A manuscript containing an account of the origin and progress of the old Nonconformist group of churches which had their centre at Cilgwyn, near Llangybi, Cardiganshire, written by Evan Lewis (d. 1864), together with notes of a sermon preached at Cilgwyn, 12 September 1858.
A manuscript containing another version (see NLW MS 2169B) of Evan Lewis's (d. 1864) Dydd y Pethau Bychain; accounts of a day school at Llangybi, 1857-1859, and of payments for lodgings, 1858-1864.
Poor rate assessments and accounts of disbursements by overseers of the poor for the town of Aberystwyth, 1779-1838, together with particulars of paupers' rents, 1831-1837, and a register of apprentices, 1822-1836.
Deposits. Withdrawn September 1994. These items were transferred permanently to Ceredigion Archives in September 2010.
A volume in the hand of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing pedigrees of Cardiganshire gentry families (pp. 1-136), together with a few from Carmarthenshire (pp. 137-163) and Pembrokeshire (pp. 164-179).
A 'Book of Quotations and General Remarks' or 'Cyfeiriadau Clasurol (Detholion)', containing extracts from, and notes on, classical and other sources, e.g. Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Virgil, Dante, John Milton, etc. The volume was originally used as a contributions book of a Workmen's Association, and some accounts for the period 1881 are preserved on the inside lower cover.
Over nine hundred portraits, mostly studio, predominantly of First World War era British Soldiers. Most are individual portraits, some are in small groups with family or friends, also large group photographs. Many depicting a Territorial Force summer camp may well be from a 1913 camp held between Bridge and Lovelock farms, Ffairfach in the summer of 1913. The vast majority are anonymous but some can be given approximate dates by the presence of overseas service chevrons, good conduct stripes etc. Many of those dated 1914, especially the Pembroke Yeomanry, may well date from the years preceding the outbreak of WW1. Other portraits are of members of associated services and include veterans of earlier conflicts and servicemen & women from World War Two. The latter category including American troops from the 28th Division who were camped in South Wales from October 1943 until July 1944 as well as Free French and Belgian soldiers. Both US Corps of Engineers and infantry corps are represented. The engineers are believed to be men of the 103rd Engineer Battalion who served with the 28th Division. Their headquarters from October 1943 to April 1944 was the Hotel Belgrave, Tenby. There are also a considerable number of US Quartermaster Corps GI's including African-American soldiers.
A copy of 'Speech of the Earl of Powis [i.e. Edward, second earl] in the House of Lords on Tuesday, May 23, 1843, on moving the second reading of a bill for preventing the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor . . .' (London, 1843), with letters and printed papers relating to the threatened union of the sees, the object of which was to transfer the income of the see that would be suppressed to a see of Manchester. Among the papers are letters from the earl of Powis, George William, fourth baron Lyttelton, and Charles Scott Luxmoore, dean of St. Asaph.
Notices relating to proceedings at festivals organised by Calvinistic Methodist Sunday schools in the Towyn [co. Merioneth] district (Cymanfa[oedd] Ysgolion M.C. Dosbarth Towyn), 1933-1939, with the results of examinations and competitions held in connection therewith.
Two charms against witchcraft from the Towyn area of Merioneth, and photostat facsimiles of two similar charms discovered in the neighbourhood of Llanidloes?, Montgomeryshire.
A draft essay entitled 'Observations on Parturition amongst the Poor In the Upper District of Cardiganshire' by [Dr. Richard Williams, Aberystwyth]. The paper is watermarked 1837.
Copies of the Queen's instructions to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, Lord President of the Council in Wales and the Marches, 1586; the commission of the lieutenancy of Wales and the Marches to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, March 22, 1600, with power to make deputations to persons named in the commission for the different counties within the lieutenancy; a petition by six members of the Privy Council to the Lord Keeper to renew the commission of lieutenancy for Merioneth and to leave out the names of John Lewys Owen and Cadwalader ap Ris, who had been arraigned before the Court of Star Chamber for misdemeanours, and to appoint Griffith Vaughan and Robert Lloyd to be deputies for the Earl of Pembroke for that county; a Privy Council letter to the same effect covering a renewed commission to the Earl of Pembroke, March 31, 1600, with a list of justices of the peace for Merioneth; and orders for the reformation of the Court of the Marches, 1577.
Notebook of Henry Harris, Ystrad Rhondda, begun in 1921, containing lists of place-names and field names in the Rhondda. Some of the names are taken from a tithe map of 1847 (ff. i, 1-51). Also included is a typescript list of the same place-names, on loose sheets, the names numbered and in alphabetical order (ff. 52-98); typescript and manuscript notes, [?1938], on the Rhondda in the year 1737, including transcripts of Overseers of the Poor accounts (ff. 103-109); notes, 1938, relating to bird life in the Rhondda (f. 110); and three letters to Harris, October 1921-May 1928, including two from M. H. Jones, Penllwyn (ff. 99-102).
A draft tract entitled 'Proofes drawne from authorities and other reasons why Cadelh prince of Southwales was the eldest sonne of Roderic the greate (kinge of Wales) and that he and his issue after him had a superioritie over the rest of Wales and his two bretheren and the descendantes from them' by, and in the autograph of, Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. The substance of this tract was subsequently incorporated in Vaughan's British Antiquities Revived (Oxford, 1662). The volume contains both the arguments and answers set forth by Vaughan and therefore differs considerably from Peniarth MS 277 which contains only the arguments. Pasted inside the front cover is a short description of the volume in the form of a cutting from Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge’s Sale Catalogue of the Mostyn Library (1919), p. 22.
