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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).

Llyfr nodiadau, [c. 1867], David Evan Davies, Llithfaen, sir Gaernarfon, yn cynnwys cofnodion pwyllgor ar gyfer sefydlu ysgol ddyddiol yn Llithfaen, Ebrill-Mai 1867 (ff. 1-3). = Notebook, [c. 1867], of David Evan Davies, Llithfaen, Caernarvonshire, containing minutes relating to the establishing of a day school at Llithfaen, April-May 1867 (ff. 1-3).
Ceir hefyd nodiadau pregethau, [c. 1867] (ff. 11-34), a thoriad papur newydd o gerdd 'Save the Children' gan Elfed (f. 19a). = The volume also contains sermon notes, [c. 1867] (ff. 11-34), and a newspaper cutting of 'Save the Children', a poem by H. Elvet Lewis (f. 19a).

Minute-book, 1796-1909, of the trustees of the charity created by the will of Ellen Glynne of Elernion, parish of Llanaelhaearn, co. Caernarfon, spinster, respecting the almshouse at Llandwrog and property in the parishes of Llandwrog and Llanllyfni, co. Caernarfon, and in the parish of Llangoed, co. Anglesey. The minutes include details of admittances to the almshouse and details of tenants, rents and repair of trust property. Also included in the volume are copies of the will, 1727, with codicils, 1728 and 1732/3, of Ellen Glynne, proved at London, 1733 (tipped in between ff. i and ii; ff. 1-6v).

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).

An autograph album, 1879-1918, thought to belong to 'Ap Ieuan', possibly Samuel Evans, a member of Tabernacl Welsh Congregational church, Shrewsbury, containing entries in Welsh, English, Chinese and other eastern and African languages, mainly by Congregationalist ministers and missionaries, including Ben Davies, Pant-teg, T. Eynon Davies, David Picton Jones, J. R. Kilsby Jones and H. Elvet Lewis ('Elfed'); together with pasted-in photographs. Papers found loose inside have been tipped in at the end of the volume (ff. 27-32).

Tystysgrif er mwyn cofrestru priodasau ar gyfer Capel Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Pentyrch, Llanfair Caereinion, 1 Rhagfyr 1948.

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

Records of the Cardiganshire Liberal Association, 1921-1974, including minute books, 1923-1951; correspondence, financial and other papers, 1914-1974; electoral registers, 1951-1964; press cuttings of political interest, 1900-1963.

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

A draft tract entitled 'Proofes drawne from authorities and other reasons why Cadelh prince of Southwales was the eldest sonne of Roderic the greate (kinge of Wales) and that he and his issue after him had a superioritie over the rest of Wales and his two bretheren and the descendantes from them' by, and in the autograph of, Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. The substance of this tract was subsequently incorporated in Vaughan's British Antiquities Revived (Oxford, 1662). The volume contains both the arguments and answers set forth by Vaughan and therefore differs considerably from Peniarth MS 277 which contains only the arguments.
Pasted inside the front cover is a short description of the volume in the form of a cutting from Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge’s Sale Catalogue of the Mostyn Library (1919), p. 22.

Journal of a tour through Wales and part of Ireland in August 1848 by Charles Lucey of Clapham and later of Henley, shipwright, with a map showing his itinerary and further notes added by him, 1856-1891.

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.

Cofysgrifau Eglwys y Cricor, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, gan gynnwys cofrestr bedyddiadau, 1944-1971, a tystysgrifau i gynnal priodasau yn y capel, 1959 a 1961.

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.