Showing 600 results

A lecture by W. J. Waterhouse on the history of the Church of England, particularly in Wales, in the seventeenth century, and minutes of various Church Defence committees and meetings held in the Rural Deanery of Ultra Aeron, Cardiganshire, 1906-1907, during the campaign for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales.

Copies of the Queen's instructions to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, Lord President of the Council in Wales and the Marches, 1586; the commission of the lieutenancy of Wales and the Marches to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, March 22, 1600, with power to make deputations to persons named in the commission for the different counties within the lieutenancy; a petition by six members of the Privy Council to the Lord Keeper to renew the commission of lieutenancy for Merioneth and to leave out the names of John Lewys Owen and Cadwalader ap Ris, who had been arraigned before the Court of Star Chamber for misdemeanours, and to appoint Griffith Vaughan and Robert Lloyd to be deputies for the Earl of Pembroke for that county; a Privy Council letter to the same effect covering a renewed commission to the Earl of Pembroke, March 31, 1600, with a list of justices of the peace for Merioneth; and orders for the reformation of the Court of the Marches, 1577.

Notes by H. R. Roberts, rector of Llanengan, on the capture of an eagle at Llanengan, Caernarvonshire, 29 November 1910.

Mainly manuscript and typescript notes, 1970-1987, prepared by Sir Goronwy Daniel for addresses and speeches on themes relating to the arts in Wales, together with a small quantity of related printed items and press cuttings. The file also contains notes for an address on 'Yr Ieuanc a Disgyblaeth Heddiw' delivered by Sir Goronwy at Cyfundeb Annibynwyr Penfro, 16 July 1980.

A copy of Donald Parr's thesis, 'The study of the development and present form of agriculture in Denbighshire', prepared for the degree of BA (University of Durham, 1959).

A terrier of the parish of Llanfair [juxta Harlech, co. Merioneth], 17 August 1811, in the hand of William Pugh, the officiating curate.

A terrier of all buildings, glebe lands, tithes, and other profits and rights appertaining to the parish of Llanbeblig in the county of Carnarvon and diocese of Bangor, 18[35].

A manuscript containing a terrier of lands, 1616, in Cheshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, together with memoranda involving money owing and lent, etc.

Minute-book, 1904-1929, of meetings of the managers of Tavernspite Non-Provided school, co. Pembroke, with related enclosures, 1923-1936.

'Taflen o Brisiau Gwehyddion Velindre a'r Cylchoedd, Ebrill y 3ydd, 1880', listing the prices charged for their products by weavers in the Felindre area of Carmarthenshire in 1880.

A sermon by T. Evans preached at Llangammarch, Llanwrtyd and other churches in Brecknockshire, 1769-1800.

A survey in two volumes by Melvyn Davies of the Worms Head & Mainland Caves, 1-47 undertaken between July and September 1989; a survey of the Gower Coast Caves by R. T. Sutton, Melvyn Davies and Dr Graham Jenkins, September 1990; together with surveys of the caves of the South Gower Coast, Worms Head to Porteynon Point by Melvyn Davies, January 1987, and another copy with a few additions by Andrew Davies, and from Porteynon Point to Pwlldu Bay by Melvyn Davies, May and August 1990.

A survey of the manors of Penmarke, Funmon, Barrey, and Lancadle, Glamorgan, made by Evan Mouse in 1622, being a typescript copy (280 pp.) of the Welsh section of a manorial survey acquired in 1936 by the Bedfordshire County Record Office.

A note of moneys and men levied for Ireland in eight counties of Wales, September, 1601, and April, 1602, and a list of Monmouthshire men taxed in the subsidy 'who did not formerly lend vnto the Kings Ma:ty'.

Abstracts of proceedings in Star Chamber cases (temp. Elizabeth and James I) relating mainly to Caernarvonshire and Merionethshire.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register of St Ishmael, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, 1560-1760.

Typescript transcripts and lists, 1943, compiled by David E. Gardner, comprising transcripts (for 1725-1812) and extracts (1813-1929) of marriages recorded in the parish registers of St Brides, Pembrokeshire (ff. 8-12); transcripts of marriages (1754-1837) recorded in the parish registers of Loughor, Glamorgan (ff. 13-33); and a list of non-parochial registers relating to Cheshire held at the General Registry Office, Somerset House (ff. 1-7).

A volume in the hand of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing pedigrees of Cardiganshire gentry families (pp. 1-136), together with a few from Carmarthenshire (pp. 137-163) and Pembrokeshire (pp. 164-179).

A mutilated bill book, 1840-1848, of Edward Rumsey Williams, solicitor, Caernarvon. Among the subjects to which the accounts refer are the engrossment of the agreement of tithe commutation for the parish of Llanbadrig, Anglesey, and the execution of conveyances, etc. of properties in Dolbenmaen, Llanfihangel y Pennant, Caernarvon, Bontnewydd, Llanbeblig (including a piece of ground for the building of a school), Pwllheli, and Llanfair is gaer, Caernarvonshire, Llandegfan, Anglesey, Flint, Flintshire, etc.