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Photocopies of PRO BD 24/44 (papers relating to the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, 1958-63) and PRO PREM 11/4597 (papers relating to Government Administration in Wales, 1958-63).

Minutes of the meetings of the Council, 1949-1959; memoranda, reports and notes deriving from the activities of the Council, 1949-1959, together with subject files covering regional devolution, trade at the south Wales ports, transport services in Wales, employment and the repopulation of the rural areas, a Welsh Television Service, functions exercised by the Welsh Office, and the Welsh economy.

Summonses, dated 25 April, 15 [?Charles I, i.e. 1639], to James Bridgman and Samuel Law, commanding them to appear before the Council of the Marches at Ludlow on 7 May.

A final group of correspondence, papers and financial records, c 1983-96, of the Council of Welsh Districts (see Annual Report 1989-90, p 65, 1991-92, p 61, 1992-93, p 59, 1994-95, p 63, and 1995-96, p 64)

A further group of correspondence, papers and financial records, 1983-96) of the Council of Welsh Districts (see Annual Report 1989-90,p 65, 1991-92,p 61, 1992-93, p 59, 1994-95, p 63, and 1995-96,p 64)

Minutes and papers of the Council, its predecessor body the Committee of Welsh District Councils, and their sub-committees, 1983-1996; papers and correspondence relating to the Association of District Councils' Welsh office, Head Office and various branches within Wales, 1978-1996; correspondence files of staff members, 1983-1995; copies of Government Green Papers, 1986-1989; and files relating to the various organizations and societies with which the Council had dealings, 1982-1996; subject files relating to such matters as waste disposal and the European Community, 1974-1997; housing and home improvement grants, 1983-1996; leisure facilities, tourism, theatres, National Parks etc., 1983-1996; policy, finance and planning, including the rates, the Revenue Support Grant and the Welsh Language Board, 1982-1996.

The fonds comprises political papers accumulated by Councillor Mrs Cecilia Barton, Lampeter, including the minute book, 1952-1987, of the Lampeter and District Liberal Association; issues of the Campaign Bulletin, 1984-1888, of the Welsh Liberal Party; records, 1983-1888, of the Alliance Committee for Wales; correspondence and papers, 1986-1997, of the Ceredigion and Pembroke North (later the Ceredigion) Liberal Democrat Association; papers, 1988-1990, concerning the foundation and the early development of the Welsh Social and Liberal Democrats; and papers, 1998-1999, relating to the selection of the Liberal Democrat list candidates for the Mid and West Wales region in the First National Assembly elections in May 1999.

Papers of Ron Evans comprising party records of the Ebbw Vale Constituency Labour Party, subsequently the Blaenau Gwent Constituency Labour Party, 1951-1987, including a minute book, 1980-1983, correspondence and papers of and concerning Aneurin Bevan, 1951-1972, general correspondence, 1956-1982, and constituency subject files, 1954-1987, some of which contain papers concerning Ebbw Vale and Blaenau Gwent Constituency Labour Parties and Michael Foot; papers relating to local government, 1965-1987, and general elections, 1959-1987; correspondence and papers concerning the South East Wales European Constituency Labour Party, 1978-1987; subject files concerning matters such as Local Government Reform and Devolution, 1961-1979, Gwent Health Authority, 1973-1985, Heads of the Valleys Standing Conference, 1965-1980 and the British Steel Corporation, 1966-1977; together with miscellaneous papers and printed materials, 1944-1987.

A script, 1948, featuring the Isle of Thanet in the 'Country Magazine' series, a BBC Home Service transmission, with Dylan Thomas introducing the programme.

County Crumbs, being press cuttings of articles of Pembrokeshire interest by Principal David Salmon. (Formerly G. V. Roberts MS.) English. Boards. Purchased from Patrick Roberts, Pencader, June 1965.

Two typescript volumes used by students for learning Welsh and revision devised by Islwyn Ffowc Elis for use at the University College of Bangor being 'A first Welsh Course' and 'Ymarferion Cymraeg', [1955]. = Dwy gyfrol deipysgrif a luniwyd gan Islwyn Ffowc Elis ar gyfer myfyrwyr yn dysgu Cymraeg ym Mhrifysgol Bangor sef 'A first Welsh Course' ac 'Ymarferion Cymraeg', [1955].

Deeds of the Court Henry estate, mainly in Llangathen and Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire, 1770-1905.

Court leet of Dee Lee Phose, St Dogmaels. (Formerly Haverfordwest MS.) English. Between boards. Donated by Messrs Williams & Williams, Haverfordwest, 1915.

A court leet record book, 25 April 1771-29 December 1806, of the manor of Bishopston, Glamorgan. The volume also contains loose sheets of notes in a 20th century hand relating to some of the records.
The court records are written in what appear to be four different hands. There is some annotation, possibly in the same hand as the loose sheets. There is an index at the back of the volume; it appears that the last page of the index is written in a later hand and is pasted onto the recto of the previous page.

A request made in the 37th year of Queen Elizabeth (1595) by Henry Goodman, one of the messengers of the Court of Exchequer to Cardiff and Milford Haven, for payment of allowances for travel and various charges, etc.

The main records of the court are: (1) civil side: plea rolls which is the formal record of civil actions, mainly debt, but from around 1700 only those actions which reached issue - an extremely small proportion in fact; docket rolls and books which serve as indexes to the plea rolls; prothonotary files which include draft pleadings, including those which did not reach issue, challenge pedigrees, insolvent debtors' papers and slander and libel papers where a defendant had moved for a writ a prohibition to halt the action being heard in the consistory court; feet of fines and common recoveries which are indexed in docket books of fines and recoveries and, for the Brecon circuit only, in the docket books of pleas and fines; and order books, which is a formal records of the court's orders in both civil and criminal cases; (2) Crown side: gaol files which include indictments, depositions of witnesses, recognizances, calendars of prisoners and coroner's inquests; indexes to criminal prosecutions for Flintshire (called Crown books, 1564-1666) and the Brecon circuit (called the Black Books, 1726-1830) though the order books already referred to contain formal records of orders to carry out sentences or to discharge prisoners; calendars rolls of indictments for Radnorshire, 1554-1659, Glamorgan, 1554-1603, Cardiganshire, 1541-1602, and Pembrokeshire, 1541-1622, 1674; and mainprize rolls (only six have survived) which list names of individuals bound over from one sessions until the next for an indefinite period; (3) equity side: pleadings of complainant and defendants together with interrogatories or set questions submitted to witnesses together with their replies; reports of the registrar of the court, decree books and bill books, the latter serving as indexes to the pleadings.

A manuscript entitled The Practice of the Court of Great Sessions for the several Counties of Glamorgan, Brecon and Radnor ... 1763.

A volume of Jno. Lloyd, Mid[dle] Temple, 6 January, 1767, entitled 'Of the proceedings at Law in the Court of Great Sessions held for the Countys of Flint Denbigh and Montgomery in Wales as they are stated in the Books which relate immediately to this Court. Copied from a Book of Jno. Madocks Esqr. all of his own hand writing taken by him in the year 1749 when he went ye Welsh Circuit'. At the end of the volume are some legal precedents and a list of contents.

A record book, in the autograph of John Lloyd, attorney, Wigfair, of actions heard at the Court of Great Sessions for the counties of Denbigh and Flint, 1637-1650, with memoranda relating to legal, financial, and other transactions.