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The archive comprises the papers of Jill Evans, mostly produced and accumulated in the course of her work as a Member of the European Parliament for Plaid Cymru between 1999 and 2020 and include material relating to various campaigns on employment, the environment, women's issues, food standards, international development, the Iraq war, the Welsh language and Catalonia.

Reports, 1874-1926, drawn up by William Galloway and others (including his son, Christian) relating to the mining of coal and other minerals in Wales and elsewhere around the world, examining matters including mining engineering, geology, the economics of working minerals (sinking shafts, mineral extraction, mineral quality, labour, maintenance, transport and selling prices) and the history of mineral working; the reports comprise examinations of mines, mineral fields, mineral seams and other geological strata, as well as statistics, maps, plans, diagrams, photographs, sketches, correspondence, inventories, itineraries and notes; the archive also includes related material, 1957.

Papurau Evan Roberts, Llandderfel, [1658]-[?1990au], yn cynnwys llythyrau a chardiau post, 1921-1973, oddi wrth ystod eang o ohebwyr, gan gynnwys John Cowper Powys; erthyglau, traethodau a darlithoedd ganddo, ynghyd â nodiadau ymchwil, [?1924]-[1968x1975]; papurau personol, 1924-[?1990au]; llyfrau lloffion, papurau newydd a deunyddiau printiedig eraill, [1658]-1970; a llawysgrifau, yn cynnwys gweithiau llawysgrif gan amryw awdur megis Clwydydd a Derfelog, a gasglwyd ganddo, [c. 1736]- [20 gan., ½ cyntaf]. = Papers, [1658]-[?1990s], relating to Evan Roberts, Llandderfel, including letters and postcards, 1921-1973, from a wide range of correspondents, including John Cowper Powys; articles, essays and lectures by Evan Roberts, together with research notes, [?1924]-[1968x1975]; personal papers, 1924-[?1990s]; scrapbooks, newspapers and other printed materials, [1658]-1970; and manuscript material, including manuscript works by various authors such as Clwydydd and Derfelog, collected by him, [c. 1736]- [20 cent., first ½].

Mr Cressett has just arrived from Ireland where he made the campaign. Is told that he went to Cambridge but does not know where he is there. He sent Owen's letters to the postmaster. Parliament opens very promisingly: they voted addresses of thanks to the King and General and supplies to the uttermost. They have not sat that day. When Owen writes next he should frank his letters.

Congratulations on the birth of a son. Prays that God will continue those Owen has and send him many more. May Owen's race fruitfully branch and spread out into all the neighbouring counties: and may they be as useful to posterity as the stock from which they grow was in time past. His wife also after three days' dangerous travail has had a thumping lusty girl on 2nd June. The French fleet has braved the English these twelve days: Sir William Williams was in the heat of the engagement and in one of the two ships that fought.

Is disappointed not to find a small bill with Owen's letter. Expects the interest, and the writer must not fail his landlady at midsummer. Some say half the fleet has gone to the Straits and that the rest stay about the Channel, that the Spaniards are mauled at Barcelona, and that the French squadron met our Straits fleet homeward bound.

There is a scurvy report that Mr Solicitor-General has fallen ill at Worcester which the writer hopes is not true. If so, Owen will have had the news, for bad news is generally winged enough. When are the Flint Assizes? Ned Mostyn says that he is for the country very speedily. The affairs at Rome are not yet accommodated. The old man seems resolute and says he would rather resign than prejudice the rights of the Church. The town will have it that 'Hogen would be Mogen' and meditate mischief against us, but, though they may wish well, their horns are short. They may have North Holland wind, but the writer hopes that 'we' have as many ships as they. Soldiers who have gone away will not be 'our countrymen' according to a doctrine they have set on foot that a subject taking service under a former prince loses his allegiance without allowing any local allegiance. The Bishop of Oxford died; the Bishop of Hereford is said to be dead. Mr Heylyn, Mr Dodwell and the Warden of All Souls are named as competitors for Dr Lamphire's place of Hist. professor.

Has received two bills for Owen from Mr Monk: they are for £1,750, and are enclosed. Mr Green was present and says there is no doubt of good payment. Other money matters. He will send Owen's watch and silk by Mr Green who will be leaving in about ten days.

Business matters. Wonders why Owen's letter of the 24th came no sooner than last night: there must be some error in the post ... The six regiments are sent for from Holland. The writer hopes to get Mr Lewis a post in one of them. The trunk of a man was found three nights ago near Queen's St, and his arms, legs and thighs next day thrown out of the Savoy into the Thames: his head is missing: no one knows who he is. This and minatory letter's sent to six or seven Protestant noblemen make great noise. PS Mr David Morris's business. The writer encloses his account to Owen being an itemised account totalling £45.8.0. This includes £6.10.0 for two pieces of gadian silk at £3.5.0 each; for spectacles with gold frames, glasses and case £1.12.0; mending Owen's watch and a new key 10/-.

Their gazettes are but thin-woven of late, and the city Mercury, the writer hopes, continues to give Owen what occurs. Parliament is to meet the 15th January. All Catholics are to be out of commission. Commissioners are to be sent to treat with the Prince of Orange - some bishops and some temporals: Canterbury, Winchester, Ely, Halifax, Nottingham, Middleton, Preston, Godolphin or some of them. As the Earl of Danby took York, so the Earl of Bath has seized his own government of Plymouth and therein imprisoned the Earl of Huntingdon. Lord Delamere moves about and seems unwilling to stop at lesser things than London.

The Prince is still at Exeter much surprised all England is not yet come to him: none but tagrags and western weavers stir. Dr Burnes, Ferguson, and Balfour - that murdered the Archbishop of St Andrews are of his Council: they have already assumed episcopal jurisdiction and would have forced the clergy to read a prayer for their success but all refused with scorn. The King marches next week.

The French King has just published reasons that have obliged him to take up arms at this time and which ought to persuade all Christendom of his sincere intentions for preserving the public peace. It is a manifesto of 19 leaves and just came into the writer's hands as the post goes off. He has also sent another manifesto to Rome in which he tells them that he will send troops into Italy to seize the dukedoms of Castro and Ronione and Avignon too, until he be satisfied and the Duke of Parma restored. These are angry matters, and the writer is afraid they will be singing à la guerra, etc.

What a blot it will be that the Dutch should send a vast fleet to sea and join 30 Swedish ships to their own and for nobody to know which country they intend to take! It has been under sail since Saturday. The French say it is against England and the English say it is against them. The Dauphin has gone with all the flower of France to besiege Philipsburg. Has heard no more from John Anthony. The Mercury shall continue his letters if Owen pleases. Parliament writs were that day delivered to the lords-lieutenant.

Has Owen's favour of the 6th, but thought Owen would have spared his hand until he had quite shaken off the fatigue of following the Court. The King hunts most of the week in New Forest and intends to be at Windsor the 17th; but the Queen not until the 24th, unless this raw, weeping weather changes resolutions. The Lord Chamberlain has made his peace and has gone to Bath to re-enter on the execution of his office. The French complain much of the scandal cast upon them as if they had shared in aiding the Turk in this campaign. They hear at present but of gold chains sent to the German officers, ere long (it will be) of hempen or at best silken ones sent to the Grand Vizier. The Duke of Berwick was cured of his Hungarian ague by the pleasant surprise of the successful battle ... Old Corinth and Lacedemon and Epidaurus are fallen to the Venetians and the Bassas are hunted like foxes from one fastness to another. The Chief of the Morea has scampered away to Cubaea alias Negropont. Serjeant Price of the Park is dead. PS Has often enjoyed Owen's company, but never so much as two nights ago in that philosophical Elysium when the writer's poor, empty, wandering thoughts were dressed up in all the verdant circumstances of delight that Epicurus - the author - Owen and the writer could fancy.

Friday was a day of trial. The Bishops of St Asaph, Ely, Peterborough, Bristol, Bath and Wells, and Chichester petitioned the King to be dispensed from reading his declaration. They said they were not averse to it for want of tenderness to dissenters in favour of whom they would come to such temper as might be agreed on in Parliament and Convocation. But this dispensing power might lead at any time to the setting aside of all laws. The declaration appears to them as it did to the Parliament of '72 to be illegal, and they could not make themselves so far a party to it as to read it in church. The King is said to have answered that they might refuse to read the Declaration but that he would find himself ways to be obeyed. The King is very dissatisfied with them and God knows what the consequence may prove. Wishes to know Owen's final resolve about N(an)t.

Condolences on the death of (Owen's brother) William Owen ... When there is least news most is made. Some will have it that Monsieur is well cured of all distempers, but the writer knows no ground for it; nor of the Lord Chancellor being Vicar-General and the great seal in commission, besides other rumours in Westminster. But time is mother of truth and next term like to be the midwife. Tomorrow the Court of Chivalry sits for the first time.

Has received the letter written by Owen on his wedding night. Congratulations. He will not write again before Owen comes up in about a fortnight. Two fellows swore against a gentleman of Cambridgeshire as if he would have hired one of them to attempt upon the King's life - which God preserve - but the rogues being cross-examined it was found but malice and the other one an honest man. The question about penal laws is to be put to the lords lieutenant. Lord Ferrars is out and Lord Ashton, in for Staffordshire; so is the Earl of Bridgewater out and the Lord Chancellor in for Bucks and Hertford. The Lord Mayor was at a conventicle last Sunday in the morning and evening, but at noon he received the sacrament in the Church of England and yesterday took all oaths and declarations in Chancery.

Understands by her letters of the great wrong offered to her husband by the writer's cousin, Mr William Morice. There is law to defend the same. As for anything passed by the writer to her husband he is prepared to perform the same. Advises her to inform her husband, now in London, of the unlawful assembly and trespass including the casting down of hedges, fences, and enclosures, and to urge him to take action in the Star Chamber. She is to show this letter to the writer's cousin, her father.

Demand for the payment of £100.

Has sent the articles to Oliver Humphreys by Robert Vaughan of Caerynwch. She will send them to him as soon as she gets them back. Asks advice concerning possession for her son and daughter. Family matters of a legal kind.