, and a ticket for the hunt ball, 1935

Printed pamphlet No.l on ‘The question “What is a Chartist” answered (by the Finsbury Tract Society)’ [c. 1840]

Draft petition against the scheme laid before Parliament for the replacement of the parochial education system with national schools for the education of the poor [mid-19th cent.]

Conveyances, agreements and deeds of exchange by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and/or the Wynnstay trustees, with schedules and maps annexed, 1840-1857. Properties in Denbighshire include Pen y Bryn Farm at Eyton in the parish of Bangor[-is-coed]; land in Gresford; part of Gyrchynan Issa and Hafodwen Issa in the parish of Lanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog; former common lands in Sgrwgan and Llangedwyn, and at Moel y Gwelltyn, Llansilin; Dee Mount in the township of Llangollen Abbot and Cae Coed in Crogeniddon, Llangollen; Tynewydd in the parish of Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch; premises at Tre’r-llan and Tre-brys, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant; Mallen Fechan mines, Dolydd, Cock Bank, Bryn y fallen, the Eagles Public House and land at Rhosymedre, Pengle or Penelle, part of Trefechan farm, the Cheshire Land, Holly Bank Cottage and land for the Independent Chapel (trusts specified) at Cefn Mawr in the parish of Ruabon; warehouses in the market place and in Little Clwyd Street, a house in Prior Street, Ruthin; land in King Street, a right of way in Stansty, and Maes Gwyn in the township of Broughton, Wrexham; parts of the park of Cefn and parts of Llwynknottie in the parishes of Wrexham and Gresford; stables and a coach house adjoining Brynyffynnon, then being converted into school rooms in the township of Wrexham Regis with access to the pump or spring of water and right of way; and fee farm rents of the Nantyr estate in Denbighshire. Other properties comprise the Upper Farm and lands in the townships of Globwll and Nanthalan, Erwfelin, and the Green in the parish of Llanfyllin, chief rents and common lands in the manor of Cyfeiliog, Montgomeryshire; and the Maenan estate in the parish of Eglwys-bach, Caernarfonshire and Denbighshire. Parties include Arthur Trevor Viscount Dungannon, George John Earl de La Warr, trustee for the West family of Ruthin Castle, the New British Iron Company, Robert Myddelton Biddulph of Chirk Castle, Rev. Henry William Marker of Aylesbeare, executor of Edward Lloyd Kenyon of Penylan, John Dugdale of Dovecot, Liverpool, Edward Tench of Plas Newydd, and William Ormsby Gore of Porkington.

Deeds relating to land near Summerhill, Oswestry, purchased from Mrs Frances Sarah Brancker, 1840-1905. They comprise a conveyance by Anne Griffithes of Welshpool and Mary Griffithes of Llanfyllin, daughters of Margaret Griffithes and nieces of Walter Williams, dec., to Edward David Bennion of Summer Hill and his trustee, of a messuage and lands in the township of Llanforda, 1840; agreements for the sale, and the conveyance by Mrs Frances Sarah Brancker (nee Dean) to George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, Baron Harlech, and his trustees, with an abstract of title, 1905; plan incorporated.

Memorial of a grant of an annuity of £20 per annum issuing out of a m. and lands called Oerly Hall, Oswestry, 14 Nov. 1840; Grant by Mrs Jane Ormsby-Gore to J. R.Ormsby-Gore of a rent charge of £10 issuing out of lands called Glyn, co. Mer., of a like rent charge of £10 out of lands called Carnbwll, Llandisilio, co. Mont., and of a like rent charge out of lands in co. Caern, 25 Aug. 1860; grant by Mrs M. J.Ormsby- Gore to W. R. Ormsby-Gore of a rent charge of £10 out of land called Glyn, co. Mer., and lands called Carnbwll, co. Mont., and a capital m. called Cleneney, co. Caern, 5 Dec. 1863; and grant by J. R. Ormsby-Gore to W. R. Ormsby-Gore.of a rent charge of £10out of hereditaments in cos. Mer., Mont., Caern., Denb. and Shropshire, 1 Jan. 1870

The first of two volumes of scrap-albums compiled, 1937-1940, by R. D. Roberts containing press cuttings of a series of articles entitled 'Hanes Offeiriaid Plwyfi Esgobaeth Bangor' by Richard Rhys Hughes, vicar of Glanogwen, Caernarfonshire, published in Y Llan, August 1937-January 1940. Pasted in on pp. 6, 38, 66 and 150 and between pp. 152 and 153 are cards, photographs and engravings, [mid-19 cent.]-[1930s], mostly of churches within the diocese of Bangor. An index is added (pp. 180-181) in the hand of the compiler.

A letter, 17 May [1840] (watermark 1840), signed Augusta Ada Lovelace, to a Mrs Tynte, discussing the educational future of a musical prodigy, presumed to be the harpist John Thomas [Pencerdd Gwalia], and asking Tynte to use her Welsh connections to advance his career. Lovelace refers to her communications with [John Fane], Lord Burge[r]sh, co-founder of the Royal Society of Music (f. 73).
Also included is a photocopy of a letter, 10 April 1961, to H. B. Ward, Great Baddow, from the bookseller Winifred Myers, London, offering the Ada Lovelace letter for sale and transcribing its contents (f. 74).

A tune book, [mid-19 cent.], containing arrangements of hymns and of popular and traditional songs in English and Welsh.

Letters, 1840-1863, from Richard Cobden and Catherine, his wife, to Hugh Williams, Catherine’s brother; Hugh Williams to his family; etc.

Music manuscript, 'Sacred Gleanings' by J. J. Dodd, Tunbridge, [c.1840], containing hymns and songs e.g. 'Here Shall Soft Charity'; some with lyrics included and written under the scores.

Seventeen account books and loose accounts, 1841-1870 (mainly 1862-1869), accumulated by the executors and trustees of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, following her death in 1869, and bills for legal charges from the office of Longueville solicitors, 1869-1870. The accounts are mainly with Oswestry tradesmen such as Jones and Rogers, tailors, William Smale, chemist and druggist, Morris and Jones, grocers, Edward Jones, tailor, J.E. Littlehales, ironmonger, Roberts and Oliver, drapers, William Jones, plasterer, for work at the almshouses and at Porkington, Edward and John Jones, cabinet makers and upholsterers, Dr William Fuller for medical attendance, and E & R. Hughes, drapers, whose account shows the funeral expenses of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore. Other items include a ‘general account’, miscellaneous payments, [?a postage book], servants’ wages, the house account per Mrs Blades for items bought from Lewis and Owen, the gardener’s account of James Edwards, the Sligo election account of William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1870, and bank account books of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore at the Oswestry Bank, Child’s Bank and London Joint Stock Bank.

Notebook of John Rees (1819-1900), Granant, St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, containing intermittent memoranda in diary form, including entries of Baptist interest, 8 January 1841-23 May 1847, and verse in Welsh. Rees family births, 1813-1836, are listed inside the front cover.

Holograph letters (26) from W.E. Gladstone, 1841-1897.

Drafts, [1841] (watermarks 1836, 1840), of twenty-seven of the notes accompanying the translation of 'Kulhwch ac Olwen', all of which appear in the published work, with the exception of No. 17, 'Glewlwyd Gavaelvawr' [see Mabinogion (1849), II, 319-335, 340-341].
The text was first published in The Mabinogion… Part IV: Kilhwch and Olwen (London and Llandovery, 1842).

Drafts, [1841] (watermarks 1840, 1841), of thirty-seven of the notes accompanying the translation of 'Kulhwch ac Olwen', all of which appear in the published work [see Mabinogion (1849), II, 335-366].
The gaps in the numbering (Nos 37, 39, 59) suggest the omission of further notes (see also A5/2, No. 17). The text was first published in The Mabinogion… Part IV: Kilhwch and Olwen (London and Llandovery, 1842).

Journal, 29 March 1841-23 June 1844, of Lady Charlotte Guest, at Dowlais, London and Sully, with tours in Belgium and Germany.
Papers loose inside the volume include engraved views of Wesel, [Germany]; a poster, 1830, relating to the 'Swing riots' in Northamptonshire, sent to her stepfather, Rev. Peter W. Pegus; and notes and rough sketches of architectural details, a hand mangle and a domestic iron (10 ff.).