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Two volumes entitled 'Prif Achae holl Gymru Benbaladr', being a composite collection of Welsh and English pedigrees compiled by, and in the autograph of, Sir Thomas Wiliems, Trefriw. The following statement made by him on the title-page (f.5a) indicates both the source and period of the work: 'Tho: Wiliem physyowr ai casglodh. y parth cyntaf val y gwely, oetran Crist ynol y cnawt 1578. Ac Ai angwanegodh yleni, sef 1595. hevyt angwanec nyd bychan i609. alhan o liuer Si: Vych. Gut. yw. Tud. Alet. John Brwyn. ag ereilh lawer. His other sources include the collections of Llywelyn ap Maredudd (f. 270a), Wiliam Cynwal (f. 270b), Ieuan ap Madog ap Rhys (f. 351b), Hari Je. LI. (f. 356b), Thomas ap Llywelyn ap Ithel 'o degeingl' (ff. 372b, 390a), and John Brook 'o Vodhwy' (f. 389a). Ff. la - 4a contain transcripts by Sir Thomas Wiliems of accounts of miscellaneous occurrences ranging in date from 1472 to 1612; ff. 654a - 664a contain an index in a later hand to the Welsh pedigrees included in the volumes. The original pagination is neither complete nor accurate. The volumes were at one time in the possession of David Jones 'Dewi Fardd', Trefriw, who has written his own and other pedigrees on ff. 298 and 668b, and was purchased from his executors by Thomas Pennant. The crest of the Pennant family is embossed in gold on the spine of each volume. The volumes are described in Messrs. Wm. Dew and Son's Catalogue of the Remainder of the Downing Library, 1913, p. 19. Paper; ff.1-671; full vellum with gilt tooling; 2 vols.

A collection of twenty-one sermons by, and in the autograph of, the Rev. Micah Thomas, first Principal of the Abergavenny Baptist Academy. These sermons were written in 1817-1819 and were delivered by him at Abergavenny during that period and also in 1842-1851. Loosely inserted in the volume is another autograph sermon which he delivered at Abergavenny on Sept 26, 1819. Paper; 178 ff., unnumbered; 164x103; diced sheepskin.

Volume of sermons and sermon notes apparently by, and in the autograph of, Morgan Lewis, Coesforgan, Sirhowy, Monmouthshire, whose name appears on the fly-leaf. Pasted on the inside of the front cover is the inscription: 'W. Thomas Islwyn Feby. 1858 Ynysddu'. Paper; 27 pp., incorrectly numbered 25, and 115 unnumbered pages, many of which are blank; 182 x 115; morocco, with blind tooling.

Transcript, made in 1766, of Sir John Wynne's History of the Gwydir Family. It appears to be copied from a transcript, made on 18 Oct. 1706, of a manuscript which in 1700 belonged to Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor.[? Wynnstay MS]. NLW MS 27 is a transcript of the same original. The History is followed by transcripts of a land tax assessment for co. Denbigh at 2s. 4d. per £,.n.d.; resolutions of the Commissioners for co. Denbigh for levying an aid to the King, 3 May 1700; a note of the division of any general mise in the hundred of Isalet, and the 'Decays of Ruthin', co. Denbigh, n.d.; another division of the hundred of Isalet, n.d.,. assessment of a quarter tax in the parish of Llanddoget, 1 May 1674; and the Rules and Orders for the government of an Almshouse for six poor men in the village of Kerrigy-druidion, co. Denbigh, to be erected and endowed by the Hon. Robert Price of Geeler, esq., one of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, 9 Feb. 1716/7. Paper; 164 pp., of which 70 are numbered; 200 x 160;quarter calf.

Commonplace book mainly containing proverbs and original and transcribed sermons in English, Latin and Greek. The following inscription appears on the fly-leaf:-'M ... Edwardi Warreni de Wormington in Comit Gloucestrio Anno Doni 1664 Anno Etatis 23'. A short description of the volume, in the form of a cutting from a sale catalogue, is loosely inserted. According to this description, the author appears to have been a Puritan of the Cromwellian period. A note, however, in the margin of this cutting [by Albert Addams-Williams] refutes this suggestion on the ground that the volume contains a sermon based on the martyrdom of Charles I. Paper; 252 pp., unnumbered; 142 x 89;; tooled calf.

The Book of Common Prayer (Oxford, 1686). Many of the leaves are mutilated, but some have been repaired and the lost text supplied in manuscript. Nine pages at the beginning contain manuscript extracts (1730-1782) from parish registers, recording the marriage of Thomas Phillips, cleric, rector of Grossmount and Llanfoyst, co. Monmouth, and Joyce Bristow, spinster, of Hillstone, St. Maughans, and also the births, deaths, and marriage of members of their family. Paper; 16 pp., unnumbered, of which 7 are blank, 416 pp., unnumbered, and 12 pp. unnumbered and blank; 169 x 103. full sheepskin with gilt tooling, damaged at the spine.

A volume of sermons and sermon notes. Some of these were delivered at Preston, Kingswood, and Lapw[orth] between 1662 and 1665. A note in pencil on the fly-leaf states that the volume is in the autograph of the Reverend Matthew Henry. Howeer, a short description of the volume by 'D.R.T.' in the form of a newspaper cutting pasted on the inside of the front cover states that, in view of the dates of some of the sermons, the volume must be in the autograph, not of Matthew, but of his father, Philip Henry, the eminent Nonconformist divine. Paper; 502 pp., unnumbered; 163 x 118; full calf, damaged at the spine, and with remnants of two clasps.

Transcript of a journal of the tour of Dr. Joseph Wolff, the eminent missionary, from Bakhara to Simian in search of the lost ten tribes of Israel, March - July 1832. The Journal is in the form of a letter to 'Lovely Georgiana', i.e, his first wife Georgiana Mary, sixth daughter of Horatio Walpole, second earl of Oxford. Pinned to one of the fly-leaves is an obituary notice and biography of Dr. Wolff in the form of a cutting from The Times, 7 May 1862. Paper; 80 pp., unnumbered; 172 x 105; full marbled calf with blind tooling.

Volume of seven sermons on the sixth chapter of Isaiah preached in Banbury by Thomas Bradbury. At the beginning of the volume is a dedicatory letter addressed to Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury. Paper; 1 unnumbered folio, 1-82; 193 x 150; full parchment.

A small notebook containing transcripts [made by Major Albert-Addams Williams of Llangibby Castle in 1902] of verses entitled 'The Collier's Wedding' and 'Crawshay Bailey's Engine'; and English poems by Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Courtney Melmoth, and W[illiam] Woty, and a copy and English translation of Dr. Samuel Johnson's well-known Latin epitaph to Goldsmith, which is inscribed on his monument in Westminster Abbey. The unnumbered folio at the beginning contains the title of the volume and an index to its contents. Paper; 2 pp. unnumbered; 180x120: unnumbered, pp. 1-44; 152 x 92; marbled paper.

Volume entitled Preparatory Thoughts by J[ohn] Gauden, bishop of Exeter, being a tract intended to 'prepare [the mind's] affections so oft as it receives the holy Sacrament, and great mistery of the Lords Supper'. The six unnumbered pages at the beginning contain a title-page which reads 'Preparatory Thoughts. June 1. 1641' and a dedicatory letter addressed to Lady Rice, which, however, is dated 'Apr: 10. 1638'. Inside the front cover is pasted the bookplate of 'W.H.Corfield'.The spine of the cloth container is lettered: 'Gauden's Preparatory Thoughts MS. 1641 English Binding'. 6 pp., unnumbered, Paper; pp. 1-76; 151x 97; bound in full morocco, with gilt ornamentation, and contained in a cloth case.

Volume containing abstracts of army and navy estimates, public debts, deficiencies of parliamentary funds, etc., 1684-1699, and a copy of the report of the Commissioners appointed to value forfeited estates in Ireland. Paper; 89 pp., unnumbered, of which 37 are blank; 196 x 160; full parchment.

A composite volume containing transcripts of patents and warrants for the appointment of officers of customs and excise, lists of excise officers, and methods observed in the management of the excise, 1690-1703; patent of the appointment of Sir Robert Cotton and Thomas Frankland to the office of Postmaster General, 5 March 1690/1; indenture of appointment of Thomas Neale to the office of Master of the Mint, 2 April 1689, and deeds and documents relating thereto, 1700-1703. Paper; 179 ff., unnumbered, of which about 61 are blank; 190 x 150 and 179 x 145; full rough calf, with blind tooling.

Transcripts of the report of Commissioners appointed to investigate the state of the public revenue between Michaelmas, 1702, and Michaelmas, 1703; the state of the accounts of the Earl of Ranelagh, Paymaster of the Army, 1687-1699, and of the Earl of Orford, Treasurer of the Navy, 1689-1690; abstract of the report presented by the Commissioners to the House of Commons, 22 January 1703/4; the answers of the Earl of Ranelagh, the Earl of Orford and others to the report and the counter-replies of the commissioners, February, 1703/4. Paper; 282 ff., unnumbered; 200 x 156; full rough calf, with blind tooling.

Volume entitled 'Right of Electors Determined By the house to 15 May 1730'. It consists of resolutions, 1604-1729, defining the right of election for various constituencies in England, Wales and Scotland. Among the constituencies represented are Beaumaris, Cardigan, Carmarthen, town, Flint town, Monmouth, Montgomery and New Radnor. 8 unnumbered pages at the end contain an index to the volume. The volume was formerly Phillipps MS 24612. Paper; 12 unnumbered pp; 210 pp.; 200x148; full mottled calf with gilt tooling.

A composite volume containing transcripts of patents, warrants, and indentures of appointment to offices in the royal household, to the offices of Receiver General of South Wales, of North Wales and the County Palatine of Chester, and of the Duchy of Cornwall, to the offices of Surveyor of Woods on the South of the Trent and on the North of the Trent, etc., 1660/1 - 1702. Inserted in the volume is a loose sheet containing a list of contents. Paper; 167 ff., of which 46 are blank; 198 x 152 and 186 x 143.

Volume entitled 'Elenchus Parliamentorum', being an index to parliamentary proceedings from the reign of Edward III to that of Edward IV, compiled by W Younge. Paper; 87 ff., unnumbered, and affected by damp; 190 x 142; full mottled calf, with blind tooling.

Volume lettered 'Chandless Alphabet of Arms', containing the arms of the gentry of Yorkshire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire; pencil, pen-and-ink, and coloured reproductions of some coats of arms; and miscellaneous verses including a long poem entitled 'Memorials of Mortalities'. This volume was formerly Phillipps MS. 11201. Paper; 37 ff., unnumbered; 171x 114; full calf with gilt tooling.