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A manuscript containing recipes for dyeing wool and cotton; household and medical recipes; miscellaneous accounts, 1852-1867; a copy of Reynolds' Original Birmingham Almanack ... 1850.

An imperfect manuscript of the second half of the seventeenth century containing medical and culinary recipes based partly on printed sources (e. g., John Gerard: The Herball . . ., 1597), together with a few eighteenth century additions including recipes, stanzas of a Welsh hymn, and musical scores.

Notebook, c. 1865-80, containing culinary recipes compiled by William Edward Davies or his wife Mary Evered Davies (née Poole); Davies was a grocer and provision merchant at Haverfordwest and Pembroke Dock until the late 1870s and thereafter baker and confectioner at Pier Street, Aberystwyth.

A volume, 1716-67, containing culinary, medical and veterinary recipes, mainly compiled by Mary Edwards, probably of Great Ness, co. Salop, later the wife of the Reverend William Parry of Ness (will proved at PCC, 1767), with additions by other hands. The recipes were mainly acquired from relatives and friends from the same county, but a few are drawn from printed sources such as The Gentleman's Magazine. An index is included on pp. 299-310.

A 19th century volume containing miscellaneous culinary and medical recipes.

A manuscript volume, begun in about 1709, belonging initially to an Elizabeth Salusbury, containing numerous medicinal remedies and culinary recipes (pp. 1-186, 197-236, 238-242), together with a series of 'amlegues', diagrams displaying collections of dishes for different meals (pp. 187-196, 237). The volume appears to be in at least two different hands, the second appearing on pp. 122-207 passim. The contents of pp. 1-40 are listed at the front of the volume (pp. i-iv).
Also included is a small group of loose papers, 1756-1792 and undated, some relating to the Jones family of Llantisilio Hall, Llangollen, mostly consisting of further recipes (pp. 243-276). Elizabeth Salusbury is likely the daughter of Peter Salusbury of Abergele, who married firstly Thomas Peirce of Llysvaen in 1715/6 and secondly John Lloyd of Llansilin in 1720; her daughter Mary Lloyd married Thomas Jones of Llantisilio Hall in 1740. A letter, 1756, from John Leche (p. 275) refers to 'you and Mrs Jones' and to 'good Mrs Lloyd'.

Culinary and medicinal recipes, collected apparently by Jane Tonyn of Berwick-on-Tweed, co. Northumberland, with some early nineteenth-century additions by Rice Hughes, son of Richard Hughes, rector of Dolgellau, co. Merioneth. Sources are frequently named, and dates sometimes given.

Miscellaneous printed, typescript, and manuscript material, August - September 1939, relating to plans for the reception of evacuees from Liverpool at Aberystwyth.

Receipts and payments account book, 1946-68, of Cellan Parish Council.

Receipt, 3 May 1830, from Aug[ustus] Brackenbury ['Y Sais Bach'] , Aberystwyth, to Enoch Davies of the hamlet of Trefenter, parish of Llangwyryfon, for £5 10s. being the remainder of the purchase price of one acre of turbary on a bog called Gors-Hebrys in the lordship of Mefenidd in the parish of Llangwryfon.

Receipt for £10-16s-9d, paid by David Griffiths, Rhydycar, to the Cyfarthfa Iron & Steel Works, Merthyr Tudful, for renting fields, houses and grazing land at Rhydycar.

Correspondence relating to, and claims for, rewards offered for information leading to the conviction of Rebecca rioters (see David Williams, The Rebecca Riots (Cardiff, 1955), pp. 285-6). The majority of the letters are from George Rice Trevor, 4th baron Dynevor, to William Chambers, jnr, Llanelli. For other letters from Trevor to Chambers relating to the riots, see Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 23 (1932), 60-77. Also included are copies of the calendar of prisoners to be tried at the Carmarthenshire Spring Assizes, 1844, and of proclamations relating to the riots.

Reading engagements of W. D. Davies. (Formerly W. D. Davies MS 11.) English, Welsh. Cloth. Purchased from Mrs Whiting, Llandrindod Wells, October 1969.

A copy of R. B. A. Bennett's dissertation 'Management of Fire Safety and Associated Provisions in a Library or Archive', submitted to the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of BSc with Honours in Fire Engineering and Management, 1998.