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Anfarwoldeb yr enaid,

  • NLW MS 11893A.
  • File
  • [19 cent.] /

Notes for an essay or address on 'Anfarwoldeb yr enaid' by Edward Roberts, ' ty Capel, Great [?Mersey] Street, Liverpool'.

Roberts, Edward, Great Mersey Street, Liverpool

The English country gentleman,

  • NLW MS 9319C.
  • File
  • 1823 /

'Maxims on the political, social, and domestic economy of the English country gentleman in his public and individual capacity', written in 1823 by Thomas Netherton Parker, Sweeney [Hall, near Oswestry]'.

Parker, Thomas N. (Thomas Netherton)

[Plas Nantyr Photo Album 2]

  • [Plas Nantyr Photo Album 2]
  • File
  • [ca.1880-ca.1890]

Album bound in black leather with gold tooling and slightly damaged. Includes commercially and privately produced photographs, many of Lancaster and the north west of England. Of particular note are images of the Yarlside Iron Mines, street scenes in Preston (Lancashire), Lancaster Quay Commissioners trip 188-, River Thames after a University boat race, numerous views of Downing Hall, Flintshire and grounds, some being snowscenes.

Montgomeryshire and Salop presbytery,

  • NLW MS 21966A.
  • File
  • 1869-1878.

A minute-book, 1869-1878, of the Montgomeryshire and Salop Presbytery (Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church), with statistics for the years 1870-1871, 1873-1876.

Herald's Armorial, Vol. I

  • NLW MS 13697D
  • File
  • 1640-1660

A manuscript armorial of English and Welsh families entitled The nomenclature or Heralds Alphabett of Surnames, A-K (vol. I), with additional notes by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King at Arms. Painted coat-of-arms have been affixed to the manuscript at relevant points throughout the work.

Le Neve, Peter, 1661-1729

List of ships on the river Dee

  • NLW MS 5914C
  • File
  • 20 cent.

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.

Grocer's account book,

  • NLW MS 11154A
  • File
  • [1850] /

An account book bearing the name of John Evans, grocer, Oswestry, 2 May [18]50. All the accounts, however, have been cut away, leaving only a few memoranda.

Evans, John, grocer

Terrier

  • NLW MS 2098E
  • File
  • 1616

A manuscript containing a terrier of lands, 1616, in Cheshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, together with memoranda involving money owing and lent, etc.

Register of episcopal lands

  • NLW MS 4353D
  • File
  • 1647-1649

A register, 1647-1649, giving particulars of the sale of episcopal lands in England and Wales, including the dioceses of St Asaph, Bangor, St Davids and Llandaff.

Reports on education,

  • NLW MS 12133D.
  • File
  • [c. 1764-1767].

A composite volume of the period c. 1764-1765 containing transcripts and drafts of reports on education in England, Wales, and Ireland, and of other papers on education, collected by a Russian commissioner with a view to establishing an educational system in Russia. The titles of the reports include 'Des Ecoles dans le Roiaume d'Irlande connues sous le Nom de Charter-Schools', 'Etat des Ecoles de Charité de la Grande Brétagne et de l'Irlande, l'année dernière, 1764', 'Ecoles ambulantes de Charite, dans la Principauté de Galles, en Angleterre', 'Etudes de l'École des Humanités', ‘'Reflexions sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs, établies à St. Petersbourg & à Moscou', 'Utilités de l'Étude de la Langue Latine & de la Grecque, pour l'avancement des Connoissances', 'Supplement à la pétite Dissertation sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs . . .', 'Doutes & Rémarques détachées, sur le Mémoire de Mr. le Conseiller Müller', 'Touchant le Protecteur général des Grandes Écoles & les Conseillers', 'Doutes touchant le Projet pour avoir 4 différentes sortes de Grandes Ecoles', 'Memoire Touchant les Grandes Ecoles d'Humanités en Angleterre, presenté au Mois de Novembre, 1764', 'Idée superficielle des deux Universites de l'Angleterre', 'Méthode d'enseigner les Humanités', 'Refléxions générales sur les principales Branches des Connoissances sur- tout en ce qui regarde La Prémière Education, & les Genres d'Études qui y conviennent', 'Projet de deux Grandes Ecoles, ou Séminaires Séculiers, l'un à St. Petersbourg, & l'autre à Moscou', etc.

Horae (use of Sarum),

  • NLW MS 22051A [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
  • File
  • [c. 1380x1500].

A Book of Hours of the use of Sarum, [c. 1380x1400], in original binding but wanting many leaves. Contains: Kalendar (ff. 5-9 verso), Hours of BVM (ff. 10-39 verso), Penitential Psalms, Gradual Psalms and Litany (ff. 40-54 verso), Office of the Dead (ff. 55-78 verso) and Commendation of Souls (ff. 80-7 verso), with added prayers on f. 79, contemporary, and ff. 87 verso-9, after 1457. Illuminated initials, mostly 3-line, and borders, the dominant colours gold, blue and maroon, the initials on f. 25 (St Catherine) and f. 46 (face of Christ) historiated. From the workshop, probably in London, which produced, among other manuscripts, the Balknap Hours (J. R. Abbey Sale, Sotheby's 1 Dec. 1970, lot 2869) and Bodley MS 581 (after 1391). The Kalendar includes, in the original hand, Chad and Edward, the litany (all that survives, the Virgins) Ethelreda, Mildreda, Radegunde and Osyth. A hand of second half 15 cent. (which adds Osmund, canonized 1457) added to the Kalendar, in red, the feast and translation of Cuthbert and the invention of Oswin (relics at Tynemouth), besides other synodal Sarum feasts in black.

CMA: Cofysgrifau Capel Weston Rhyn

  • CMA: Capel Weston Rhyn
  • File
  • 1889-1890, 1920-1995

Mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys taflen ystadegol am y flwyddyn yn diweddu 31 Rhagfyr 1977, cyfrifon, 1979, a dogfen yn dwyn y teitl 'Y sefyllfa heddiw', 1995, yn perthyn i Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru Weston Rhyn, Croesoswallt. Daeth cofysgrifau ychwanegol yn perthyn i'r capel gan gynnwys tri llyfr cagliadau tuag at y Weinidogaeth, 1938-1982; dau lyfr y Trysorydd, 1936-1988, llyfr casgliad yr aelodaeth, 1920-1937; cyfrol yn nodi casgliad misol y plant, 1889-1950; llyfr yr eisteddleoedd, 1890-1963; ac ystadegau, 1910-1991 i'r Llyfrgell yn ddiweddarach.

Capel Weston Rhyn (Oswestry, England)

St Brides, Pembrokeshire, and Loughor, Glamorgan, marriage registers,

  • NLW MS 16273C.
  • File
  • 1943 /

Typescript transcripts and lists, 1943, compiled by David E. Gardner, comprising transcripts (for 1725-1812) and extracts (1813-1929) of marriages recorded in the parish registers of St Brides, Pembrokeshire (ff. 8-12); transcripts of marriages (1754-1837) recorded in the parish registers of Loughor, Glamorgan (ff. 13-33); and a list of non-parochial registers relating to Cheshire held at the General Registry Office, Somerset House (ff. 1-7).

Gardner, David E.

Recipes,

  • NLW MS 23472C.
  • File
  • 1716-1767, [19 cent.] /

A volume, 1716-67, containing culinary, medical and veterinary recipes, mainly compiled by Mary Edwards, probably of Great Ness, co. Salop, later the wife of the Reverend William Parry of Ness (will proved at PCC, 1767), with additions by other hands. The recipes were mainly acquired from relatives and friends from the same county, but a few are drawn from printed sources such as The Gentleman's Magazine. An index is included on pp. 299-310.

Edwards, Mary, Great Ness

Glansevern Collection 9

  • Llyfr Ffoto 4776.
  • File
  • [ca.1861-ca.1880].

Includes two group portraits taken outside a country house by Peters, Photographer of Oswestry; carte de visite of Robertson, consul in China (possibly Sir Daniel Brooke Robertson, consul in Canton, 1864); an un-named steam locomotive made at the Atlas Works, Manchester in 1861 (possibly no 1297); a panorama taken at Garthmyl, Otago, New Zealand.

'Scrapiana' ...,

  • NLW MSS 9334-9342D.
  • File
  • 1884-1890 /

'Scrapiana', or cuttings from newspapers, both Welsh and English, collected by Charles Ashton. The cuttings, ranging from 1884 to 1890, are from Y Dydd, Gwalia, Cambrian News, Liverpool Daily Post, Tit-bits, Y Drych, The Welsh Farmers' Gazette, Liverpool Weekly Mercury, Wellington Journal, Y Llan, Oswestry Advertizer, and the Montgomeryshire Express.

Charles Ashton (compiler).

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