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Volume labelled, Robert Owen, 1909-1910, Henfaes land squabble. R. Owen Collection, presented by Miss Betty Richards 1954.

The president was Bro. J. E. Tomley, C.B.E., of Montgomery, trustee, Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity. The copy is signed by Tomley.

The group includes the chairman of the local Labour Party. Donated by Edward Davies.

Mounted on card. Endorsed on the back, '?Dolerw, Newtown'.

Papers relating to Montgomeryshire tollgates, including a mounted letter from Thomas Penson, road surveyor, to Mr Griffiths, lessee of tollgates, 1822; a mounted 'Memorandum of interest due from the commissioners of Llanymynech Trust', from the Oswestry District trustees' minute book, 1 May 1824; a mounted memorandum of the clerk to the Oswestry District trustees, 1824; handbills and posters relating to the First District of Montgomeryshire Roads, 1840-1885; a newspaper cutting containg a notice of auction of tolls of First District of Montgomeryshire Roads, 1842; and three encapsulated posters, 1842 and 1870.

The First District of Montgomeryshire Roads handbills and posters comprise conditions of letting, 7 Feb. 1840, 2 Feb. 1841; notice of auction of Berthllwyd gate, 5 June 1840; notice of auction of St Giles and Pwllybidron gates, 7 Aug. 1840; notice of auction of tollgates of First District, 24 Dec. 1840; notice (2) of meeting of Trustees of Turnpike for co's Mont., Mer., Shrop. and Denb., 24 Dec. 1840, to consult re. erecting tollgate near Highgate; notice as above re. erecting tollgate at Nantdwyfildir; notice of auction of tolls, 5 Feb. 1841; newspaper cutting (2) of a notice of auction of tolls of First District, 6 March 1841; notice of auction of tolls of same, 27 Jan. 1842; notice for electing new trustees, 22 Mar. 1842; notice for electing new trustees, 8 Dec. 1842; notices of expiration of Trust, 28 Feb. 1885; 2nd District of Mont. Roads, statement of receipts.

Two lectures to the society (i) The emperor of Britain: King Arthur and his relation to Wales: lecture by D. W. Alun Llewellyn, 10 Dec. 1930; (ii) National Library of Wales: its meaning to Montgomeryshire: lecture prepared by Sir John Ballinger and read by Mr W. Llewelyn Davies, 11 Feb. 1931; and (iii) Home week-end: a record of a tour of the county by the society, 14-17 Sept. 1934. All reprinted from the Montgomery County Times. Formerly Powysland Ref. Library, 792.2.1934. 3 Items.

Regimental orders, 23 May-18 June 1880, 8 May-4 June 1881 and 7 May-3 June 1882, and battalion orders, 22 April-18 May 1883 and 20 April-16 May 1884. Loose papers (2) enclosed include a list of 'recruits since last training' in Companies A-f, present 20 April 1884 or how discharged, prior to 27 days' training. Lacking front and back covers.

A collection of genealogical material mainly relating to co. Mont. and including pedigrees and notes of the families of Reynold of Forden, Jones of Garthllwyd, Lloyd of Llanerchvrochwell, Edwards of Hendrehen, Rev. Phillip Henry, Humphreys of Llwyn, Llanfyllin, Gould-Pughe, Butlers of Denbigh, Evans of Montgomery, Owen of Bodtalog, Jones of Garthmill, Vaughan of Trederwen, John Foulkes of Carne, Pryce of Gunley, Griffiths of Brongain, Valentine Vickers, Griffith of Rhual, Plowdens of Pool Quay, Pugh of Guilsfield, Vaughan of Glanllyn, co. Mer.; miscellaneous Welshpool and district pedigrees; papers relating to the family of Mary Cornelia, Marchioness of Londonderry.

Notebook on co. Mont. flannel factories, 1797-1835, [?by A. S. Davies] (7/3a); typescript extracts from the reports of Leonard Horner, Thomas Howell Jones and Robert J. Sanders, inspectors of factories, on the operation of the Factory Acts in their districts, including co. Mont., 1834-1837 (7/3b).

Presentments, views of frankpledge, accounts of bailiffs, returns of coroners, petitions and admissions of burgesses, petty offences, bonds to keep peace, court leet. (Interesting documents with a great deal of social history. The accounts of Richard Whittingham, bailiff, 1689 includes expenditure on 'powther and Candles at the troublesome tyme', to the prince's messenger, "powther at the proclamation", mending the stocks, the "Dlose Gate" and timber, money given to a guide for "Capten Parsens and his souldiers to Clynne" (Clun), drink at the bonfire, stacking "Gorst" and beating the drum at the coronation, carriage of wine from "Salop"). Approximately 81 ffolios.

Balance sheet and list of subscribers for the new organ of Montgomery church. Formerly 312.8.1934.

Letters to John Probert, esq., one of the devisees of the late Earl of Powis, upon the advantages and defects of the Montgomery and Pool House of Industry; By an Honorary Director (Shrewsbury: T. & W. Eddowes, printers, 1801).

The papers include: an extract from Calendar of State Papers (Domestic), 1603-1610, relating to a pardon for arson at Llanwddyn; 'A catalogue of the ... freehold estate of ... William, duke of Powis, deceased, ... in the county of Northampton', 13 Nov. 1758 (presented by J. P. Earwalker, Nov. 1885); sale particulars of the freehold estate in p's Castle Caerinian and Berriew, including Trefnant, Pen y glyn, Sulfaen mills, Lower Sulfaen Farm, Pen y Golfawr, Nag's-Head Inn and farm (Castle Caerinian), Frydd y Berriew, Pant y Fryd, Birdir, Caed Bychan, Cefn y Brithdir, and Trewern-Hall, 21 Oct. 1782 (Robert Owen Collection, 298.3.1934); estate memoranda book for the Powys estates in co. Mont. and the Oswestry area, 1783-1787; copy of indictment v. Rev. John Pryce of Gunley, 1 June 1799, for nonresidence in his parish of Pool (Welshpool), [post 1799]; rough transcript by M. C. Jones (16 April 1868) of the will (dated 16 June 1668) of Rev. William Langford, vicar of Poole and Buttington, taken from a copy lent to M. C. Jones by Rev. J. E. Hill of Welshpool; plate, 'Mould for tokens, found at Mathraval, Mont., 1871'; printed suggestions for forming new districts in co. Mont., [post-1894]; programme for laying the foundation stone of Welshpool County Intermediate Schools, 5 Aug. 1897; galley proof of Berriew churchwardens' accounts, 1903-1904 (Robert Owen Collection, 40516.192); prospectus for a German geography textbook, 1968; and a poster announcing a public meeting for the Welshpool & District Civic Society, 8 March 1971. And also the following undated material: illustrated catalogue of tinned ware made by Edmund Jehu, tinsmith, 19 Broad Street, Welshpool, with notes on Jehu (Donated by Robert Evans, 47 Mount Street, Welshpool, 454.1.1934); notes from Llwyd's Topographical Notes and Pennant's Tours relating to Roman roads in co. Mont.; and a newspaper cutting relating to the river Severn in co. Mont.

Envelope containing: fragment of a poor law relief table (printed) relating to part of Llandysiliogogo and Llanfihangel Ystrad, co. Card., [?early 19 cent.]; fragments of a map (printed) showing part of Bristol Channel and part of the Glamorgan coast from Newton Nottage to Cogan, [19 cent.]; three pencil sketches by D. E. Evans, of Grace Evans's cottage, Welshpool, The Old 'Buck Inn', Welshpool, and Trelystan church, [?early 20 cent.]; 'giant' (12.25 x 8.75 inches) printed photograph postcard of Powis Castle, with an undivided back, [pre 1902]; doggerel verse by G. E. M. Ll. on the Severn Flood near Pool Quay Station, in aid of the relief fund, 1929-1930. Fragments of a valentine, 1795, formerly in this envelope, are now.

The papers include: an order from Edward, earl of Powis, lord-lieutenant of co. Mont., to assemble the co. Mont. cavalry, 8 Oct. 1824 (and covering letter from Gilbert Davies, Welshpool donating same); notes on the oath of declaration of office of Welshpool Borough, [?1835]; The Praise of St David's Day, showing the reason why the Welchmen honour the leeke on that day (reprint, London, 1851) (1076.7.1936); typescript 'Extract of letter from Thomas Pugh, dated New York ... 1854 to Aunt Pugh of West Bromwich', [post 1854]; two copies of conveyance to trustees of the Powysland Museum & Library, of a dwelling-house and garden near St Mary's church, Welshpool, 16 July 1874 (printed as an appendix to Mont. Colls VII); Samuel Sandars, An annotated list of books printed on vellum ... in the university and college libraries at Cambridge (Cambridge, 1878); M. Dumersan, Notice des monuments expeses sans le cabinet des medailles er antiques se la Bibliotheque du roi (Paris, 1882); Borough of Shrewsbury: the third report of the committee of the Free Library & Museum (1888); obituary of Morris Charles Jones from Mont. Colls III, 1893; County Borough of Cardiff: The Welsh Museum ... Report 1902 (483.8.1936); 'The Outlook: facsimile of a ... letter from Lord Viscount Nelson ... to Mr J. Deas Thompson ...' 5 Sept. 1805 (printed 1905) (363.1.1934); County Borough of Cardiff: The Welsh Museum ... Report 1910 (483.8.1936); newspaper cutting relating to Welshpool fairs, 1916; funeral service of Frances Naylor, Leighton, 17 Jan. 1918; University of Wales: notice of election of Pro-chancellor 1923 at Welshpool, 1923; British Records Association: rules 1932; Llanidloes Museum: invitation to opening, 1933 (800.4.1934); The Library Association: public library statistics, 1934-1935; sale catalogue of Clumber Library, 25 Oct. 1937 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 560.6.1937); Sotheby's sale catalogue of Clumber Library, 6 Dec. 1937 (564.6.1937); Powysland Club nomination form (A. A. Rees), 1946; Powysland Club outing card and notes on Tickenhill Manor House, co. Glos., 1947; drawing of two old oak yoke wagon frames at Sylfaen farm, [n.d.] (1506.1.1936); two photographs of carvings at Gungrog Hall (?of M. C. Jones); notes on 'Three effigies in the Powys-land Museum' by M. C. Jones; Board of Education, statutory rules and orders, education, England and Wales, regulations for grants to local museums and galleries, 1934; Shropshire Record Office: County Archivist's report, 1955; E. C. Carter & C. Lewis, 'Sir Edmund Plowden & the Albion Charter, 1632-1785', offprint from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History, 1959; Welshpool Borough Council: annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, 1965; list of committees and standing orders of the Montgomeryshire County Council, 1967; St Mary's, Welshpool, statement of accounts, 1967; St Mary's, Welshpool, civic investiture service, 1969; All Saints, Buttington, restoration appeal envelope, 1970; Bicentenary of the birth of Robert Owen (1771-1868): celebrations at Newtown, [1971]; The Manchester Museum: report 1971-1972 and circular; minutes of Affiliated Museums of National Museum of Wales, Newport, 1972; St Mary's, Welshpool, four funeral service cards, 1972-1975; Welshpool Borough Council: typescript speech of chairman of finance committee, 1973; official poll card, 1973; notice of presentation to Rev. M. Butler, p's Welshpool and Castle Caereinion, 1973; notes on St Nicholas Church, Grosmont, co. Mon., 1973; two tickets to Montgomery County Music Festival, 1973; Montgomeryshire Conservative Association on Penybryn, Castle Caereinion, 1973; agenda of annual general meeting of the League of Friends of The Victoria Memorial Hospital, 1 May 1973; two blank Community Council declarations of secrecy and covering letter from town clerk of Borough of Welshpool, 1974; Conservative election card, 1974; and agenda of the League of Friends of The Victoria Memorial Hospital, 14 May 1974. Also the following undated material: prints illustrated in Mont. Colls; two copies of rules of Welshpool Free Public Library (printed); catalogue of the books in the reference department of the Welshpool Free Public Library (five copies); lists of spare volumes of Mont. Colls in Powysland Library; typescript of NLW 'Particulars of burgage rentals among the Powis estate documents' (302.4.1934); calendar of a deed belonging to the Powysland Club relating to Newton 1465 (Richard Williams Collection, 302.5.1934); miscellaneous historical notes on 'Pheasant Hotel' headed notepaper (378.5.1934); Mont. Colls XXIX: reprint 'Myddleton deeds at Chirk Castle' (568.3.1938); newspaper cutting from the County Times, 'Burgage Rents of Welshpool' (1701); subscription leaflet of the League of Friends of The Victoria Memorial Hospital; typescript history of Aldeburgh Town Hall; Montgomery Waterway Shropshire Union Canal Society: leaflet of the case for the restoration of the Montgomery Canal; typescript walk programme to Leighton Bridge; two offprints of engraving of an unidentified church interior; two views of museum interior; photograph of interior of museum; photograph of new case of medieval ecclesiastical tiles (National Museum of Wales) (468.1.1934); report on Powysland Museum by F. N. P.

The papers include: a deed of partition (copy) between (1) Mary Davies of Dyserth, spinster, (2) Susanna Davies of Dyserth, spinster, (3) Elizabeth Davies of Dyserth, spinster, (4) John Smith of Pool, gent., and Mary, his wife, and (5) Thomas Morris of Pentrenant, of lands in Dyserth, Trallwmgollen, Stredalfedan, Tyddyn Pridd, Gaer and Pool as dau's of John Davies late of Dyserth, 26 July 1785; A comparitive statement of the number of criminal offenders committed to the several goals [sic] in England and Wales, for trial in the years 1805 and 1806 ..., [c.1806] (1087.5.1937); notes on the Baptist church, Welshpool, 1811-1880; Charles Bibdin, Life in London or, the larks of logic, Tom, & Jerry, an extravaganza in three acts (London 1822); marriage certificate of Abraham Howell and Mary Jones, both of Welshpool, 13 Aug. 1840; illustration and brief description of Welshpool Congregationalist church, [1841x1860]; baptism certificate of Charles Edward, son of Abraham and Mary Howell, 20 Nov. 1846 (482.14.1936); bond by (1) Abraham Howell of Pool, gent., and others, to (2) Rt Hon. Edward James, Earle of Powis, and others, in £3,000 as county treasurer, 21 Oct. 1848 (507.7.1936); appointment of Abraham Howell as commissioner of deeds, 1852; The Eagle Herald, weekly newspaper published on the 'Eagle' bound from Liverpool to Melbourne, 1853, and Welshpool Reading Society, 1854 (337.1.1934); receipt for sawing and cutting logs, 1856; design for ornament to be presented to HRH Alexandra, Princess of Wales, on her marriage to Prince of Wales, [c.1863]; (printed history of family of) Evans by J. R. E(vans), 1865; Welch-pool Dispensary ball invitation card, 1870; constitution and by-laws of St David's Benefit Society, New York, 1874 and 1879 (556.2.1937); T. C. N., Lord Mayor of London, A sketch of the origin, history, & antiquity of the office, [?1876x1900]; report of Welshpool British School Committee, 1880 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 1125.18.1937); 'Pedigree of Sir William Humfreys, bart', Mont. Colls, XIV (1881), part 1 (568.5.); 'The descent of Dame Margaret Broughton', Mont. Colls, XIV (1881), part 1; tithe notices and related papers, 1881-1922 (Robert Owen Collection); accounts of Co. Mont. County Ball, 1882; rules and papers of Co. Mont. Ball Club, 1883-1890; notes by Humphrey Jones on Welsh Independent church, Welshpool, and copy of the same, 1884; W. V. Lloyd, 'The Stockton Estate, Chirbury' (reprint from the Oswestry & Border Counties Advertizer, 1891) (568.2.1938); list of papers in the billiard room at Rhiewport, Berriew, 1892 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 515.27.1936); poster 'The Great Beacon On Pen-y-Garth, Pont Robert...', 1897; institution to Llanfair Intermediate School committee meeting , 1897; Llawlyfr Annibynnol, 1897 a 1898 (525.1.1937); pulpit engagements, Welshpool, 1897-1901; Sunday School anniversary services, 1897 and 1905; Dyddiadur yr Annibynnwyr am 1898 (525.2.1937); two letters relating to exhibition and report relating to Welsh industries and exhibition papers, 1899 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 407.7.1934); circular letter and report of annual meeting of the Radnorshire & Montgomeryshire Baptist Association, 1901; prize distribution, 1902-1906; statements of accounts and pulpit engagements, 1902-1905, 1907-1908, 1925, 1929-1930, 1932-1936; Welshpool Presbyterian Church, plan of proposed ventilation, 1903; United Nonconformist Sunday School Demonstration 1905, letter relating to trip to Aberystwyth, and accounts, 1905; Severn Valley Mission, Wesleyan Methodist Church Chronicle, 1905; mounted cutting relating to the marriage on H. D. Pryce Harrison of Caerhowel and Monica Carol Smith, [?1906]; letter from T. Davies of Welshpool to J. D. Evans relating to rents of property in Welshpool, 1906; English Calvinistic Methodist Church, Llanidloes, reports, 1907-1908 and 1918 (1087.1.); Welshpool Presbyterian Church solicitor's account, 1908-1909; two rate receipts, 1909; Co. Mont. table of rates, 1909 (507.3.1936); statement of Welshpool Congregationalist church accounts, 1913; Welshpool Wesleyan Church, notice of bazaar, 1914; Christian Union Card, Welshpool, 1914-1915; Llanfyllin rural deanery magazines, 1914-1916; solicitor's charges and receipt for negotiating a loan, 1915; cutting, 'The premier & his schoolmaster' relating to Lloyd George, [?1917] (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 515.30.1936); electoral card of A. S. Davies, 1918; correspondence from the Board of Trade to the Welshpool town clerk relating to the coal strike, 1919; Eglwys y Methodistaid Calfinaidd a'r Weinidogaeth (1924); Oddiar y Twr, Anerchiad Ymadawol o Gadair Cymdeithasfa'r Gogledd yn y Tabernacl, Mon, 9 Ebrill 1924; Welshpool PCC annual report and statement of accounts and list of subscribers, 1925-1926; Y Parch. R. R. Williams, Ein Presbyteriaeth (1927); Rev. R. R. Williams, 'The Central Fund, its meaning and method', 1928 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 562.5.1937); draft bye-laws for the regulation of the canals in England & Wales belonging to the London Midland & Scottish Railway Co., [1929]; A. R. Powys, The English house (Benn's Sixpenny Library, no. 80, 1929) (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 515.35.1936); R. A. Roberts, 'Edward II, the Lord's ordainers and Piers Gaveston's jewels and horses (1312-1313)', Camden Miscellany, 3rd series, XLI (1929) (typescript copy of parts of the article) (516.28.1936); annual reports, 1929 and 1932; presentation to Dr R. Owen-Morris at the Drill Hall, Machynlleth, 1932; order of civic service, Borough of Welshpool, 1932; sale of farm stock, Pwllyrebol, Van, Llanidloes, 1933; cyngerdd plant yr ysgol: Neuadd Bentref, Llanerfyl, 1934; notice of Powys Provincial Eisteddfod, Welshpool, 1934 (326.14.1934); cutting, notice of the London Midland & Scottish Railway Co. on proposal to apply for new by-laws, 1934; petty jury summons to A. Stanley Davies of Welshpool, 1935 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 516.25.1936); Araith Y Parch. R. R. Williams (1935); Dygwyl Dewi, Y Trallwng, 1935 and 1936 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 517.4.1936, 516.10.1936); address by Arnold Dolmetsch to the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion on the " Ancient Welsh music", 1935 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 516.34.1936); Presbyterian Church of Wales (Calvinistic Methodists), addrodiad cenhadol / missionary reports, 1935 and 1936 (561.1.1937); Calvinistic Methodist Church of Wales, the debt upon weak churches in the depressed area of south Wales, [?1936] (561.5.1937); cutting from the Times, 'Work of the courts', 1936 (526.26.1936); Prof. W. Rees, 'The union of England and Wales', lecture card, 1936; 45th annual report, 1936; Bazaar, 1936; cylchlythr Cymdeithasfa Chwarterol Eglwys Calfinaidd Cymru (1936); Llanymynech Presbyterian Church Hall play, 1936; services and invitation for the opening of new church, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 1936; two catalogues of Kimric Mills, Newtown, 1936; cutting, 'Chap books of two centuries ago', 1936 (A. Stanley Davies Collection); official guide to Llanidloes and Pumlimon, [c.1937] (522.5.1937); catalogue of Kymric Mill, Newtown, 1937; cutting on Montgomery county rates, 1937; araith Y Parch. R. R. Williams (1937); announcement of Welshpool St David's Day celebrations, 10 Feb. 1937; newspaper photograph of the interment of Ven. Ellis H. Griffith, archdeacon of Montgomery, at St Mary's Welshpool, 1938; year books of Montgomery & Salop Presbytery, 1938-9 and 1939-40; cutting from the Daily Mail, 'History in dinner plates', 1955 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 56.31.1936); service sheet, 1967; St Mary's, Welshpool, rota of sidesmen, 1971-1972; a service of thanksgiving for the work of the local authorities on the occasion of their dissolution, Montgomery parish church, 31 March 1974 (2). And also the following undated material: postcard photograph of Father N. Wolfray, priest-in-charge of St Winifrede's RC church, Welshpool; Welshpool United Nonconformist Sunday Schools Demonstration (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 515.4.1936); balance sheet, Welshpool church; South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Assoc., Reconstruction Commission (520.6.); Welshpool Presbyterian Church bazaar; Borough of Welshpool annual service of remembrance and dedication; interior view of Welshpool church; transcripts from 'Parish book' (overseers minutes) of Pool Middle, 1765-1784, by T. D. J. and R. O(wen); Natives of the West country: the Duchy of Cornwall Oyster Farm (517.36.1936); 'Copy of a memorial to the Rt Hon. the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the memorial of Richard Swanwick, gentleman, late of the province of Pennsylvania', an Americal loyalist (516.1.1936); 'Old needlework', the Ellis collection at the Maidstone Museum' (383.3.1934); Arch. Camb. (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 516.4.1936); mounted cutting, 'A Welsh Robert Burns, Wil Ifan on Taliesyn o Eifion'; notice of poor rate; notes and cuttings for history of Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn; page from a guide, 'Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire; the seat of the Rt Hon.

Edward Herbert, Viscount Clive' (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 516.11.1936); Daily Telegraph stamps supplement (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 516.7.1936); cutting from the Radio Times relating to the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 516.15.1936); a preliminary prospectus of the Glamorgan County History (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 502.1.1935); Flags and funnels ... from the Boy's Own Paper (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 515.24.1936); agreement for letting of F. G. Wynn of Glynllifon Park, co. Caern (Robert Owen Collection, 407.5.1934); (printed) terms and conditions for letting a house, buildings and land on the Earl of Powis's Estate (Robert Owen Collection, 407.4.1934); blank time-sheets for Plas Machynlleth estate; and three voters' question cards (507.5.1936).

The papers include: Welshpool Borough bailiffs' accounts and minutes of proceedings, 1652-1723 [much interesting material, presumably strays from Welshpool Borough Records. f.107 refers to receipt on 29 Nov. 1656 of new charter granted by King James I and those of John Charlton I, 4th Lord of Powis, in the 'frenche tongue', charter of Edward Charlton (1406). 'Ile' of burgesses, tencers' book, order of Council of Marches, decrees and byelaws of town. ff.113-115 mentions on 10 Aug. 1658 an agreement to rebuild town hall with brick arches underneath]; transcripts from the same by R. Owen; transcript of a lease of possession between (1) Richard Owen of Llanerchrochwell, p. Guilsfield, glover, and (2) Griffith Robert of same, and Thomas Jones the younger of Freeth-penowern (Ffridd Penowern), p. Berriew, shoemaker, of a m., tmt and lands in Glybwll alias Globwll, p. Llanvylling, where David Richard lives, 10 Feb. 1710/1; printed pamphlet of an excerpt from vol. 6 of A description of England and Wales ... (London: Newbery & Carnan, 1769), pp. 229-236, Montgomeryshire (249.1.1973); exercise book of Ann Shuker, handwriting exercises, letter formulae, good words, 1782; estimate for repairing Richard Davies's house called 'red House' at 'ye Tuskin' [Rhyd-esgyn], 1786; manuscript book, description of the boundary line of Pool borough, 1818 (Robert Owen Collection); Great Sessions warrant addressed to sheriff of co. Mont. to discharge from custody of William Cottrel, convicted of grand larceny, 25 Oct. 1821; circular request from Secretary of State for an account of female convicts for transportation, 6 April 1821, with copy of reply of (?sheriff), and directions for delivery of Edward Roberts, convict, 1821; order for removal of male convict, 18 April 1821; warrant for discharge of Edward Turner, 18 Feb. 1822; pardon of Herbert Owen on a charge of burglary and judgement of death on condition of transportation, 18 Aug. 1830; order from Justice Jervis to T. Morgan, protonotary of Great Sessions, for the transportation of Robert Poppet, Edward Lewis and Herbert Owen, 10 Sept. 1830; Welch-Pool Reading Society rules of society, rules of reading room, and poster announcement, 1851; Welch-Pool byelaws (printed), 1853; two printed perambulations of borough of Welshpool, 1874 (proofs), in envelope (Robert Owen Collection, 244.8.1933, 309.8.1934); OS 6"/1 mile map no. XXIII.NE, showing proposed division of part of borough of Welshpool into wards, 1886; Welshpool Athletic Sports ... Queen's Jubilee, notice (proof), 1887; An Act for further improving the Navigation of the River Severn ..., 1890 (488.5.1935); Borough of Welshpool, statement of the result of an examination and enquiry by the mayor and council relating to the books, documents, property ..., 1902; historical and other notes of R. Owen of Welshpool, [c.1902], comprising two speeches relating to Welshpool, [n.d.], historical notes re. same, an essay on the influence of the battle of Chester on Powys, the original of the parish of Welshpool, and Welshpool church, 1902; R. Owen, A short historical sketch of the borough of Welshpool (1906); sales particular plan of Welshpool portion of the Llanerchydol estate, with field-names marked in by R. Owen, 1912; An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Severn Navigation ..., 1914 (488.5.1935); St Mary's Welshpool churchwardens' correspondence relating to stipends of clergy, 1916-1917; R. Owen, Powis Castle, a memoir (1922); typescript notes by M. Newill Owen and letter from Lord Powis rel. to Powis castle terraces, 1925; letter from Afonwy Davies to the librarian of Welshpool Free Public Library sending three volumes, 1937; souvenir programme of coronation (2), 1937; galley proofs of Borough of Welshpool schedule of public footpaths 1938-40 (?) In the Heart of Powisland, [c.1940] (Robert Owen Collection); list of people from Welshpool who served in the Second World War, [post 1945]; and J. D. K. Lloyd, A guide to Montgomery (1948). And also the following undared material: a copy of poems by Guto'r Glyn and Gutyn Owain relating to Strata Marcella abbey; a genealogical table of the family of Herbert (printed, n.d.) in envelope addressed to Mary Newill Owen; a typescript pedigree of Jones of Dolanog (?by R. Owen); a pedigree of R. Owen of Welshpool, Hughes (stewards of Powis) and Herberts of Paek and Folgorgan; a sketch of Capel Llywelyn, Welshpool, destroyed 1659 (faded and foxed); an application of Captain Robert Williams ('Erfyl Fychan', 1899-1968) for post of Director of Education, co. Mer., copies of testimonials and additional information; and R. Owen, Official guide to Welshpool.

The papers include: The thirteenth chapter to the Romans, vindicated from the abusive senses put upon it, written by a curate of Salop, and directed to the clergy of that county, and the neighbouring ones of north-Wales ... (London, 1710) (772.4.1934); A representation of the present state of religion, with regard to the late excessive growth of infidelity, heresy, and profaneness ... (London 1711) (774.11.1934); A sermon preach'd before the King at the royal chapel at St James's ... by ... Benjamin, lord bishop of Bangor, 1716 (771.3.1934); parchment wallet: 'Thomas Goff His Book July 28 1782' and 'John Gough his Book May 14th 1818'; An act for dividing, inclosing, and allotting, the moors, commons, and waste grounds, commonly called Pool Common ..., [?1801x1825]; One pound note of Welsh-Pool Bank, 1814 (with covering letter from Welshpool Borough presenting it to D. H. Hoggins of the Powysland Committee); An introduction to the Valor Ecclesiasticus of King Henry VIII (Commissioners on the Public Records, 1834) (352.1.1934); History of the chartists and the bloodless wars of Montgomeryshire, printed at Welsh-pool by S. Salter, [?1840] (presented to Powysland Museum & Library by S. Salter junior); 'The battle of Heniarth' (from History of the chartists [?1840], above), with notes on same; John Pryce, Breezes from the Welsh mountains: scrap book of Cambrian prose and poetry (Llanidloes 1858); Morris Charles Jones: Reminiscences connected with old oak panelling now at Gungrog (Welshpool, 1864); W. Boyd Dawkins, Notes on the geology of Powys-land (London, 1864, reprint from Mont. Colls); H. Longueville Jones, Payable at sight: Comedietta di Camera (London 1867); note on Powis castle 1195, [?1876x1900]; Walter Keeper, Notes on the geology of the neighbourhood of Aberystwyth, extracted from the Geological Magazine, II, vol. IV (1878); letter relating to the census enumeration of militia recruits, 17 March 1881; typescript relating to the Pool Aurumn Steeplechase meeting, 1883; two political addresses 'To the municipal electors of the borough of Fuddleton' and 'Latest intelligence from the betting club at Muddleton', 1883; two authorised cards to Welch-pool Steeplechases, 1885; ales particular for 'New Inn', Betws Cydewain, 1885; Montgomery County Council official handbook (Newtown, c.1894-1897); Montgomeryshire Horses: a retrospect by Thomas Halford, Newtown (London 1899); reprint of a newspaper advertisement of the Welshpool celebration of the coronation of Edward VII, [post-1901]; sketch-map (mounted tracing) of Welshpool Borough by Robert Owen, 1902; Monthly Treasury: Calvinistic Methodist (Presbyterian Church of Wales) periodical, Jan. 1903; Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society for the counties of Salop & Montgomery: yearbook 1911; Gardener's notebook and diary, R. B. Williames, 1914-1925; Montgomery & Salop Presbytery: announcement of tabernacle and agenda, 5 April 1917; Welsh Dept of Board of Education, scheme for the collection of rural lore in Wales (1919); Edward Greenly, A short summary of the geological history of Anglesey (reprint from Trans. of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society & Field Club, 1922) (742.1.1934); reprints of newspaper letters relating to the proposed amalgamation of Trewern with Buttington, 1922; [?Ancient Monuments Board]: typescript minutes of meetings at Fishguard, 17 Oct. 1925, including minute on Strata Marcella abbey; Llawlyfr Cymry Llundaun / The London Welsh Year Book, 1926-27, including A brief description of the remains of Roman baths ... in the basement of Denton's, 39 Bridge Street, Chester (2); newspaper cuttings: 'Llanwnog as a potential spa', Mont. & Radnor Times, 1927, 'Powys Paradwys Cymru: some characteristics of the county and its people', address by F. E. Hamer, from Mont. Express & Radnor Times, 1927, and 'The last of the baronets', on the Jodrell family, 1929; 'The last of Lymore: the abode of the Herberts of Cherbury' (Mont. Express & Radnor Times newspaper supplement, 29 Oct. 1929); Southern Scotland, and England and Wales (Bartholomew & Son) road map, advertising R. H. Bunner, motor and cycle depot, Montgomery, [c.1930x1940]; Eisteddfod Powys Dalaethol programme, 21 Medi 1933; British Standards Institution for the rating of rivers for power purposes (1935); Y Gronfa Investment Cyfyngefig (Municipal & General Securities Co. Ltd.) leaflet, [c.1935-1936] (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 502.2.1936); Montgomery & Salop Presbytery: the Sunday school field day of the Welshpool district ... at Welshpool, 16 April 1936 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 517.13.1936); Report on the phenological observations in the British Isles, .. 1929 to ... 1935, No. 45 from the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1937; J. R. Earp, The higher Silurian rocks of the Kerry district, Montgomeryshire (reprint from Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, XCIV, 1938) (1163.6.1938); Memorandum on the feeding of the Home Guard (War Office, 1943), and notes on Wales; Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), 17 Oct. 1944 (A. Stanley Davies Collection); Cambridge University Press catalogue, 1952; Welsh Agricultural Land Sub-Commission (Agriculture Act 1947): Mid-Wales Investigation Report (1955); British Legion, Montgomeryshire, handbook, 1966; University of London Institute of Historical Research: Historical research for university degrees in the United Kingdom: list no. 31, part 1, theses completed 1969 (May 1970); Development in Mid-Wales: Mid-Wales Industrial Development Association 16th and final annual report, 1973; and Offa's Dyke Association newsletter, Nov. 1973. Also the following undated material: The first annual report of the receipts and expenditure of the rates of the parish of Berriew; A sermon preached at the parish church of St Mary, White-Chapel, by George Whitefield, Oxford (772.5.1934); Catalogue of household and outdoor effects (printed by R. & M. Owen); 'Llanerchydol, Montgomeryshire, the seat to David Pugh' (a loose page from a history book or guide book); notes on St Cadfan's cathedral, New York, and sketches; G. H. Doble, St Nectan, St Keyne, and the children of Brychan in Cornwall; How to learn Welsh (Hughes & Son, Wrexham); Newspaper cutting, 'Llanfyllin's first charter, granted by a Powysland prince'; Mid-Wales for industry (Cambrian News, Aberystwyth); Model byelaws, series XVI (draft form); Fire insurance: instructions to the agents of the Shropshire & North Wales Assurance Company (Shrewsbury) (Robert Owen Collection, 316.15.1934); poor translation of foundation charter of Strata Marcella abbey; uncut folios illustrating the New English Dictionary and the Dictionary of National Biography; extracts from Prof. E. G. Watts, 'Geology of Powys-land', Mont. Colls, II (Robert Owen collection, 322.9.1934); and Catalogue of north American birds.