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Stone crosses,

  • NLW MS 10344D.
  • File
  • [1889x1908] /

A scrap-book containing material collected by Eleanor Lloyd, part author of a Book of Sundials, towards a book on Stone Crosses, including notes, sketches, photographs, and printed matter.

Lloyd, Eleanor.

Album of franks,

  • NLW MS 12136F.
  • File
  • 1831-1840 /

An album compiled by Rees Goring Thomas, Llannonn, Llanelly, co. Carmarthen, in 1840, and containing mounted franks of letters of members of the House of Commons almost entirely of the period 1831-40. The writers include Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, aft. 14th duke of Norfolk, W. O. Stanley, Charles Hindley, Winthrop M. Praed, J. P. B. Chichester, H. W. Tancred, Fredk. Hodgson, W. H. Ludlow Bruges, John Hume Cust, viscount Alford, S. Crawley, C. J. F. Russell, R. Palmer, William Keppel Barrington, viscount Barrington, Jos[hua] Scholefield, Wm. Holmes, G. L. Fox, Wm. Turner, Wm. Feilden, J. S. Brownrigg, E. C. Lister, R. Pigot, P. Courtenay, Thos. Wood, Hy. Broadwood, F. Henry F. Berkeley, G. R. B. Pechell, P. W. S. Miles, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, aft. 3rd. marquess of Buckingham, Frederick William Hervey, aft. 1st marquess of Bristol, Eliot [T.] Yorke, H. Verney, C. Fitz Roy, Henry Petty- Fitzmaurice, aft. 3rd marquess of Lansdowne, Richard J. Eaton, R. G. Townley, Chas E. Law, Henry Goulburn, Thomas Spring Rice, 1st baron Monteagle of Brandon, W. E. Powell, G. Rice Trevor, D. Morris, J. Jones, Wm. Bulkeley Hughes, C. F. Berkeley, [Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton], E. J. Stanley, H. G. Boldero, [Lord] Arthur Lennox, Hugh Rose, John Fort, Edwd. Horseman, C. Lemon, H. A. Aglionby, R. Sanderson, Edward Granville Eliot, aft. 3rd earl of St. Germans, W. Williams, Edwd. Ellice, John Neeld, S. Irton, G. H. Cavendish, Geo. Crewe, F. Hunt, G. Grey, E. Strutt, Lewis Wm. Buck, M. E. N. Parker, R. Williams, H. C. Sturt, J. Yarde Buller, Anthony Ashley Cooper, aft. 7th earl of Shaftesbury, J. R. Reed, E. R. Rice, Arthur Hill Trevor, 3rd viscount Dungannon, J. T. Tyrell, T. W. Bramston, Charles G. Round, Edwd. Divett, Edwd. Kerrison, Tho. Duncombe, Library of Wales Wm. Follett, Stephen R. Glynne, Cuthbert Rippon, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, aft. 3rd earl of Dunraven, C. R. M. Talbot, Grantley F. Berkeley, J. Phillpotts, F. Tollemache, E. Barnard, C. B. Wall, Glynne E. Welby, C. Wood, Hen. C. Compton, J. Planta, ?R. B. P. Philipps, W. H. Scourfield, Robert Price, Ed. Foley, George John Frederick Sackville- West, viscount Cantelupe, E. B. Clive, Higford Burr, R. Alston, Philip Henry Stanhope, aft. 5th earl of Stanhope, James Walter Grimston, aft. 1st earl of Verulam, Abel Smith, W. Cowper, R. H. Hurst, Edw. Fellowes, Fred. Pollock, J. Peel, Fitz Roy Kelly, Wm. Geary, John P. Plumptree, W. T. Praed, Tho. Law Hodges, Rd. Godson, W. C. James, H. Rich, Stratford Canning, William Hutt, W. Wilberforce, H. Hardinge, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, aft. 14th earl of Derby, George Marton, Edw. B. Farnham, Charles Packe, S. Duckworth, Beaumont Hotham, 3rd baron Hotham, C. Greenaway, R. A. Christopher, G. Anson, Charles Anderson-Pelham, aft. 1st earl of Yarborough, G. J. Heathcote, H. Handley, Dudley Ryder, 1st earl of Harrowby and viscount Sandon, C. Cresswell, W. Crawford, J. Pattison, Edward Herbert, viscount Clive, Willm. Pinney, Jno. Stewart, John Brocklehurst, T. Grimsditch, Jno. Fector, John Round, Q. Dick, M. Philips, Ernest Bruce, Wm. Robt. Clayton, Fred Spencer, C. W. Williams Wynn, Thos. Wood, G. C. H. Somerset, J. Edwards, Granville George Leveson Gower, aft. 2nd earl Granville, Tho. Wilde, W. J. Blake, H. N. Burroughes, W. Bagge, Edmond Wodehouse, George James Finch-Hatton, aft. 11th earl of Winchilsea, Henry George Grey, aft. 3rd earl Grey, Charles Bennet, aft. 7th earl of Tankerville, Raikes Curry, Matt[hew] Bell, C. Blackett, H. Gally Knight, Lanc[elot] Rolleston, Arthur Richard Wellesley, marquess of Douro, Henry Pelham Fynes Pelham Clinton, aft. 5th duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, John Hobhouse, G. G. Harcourt, Donald Maclean, T. G. Brunhall Estcourt, R. H. Inglis, W. Erle, John Owen, R. M. Rolfe, C. J. Hector, Hesketh Fleetwood, W. Wilkins, G. R. Philips, Geo. Thos. Staunton, R. Townley Parker, T. Dundas, Alex. Speirs, Thos. Pemberton, E. B. Sugden, R. Bernal, John Fenton, Thomas Hobhouse, E. T. Troubridge, F. W. Trench, J. Parker, H. G. Ward, W. Ormsby Gore, R. Hill, William Harry Vane, 4th earl of Darlington, R. H. Clive, Adam Duncan-Haldane, aft. 2nd earl of Camperdown, Wm. Gore Langton, A. R. Dottin, R. Ingham, E. Buller, Henry John Chetwynd Talbot, aft. gist earl of Shrewsbury, Dan. W. Harvey, [Lord] J[ohn] Russell, W. T. Copeland, Ed. Barnes, John Henniker-Major, 2nd baron Henniker, Rt. Rushbrooke, J. Bailey, Charles Broke Vere, R. Alsager, C. C. Cavendish, G. Darby, E. H. A'Court, Robert Peel, John Martin, J. Heathcoat, C. Barry Baldwin, Wm. Blount, Henry Fitzroy, aft. 5th duke of Grafton, Henry John Temple, 3rd viscount Palmerston, Edward Adolphus Seymour Seymour, aft. 12th duke of Somerset, J. Ennis Vivian, W. S. Lascelles, J. Eardley Wilmot, J. Mordaunt, Willm. Collins, W. Stratford Dugdale, E. J. Shirley, W. G. Hayter, J. Milnes Gaskell, G. W. Hope, M. Attwood, George Augustus Frederick Child-Villiers, aft. 6th earl of Jersey, Paulet St. J. Mildmay, Walter Long, J. B. East, J. Ramsbottom, George Spencer-Churchill, aft. 6th duke of Marlborough, Henry J. Winnington, R. Smith, Geo. Rob. Smith, Wm. Duncombe, W. Wilshere, E. S. Cayley, Henry Broadley, W. Gordon, J. Duff, Al[exander] Bannerman, [Patrick] Jas. [Herbert Crichton-] Stuart, Hope Johnstone, George Sinclair, Ja[mes] Colquhoun, Matt. Sharpe, J. Campbell, W. D. Gillon, A. Leith Hay, ?F. Maule, James Wemyss, R. Macleod, Robert Wallace, R. Steuart, J. Oswald, R[obey]t Ferguson, Fred. Dundas, R. Cutlar Fergusson, P. Chalmers, A. Kinnaird, Archibald Primrose, lord Dalmeny, J. McTaggart, W. Howard, J. Blair, ?J. O'Neill, Willm. Curry, J. D. Jackson, John Young, J. Stock, S. R. Maxwell, E. Litton, F. B. Beamish, Wm. M. Somerville, aft. baron Meredyth, William Brabazon, aft. 11th earl of Meath, Daniel O'Connell, F. Shaw, R. Hutton, Thos. Knox, aft. 1st earl of Ranfurly, Thomas Martin, A. H. Lynch, Mervyn Archdall, M. J. O'Connell, N. Fitz Simon, H. Thomas, Nathaniel Clements, aft. 2nd earl of Leitrim, William Roche, R. Bateson, R. A. Ferguson, ? John H. Talbot, J. W. Fitz Patrick, [Dennis O'Connor] 'O'Connor Don', C. H. Coote, J. P. Somers, H. Corry, James Power, etc. Among the recipients of the letters are J. B. Jeffreys (Jeffries, Jeffenes), solicitor, Carmarthen, Geo. T. Thomas, Gelliwernen, Llanelly, John Biddulph, Llanelly, etc., Eben[eze]r Morris, [vicar of] Llanelly, etc., Rees Goring Thomas, Llanon, etc., John Jeffereys, Swansea, David Lewis, Stradey, Llanelly, H. R. Downman, Tin Works, Carmarthen, John Davies, Guildhall Square, Carmarthen, R. J. Nevill, Llangennech, and W. Harris, Swansea. English and Welsh, Scottish, and Irish members are separately grouped, and the franks are arranged within each of the three groups in alphabetical order of constituencies. The initials 'R. G. T.' are lettered in gold on the upper cover, and 'House of Commons, 1840' likewise on the spine.

Thomas, Rees Goring.

Cardiganshire C. M. trust deeds, etc.,

  • NLW MS 12163D.
  • File
  • 1736-1871.

A bound volume containing printed Acts of Parliament, 1736-1868, largely relating to the conveyance of lands for charitable uses; a printed circular letter, 1861, from the Wesleyan Chapel Committee to the Superintendents of Circuits, calling attention to the provisions of 'An Act to amend the Law relating to the Conveyance of Land for Charitable Uses', 17 May 1861; and a manuscript alphabetical list, compiled circa or after 1871, of trust deeds of Calvinistic Methodist churches, Sunday schools, day schools, dwelling and chapel houses, cemeteries and land in co. Cardigan.

Scrapbook.

  • NLW MS 16279D.
  • File
  • [1831]-[c. 1867]

A scrapbook containing autographs, franks and prints compiled, [1831]-[c. 1867], probably by Sarah Dorothy Grey of Norton, Stockton-on-Tees (later Sarah Dorothy Robinson of Silksworth Hall, County Durham, and Quedgeley, Gloucestershire).
Nearly all the autographs are in the form of 'free fronts', mostly dated 1806-1839, being franked address panels signed by Members of Parliament (or Lords) to allow them free postage (ff. 2-110 passim; a number of these are addressed to members of the Grey family of Norton). The prints include engravings depicting Royalty (ff. 1 verso, 4, 16, 34), topographical and architectural views (ff. 4 verso-111 passim) and female fashions of 1830 (ff. 10 recto-verso, 28 recto-verso). Also included are cuttings of a few ballads (ff. 12, 18, 22 verso, 72) and two 'skit notes' (f. 18). Items found loose inside the volume (19 ff.) have been placed in an archival envelope; these include eleven free fronts, 1828-1837, and three invitations (in French) to the Robinson family to attend events at the French Court in Paris, 1867.

Robinson, Sarah Dorothy, 1813 or 1814-1902

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams poetry,

  • NLW MS 16546D.
  • File
  • [early 19 cent.].

Transcripts, [early 19th cent.] (watermark 1803), in an unknown hand, of odes, ballads, dialogues and satirical letters of English political interest, composed by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams in the period 1732-1745.
With the exception of 'To Kitty Walker' (f. 62), all the works appear, with mostly minor variations, in The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams..., 3 vols (London, 1822). The contents list (f. i recto-verso) includes titles of additional poems, after f. 119, which were subsequently cut from the volume.

Hanbury Williams, Charles, Sir, 1708-1759.

Yacht's log-book

  • NLW MS 22633iA
  • File
  • 1923-1927

Log-book of the yacht Ayesha, 4 August 1923 - 15 August 1927, kept by Joseph Boumphrey (1881-1951) of Liverpool, later of Aber-soch, shipping engineer, describing races, regattas and sailings on Merseyside, the North Wales coast, in particular the Llŷn peninsula, Menai Straits and Anglesey, and the Isle of Man (see Beti Isabel Hughes, The Log-books of the yacht Ayesha and the S. C. Y. C. at Abersoch, Cymru a'r Môr, 16 (1994), 116-23). A reference to the formation of the South Caernarfonshire Yacht Club is found on f. 5. An incomplete draft of the same, 21 May - 3 September 1927, found loose inside the volume, has been filed separately (MS 22633iiA).

Boumphrey, Joseph, Liverpool and Abersoch, 1881-1951 Yacht logbook (1923-1927), NLW MS 22633iA

Yacht's log-book: incomplete draft

  • NLW MS 22633iiA
  • File
  • 1923-1927

An incomplete draft of a log-book of the yacht Ayesha, 4 August 1923 - 15 August 1927, kept by Joseph Boumphrey (1881-1951) of Liverpool, later of Aber-soch, shipping engineer. Found loose inside NLW MS 22633iA.

Boumphrey, Joseph, Liverpool and Abersoch, 1881-1951 Yacht logbook (1923-1927), NLW MS 22633iiA

Meddyginiaeth

  • NLW MS 4355A
  • File
  • 18-19 cents

Medical recipes and prescriptions bound with four pamphlets, namely Herbal, neu Lysieu-Lyfr ... Wedi eu casglu allan o waith N. Culpeper, ... Gan D. T. Jones (Caernarfon, 1816-1817), in three parts, and Drych i Ddwfr Cleifion ... (Caerfyrddin, 1765).

Henry Hicks: Notes on British geology

  • NLW MS 4440C
  • File
  • 1882

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

Tides in the Bristol and St George's Channels

  • NLW MS 4469E
  • File
  • 1890

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.

Copy of The english Physician

  • NLW MS 4545A
  • File
  • 18-19 cents

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.

Ejected ministers of the Puritan Revolution

  • NLW MS 4707C
  • File
  • 20 cent.

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).

Material relating to the Reform Bill

  • NLW MS 5428F
  • File
  • 1832

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

Lawyer's notebook

  • NLW MS 6033A
  • File
  • 18 cent.

A notebook containing extracts from law reports, temp. George I.

Deunydd gwleidyddol ac etholiadol

  • NLW MS 6754E
  • File
  • c. 1865-1869

A volume of press cuttings, circa 1865-1869, relating mainly to parliamentary affairs, elections, etc.

John Wee[v]er: Ancient Funerall Monuments ..., with additions

  • NLW MS 7001C
  • File
  • [17-18 cents]

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.

Weever, John, 1575/6-1632

John Wee[v]er: Ancient Funeral Monuments ..., with additions

  • NLW MS 7002C
  • File
  • [17-18 cents]

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.

Causes in Chancery

  • NLW MS 765D
  • File
  • 1600-1603

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

Lists of Monastic Houses, Cartularies

  • NLW MS 7852C
  • File
  • [1814-1835]

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.

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Recipes, &c.

  • NLW MS 901A
  • File
  • c. 1850-c. 1867

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.

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