Dangos 107 canlyniad

Notes of sermons.

Commonplace book, 1818-[c. 1828], mainly in English with portions in French, Latin, German, Italian and Dutch. The volume contains facetious 'Resolutions for the Preservation of regularity at Shanes Castle during the meeting for the Performance of Cymbeline' by Frederick, Lord North, 1786 (pp. 1-2) (cf. NLW MS 11167B); miscellaneous poems including an apparently unpublished poem by Byron, 'On a Lock of Hair', commencing 'Swear not at all, but if thou must' (p. 13), another two of his poems (pp. 13, 24), poems by R. B. Sheridan (pp. 5, 7, 14) and a number of rhymes by 'Mr. Cowper' [?William Cowper] (pp. 3-4); a famous sermon on malt attributed to Dr John Dod (pp. 8-9); and humorous letters, epigrams, epitaphs, anagrams and charades including two composed by Charles James Fox (pp. 25, 28) and four composed by Professor [Richard] Porson (pp. 28-9, 31, 69). The answers to the anagrams and charades are in Greek orthography written in reverse.

Sermons, 1780-1825, by John Jenkins.

Six volumes of sermons, 1798-1843, by Walter Davies.

Eight volumes of sermons, 1801-1829, written by John Jenkins.

Fourteen volumes of sermons, 1682-1815, some of them written by Walter Davies.

Miscellaneous sermons

Three volumes of sermons, 1796-1831, by Walter Davies.

A volume of sermons and memoranda in English together with transcripts of a few items of poetry by Francis Quarles. The sermons are in the hand of the Reverend Griffith Evans who was vicar of Llandrillo-yn- Rhos (1693-1695) and afterwards vicar of Tremeirchion (1695-1737), and they appear to have been preached by him at Llandrillo and Tremeirchion. The poems by Quarles are to be found among the Emblemes.

A number of sermons and addresses mainly in English and in the hand of the Reverend John Roberts, Llanbrynmair, with a children's address, n.d., by the Reverend Samuel Roberts ('S.R.'), and two items in Welsh, one unidentified (part torn away), the other an outline of a sermon in the hand of [the Reverend David Williams, Troedrhiwdalar] marked (probably by 'S.R.') 'Hen Williams Llanwrtyd fu farw yn 95 oed'. There are two addresses, undated, by the Reverend John Roberts in connection with the British and Foreign Bible Society, one on the occasion of the formation of the Montgomery[shire] Bible Society, and with these are observations in Welsh beginning 'Mae Mr. Jones yn gosod (?) bau nid bychain [sic] yn fy erbyn i am brodyr am ein bod medd ef wedi ymadael ag egwyddorion ein Tadau'. One of the sermons by John Roberts is headed 'Missionary Sermon May 5th 1799' (marked by 'S.R.' 'copied for Cronicl'), another is headed 'Christmas Day 1798', and a third 'Elizabeth Jones Bellan funeral sermon May 27th 1798'.

Notes of a sermon, [19]05, by the Rev[erend] D. D. Williams, M.A. [ minister of Oswald Road Presbyterian Church, Oswestry, 1896-1907].

A note book containing miscellaneous notes entitled 'An Acc[oun]t of some Customs among the Jews particularly them in Barbary', 'Those doctrines & practices [which] are publickly declared in ye Church of Rome & are by ye authority thereof established which are highly derogatory to ye dignity of our Saviour', 'An Illustration of severall difficult texts of Scripture', 'Of Oaths', 'De Baptismati', and 'De Conciliis generalibus' (on the first four general councils of the church); a list of 'The Subscribers to Ruthin Race' [? c. 1730] containing the names of, inter alios, Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton [3rd bart. of Combermere, co. Chester, and Llewenny, co. Denbigh], Sir Walter Wagstaff Baggot [5th bart. of Blithfield, co. Stafford], Sir William Williams [? 2nd bart. of Llanforda, co. Salop], and Watkin Williams Wynn [? son of Sir William Williams aforesaid and later 3rd bart. of Wynnstay]; sermons or sermon notes in English and Welsh; extracts from Latin authors including Horace; and other miscellaneous entries.

A draft ?holograph text by John Lewis, vicar of Minster, co. Kent, of 'An Instruction for Children in the Grounds of Christianity ... Collected (chiefly) for the Use of Charity-Schools. With a Preface to the masters & mistresses of the said Schools, directing them how to use it'. The work is divided into the following parts: 'The Christian Covenant', 'The Christian Faith', 'The Christian Obedience', 'The Christian Prayer', and 'The Christian Sacraments', and the text agrees in part with John Lewis (trans. John Jones, 'Curad Llangadfan'): Catechism yr Eglwys wedi ei esponio. Mewn ffordd o ofyniadau ac attebion ... (Mwythig, 1790). At the beginning and the end of the volume are lests of sermon texts, 1730-1733, and of sermons lent to Mr. Lee, 1730-1735, Mr. Baddeley, 1740-1741, 'Cos' Hump. Thomas, Mr. Score, and Mr. Hall.

A composite volume written after 1818 and containing sermons by, and in the hand of, the Reverend Christmas Evans, Baptist minister, of Llangefni, etc.

Sermons largely by R[ichard] A[bbott] Jones, Baptist minister successively at Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, and Swansea. The majority of the sermons are dated within the period 1851-1875.

Three fragments mainly containing material in the hand of Morgan Llwyd: a) Sheets out of a notebook containing notes of sermons, one of which is said to have been delivered by 'Mr. Lloyd' [?Morgan Llwyd]. b) A copy (2 pp.) of the verses of lamentation and resolution by the Welsh saints, 1643, comprising ten out of the twenty verses printed by T. E. Ellis in Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd (Bangor, 1899), vol. I, pp. 3-6, in the following order - 1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 9, 8, 7, 14, 18; a version, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, of the first nine stanzas of a 'Thanksgiving song for Wrexham delivered from pest' (Gweithiau, vol. I, pp. 12-13); notes by Morgan Llwyd, including drafts of sermons, and a list of names (Ens. Roberts, Howell Thom., Ben. Rich., Walt. Thimble., Hugh Prich.) headed by a cancelled sentence - 'who should have the booke of my verse'; twenty-two stanzas beginning 'The lord is kind and merciful ...' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, being apparently a draft of a poem or of a series of poems by him; thirteen stanzas based on Canticles, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, ten roughly corresponding to those printed in E. Lewis Evans: Morgan Llwyd (Lerpwl, 1930), pp. 176-8, stanzas 11 and 12 corresponding respectively to 4 and 5 in Ellis: Gweithiau, vol. I, p. 10, and stanza 5 being possibly the basis of stanza 3 in Gweithiau; a transcript of the Canticle verses in another hand; a draft, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, of the poem 'Hanes rhyw Gymro' (Gweithiau, vol. I, pp. 57-60); and a copy of verse xxviii in Gweithiau, p. 61. c) Draft translations of psalms by Morgan Llwyd. The translations are incomplete, and many stanzas have been cancelled. There are verses translated from Psalms 19, 37, 44-46, 121-122, and 126.

Holograph sermon notes by Christmas Evans.

English sermons written by 'R. W.', [c. 1620]; medical recipes, in Welsh, 1712; a short Latin treatise on logic; and a Latin stanza with an English translation.

Sermons.

Sermon notes, in a large number of different hands, in both Welsh and English.