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- 1790-1806 / (Creation)
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Bound in parchment. Roughly bound in parchment.
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A home-made volume, roughly bound in parchment, containing transcripts of hymns and some sermon notes in the hand of David Thomas, Llwynywermwd, Llan-y-crwys, son of the Reverend Zacharias Thomas, Baptist minister, of Aberdyar, etc. The volume was compiled during the period 1805-1806. Among the papers used to compile the manuscript are an agreement, 1790, for the lease, from W. Williams to Zacharias Thomas, of Emlych, parish of Penbrey, co. Carmarthen; a voucher, 1797, to Zacharias Thomas from D. J. Jenkins, Lampeter, for a waistcoat, etc.; and a holograph letter from John Williams, Carmarthen, to Zech. Thomas, 1802 ( the distribution of 'papers' to the Association and the churches). The volume also includes the score of a hymn-tune entitled 'Difyrwch gwyr y Gogledd'.
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Welsh, English.
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The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Formerly known as D. Morgan Lewis 62.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 11675A.
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- Thomas, David, 1756-1840 (Subject)
- Williams, W., Penbrey (Subject)
- Thomas, Zecharias, 1727-1816 (Subject)
- Jenkins, D. J., Lampeter (Subject)
- Williams, John, Carmarthen, fl. 1802 (Subject)