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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.

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

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.

Transcripts of seven poems made from a manuscript in the hand of Llywelyn Siôn during March 1840 by John Jones ('Tegid'); a copy in the autograph of John Montgomery Traherne of the list of poems in the manuscript of Llywelyn Siôn; English translations of two poems by Lewis Glyn Cothi and one by Iorwerth Fynglwyd from the manuscript of Llywelyn Siôn.

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.

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).

'Proper names of Rivers' by and in the autograph of Thomas Richards of Coychurch, Glamorgan, lexicographer, and a transcript of the list of subscribers to Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus, which he published in 1753.

Copies of In the House of Lords. Case of Charles Kemeys Kemeys Tynte, ... Esquire, on his Claim to the Title and Dignity of Baron Wharton of Wharton ... 1843, the report of the Wharton peerage case extracted from Clark and Finelly's Cases in the House of Lords ..., 1845, and other relevant material.

Miscellanea relating mainly to the Traherne family and including a pedigree showing the descent of John Montgomery Traherne from Einion ap Collwyn, extracts from the Trueman manuscript, legal and other documents, etc.

A notebook containing pedigrees, history notes, etc. and including the pedigree of the Talbot family connected with Margam and Penrice, together with extracts entitled Births and Baptisms recorded in the Qto Bible at Penrice.

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.

Material accumulated by John Montgomery Traherne when preparing The Stradling Correspondence ... for publication. It includes letters, 1845-1855, to Traherne from Joseph Hunter, Theophilus Jones, etc., pedigrees, copies of Stradling wills, 'A Survey of the estates of Sir Thos. Stradling, bart., 1732', etc.

The author's copy, interleaved, with numerous manuscript and other additions, of Stradling Correspondence: A Series of Letters written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, with Notices of the Family of Stradling of St. Donat's Castle, Co. Glamorgan. Edited by the Rev. John Montgomery Traherne ... (London, 1840). Among the additions are notes and memoranda by John Montgomery Traherne, facsimiles of autographs, sketches of monuments and memorials, coats of arms, bookplates, autograph letters (including one from Agnes Strickland), etc., and a document, 1602, bearing the autographs of Thomas Mansell and W. Pryce.

'Collectanea' relating to the Mansel family of Margam Abbey, etc., and including letters, 1821-1844, from William Bruce Knight, Sir Thomas Phillipps (Middle Hill), and W. Mansel.

'The Customes of the Lordship of Rompney'.

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

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.

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 ... .

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

'Collectanea' relating to some South Wales families, mainly in the hand of William Davies, Cringell.