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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.

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 volume containing sermons by William Thomas ('Gwilym Marles') [1834-1879], Enoch Lewis (Abergwaun), Thomas Morgan (Blaengwrach), D. Griffiths, Timothy Davis (Oldbury) [1779-1860], David Davis (Castell Nedd) [1778-1846] and John Jones (Aberdare) [1802-1863] collected by Rees Jenkin Jones [1835-1924], Unitarian minister, Aberdare.

A notebook kept by Christmas Evans, Baptist minister. Among the contents are sermons and other notes, lists of places to which he journeyed to preach, and accounts, including 'Yn 1820 Count y Casgliad at Ty Cyfarfod Llangefni yn Sir Fon at draul o tri chant a hanner o bynau glas a choch ...'

Holograph sermon notes by Christmas Evans.

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 NLW MS 11167B); miscellaneous poems including an apparently unpublished poem by Byron, 'On a Lock of Hair', commencing 'Swear not at all, but if thou must' (p. 13), another two of his poems (pp. 13, 24), poems by R. B. Sheridan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.