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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.

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.

Particulars of rates levied upon Glamorgan hundreds at the end of the sixteenth century and at later periods up to 1755; a transcript, in an eighteenth century hand, of 'Crwydraid Dychymmyg i fyd yr ysbrydoedd neu fyfyrdodau ar farwolaeth y Parchedig Mr. Lewis Lewis yr hwn â ymadawodd Meh. 9, 1769'; accounts of disbursements; miscellaneous poems; memoranda; etc.

'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.

Two copies which belonged to John Montgomery Traherne of 'The Antiquities of Llantwit Major and Boverton in the County of Glamorgan collected from different Authors and Manuscripts by Henry Tucker of Lantwit 1813', the second copy dated 6 January 1818.

Pedigree tables in the hand of John Montgomery Traherne of a few Glamorgan families, etc.

Copies which belonged to John Montgomery Traherne, and which contain manuscript corrections by him, of Parts I and II of Antiquarian Researches, Genealogical, Chronological, and Heraldic of the Principal Families of Glamorgan. Arranged, compiled, and edited by the Rev. Christopher Bassett, Perpetual Curate of Monknash, Glamorganshire ... (Cowbridge, 1845 and 1846).

Extracts made by John Montgomery Traherne from a copy of Johannis Stradlingi Epigrammatum Libri Quatuor ... (London, 1607).

Miscellaneous papers, c. 1822-1852, labelled 'Coedriglan Memoranda' and containing farm accounts, details of work done and prices paid, particulars of the Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and South Wales Horticultural Society, 1829, etc.

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

Copies of the wills of David Mathew of Llandaff (1681), John Llewelyn of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath (1696), Lewis Morgan of Rumney (1753), Miles Bassett of Pontypool (1747), Roger Powell of Energlyn, Glamorgan (1750), Hugh Bowen of Merthyrmawr (1758), William Wells, planter, of Saint Christopher's (1789), and John Llewelyn of Penllergare and Ynisygerwn (1817).

Miscellaneous letters and documents, including transcripts, including a letter, 24 August 1622, from Lewis Davids to the petty constables of Swansea relating to the upkeep of Cardiff Bridge; a letter, 24 May 1624, from Owen Wynn to his father, Sir John Wynn, knight and baronet, of Gwydir; a quittance for chief rents, 1640; a copy of a survey of Iscoed, 1650; a letter, 1690, from Richard Lougher to Thomas Rees; a list of Glamorganshire gentlemen to the west of the Ogmore river; a survey of the number and value of acres, houses and lands in Gower; papers relating to Swansea and to the Somerset family (Dukes of Beaufort) and their stewards; a pedigree of the St John family of Bletso, Bedfordshire; a work entitled Modern division of Glamorgan in the hand of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg').

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

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.

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

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

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).

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.