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Cyfrol o lyfrgell y Parchedig John Herbert Roberts, Y Drenewydd, diweddar ŵr Mrs Roberts, yn cynnwys traethawd ar 'Hanes dechreuad a chynydd Ymneillduaeth ym mhlwyf Llanasa', sir y Fflint, gan 'Ymneillduwr'; ynghyd â nodiadau diwinyddol, 1922, yn llaw'r Parchedig John Herbert Roberts / A volume from the library of the late Reverend John Herbert Roberts, Newtown, husband of Mrs Roberts, containing an essay in Welsh on the beginning and growth of Nonconformity in the parish of Llanasa, Flintshire, by 'Ymneillduwr'; together with theological notes, 1922, in the hand of the Rev. John Herbert Roberts

A copy of Nesta L. Harries's study entitled 'The Welsh Woollen Industry' written for her final examination at St Catharine's College, Tottenham, London, early 1950s, and containing samples of materials produced in woollen mills throughout Wales.

Account book, 1855-1861, of James Lewis of Llwyn, Nantmel, co. Radnor, containing details of purchases of farming stock, household goods and wearing apparel and of payments to labourers and servants, together with a few veterinary recipes and miscellaneous memoranda.

A volume, [1798x1810], containing anthems and psalm-tunes.

Notebook, [1905x1930], of M. H. Jones, Penllwyn, Aberystwyth, containing lists of place-names in Carmarthenshire, arranged by letter and accompanied by etymological and philological notes, as well as detailed notes relating to older forms of names.
Notes found loose inside the volume have been placed in an archival envelope (ff. 144-145).

Account book, 1849-1852, 1864-1875, of the Rev. Joseph Morris, a Congregational minister in Nefyn and elsewhere in Lleyn, Caernarvonshire, also employed by the Madryn estate as a joiner.
The volume records general accounts, January 1849-January 1850 (ff. 2 verso-10); payments received at Nefyn, February 1851-June 1852 (ff. 10 verso-11 verso, 14); and payments for preaching and other work, January 1851-August 1852, January 1864-January 1875 (ff. 12-13 verso, 14 verso-38, 39, 40 verso).

Account books, 1849-1880, of Daniel Jenkins of Coed, Llanddewi Aber-arth, later of Tyngwndwn, Llanbadarn Trefeglwys, co. Cardigan, farmer, containing farming and other accounts; a list of purchasers at the Coed sale, 1874, with the amounts paid for the various lots (MS 22878, ff. 1v, 9v-62); and miscellaneous memoranda. Inserted in MS 22877 is a copy of Reynolds's Astrological and Prophetic Almanack for 1848 (ff. 126-34v).

A transcript of the well-known work by George Owen of Henllys- 'A Treatise of Lordshipps Marchers in Wales'.

Miscellanea, including notes on Glamorgan and Gower manors and estates, transcripts of records, etc.

Llanfair-juxta-Harlech, Merioneth, vestry book and Churchwarden's accounts, 1814-1816.

A volume of Churchwardens' accounts for the parish of Llanfair-juxta-Harlech, Merioneth, 1700-1813 (ff. 1 verso-66 passim, 78 verso, 79 verso). The accounts from 1710 to 1732 are in the autograph of Ellis Wynne, Lasynys, who held the living of Llanfair from 1711 to his death in 1734 (ff. 8-30 verso passim), and those from 1732 to 1750 in that of his son and successor, William Wynn (ff. 31, 32-40).
Also included are minutes of vestry meetings held in the years 1734, 1736, 1757, 1768, 1770, 1772 and 1774 (ff. 52 verso-53, 54 recto-verso, 59-60, 73 verso); several signed receipts of Churchwardens and overseers of the poor for the later eighteenth century (ff. 44 verso, 58 verso, 61-62, 63, 64-65, 72 verso-74 verso); and two lists of Churchwardens of the parish, the first, for 1700-1750, 1773-1823, in various hands (ff. 3 verso, 4 verso-5 verso, 6 verso-7 verso, 8 verso), and the second, for 1700-1747, in the hand of William Wynn (75 verso-76 verso). The accounts for 1748 only are recorded in Welsh (f. 39).

Transcripts of court rolls, 1678-1700, 1703-1705, estreats, 1580, 1744, and a rental, 1661, of the borough and manor of Norton, Radnorshire, with original presentments for the Easter leet, 1734.

The file comprises a photocopy of a music manuscript from St Davids Cathedral Library. The manuscript, St Davids MS E3/5, is an eighteenth cent. bass part-book; recto and verso sides have been photocopied and collated separately.

A notebook containing Chwarelau Dyffryn Nantlle a chymdogaeth Moeltryfan, the prize-winning essay at Cylchwyl Lenyddol Rhostryfan, 1889, by John Griffith, Bodgadfan, Rhostryfan, bearing additional notes in the hand of W. J. Griffith, the author's son, who edited the essay for publication in 1934, and J. J. Thomas, Kendal, the publisher.

A catalogue of the library of Frederick Richard West (1799-1862) at Rhuthun Castle, co. Denbigh, August 1859, arranged in shelf order, with pencilled valuations and additions to the original list in a later hand.

One of six volumes of memoranda, accounts, and miscellaneous notes and extracts mainly relating to the industrial development of South Wales, compiled between 1806 and 1849 by Thomas Ellis (b. 1781), a patternmaker at Tredegar.

One of six volumes of memoranda, accounts, and miscellaneous notes and extracts mainly relating to the industrial development of South Wales, compiled between 1806 and 1849 by Thomas Ellis (b. 1781), a patternmaker at Tredegar.

Particulars, in the autograph of Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) (1761-1849), of wages paid to agricultural workers in Wales c. 1800.

A list of trading vessels from 1837 onwards which were built on the river Dee, the material including the towns of Rhyl, Flint, Connah's Quay, Queensferry and Chester.

A transcript of The Petition of the Six Counties of South Wales and the County of Monmouth, Presented to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England For a supply of Ministers, in lieu of those that have been Ejected [printed in 1652], together with a part-transcript, part-abstract of A true and perfect Relation of the Whole Transaction concerning The Petition of the six Counties of South Wales ... With the Parliament's Resolves and proceedings thereupon Now humbly Represented to his Highnesse the Lord Protector's consideration [published in 1654].