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A volume containing a few pages of accounts ('Money in Agent's hands', 'Money drawn'), 1805-16, written by a person apparently connected with the Navy, giving details of personal pay, compensation, etc. At the reverse end, following an account of 'Expences' [sic], April - July 1806, is a draft or copy of a letter signed 'Wm C, Sheerness, Augt. 6'.

A home-made notebook largely in the hand of David Thomas, Llwyn [ywermwd], Llan-y-Crwys, Carmarthenshire containing details of unidentified purchases and some memoranda of payments, c. 1826-9, by numerous buyers extending as far afield as Llandilo and Ystrad-ffin (Ystradfine).

A notebook of the Reverend Hugh Pugh, Llandrillo and Mostyn containing accounts, 1823-37, and notes of funeral sermons, some preached a number of times, dated 1837-68.

A notebook marked 'Copy No 1' containing an account of the hundred of Eifionydd followed by the beginning of an account of the hundred of Llŷn or Lleyn and a note on 'Dinas a Llys Dinorwig' by Peter Bayley Williams, Llanrug (cf. Y Gwyliedydd, 1835, 310), this last in the autograph of John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'). The material on Eifionydd bears a resemblance to 'Hanes Eifionydd' by W. Jones ('Bleddyn'), Llangollen (see Y Geninen, 1883, p. 59; 1884, pp. 69, 300) but the hand is probably that of 'Myrddin Fardd' at an early period of his life. Loose inside, pasted on a card, is a press-cutting concerning Enwau Lleoedd Sir Gaernarfon (see Cwrtmawr MS 564).

A composite volume containing i) An account book of the Llanwddyn Bible Society, 1818-36 (with gaps), containing particulars of annual subscriptions and memoranda of requirements and distributions; ii) A volume containing particulars of personal, household and professional receipts and disbursements and a few memoranda, 1818-34, of Thomas Richards, vicar of Darowen; iii)-iv) Two account books in the hand of Thomas Richards, vicar of Darowen, recording the incidence of tithe in respect of individual properties in the parish of Darowen, respectively for the years 1825 and 1826.

An indexed account-book, 1794-1800, relating, it seems, to the third edition of 'Beibl Peter Williams'. Many of the entries to about the middle of May 1796 appear to be in the autograph of the Reverend Peter Williams (1723-96) while some of the entries from about 1794 are by the Reverend Peter Bailey Williams. The first page of the index appears to be wanting.

An account book of the Reverend Thomas Richards (1754-1837) mainly recording receipts from the schools he kept [at Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire], 1778-81, and [at Llanymawddwy, Merioneth], 1789.

A composite volume of home-made notebooks containing financial accounts of Bethel (Caeo) and Bwlch-y-rhiw Baptist Churches in Carmarthenshire, 1814-29, in the hand of David Thomas (1756-1840), Llwyn (ywermwd), Llan-y-crwys. Numerous insets, also largely in his hand, include additional statistics and accounts, 1812-35; a letter of dimission, 1830; Welsh hymns; a personal and farm account book of David Thomas, 1814-18 and 1831-2; veterinary recipes; an account of money collected by Joshua Thomas, Llwyn on his bidding day, 1815, etc. Two leaves used by the scribe for the sake of the blank dorse are bidding letters from Llaewenog [sic] [Llanwenog], 1814, Cardiganshire and Llanllwny, 1829, Carmarthenshire.

A volume lettered 'Index to Deeds' containing chronological abstracts by J. H. Davies of selected deeds and documents, 1573-1778, in the Cwrtmawr library (see the typewritten schedule of Cwrtmawr Deeds in the National Library of Wales).

Abstracts, [1875x1899], by Tom Ellis from James Bryce, Holy Roman Empire ([London, 1864]).

A typewritten catalogue, with some manuscript insertions, by Francis Green, St Davids of deeds and documents, sixteenth to nineteenth century, in the possession of J. H. Davies [i.e. the Cwrtmawr collection of deeds now in the National Library of Wales and described in detail in a typewritten catalogue (1956)] relating to the families of 'Saunders of Pendine, Vaughan of Jordanston, Warren of Trewern, Allen of Cresselly, Philipps of Trellewellin (Manerawen), Price of Pendine, Williams of Dolgwm, Lewis of Llanveyney (Llangurig), Nelthorpe of Carmarthen, Shorter of London, Owen of Orielton, Lloyd of Peterwell, Powell of Mydrim, Wilkin of Lanrian, Higgon of Spittle, Williams of Pencarreg, Stedman of Strata Florida, Lewis of Llysnewydd and Herbert of Llanvihangel y Croythin', and of deeds and documents, sixteenth to seventeenth century, from the same collection relating to properties in Cardiganshire.

Letters to Mr Ll. Williams and other papers, 1894, relating to a Welsh dinner.

A notebook containing extracts from Browne Willis, A survey of the Cathedral Church of Bangor ... (London, 1721), with additions in the form of a press cutting and of an extract in the hand of John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd').

An incomplete printed interleaved copy of William Owen-Pughe: 'A National Dictionary of the Welsh Language': Vol. II, with manuscript notes.

A printed interleaved copy of William Owen-Pughe: 'A National Dictionary of the Welsh Language': Vol. I, A-D., 3rd ed. (1866), with manuscript notes by D. Silvan Evans.

An interleaved copy of W. Owen Pughe (ed. Robert John Pryse): A National Dictionary of the Welsh Language : with English and Welsh Equivalents, vol. II (Denbigh, 1873), with copious additions and emendations in the hand of Robert Roberts ('Y Sgolor Mawr'). There are a few insets in the hand of Daniel Silvan Evans.

A Humble address to His Highness of several churches in South Wales and Monmouthshire, 31 January 1656.

A translation into English of John Parry, Gramadeg o'r Iaith Gymraeg; Wedi ei drefnu yn fyr ac eglur, A'i gyfansoddi mewn iaith rwydd, er addysg i bobl ieuainge, ac eraill. Yr ail argraffiad, wedi ei ddiwygio (Caerlleon: M. Monk, 1825), under the title 'A Grammar of the Welsh Language ...'. The translation is subscribed 'T. N. Sep' 21st 1838' (p. 80).

A volume in the hand of John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') containing a text based on John Davies: A Display of Herauldry (Salop, 1716) and John Reynolds: A Display of Herauldry (Chester, 1739).