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Two manuscript volumes, the first dated 1829 (watermarks 1829 in both), containing transcripts, by W[illiam] Bruce, of sermons of the Rev. William Howels preached at Long Acre Episcopal Chapel, London (eleven in NLW MS 24218iB and ten in NLW MS 24218iiB).
The sermons were originally recorded by Bruce in shorthand, then transcribed into the present volumes (see pencil note on MS 24218iB, p. 3). The main text is mostly written within a red ink frame, with marginal comments and annotations in ink and sporadic corrections and deletions in pencil. The sermons are occasionally interspersed with other material including excerpts from hymns by [John] Newton, [Isaac Watts], [Charles Wesley] and [James Montgomery] (MS 24218iB, pp. 137, 180-181, 293, 394; MS 24218iiB, ff. 40 verso, 66, 171 verso-172); NLW MS 24218iB also contains a title page (p. 1) and list of contents (p. 5). Of the twenty-one sermons, five were published by Bruce in Twenty Sermons by the Late Rev. William Howels (London, 1835) (MS 24218iB, pp. 7-48, 55-96, 183-230 and MS 24218iiB, ff. 1-16 verso, 41-40 verso). A subsequent volume edited by Bruce, Choice Sentences: or, Recollections of the Ministry of the Late Rev. William Howels… (Sheffield, 1849) was not seen by the cataloguer but presumably also makes use of the present volumes.

Pocket-book, [?1847]-1870, of the Rev. Francis Taynton of Cowbridge, Glamorgan, perpetual curate of the parishes of Ystradowen (1841-1861) and Talygarn (1846-1865), containing memoranda and lists relating to his private life as a houseowner and landowner in Cowbridge and his leisure pursuits on visits to London. The volume was commenced in about 1847 but contains much material copied from earlier pocket-books.
The volume contains memoranda, 1847-1870, listing purchases, house repairs and other expenses, along with summaries of events during the year and comments on his own health and that of his mother and other close relatives (ff. 4-51 verso), together with memoranda of the same sort extracted from old pocket books, dated 1818-1848 (ff. 2-3 verso); various records relating to property (ff. 1 recto-verso, 186-188 verso); his mother’s and his own income and expenditure, 1818-1870 (ff. 181-182 verso, 183, 184 recto-verso); a record of his weight, 1826-1870 (f. 179 recto-verso); horse dealings (f. 175); significant dates of relatives and friends (ff. 176, 177-178 verso); dates respecting his profession (ff. 173 verso-174); a register of places visited or toured, 1821-1870 (ff. 169-173); lists of panoramas visited, 1829-1861 (ff. 165 recto-verso), operas seen, 1821-1869 (ff. 156-163 verso), and plays and concerts seen, 1821-1870 (ff. 128 verso-148 verso, 166), mostly in London; and lists of male (ff. 151 verso-152 verso, 164 verso) and female (f. 150 recto-verso) opera singers seen performing.

Diary, 1 May 1851-18 September 1852, of Lieutenant Herbert M[illingchamp] Vaughan, 90th Light Infantry, mostly while stationed at Ballincollig and Cork, Ireland. The diary contains an account of his various duties, his social and recreational activities, including balls, regattas, parties and picnics, and hunting and shooting.
Vaughan's company was at Ballincollig until late 1851, when it removed to nearby Cork; the regiment was sent to Dublin in August 1852 (f. 112 verso). Additionally Vaughan spent most of September 1851 on leave in London (ff. 38-46 verso) and was at home at Plas Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire, [9] October-[29] December 1851 (ff. 49-65 verso). Among the incidents recounted are the death by suicide of one of his men during an assignment to transport ammunition (ff. 8-11); [George W. Stone] performing Electro-Biology [i.e. hypnotism] experiments on some of his men (ff. 26 verso, 29 verso-30); several visits to the Great Exhibition in London (ff. 39 verso-43 verso passim); attending the Cork garrison races, [21] April 1852 (ff. 86-87 verso); and a riot by paupers at Cork workhouse, [9] May 1852 (f. 90 recto-verso). Vaughan assisted in keeping order during the Cork County by-election in March 1852 (ff. 82-83) and in Cork City at the General Election in July 1852 (ff. 102 verso-103 verso). His main preoccupation in open season was fox hunting and shooting game (ff. 49 verso-84 verso passim). A memo found loose within the volume, dated 31 July 1852 with additions to 1855, has been tipped in inside the back cover (f. 122, see also f. 109).