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A minute book of the Hawarden Choral Society from its revival on 1 November, 1909, until its dissolution on 10 October, 1910; together with additional memoranda dated 11 January, [19]11. The volume is in the hand of Geo. T. Gartell.

Nine volumes of registers of cases of the Penllyn District Nursing Association, 1896-1937.

A typescript copy of a report to the Caernarvonshire Rural Community Council of a survey of Caernarvonshire conducted by Mr. Robert Owen, O.B.E., M.A., Croesor, during the period 19 January to 22 June, 1934.

A photostat facsimile, dated 16 July 1937, of an incomplete manuscript, [14 cent., second ½]-[15 cent., first ¼], of the Laws of Hywel Dda in the Dimetian Code, then belonging to the Massachusetts Historical Society (MS 5).

Almanac a Dyddiadur am y flwyddyn 1849 ... gan John Roberts, Caergybi, with manuscript entries of preaching engagements by Morris Morgan (1828-1901), a student at Haverfordwest Baptist College. The writer, a native of Llanboidy, subsequently held pastorates at Erwood, Brecknockshire, New Wells, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Cradley, Worcestershire, Tondu, Glamorgan, and Colmore Row, Birmingham.

Arthur Mee: Magic in Carmarthenshire. The Harrieses of Cwrt-y-Cadno, being a brochure printed at the 'Star' Office, Llanelly [in 1911], for private circulation. Inset are a printed list of additions and corrections, and two holograph letters from the author from Llanishen, Cardiff, to F. S. Price, Swansea, 1924-30.

A collection of annotated documents bearing the autographs of Welsh bishops and others. They include a letter testimonial, 1683, from Humphr[ey Lloyd], bishop of Bangor; a holograph letter from W[illiam Fleetwood], bishop of St. Asaph, 1711; warrants, 1722, of A[dam Ottley], bishop of St. Davids, for the payments of dividends due to him upon stock in the South Sea Company's books; an acquittance, 1731, signed by Benj[amin Hoadley], bishop of Salisbury (bishop of Bangor, 1716-21); a decree, 1740, by R[ichard Reynolds], bishop of Lincoln (bishop of Bangor, 1721-3), concerning a University of Oxford fellowship; a holograph letter, undated, from Matt[hias] Mawson (bishop of Llandaff, 1739-40); an acquittance, 1757, signed by John [Thomas], bishop of Salisbury; an acquittance, 1771, signed by Edwd. [Willes], bishop of Bath and Wells (bishop of St. Davids, 1743); a holograph letter from J[ohn Ewer], bishop of Bangor, to Richd. Burn, Westminster, 1772; an acquittance, 1750, signed by J[ohn Gilbert], bishop of Salisbury (bishop of Llandaff, 1740-9); a certificate, 1791, from E[dward Smallwell], bishop of Oxford (bishop of St. Davids, 1783-8), to the treasurer of the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty relating to the institution of a clerk in South Stoke, Oxfordshire; a certificate, 1795, by W[illiam Stewart], bishop of St. Davids, relating to the perpetual curacy of Talley; and a holograph letter from [George Murray], bishop of St. Davids, 1802; etc.

Papers of, and relating to, Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins of Cilbronnau, Llangoedmore, Cardiganshire, chief justice of Bombay. They include a copy order on his call to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn, 1883; the printed minute of his appointment to the Privy Council, together with a covering letter and a printed form of the oath, 1916; an autograph letter, 1926, from Arthur James Balfour, 1st earl of Balfour, lord-president of the Council, to Sir Lawrence Jenkins, on the occasion of the latter's retirement from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; and press cuttings.

'A Sketch of Life and Literary Labours of [Robert John Pryse] Gweirydd ap Rhys' written 'by my daughter Grace, in 1866'. A copy, in the same hand, of an undated covering letter from 'Gweirydd ap Rhys' to [Thomas Gruffydd] ('Tavalaw') indicates that the 'Sketch' was prepared with a view to the formation by 'Tavalaw' of a petition for a 'Civil Annual Grant' for 'Gweirydd ap Rhys'.

A notebook containing memoranda and accounts of Evan John, farmer and weaver, of Gwernogau, Llanfihangel Rhos-y-corn, Carmarthenshire, and father of Thomas Evans ('Tomos Glyn Cothi'; 1764-1833), from 1769 to 1780, with later entries for 1788. The volume mainly contains weaving patterns, entries of hiring agreements by his children as farm-servants (e.g. Thomas Evans at Salach and Pantybetws, Llanfihangel Rhos-y-corn, etc., 1775-6), and particulars of the purchase of barley, oatmeal, peeled corn, and timber, and of the sale of butter, beeswax, honey, hides, and tallow. The volume also includes a stanza of a hymn in a later hand.

Parochial settlements for the parish of Guilsfield, Montgomeryshire, 1837-43, including a holograph letter, 1837, from Sarah Evans, Llangollen, widow of the late James Evans, a pauper of the parish of Guilsfield, to Mr. Holywell, overseer of the poor.

A group of about one hundred and eighty business letters, 1880-91 (with some of the period 1897-1908), largely written by George W. Farren, general manager, Welsh Granite Company Limited, Yr Eifl Quarry, Trevor, Caernarvonshire, to his foreman, Thomas Hughes, Cae-glas, Llanaelhaearn. Some letters refer also to emigration and to the Welsh Granite Company's School.

Miscellaneous papers of John Caleb Owen, vicar of Llanafan-fawr, Brecknockshire, etc., including a list of vicars of Llanafan[-fawr], 1486-1883; balance sheets of Fredk. Richd. Roberts [of Aberystwyth], sequestrator of the living of Eglwysnewydd, Cardiganshire, with the Reverend J. Caleb Owen, 1892-5; a list of subscribers to a testimonial to J. C. Owen and his family [at Llangwyryfon, after 1920]; and three letters to J. C. Owen from D. Watcyn Morgan, The Vicarage, Morriston, 1897 (the living of Caio, a tribute to the recipient's work at Eglwysnewydd), Edward L. Bevan, The Vicarage, Brecon [aft. bishop of Swansea and Brecon], 1910 (the recipient's acceptance of the benefice of Llanafan), and [Enoch Jones] ('Isylog'), London, 1933 (the publication of a photograph and biography of the recipient in Y Cyfaill Eglwysig, June, 1933).

Miscellaneous documents, including an account, [18]64, of fees due from the Reverend J[ohn] Owens, Gwndwn [Calvinistic Methodist minister, Capel Ffynnon, Cardiganshire], to Thomas Watts in respect of one quarter's tuition for A. Owens and Jno. Owens at Capel y Gwndwn School; a printed list (with manuscript entries) of subjects of examination for the ordination to be held in the diocese of St. Davids, 1883; a receipt, 1883, to John Caleb Owen for the payment of ordination fees; a holograph letter from J. T. Evans, The Rectory, Stow-on-the-Wold, to [J. C.] Owen [vicar of Llanafan-fawr, Brecknockshire], 1911 (requesting information relating to one Hannah Griffiths, and also copies of the inscriptions on the five bells at Llanafan-fawr) (copies of inscriptions enclosed); a list of patrons and incumbents of Llanafan-fawr, 1486-1910; a press cutting containing a list of ruined houses ('Hen Dai Adfeiliedig') in Llanafan Fawr; etc.

Miscellaneous papers comprising holograph notes of an address by D. R. Daniel on 'Yr Ysgol Sul ar Oes', delivered at Pwllheli, 13 May, [18]95; holograph notes by D. R. Daniel of a Caernarvon Boroughs election address; a pocket-book containing diary entries, accounts, etc., of P. Ll. Daniel, Fourcrosses, 1903; 'englynion' by William Henry Roberts ('Iseifion'), Fourcrosses, entitled 'Llinellau Byrfyfyr a wnaed ... ddiwrnod cyn pleidleisio am aelod i'r Cyngor Sir dros y plwyfi Llanarmon a Llanystumdwy &c. 1910' and 'Er Cof anwyl Am y ddiweddar Miss Blodwen Ellen Jones, Talafon, Chwilog'; and press cuttings.

A holograph letter from H. L. Piozzi, from Brussells, to William Pearson [the poet] in London, 1787 (references to arrangements for the writer's return, to her Continental tour, to Mr. [Willey] Revely's 'Acc[oun]ts of Egypt', etc.); 'Ode from Horace', signed 'H.T.'; and an order, 30 March 1649, from the Council of State for the Admiralty and Navy to the Commissioners of the Navy for the consideration of an enclosed letter. The latter document is signed by Rowland Wilson, junior, Valentine Wauton [regicide], and Jo[hn] Jones [regicide, of Maesygarnedd, Merioneth], and is endorsed: 'Crs. Adm. wth. ye Generalls lre. to them for ye frigotts yt carrie 130 & 150 men to haue Chirurgeons mates'.

A return of privy seals for the county of Chester, 3 September, 1604 (total sum, £2615); a statement of the Provost-Marshal's accounts, 1613/14-1615/16 (references to commissions to Sir William Selby, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Sir Jo. Fenwick, and Sir William Hutton, and to expenses in respect of horsemen, etc.); and an acquittance, 10 April, 1619, from John Sturt, gent., to Adam Newton, esq. [aft. Sir Adam Newton], Treasurer or Receiver-General to the Prince [aft. King Charles I] for the payment of one quarter's pension of £10.

Three holograph letters:- from John, 2nd baron St. John of Bletso, from London, 14 March, 1594/5, to John Wynne of Gwydor, esq. (the execution of the Queen's commission in the matter of encroachments); from H. Evans from Brasenose [College, Oxford], 17 July ---, to Mr. Jhon Wynne at Gwedr (or at Conway in the Sessions) (the writer's ill-treatment by Mr. Wy ... of Clynocke, together with an eulogy in Latin entitled 'Carmen amoris ad amantissimum Juvenem et fidelissimum amicum Jo. Wynne, authore amore. H.E.') (mutilated); and from Henry Herbert, 4th baron Herbert of Chirbury, from Badminton, 3/13 December, [16]81, to 'Monsieur le Chevalier [Sir Richard] Bulstrode, Resident pour sa Majesté de la grande Bretagne, a Bruxelles' (the receipt of a letter and of answers to the enclosed, hopes of 'some quiet' in Flanders, 'the Luxembourg affaire', intelligences of action with the French).

Lord Rosebery [Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl]: Robert Burns ... (Edinburgh, 1896), being a vellum-bound presentation copy by the author to D. R. Daniel (marked 'For the sake of Tom Ellis ...'), and a covering letter from 'Tom' [Thomas E. Ellis] to David [R. Daniel] which is bound in the volume.

A file of documents relating to the life and work of Ernest Charles Jones (1819-1869), chartist and poet. They include birthday greetings in verse, in the form of a holograph letter, from Ernest Charles Jones to his father Charles Jones, both at Reinbeck, 1830; a holograph letter from Charles Jones from Hanover, to his wife [Charlotte] Matilda [Jones], 1837 (the writer's audience with the King, the Queen's party, a description of the writer's journey to Hanover), with a postscript by E. C. Jones; a holograph letter from Ernest Charles Jones from Sevenoaks, Kent, to his father Major [Charles] Jones at Bedford Place, Kensington, London, 1841; a petition, 1843, from Charlotte Matilda Jones to [Ernest Augustus], King of Hanover, for a widow's pension; Address of Ernest Jones, Esq., in reply to the Rev. W. Chamberlain's 'Remonstrance' to John Bright, Esq., M.P., 1867; a holograph letter, [1887], relating to the sale of the works of Ernest Jones; six holograph letters, 1887-[1898], from L. A. Atherley Jones to E. I. Collings (documents relating to Ernest Jones, the writer's father); and press cuttings, 1869-1905, relating to Ernest Jones, W. H. Chadwick, L. A. Atherley Jones, etc.