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A volume containing legal correspondence and other documents, second half 18 cent., addressed to Morgan Thomas of Norfolk Street and to Hughes of Hatton Garden, solicitors, of London. The correspondence includes papers relating to Richard Vaughan of Golden Grove (1758) and to the settlement made on the marriage of Sir Richard Fowler with Sarah Sloane, 27 August 1706.

A volume containing a brief for the plaintiff in the case of G. H. Sumner versus the Reverend Charles Charleton and others in the Court of Chancery with reference to the Carmarthenshire estate of Edward Holme of the Inner Temple.

A volume, written September 1778, containing fairly full legal precedents, mostly relating to Gloucestershire.

A volume consisting mainly of letters, 17 & 18 cents, addressed to Edward Lhuyd (1660?-1709), together with miscellaneous items, including pedigrees, notes and extracts.

A packet containing miscellaneous correspondence and legal papers, some of which relate to members of the Puleston family of Emral.

A volume containing letters to R. Hughes of Ynystawe and one to his daughter, Lady Williams, from the Reverend John Roberts (J.R.), 1878-1884, from the Reverend Samuel Roberts (S.R.), 1872-1879, concerning collections towards Bala Independent College and the Welsh Congregational Chapel at Southwark (some of these latter letters written on the backs of broadsides printed for the writer), and from the Reverend David Williams, Troedrhiwdalar, 1871; also included are notes of addresses delivered by Samuel Roberts.

A volume containing correspondence, 1826-1827, between the Rev. Howell Holland Edwards (d. 1846) and Miss Sarah Williams concerning the library of her father, the Rev. John Williams of Llanrwst (1760-1826), and his collection of Wynn (of Gwydir) papers; also letters, 1827, to the Rev. Holland Edwards from John Jones, Llanrwst, relating to the sale of the same library and a letter, 1894, from the Rev. D. J[ones] Davies asking Sir John Williams (1840-1926) to accept the Wynn (of Gwydir) papers.

Letters, mainly relating to Goronwy Owen, addressed to the Reverend John Williams, master of Llanrwst school, by the Reverend Edward Owen, Warrington, 1795-1805; John English Dolben, 1795-1805; D. Davies, Llanidloes, 'visitor' of 'the Charity School', 1811; Richard Davies, Bangor, 1791; Turner Edwards, Oldport, 1789; the Reverend Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain'), 1792; the Reverend Richard Jones, curate of Ruthin, 1787; the Reverend Henry Hughes, vicar of Llangefni, 1789; Thomas Jones, excise officer, 1791-1799; William Owen[-Pughe], 1793; Paul Panton [the elder], 1791-1795; the Earl of Powis [Henry Arthur Herbert] [?to Lewis Morris], 1753; T. Roberts, Christ Church, Oxford, 1788; David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'), 1791-1792; and Simon Yorke, 1793.

A volume containing a large number of letters written between 1745 and 1783, many from Welsh clergy, to the secretaries and other officials of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (S.P.C.K.) with reference to the supply of Bibles and other publications for distribution in various parishes in England and Wales.

A miscellaneous collection, in Welsh and English, [early 18 cent.]-[mid 18 cent.], of notes and papers mostly in the hand of Lewis Morris (1701-1765) and probably collected and bound together by him.

An early 18 cent. copy of the Book of Merlin from the work of Nennius (9 cent.). The manuscript has been collated (see note (p. 9), under the date 1729).

A volume, c. 1769, containing a list of the dignitaries and clergy of the diocese of Llandaff, the livings and dates of institutions, and the patrons. Also included are indices to the livings and incumbents, and rentals of the revenues of the see.

A volume containing the account book of the churchwardens of Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, 1828-1869, together with many loose papers.

Eleven volumes of music manuscripts of the harpist Thomas David Llewelyn (Llewelyn Alaw), Aberdare. The former NLW MS 328D has been added to NLW MS 337D and is now pp. 320-353 of that manuscript.

The 'Collection of Unpublished Welsh Airs' made by Thomas D. Llewelyn (Llewelyn Alaw), Aberdare, which won the prize at the Llangollen Eisteddfod of 1858.
An index of the contents by Nicholas Bennett is on pp. 36, 38. A copy of the Programme of Subjects and Prizes for the 1858 Eisteddfod is pasted in on p. 41.

The temperance book of Rhiw Iâl Chapel, Llanarmon, containing a list of members of the Temperance Society, 14 February 1837 to 19 January 1869.

A grammar of Welsh Poetry by David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri) entitled Cyfrinach y Beirdd wedi ei ddwyn i'r amlwg : neu Reolau Prydyddiaeth Gymraeg. Dafydd Ddu appears to have circulated copies of this work among the Welsh bards with the object of obtaining their criticism thereon before publication (p. 4). The manuscript also contains a Welsh grammar said to be written by William Jones of Llangadfan (1726-1795), and a religious song of anonymous provenance.

An extremely interesting manuscript - probably the smallest Welsh manuscript in existence, though it is 1.5 inches thick - which was written by Thomas Evans, Hendreforfudd, 1618-1622, and consists mostly of prayers and englynion.
Bound up between pp. 12 and 13 is a copy of an early edition of the Llyfr Plygain or Primer, dated 1618 and containing 42 pp. but imperfect as it contains none of the prayers, litany or psalms. This is probably the volume referred to by Gweirydd ap Rhys in Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, pp. 402-3; it is not mentioned in Angharad Llwyd's Catalogue of the Pengwern MSS (Transactions Cymmrodorion, 1828, p. 50).

A collection of letters, 19 cent., mostly addressed to Andrew Brereton (Andreas o Fôn, 1827-1885), together with englynion by John Jones (Talhaiarn, 1810-1869).