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Manuscripts, [16 cent.]-1930, consisting to a large extent of the collections of the Rev. John Montgomery Traherne of Coedriglan, Glamorgan and of members of his family and that of the Mansel Franklen family of St Hilary, Glamorgan. A minor group included in the collection (MSS 6606-6615) represents the papers of William Davies, Cringell, near Neath, Glamorgan. The material includes correspondence of John Montgomery Traherne and correspondence and other material of or relating to John Walters, rector of Llandough; nineteenth-century music manuscript books, some of which belonged to members of the Talbot family of Penrice and Margam; a manuscript in the hand of Thomas Richards of Coychurch; a notebook of Jean Poingdestre; historical and other material of Glamorgan interest, including material relating to the Stradling family of St Donat's Castle, the Mansel and Talbot families of Margam and Penrice, and Sir Matthew Cradock; a sixteenth-seventeenth-century manuscript of poetry; together with political material, antiquities, pedigrees, transcripts and translations, newspaper cuttings, etc.

Transcripts of seven poems made from a manuscript in the hand of Llywelyn Siôn during March 1840 by John Jones ('Tegid'); a copy in the autograph of John Montgomery Traherne of the list of poems in the manuscript of Llywelyn Siôn; English translations of two poems by Lewis Glyn Cothi and one by Iorwerth Fynglwyd from the manuscript of Llywelyn Siôn.

An imperfect volume (pp. 143-4, 149-50, 159-258) containing translations by Daniel Durel, headmaster of the Free School, Cowbridge, from 'Walton's Introduction to ye Oriental Tongues', i.e., B. Waltoni introductio ad Rectionem linguarum orientalium . . . (Londini, 1655), etc.

A valuation list, 1876, and a poor rate assessment book, 1887, for the parish of St. Hilary, co. Glamorgan.

Notes on and by members of the family of John Walters the elder of Llandough and St Hilary, including notes on masters of Cowbridge School, where John Walters the younger and his brother Daniel were masters; notes on the practice of archery at Cowbridge, on 'Llyfr y Ficcar', and on 'Drych y Prif Oesoedd'; a list of subscriptions towards the repair of Cowbridge School House, 1786; a copy of the inscription on the tomb in Efenechtyd, Denbighshire of John Walters the younger, headmaster of Ruthin School; notes on John Walters the elder and his sons; and miscellanea.