Notes on The Oldest Rocks in the British Isles, written in 1882 by Henry Hicks (1837-1899), M.D., F.R.S., President of the Geological Society, 1896-1898.
Hicks, Henry Notes on British geology (1882), NLW MS 4440C
A facsimile copy, presented to Sir William Thomas Lewis (afterwards 1st Baron Merthyr), of a study by W. Nelson Greenwood, Lancaster, illustrated with statistical tables and diagrams, entitled The influence of atmospheric pressure on the free flow of the Tidal Wave in the Bristol and St George's Channels, 1890.
An incomplete copy of Nicholas Culpeper: The English Physician Enlarged ... (edition unknown), with additional manuscript notes on herbs by William Bona, Llanpumpsaint, who has also indicated every herb known to him and grown in his garden. Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) (1764-1833) has entered what appears to be a list of money gifts at a so-called bidding in Carmarthenshire, possibly on the occasion of his own marriage.
A photostat facsimile of a manuscript in St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden containing lists of clergymen in all the counties of Wales except Anglesey who were ejected during the Puritan Revolution. The list is based mainly on the writings of John Walker (1674-1747) and Edmund Calamy (1671-1732).
Copies sent by E. M. L. Mostyn, M.P. for Flintshire, 1832, to Edward Lloyd, Cefn, St Asaph, of A List of the Majority for, and the Minority against, the Passing of the Reform Bill ... and of Protest against the Second Reading of the Reform Bill (England) over the name of the Duke of Wellington and others, dated 16 April 1832, and endorsed with a note by Mostyn relating to the formation of a new ministry.
Mostyn, Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn, Baron, 1795-1884
One of two volumes containing a copy of John Wee[v]er: Ancient Funerall Monuments with in the vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland ... (London, 1631), interleaved, with manuscript additions.
One of two volumes containing a copy of John Wee[v]er: Ancient Funerall Monuments with in the vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland ... (London, 1631), interleaved, with manuscript additions.
A manuscript entitled Causes in Chancery gathered by Sir George Carye, one of ye Masters of the Chancery ..., containing reports of cases in Chancery from 1469/1470 to 1603.
Carey, George, 2nd Baron Carey of Hunsdon, 2nd Lord Hunsdon, 1547-1603 Reports of cases in Chancery, 1469/1470-1603, NLW MS 765D
A 'List of Monasteries, &c., in Great Britain to which is added a List of Monastic Cartularies with an Index, 1835'. The monasteries, churches, and castles are arranged alphabetically under counties, and particulars are given of the dates of foundation, of the situation of the monastic houses, and of the orders to which they belonged. The List of Monastic Cartularies was drawn up by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt., and is printed in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. I, 1834. The volume also includes a 'List of monastic churches still made use of for Divine Service' taken from The Gentleman's Magazine, 1814.
A manuscript containing recipes for dyeing wool and cotton; household and medical recipes; miscellaneous accounts, 1852-1867; a copy of Reynolds' Original Birmingham Almanack ... 1850.
Press cuttings of letters and articles contributed to North Wales newspapers by John Wynne, schoolmaster, of Caernarvon, author of Sir a Thre' Caernarfon, fel yr oedd ac fel y maent yn 1860; and a copy of a letter addressed by him to Lord Derby expressing satisfaction at the appointment of a bishop of Bangor, 1861. The press cuttings have been pasted in a book containing an incomplete essay on the early history of Britain and a list of Caernarvon residents.
Two notebooks, NLW MS 16798Ai being a printed account book for the year 1802 possibly belonging to a yeoman farmer or man of similar profession, NLW MS 16798Aii being a journal without dates and containing only rough accounts on ff. 6 verso-7. NLW MS 16798Ai mainly contains details of accounts settled and owed together with general observations on the weather, agricultural duties, etc. There are rough accounts on inside front cover, ff. i, ii verso, 85 recto-verso, and inside back cover. The location of the writer is uncertain but may have been Monmouthshire, Gloucestershire or another county at or near the Welsh border as mention is made of travelling to Howle in Shropshire (ff. 13 verso, 42 verso, 43 verso, 44 verso), to [?Soilwell Farm] in Gloucestershire (f. 32 verso), to Hereford (f. 29 verso), and to attending Ross[-on-Wye] church (f. 23 verso).
A collection of over seventy autograph and typed letters and cards from Sir John Barbirolli, together with some from Evelyn Barbirolli to the singer Parry Jones between 1936-1963, and a further group of autograph and typed letters and cards, 1925-1963, to Parry Jones, signed by a number of prominent men and women of the day, including John Coates, Lilian Baylis, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Sir Neville Cardus, Ernest Newman, Ian Parrott, Maurice Miles, Steuart Wilson, Peter Gellhorn and others.
A volume containing photocopies of a collation of miscellaneous 11-plus examination papers, taken in Wales and England 1921-1949, accumulated by the Rev. J. Aelwyn Roberts, Bangor.