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A miscellany, 1818-1860, much of it in the form of printed broadsheets, circulars, etc. It includes material relating to the Cambrian Society, 1818; the Gwent and Dyfed Royal Eisteddfod and Musical Festival, Cardiff, 1834; Beddgelert National Schools, 1858; the Welsh Charity School, Ashford, Middlesex, 1859; the Swansea Grammar School, 1848; the South Wales Training College [for Teachers], Carmarthen; the Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, 1838; a printed letter on Roman remains by George Grant Francis, Swansea, 1840; a list of some persons who subscribed in 1818 towards building a school-room at Llandaff; a catalogue of Welsh manuscripts in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps transcribed by Lady Charlotte Guest; etc.

'Collectanea' relating to Margam Abbey and Penrice, the Mansel and Talbot families, etc.

A notebook containing pedigrees, history notes, etc. and including the pedigree of the Talbot family connected with Margam and Penrice, together with extracts entitled Births and Baptisms recorded in the Qto Bible at Penrice.

Letters, 1779-c. 1783, of John Walters the elder, rector of Llandough near Cowbridge and vicar of St Hilary, Glamorgan, and of his sons John and Daniel; poems written in the letters, including one by Daniel Walters to Iorwerth Gwilim, i.e. Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') and one, in Latin, by John Walters commemorating Captain James Cook ; a poem entitled 'Ar y gwrthryfel mawr yn Ffraingc, pan torrwyd pen Brenin Lewis yr 16 ai Frehines [sic]', possibly by a 'Mr Lewis, Penline'; a printed copy of 'Lines on the lamented Death of Sir Christopher Cole, K.C.B. by L. N., Swansea, 1836; letters, 1930, to Lady Mansel Franklen, St Hilary.

Notes on and by members of the family of John Walters the elder of Llandough and St Hilary, including notes on masters of Cowbridge School, where John Walters the younger and his brother Daniel were masters; notes on the practice of archery at Cowbridge, on 'Llyfr y Ficcar', and on 'Drych y Prif Oesoedd'; a list of subscriptions towards the repair of Cowbridge School House, 1786; a copy of the inscription on the tomb in Efenechtyd, Denbighshire of John Walters the younger, headmaster of Ruthin School; notes on John Walters the elder and his sons; and miscellanea.

'Collectanea', printed and manuscript, relating mainly to Glamorgan, including copies of charters, copies of an Act of Parliament, dated 31 Henry VIII and printed by Thomas Berthelet in 1544, 'auctorisying the Kynges highnes newely to allotte certayne towneshipes in Wales', memoranda and notes by L. W. Dillwyn, John Montgomery Traherne, and Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), autograph letters, 1906-1907, from John Stuart Corbett to Sir Thomas Mansel Franklen, etc.

Notebooks used by John Montgomery Traherne to record notes and 'collectanea' mainly relating to the history and topography of Glamorgan, Glamorgan families and pedigrees, and miscellanea. NLW MS 6534A contains notes relating to the Scudamore family.

Glamorgan 'collectanea' of William Davies, Cringell, Neath, with some portions in the hand of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'); two letters, 1804, from Richard Bevan of Cardiff and London to his cousin William Davies.

Miscellaneous extracts and 'collectanea' mainly relating to Glamorgan and including a transcript by Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Edinburgh of prayers to King Henry VI; an account of the manor of Walterston, Glamorgan; extracts from the Davies of Cringell manuscripts, etc., much of them in the hand of John Montgomery Traherne, with a fragment in the hand of William Davies, Cringell.

Copies of In the House of Lords. Case of Charles Kemeys Kemeys Tynte, ... Esquire, on his Claim to the Title and Dignity of Baron Wharton of Wharton ... 1843, the report of the Wharton peerage case extracted from Clark and Finelly's Cases in the House of Lords ..., 1845, and other relevant material.

Press cuttings, printed circulars, broadsides, prints, poems and autograph letters, etc. preserved by J[ohn] M[ontgomery] Traherne, together with miscellaneous material relating mainly to Glamorgan, particularly to elections, the church and ecclesiastical affairs, agriculture (including the Glamorganshire Agricultural Society), Cardiff and Abergavenny 'eisteddfodau', education, music, savings banks, railways, antiquities, archaeological associations, mines and mining, etc.

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.

Pedigree collections of John Montgomery Traherne, mainly relating to Glamorgan families, including some from the papers of William Davies of Cringell.

Transcripts from NLW MS 6511B of 'cywyddau' by Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Rhisiart Iorwerth and Lewys Morganwg; a copy of Marw-nad am Gwilim Basset o Fisgin, Yswain ..., (Y Bont-faen, 1771); translations of poetry, including one in the hand of John Montgomery Traherne of a 'cywydd' by Lewys Morganwg to Lleision ap Thomas, abbot of Glyn Nedd; press cuttings, including a copy of 'Canu Tarw Maesgadlawr' by William Hopkin; a copy of 'Fanny blooming Fair ...' by David Nicholas, with an English version by William Davies, Cringell; a printed poem entitled Crystallinum Palatium by William Hallen Morice; a copy of a poem entitled 'Robert duke of Normandy confined a Prisoner in Cardiff Castle ...' by R. Nichols, 1610; a printed poem entitled Galargerdd ar Farwolaeth y diweddar Barchediccaf William Bruce Knight, Dëon Llandaf by 'Daniel Ddu'; etc.

Letters, 1703/4-1864, from Henry Davenport (Fort St. George, East Indies), to Sir John Talbot, Isleworth; Charles Talbot (Shrewsbury), to ----; Gryffith Price, Lydia White (Bath), Robert Garden (London), Phebe Wells (London), Stephen White (Bath), and Ann Wood to Mrs. Llewellin, Coedriglan; G. Jenner (Brighton), to L. Traherne (Coytrehen); Griffith Llewellyn (Baglan), to Lady Mary Talbot (Cheltenham); Herbert Marshall (bishop of Llandaff), to W. Bruce Knight; R. Reece (Cardiff), to J. Johnson (Cowbridge); [P William, first] earl Nelson (Trafalgar), E. Williams (bookseller, London), A. Saunderson, Lord John Stuart, William Buckland (geologist), John Roby (Swansea), Philip Bliss (Oxford), Sir Thomas Phillipps (Middlehill), Henry Hey Knight, Thomas Johnson (Cardiff), Thomas Davies (Wenvoe), John Charles, third earl of Clarendon, H. Douglas (Newland Vicarage), Thomas Rockett (Spettesbury), E. Bassett (Llantwit Major); Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, William Williams (Aberpergwm), Taliesin Williams ('Taliesin ab Iolo'), John Frederick, first earl Cawdor, W. J. Rees (Cascob), Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc'), J. E. Tyler, G. T. Clark, J. C. Prichard, (Bristol), G. T. Belts (Heralds' College), Edwin O. Tregelles (Melincryddan), and R. Reece (Cardiff), to John Montgomery Traherne; etc.

A volume of 'Glamorganshire Collections' compiled in or circa 1839 and containing pedigrees of the families of Turberville of Ewenny, etc., Gamage of Coyty, Sidney of Coyty, Streatfield of Lanharry, Bawdrippe of Penmark and Splott, Paine (afterwards Gibbon) of St. Fagans, Vann of Marcross, Edwin of Lanmihangel, Kemeys and Kemeys Tynte of Cefn Mabley, Lewis of Ruperra, Herbert of Cogan Pill, etc., Gwyn of Lansannor, Ragland of Carn lloyd, Thomas of Tregrose, Jones of Fonmon Castle, Thomas of Wenvoe Castle, Nerber of Castleton, Vele of St. Fagans, Thomas of Brigam, Le Sore of St. Fagans and Peterston super Ely, Seys of Boverton, Fleming of Monkton, Fleming of Flemingston, Button of Duffryn, Gibbon of Trecastle in Llanharry, Wilkins of Lanblethian, Prichard of Collena, Bennet of Penrice, etc., Aubrey of Lantrithyd, Nicholl of Lantwit Major and Lanmace, Jenkins of Hensol, Butler of Dunraven, Vaughan of Dunraven, Traherne of Castella, Mathews of Llandaff, and others.

Letters, 1853-[c. 1860], mainly to John Montgomery Traherne, from Lady Bute, J. H. Todd (Dublin), John Keble, W. H. Beaver (Cowbridge), Philip H. Howard, J. Dillwyn Llewelyn (Penllergaer), Francis Glennon (London), Connop Thirlwall (bishop of St. Davids), H. Albertson (London), H. Wellesley (Oxford), R. L. Cotten (Oxford), John Hussey (Blandford), J. M. Dyke, Madam Bunsen, J. R. Gower, Frederick, fourth baron Spencer, J. R. Planché (College of Arms), William Golding (Biddenham), Daniel Rock, Alwyne Compton, W. H. Turner (Trent), Thomas F. Luttrell, E. Jeffris Esdaile, Robert H. Inglis, W. D. Conybeare (dean of Llandaff), Henry M. Hawkins (London), J. Graham Vivian (Swansea), Joseph Joseph (Brecon), Thomas Hughes (Chester), Octavius Morgan, Thomas Jones (Chetham Library, Manchester), James Stuart (London), R. C. Nicholl Carne (Nash Manor), Lewis Thomas (Llandough), N. E. Vaughan, Sir George Gilbert Scott (architect), C. R. M. Talbot (Margam), W. Richardson (St. Davids), W. Salmon (Penllyne Court), H. Howard (Donington Rectory), J. Ponsonby Lucas (Rhosilly Rectory), George Rice, fourth baron Dynevor, Matthew Moggridge, H. Longueville Jones, J. Wilson, John C. Nicholl (Merthyr Mawr), John Phillips (York), Edward Hawkins (British Museum), Illtyd Nicholl (Usk), Edward Charlton (Newcastle), William Floyd (London), James Raine (Durham), W. H. Llewelyn (Tranmere), Henry Burgess (Newport Pagnell), R. F. Lascelles Jenner (Wenvoe), (Sir) Stephen R. Glynne (Hawarden Castle), Edwin Guest (Cambridge), W. Basil Jones (bishop of St. Davids), E. L. Barnwell (Ruthin), etc.

A notebook purchased at the sale of the library of Theophilus Jones , historian of Brecknockshire, being a miscellany containing, among other things, 'Catalogus libror. meor. An[n]o 1643 ...', extracts from works on religion, a copy of 'The man[n]er of the winning of Glamorgan out of the Welsh mens hands by Sr Robert fitz Hamon and his followers ...', pedigrees mainly of Glamorgan families, 'An alphabet of some coates of armes in Wales and the borders of the same', details of some Glamorgan fee-farm rents, etc.

Miscellanea relating to heraldry, largely of Glamorgan interest.

A notebook given to John Montgomery Traherne by Taliesin Williams ('Ab Iolo') in 1834, containing transcripts by 'Ab Iolo' of a poem by Ieuan ap Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd to Mair o Benn Rys from a manuscript (not NLW MS 6511B) written by Llywelyn Siôn of Llangewydd in 1596 and of an English song in praise of Glamorgan by Sir John Stradling of St Donats from a copy belonging to Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') .