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A miscellany containing engraved prints, lists and other papers relating to coins, medals, tokens, alphabets and sculpture, etc.

Miscellaneous notes and collectanea relating to the archaeology, etc. of Glamorgan.

'Collectanea' relating to Glamorgan history and material relating to Colonel Philip Jones, including a copy of Articles of Impeachment of Transcendent Crimes [etc.] ... committed by Col. Philip Jones ... Together with Col. Philip Jones's Answer ... (London, 1649), also letters, 1829-1840, from John Webb, Tretire and Robert Oliver Jones, Fonmon Castle to John Montgomery Traherne.

Miscellanea relating to ecclesiastical affairs in Glamorgan, particularly the cathedral and diocese of Llandaff, and including a copy of Some Account of the Condition of the Fabric of Llandaff Cathedral from 1575 to its Reopening in 1857 ... (London, 1857).

Press cuttings and other papers relating to agricultural societies in Glamorgan, South Wales railways, Sir Thomas Button, John Franklen, etc.

A scrapbook compiled in 1846 and consisting of press cuttings, illustrations from newspapers, etc.

Miscellanea, 1713-1813, including household and other accounts kept by the Aubrey family of Llantrithyd; an inventory of the furniture of James Marment, taken at the Pyle Inn; etc.

A farm account book, 1786-1792, the property of the late Mrs C. Jones, wife of the Reverend H. Jones, vicar of Penmark, Cowbridge, containing miscellaneous farm and household accounts, culinary and household recipes, etc.

Correspondence, deeds etc., relating to mines, clay works, furnaces, and estates etc., in Glamorgan, mostly addressed to Thos. Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. (a) 1784, Nov. 30. Letter: G. Smith, Sec. [Copper works?] to Mr Thomas Tyler. Exportation of clay. (b) 1793, Aug. 16. Copy of a draft of a lease of Melyn y Court Furnace etc, from the Right Hon. Lord Vernon to Messrs Bush, Walker and Wade (c) 1795, Nov. 10. Letter. 'Jno. Gunston, Sec. 'Govn. & Comp. of Copper miners in England' to [T. Mansel Talbot]. Mynith Bychan mine. (d) 1795, Nov. 15. Letter. Thomas Lott, Forest to Prices of clay and fire bricks. (e) 1796, Jan. 25. Copy of lease of Penrwtting Furnace, etc., for 21 years, from the Right Hon. Lord Vernon to Alexander Raby, Merchant. (f) 1796, Jan. 25. Copy of lease of coal mines and iron mine in Michaelstone Super Avan and Baglan, from the Right Hon. Lord Vernon to Alexander Raby, Merchant. (g) 1797, Nov. 19. Letter. T.M. Ta[lbot], P[enrice] Castle to [Thomas Powell]. Property at Llanrhidian. (h) 1797, Nov. 22. Letter. Thomas Powell, Swansea to [Thos. Mansel Talbot ]. Ownership of land at Llanrhidian, etc. (i) 1798, Aug. 3. Letter. J.N. Miers, Cadoxton, to [T. Mansel Talbot]. Leases of ironworks. (j) 'An account of money received from the English copper co. for coal, clay, and timber, furnished them by contract from Sept. 28, 1798-Dec. 28, 1799.' (k) 1798, Dec. 26. Letter. James Cockshutt, Wortley Ironworks. Near Barnsley to T. Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. Mines and ironworks. (l) 1799, Feb. 23. Letter. John Wade, No. 50 Cannon Street, London to T. Mansel Talbot. Lease of Aberavon Forge, etc. (m) 1799, July 26. Bill, for £722. 14s. issued from the tax office to Thos. Mansel Talbot, esq., Penrice. Signed Wm. Tucker, collector. (n) 'An account of timber sold from Margam estate exclusive of the forge and copper company's contracts from Lady day 1799'. (o) 1799, Oct. 23. Letter. Richard Crawshay to Thos. Mansel Talbot. Suitability of land for furnace building etc. (p) 1800, Feb. 4. Letter. Griff. Llewellyn, Baglan to Thomas Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. Rents etc. (q) 1800, March 6. Letter. Robert Thomas, Ponteynon to Mr Talbot. Conditions of certain property. (r) 1800, March 17. Letter. Griff. Llewellyn, Baglan to [T. Mansel Talbot]. Lease and rent of a tenement in Hafodyporth, etc. (s) 1800, March 21. Income tax bill for £261. 7s signed by Wm. Tucker, collector, made out to Thos. Mansel Talbot, esq., Penrice Castle. (t) 1800, March 30. Letter. Griff. Llewelyn, Cardiff to Thos. Mansel Talbot, Penrice castle. Mine surveying, etc. (u) 1804, April 4. Letter. M. Horton, Bath to [Hicks Beach?]. Amount of rent due, etc. (v) 'A survey of Kenffigg farm' (25 acres 3r 13p). (w) 'Proposals for an Iron work at Mynydd bychan'. (x) 1805, May 30. Letter. M. Hicks Beach, Williamstrip Park to Thomas Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle, re money matters. (y) 1805, July 2. Letter. M. Hicks Beach, Williamstrip Park to Thomas Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. Personal; money matters. (z) 1805, Aug. 2. Letter. M. Hicks Beach, Williamstrip Park to Thomas Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. Money matters. Copies of letters from T. M[ ansel] T[albot] to [M. Hicks Beach] promising the loan of money. (z1) 1805, Sept. 20. Letter. M. Hicks Beach, Williamstrip Park to Thomas Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. Money matters; a loan from Talbot. (z2) Tables [printed] showing the number of tons of iron sent down the Glamorgan & Monmouthshire Canals for the years 1829 to 1838, inclusive. (z3) Extract from 'The Cambrian' for (Dec. 1844?), giving 'a description of the mineral district of South Wales', and 'the advantages of the proposed railway' by J.M. Buckland. [Reprinted from the 'Mining Journal']. (z4) An account of coal shipped to sea at Briton Ferry, from June 1, 1712, to July 1, 1712, sent by Tho[mas] Williams to the Right Honourable Lord Mansel. (z5) 'Account sheet of Thos. Price, Esq. & Co. with Lle. Treherne, for lead ore raised and sold from Clunn Park from Xmas 1754 to May 23, 1760'.

Miscellaneous material relating to Cardiff, including printed extracts from a history of Rawlins White (d. 1555); a copy of an inventory, November 1673, of goods and household staff at Cardiff Castle; notes on the lords of Cardiff Castle and tables showing their descent; a copy of an act of the reign of Queen Anne for the rebuilding of Cardiff Bridge; a programme of 'Tableaux Vivans' to be exhibited at Cardiff Castle, 1 February 1856; a printed letter, 1860, from Clement Waldron and Joseph H. Wallis to John Montgomery Traherne relating to a series of 'conversazioni' to be held at Cardiff; plans of the Bute Ship Canal, 1839, and of the proposed layout of the land adjoining the Bute ship dock, 1840; press cuttings; etc.

Copies 'Bought at the Cardiff Bazaar, October 5th 1842', of Lines by J. Dix, on the Rebuilding of St. Mary's Church, Cardiff, Lines by T. W. Booker ..., Lines by Is. Montgomery ..., and Sonnet by Wm Wordsworth ... .

A copy which belonged to John Montgomery Traherne of Lewis Weston Dillwyn: Contributions towards a History of Swansea ... (Swansea, 1840), which has addenda by Henry Hey Knight, John Montgomery Traherne and J. E. Bickers.

Copies of The Order of the Court of Chancery for regulating the Free Grammar School, Swansea ... (Swansea, 1850) and of George Grant Francis: The Free Grammar School, Swansea, with Brief Memoirs of its Founder and Masters ... (Swansea, 1849), interleaved, with manuscript notes.

A volume of household accounts and general expenses covering the period 1791-1797, kept by a member of the Knight family of Glamorgan.

Extracts from several Latin authors in the autograph of Henry Hey Knight.

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.

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.

Extracts from Sketches ... of Botany in England ... by Richard Pulteney.

A copy, which belonged to John Montgomery Traherne, of The Names of the Sheriffs and Under-Sheriffs of Glamorgan. A.D. 1541, to 1792, from M.S. of Mr. Evan Simmons, of Nottage; continued to 1850, from M.S. of H. Gwyn, Esq., M.P. Communicated to the Neath Institution by H. H. Knight ... (Neath, 1850).

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).