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An early nineteenth century volume of airs, dances, etc., said on a label on the protective paper cover to have been 'copied by Mr. Gwynn of Llanbrain' [i.e., Glanbrân in co. Brecknock]. The titles include 'Lovly Nancy', 'Lady Northe's Minuet', 'Lady Fearans Minuet', 'Farwel to Mancher ', 'Air By Captain Heaky', 'Gavot in the 10t Sonato of Correlli-Ruabon', 'Barbarianas Minuet-Ruabon', 'Parris Minuet', 'Minuet In Samson-Ruabon', 'Gin thou wert Mine ain thing', 'Minuet By Mr. [John] Parry [of Ruabon]', 'Count Sax's Minuet by Mr Parry', 'Of a Noble Race Was Shenkin. With Mr. Parrys Vars.', 'Shenkin', 'God Save the King With Vars', 'Handel's Water Musick', 'Minuet in Ariadne', 'The Lass of Paties Mill. Vars. by Mr. Parry ', 'Gavot Alegro' by John Stanley, 'Burton's Chese', 'The Lass that was Laden With Care . . .', 'Gavot Alegro' by John Stanly, 'Rhyddlan Marsh, by Mr. Parry, Ruabon', 'Gavot in Otho', 'Thro the Wood Laddie', 'Highland Laddie' by Mr. Pary, 'Horse to New-Market', 'The Lien Solo of Correli', 'Meillionen or Sir Watkins Delight' by John Parry, 'Disobri', 'Roslin Castel', 'Minuet in Rodelinda' (1770), 'Pitts Hornpipe', and 'An Air by Mr. Deebourgh'.

An early nineteenth century music book of Charlotte Louisa Talbot [afterwards the wife of the Reverend John Montgomery Traherne, Coedriglan] ('the gift of Mama'). The volume contains songs, psalms, hymn-tunes, dances, etc., and the titles include 'Glamorganshire March', 'The Soldier's Joy', ' La Piedmontaise', 'O What a beau my Grannie was', 'Progressive Lesson' ('by Hulmandel', i.e., Nicolas Joseph Hullmandel), 'Duke of Gloucester's March', 'Easter Hymn', 'Hymn' by [Ignaz Joseph] Pleyel, 'The Highland Queen', 'Song in Rosina', 'Song in poor Soldier', 'The Complaint' by [? William] Jackson, 'Somebody' by Lady Cornwallis, 1776, 'Rock & wie pickle tow', 'Lady Priscilla Bertie's Minuet', 'In Airy Dreams', 'Egyptian Love Song', 'Babling Echo', 'Song', 'Down the Burn Davy', 'The Belfast Almanack ', 'Sir Watkins Delight', 'Black Mary' ('very old Galic air'), 'Barcarole ', 'Marlbroug', 'Aria' by [Wolfgang Amadeus] Mozart, 'Kate of Aberdeen', 'The Fields were green', 'Rest beauteous flow'r . . .' by Jackson, 'Thou soft flowing Avon. . .' by Dr. [Thomas Augustine] Arne, 'Valenciennes March', 'Waltz', 'Mrs. Brunels Waltz', 'Lord Wellington', 'Oh the Moment was sad' ('Irish'), 'Leipsic Waltz', '2d Waltz', '3d Waltz', '4th Waltz', 'Amour, cruel amour', 'Oh Nanny' by [Jan Ladislav] Dussek, 'Rondo', 'Kielmark's Romance', 'Chatley Waltz', ['La pipe de Tabac'] by [ ] Varnier, 'Thirty second Psalm', '34th Psalm', '42d Psalm', 'Mrs. Macdonald ', 'Rousseau's Dream', 'La Brillante', 'Austrian Waltz' by [John] Parry [ of Ruabon], 'Air' by [?P.M] Meyer, 'Barcarole', 'The Porteynon Whim' (1817 ), 'Vincennes Waltz', 'Miss Knight's Waltz', ['Waltz'] by [ ] Ferstein, 'She rose and let me in', 'La Paysanne', 'Folia d'Espagna', 'La pion pion d' Estelle', 'March' by [Robert Nicolas Charles] Bochsa, 'Waltz' by [Johann] Schenk, 'The Hyperbole' ('composed by Mrs. R. J.'), 'Waltz', 'Thema', 'The Queens Minuet', 'Psalm 34th', 'How long wilt thou forget me Lord . . .' by [ George Frederic] Handel, 'Part of the Service of the Greek Church as performed in Russia', 'Psalm VIII' ('Magdalen Evening hymn'), 'No t'was neither shape nor feature . . .' by [Johan Sebastian] Bach, 'The Inconstant's Waltz', [ ] by [ ] Pleyel, 'The Lass that was laden wi' care', 'Conway Castle' by [John] Parry, 'Emma's Reel', Welsh air ('Os ai dithau duwa y lech blaen nant ty . . .'), [ ] by [ ] Pleyel, Welsh air ('[Pan] own i ar foreudydd ...'), 'Toi!', 'Air by Lady Catherine Bligh', ‘'Jones's Hornpipe', 'Andante' by [P. J.] Meyer, senior, 'Where the bee sucks' by Ame, [ ] by [Girolamo] Crescentini, 'Rondo' by Bach, [ ] by Bach, 'Lochaber', 'Miss Johnson's Reel', 'Sonata' by [William] Corbett, 'Romance' by [Franz Joseph] Haydn, 'Air' by [Giovanni Battista] Viotti, 'La Montaguarde' by [ ] Trenisi, 'Waltz', 'March' by Handel, 'Arietta Romana', 'Wire a' Noddin', 'Indian Air', 'Sonata' by [?Johann Samuel] Schroeter, 'Rondo in 11 Barone di Terre forte' by [?Tommaso] Giordani, 'L'Été', 'La Foe', 'La Flora', 'La Matilde', 'Le Tancred', 'Zitti Zitti', 'La Limerick', 'La Nouvelle Fantaisie', etc. The greater part of the volume is indexed.

An imperfect volume (pp. 143-4, 149-50, 159-258) containing translations by Daniel Durel, headmaster of the Free School, Cowbridge, from 'Walton's Introduction to ye Oriental Tongues', i.e., B. Waltoni introductio ad Rectionem linguarum orientalium . . . (Londini, 1655), etc.

Bills of fees payable to the Clerk of the Peace of Glamorgan, 1818-1819; an undated comparative table of fees payable to the Clerks of the Peace in the counties of Worcester, Shropshire, Oxford, and Glamorgan; a return, so far as relates to the Court of Quarter Sessions for Glamorgan, to a resolution of the House of Commons of 26 August, 1846, touching the receipt and disposal of fees; and a printed report, 1874, by Tho. Dalton, Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan, on the business done by him and included in the arrangement with the county in 1866, and also of all fees and emoluments of his office not included in such arrangement.

A valuation list, 1876, and a poor rate assessment book, 1887, for the parish of St. Hilary, co. Glamorgan.

A transcript of the tithe apportionment schedule for the parish of Saint Hilary, co. Glamorgan, 1840, together with typescript copies of the schedule to the articles of agreement, 1838, by Harry Phelps Goode, land surveyor, of Saint Martins, Haverfordwest, and of a letter from Messrs. Morgan Bruce and Nicholas, Pontypridd, to Messrs. Cheston & Sons, London, 1906 (the sale of lots in St. Hilary).

Pedigrees of the families of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, Madock ap Iustyn, Cradock ap Iustyn, Rys ap Iustyn ap Gwrga, Vychan of Kilvey, Mansell, Herbert, Gamage, Turberville, Matthews, etc.

A genealogical account of several ancient families from which William Davies, Cringell was descended and which were allied to him and his ancestors through the marriage of David ap William, Davies's grandfather, to Claudia, the daughter of Thomas ap Richard, Esq. of Baglan Hall.

Pedigrees of some Glamorgan families, being 'Extracts from the Golden Grove MS. made by Mr. Davies of Cringell with additions by Theophilus Jones' [and John Montgomery Traherne].

A history of the bards and literature of Wales written by William Davies, Cringell.

Biographical notes on Sir Robert Mansel and the Button family; notes on the bardic order, on Margam and on customs, notions, pastimes and diversions prevalent in Glamorgan; lists of manors, notes on abbeys and priories, and a list of bishops of Llandaff. The work is mainly that of William Davies, Cringell, but with additions by Richard Bevan and Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg').

Glamorgan collectanea of William Davies, Cringell, near Neath, classical scholar and historian (see The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, Vol. II, July 1916). The material includes Queries proposed [by William Davies] to the nobility gentry and clergy of Glamorganshire, with a view to illustrate the history of that county; two draft proposals for publishing the history of Glamorganshire, the second of them printed at Swansea in 1803, together with a prospectus and request for subscribers dated 19 July 1810; two letters, 20 September 1823 and 25 October 1823, from David Davis, Unitarian minister, Neath (son of David Davis, Castell Hywel) to John Montgomery Traherne giving the writer's reason for buying the manuscripts of William Davies and informing Traherne that if Thomas Rees would not prepare the material for publication Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc') would be asked to do so.

A portion of a pedigree roll showing some of the descendants of Noah down to Christ.

Letters, 1893-1922, to Sir Thomas Mansel Franklen, St Hillary, Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan, and to Ed. Knox from Thomas Gray (author of The Buried City of Kenfig ...) and W. G. Madan of Gloucester.

Letters, 1859-1896, to Mrs. J. M. Traherne (née Charlotte Louisa Talbot, of Margam) from George T. Clark and Sir Thomas Phillipps, Middle Hill; to Sir Thomas Mansel Franklen from J. D. Davies, Llanmadoc, and Charles Ll. Talbot, Lacock Abbey; etc.

Letters, 1851-1854, to John Montgomery Traherne from (Lady) Mary Lucy Cole, W. C. Trevelyan, William Floyd, R. H. Cleeve, Robert Ingham, James Raine (Durham), Edward Arthur Copleston, Thomas H. Wyatt, Thomas Guy, John Griffith (Llansannor), Lewis Thomas (Bonvilstone), Joseph Hunter, Richard Croft, George T. Clark, Lewis Weston Dillwyn, Sir George-Gilbert Scott, Alfred Ollivant (bishop of Llandaff), etc.

Letters, 1812-1819, to John Montgomery Traherne from W. M. Vaughan of Swansea, Sir John Llewelyn of Penllergaer and William Buckland, geologist.

Syllabuses and illustrations issued in connection with the Disney Lectures on Archaeology delivered by George Forrest Browne at Cambridge, 1888-1893, on The Anglian Sculptured Stones of pre-Norman types, The Sculptured Stones of Scotland, The Sculptured Stones of Scotland, Wales and Mann, etc.

A copy which belonged to John Montgomery Traherne, and which has manuscript notes by him, of General Rules for regulating the practice of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and other matters relating to the General Police of the County of Glamorgan ... (Cardiff, 1834).

An inventory, taken 10 November 1632, of all the household effects at Penshurst and an inventory of statues and pictures delivered by Philip Sidney, Lord Lisle (afterwards 3rd Earl of Leicester) from his home in Sheen, Staffordshire, 8 September 1660.