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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.

Material collected by John Montgomery Traherne in connection with the preparation of his monograph on Sir Matthew Cradock. It includes pedigrees and notes, a transcript and English translation by Taliesin Williams ('Ab Iolo') of 'Dyma Ganu a wnaeth Rhys Brydydd i Syr Mathias Caradog am y Cwrdd Prydyddion a wnaeth efe yn y Merthyr Mawr', sketches, coats of arms, a letter, 1840, to Traherne from George Grant Francis, etc.

A copy of John Montgomery Traherne: Historical Notices of Sir Matthew Cradock ..., 1840, interleaved, with a few corrections and additions by the author.

A copy of John Montgomery Traherne: Historical Notices of Sir Matthew Cradock, Knt. of Swansea, in the Reigns of Henry VII and VIII ... (Llandovery, 1840), interleaved, with manuscript additions and corrections by the author, facsimiles of autographs, original sketches, press cuttings, 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.

Pedigrees of the Crawshay, Butler, Fleming and Thomas families.

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).

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

Miscellanea in the hands of John Montgomery Traherne and William Floyd relating mainly to pedigrees of Glamorgan families, together with a letter, 1850, to Traherne from Thomas Jones, Chetham Library, Manchester.

Pedigree 'collectanea' of John Montgomery Traherne, mainly relating to members of the Carne, Gamage, Bassett, Kemeys-Tynte and Gunter families.

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

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

A notebook purchased at the sale of the library of Theophilus Jones , historian of Brecknockshire, being a miscellany containing, among other things, 'Catalogus libror. meor. An[n]o 1643 ...', extracts from works on religion, a copy of 'The man[n]er of the winning of Glamorgan out of the Welsh mens hands by Sr Robert fitz Hamon and his followers ...', pedigrees mainly of Glamorgan families, 'An alphabet of some coates of armes in Wales and the borders of the same', details of some Glamorgan fee-farm rents, 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.

A transcript by John Montgomery Traherne of Rice Merrick's manuscript (published in 1825 and again in 1887) usually known as 'A Book of Glamorganshire Antiquities by Rice Merrick Esq. 1578'. The transcript is preceded by the following note: 'The following extracts illustrating the History of Glamorganshire were made from a MS. in the possession of Canon Williams Wilkins Esq. of Pwllpant transcribed in 1702 by E. Lhuyd at the Ashmole Museum Oxford from a MS. bearing date 1657. This MS. appears to be extracted from of [sic] a folio MS. in the Library of Queens Coll. Oxford entitled A Book of Glamorganshire Antiquities ... The Provost and Fellows kindly permitted me to peruse this vol. a duplicate copy of which was burnt at Havod [Cardiganshire]'. There are also numerous additions, including lists of knights of the shire and sheriffs, pedigrees, copies of deeds and other charters, notes on the manor of Llanbleddian, etc.

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 notebook mainly in the autograph of Jean Poingdestre, the historian of Jersey, containing exercises, poems, etc., written, 1627-1629, whilst he was a student at Oxford and Cambridge, with additions in a later hand.

Ministers' accounts for the year ending at Michaelmas 1598 of the manors, lands and possessions in Glamorgan of Henry Herbert, second Earl of Pembroke, Lord Herbert of Cardiff, lord Par of Ros and Kendal, lord Marmion and St Quentin, lord President of Wales, and Knight of the Garter.

Transcripts from NLW MS 6511B of 'cywyddau' by Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Rhisiart Iorwerth and Lewys Morganwg; a copy of Marw-nad am Gwilim Basset o Fisgin, Yswain ..., (Y Bont-faen, 1771); translations of poetry, including one in the hand of John Montgomery Traherne of a 'cywydd' by Lewys Morganwg to Lleision ap Thomas, abbot of Glyn Nedd; press cuttings, including a copy of 'Canu Tarw Maesgadlawr' by William Hopkin; a copy of 'Fanny blooming Fair ...' by David Nicholas, with an English version by William Davies, Cringell; a printed poem entitled Crystallinum Palatium by William Hallen Morice; a copy of a poem entitled 'Robert duke of Normandy confined a Prisoner in Cardiff Castle ...' by R. Nichols, 1610; a printed poem entitled Galargerdd ar Farwolaeth y diweddar Barchediccaf William Bruce Knight, Dëon Llandaf by 'Daniel Ddu'; etc.