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A transcript of the tithe apportionment schedule for the parish of Saint Hilary, co. Glamorgan, 1840, together with typescript copies of the schedule to the articles of agreement, 1838, by Harry Phelps Goode, land surveyor, of Saint Martins, Haverfordwest, and of a letter from Messrs. Morgan Bruce and Nicholas, Pontypridd, to Messrs. Cheston & Sons, London, 1906 (the sale of lots in St. Hilary).

Bills of fees payable to the Clerk of the Peace of Glamorgan, 1818-1819; an undated comparative table of fees payable to the Clerks of the Peace in the counties of Worcester, Shropshire, Oxford, and Glamorgan; a return, so far as relates to the Court of Quarter Sessions for Glamorgan, to a resolution of the House of Commons of 26 August, 1846, touching the receipt and disposal of fees; and a printed report, 1874, by Tho. Dalton, Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan, on the business done by him and included in the arrangement with the county in 1866, and also of all fees and emoluments of his office not included in such arrangement.

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 copy, which belonged to John Montgomery Traherne, of The Names of the Sheriffs and Under-Sheriffs of Glamorgan. A.D. 1541, to 1792, from M.S. of Mr. Evan Simmons, of Nottage; continued to 1850, from M.S. of H. Gwyn, Esq., M.P. Communicated to the Neath Institution by H. H. Knight ... (Neath, 1850).

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.