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Copies of inscriptions, epitaphs, etc. mainly of Glamorgan interest.

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.

Miscellanea relating to heraldry, largely of Glamorgan interest.

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.

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.

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).

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

Pedigree collections of John Montgomery Traherne, mainly relating to Glamorgan families, including some from the papers of William Davies of Cringell.

A volume of 'Glamorganshire Collections' compiled in or circa 1839 and containing pedigrees of the families of Turberville of Ewenny, etc., Gamage of Coyty, Sidney of Coyty, Streatfield of Lanharry, Bawdrippe of Penmark and Splott, Paine (afterwards Gibbon) of St. Fagans, Vann of Marcross, Edwin of Lanmihangel, Kemeys and Kemeys Tynte of Cefn Mabley, Lewis of Ruperra, Herbert of Cogan Pill, etc., Gwyn of Lansannor, Ragland of Carn lloyd, Thomas of Tregrose, Jones of Fonmon Castle, Thomas of Wenvoe Castle, Nerber of Castleton, Vele of St. Fagans, Thomas of Brigam, Le Sore of St. Fagans and Peterston super Ely, Seys of Boverton, Fleming of Monkton, Fleming of Flemingston, Button of Duffryn, Gibbon of Trecastle in Llanharry, Wilkins of Lanblethian, Prichard of Collena, Bennet of Penrice, etc., Aubrey of Lantrithyd, Nicholl of Lantwit Major and Lanmace, Jenkins of Hensol, Butler of Dunraven, Vaughan of Dunraven, Traherne of Castella, Mathews of Llandaff, and others.

Posters, broadsides, circular letters, press cuttings, squibs and poems dealing with various Glamorgan parliamentary elections, 1767-1832.

Notebooks used by John Montgomery Traherne to record notes and 'collectanea' mainly relating to the history and topography of Glamorgan, Glamorgan families and pedigrees, and miscellanea. NLW MS 6534A contains notes relating to the Scudamore family.

'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.

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

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.

Glamorgan 'collectanea' of William Davies, Cringell, Neath, with some portions in the hand of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'); two letters, 1804, from Richard Bevan of Cardiff and London to his cousin William Davies.

Pedigree collections of John Montgomery Traherne relating to some Glamorgan and Monmouthshire families.

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.

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