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(i) Reminiscences by Lewis Jones, Towyn, of Pantperthog Chapel in his youth, and a letter, 1913, from Lewis Jones to the Church at Pantperthog; (ii) a Sunday School register belonging to Pantperthog, 1871-1876, with the names of preachers and their texts during the greater part of the period; and (iii)-(iv) two account-books also belonging to Pantperthog, 1883-1898 and 1922-1953.

(i) 'Cofnodion Cyfarfodydd Swyddogion, ynghyd a rhai ffeithiau perthynol i'r Achos yn Penegoes' 1901-1921, probably by, and in the autograph of, John Edwards, Brynffynnon (d. 1921); and (ii) another notebook containing a copy of the same, continued to 1931.

A few papers relating to Cyfrol Goffa Richard Bennett, M.A. (1940), edited by the Rev. D. Teifigar Davies and the Rev. R. W. Jones, Aberangell, including cuttings of RB's obituary, 1937, and reviews of the book, 1940, letters from Mrs S. J. Hughes, Caersws, 27 February 1940, and Edward Evans, Towyn, 4 April 1940, a copy of Y Droell Fechan, Mawrth 1938 (sent by Edward Evans to Mr Davies), containing a short article on Richard Bennett prefacing a letter written by him concerning the Tibbotts of Llanbrynmair and Llanfihangel y Pennant, and a list of subscribers to the volume, 1941.

Notebooks and loose items containing the following: (i) 'Canmlwyddiant Capel y Pennant Hyd. 1920'. There are also some pencil notes including extracts from Llandinam Registers, etc.; (ii) '24 Hyd. 1923. Canmlwyddiant Capel Gleiniant'; (iii) 'Canmlwyddiant Y[sgol] S[ul] Tynrwtra. Mai 14 1925'; (iv) 'Hanes Crefydd yng Ngharno. Carno. Ion. 1924'; (v) 'Ffyddlondeb i Anghydffurfiaeth. C[yfarfod] M[isol] y Graig. Mai 30 1912'; (vi) 'Cyngor [i Flaenoriaid]. Pantperthog. Medi 6, 1928' [in note form] (1 f.); (vii) 'Cyn[n]wys y Safe - Llanidloes'; 'The CM Register of Bapt[isms] in co. Montgomery. Extracts'; 'Llyfr Trysorydd y Casgliad Misol', 1810-1841; 'Pregethwyr yn Llanidloes a'u Tal,' 1800-1810 (in pencil); (viii) 'Preachers at Caersws CM Chapel [1827-1838]. From the Treasurer's Account Book. viz. Mr James Hamer, Carnedd' (transcript); (ix) 'Howell Harris a Dechreuad Methodistiaeth yn Sir Drefaldwyn'; 'Sylwedd Anerchiad a draddodwyd mewn Cyf. Dosbarth yn y Cemmes, Hyd. 22, 1908. "Awgrymiadau am y ffordd fwyaf buddiol i gadw Seiat".' (in pencil); (x) 'Howell Harris. Gleiniant III. 27. [19]30'; 'Yr Y[sgol] S[ul] fel yr oedd' (in note form); 'Cychwyniad Methodistiaeth P[ark] Hill, Chwef. [19]20' (loose sheet, in note form); 'Cychwyniad Methodistiaeth Gymreig. Wrexham. Tach. 16, [19]21.' (in pencil, besides the loose sheet); (xi) 'Cedyrn y Pulpud Cymreig' (rhestr o enwau hen bregethwyr, a dyddiad neu flwyddyn eu geni a'u marw); 'Cofrestr Teulu Borfa Newydd'; 'Members of Independent Church at Ll'mair in June 1733'; 'Rhanau o Golwg ar Deyrnas Crist'; 'Extract(s) from History of Llanbrynmair' [Mont. Coll.]; a note (copy) by D. Howell, Esq., Solicitor, Machynlleth, 9 September 1853; a copy of a letter written by Evan Roberts, father of John Roberts the elder, Llanbrynmair, to certain of his children, probably in October 1812; lists of the names of wardens and overseers of the parish of Llanbrynmair; and an extract from a paper on the Abbey of Cwm Hir by Stephen W. Williams, F.S.A., Rhayader, transcribed from the Oswestry Advertiser, 3 July 1895 (mostly in pencil); (xii) 'Rhestr o Enwau yr Aelodau Eglwysig perthynol i Gapel y Pennant yn dangos eu presenoldeb yn y Cyfarfod Eglwysig am ran o'r flwyddyn 1883[-1884]; a list of subscriptions towards the repair of the hearse belonging to the parish of Llanbrynmair, etc., 1881; lists of the names of preachers and their texts at various meetings, 1884-1887; genealogical notes concerning members of Bennett (Glanrafon) family; an address on 'Y Puritaniaid', 'P[ark] Hill, Tach. 1920'; and a few notes of sermons, etc.; (xiii) a letter from J. Kinsey Jones, Llanidloes, to R. Bennett, 4 June 1912.

Addresses, etc., comprising: (i) 'Hanes Methodistiaeth yn y Cemes, Maldwyn, 1754-1814', published as a booklet, 1934 [N.B. this volume is missing]; (ii) 'Meth[odistiaeth] Tref[aldwyn] Uchaf. Cyfrol II. Cyfnod D. Rowlands a T. Charles (1754-1814): Carno'. Pencil copy and fair copy (see also two typed copies in A7); (iii) Sychnant - (?) table of contents or résumé of a paper or booklet in English; (iv) 'Centenary of Sychnant Chapel. Oct. 1925. A Paper giving a brief outline of the growth of Religious endeavours, especially those relating to the Sunday Schools of the District' (typescript); (v) 'Lewis Evan. Llanllugan. (Sylwedd anerchiad mewn cyfarfod Dathlu yn yr Adfa. Ion. 26, 1921)' [printed in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y MC, vi, 42]. Also the address in note form; (vi) manuscript and typescript copies of 'Hanes ffurfiad y Gyffes Ffydd (Anerchiad yn CM Trefaldwyn Uchaf. Rhag. 6, 1923)'; (vii) 'Ffyddlondeb i Anghydffurfiaeth (Sylwedd papyr [sic] a ddarllenwyd yng Nghyf. Misol y Graig. Mai 30, 1912)' (incomplete); (viii) 'Bont. Meh. 9, 1918. Anerchiad. "Cariad y Gwirionedd", II Thes. 2, 10' (in note form); (ix) 'Nodiadau am Hen Bregethwyr Trefaldwyn Uchaf'; 'Blaenoriaid [Trefaldwyn Uchaf]' (notes); also includes a pencil copy, loose in the volume, of a letter from R. Bennett, Caersws, 1927, to an unnamed correspondent containing information in connection with the Centenary of Oakley Park near Llanidloes; (x) 'Upper Mont[gomery] CM Chapel Deeds' (notes in pencil); (xi) 'Dyddlyfr y Parch Richard Jones Llanfair Caereinion', 1829-1862 (transcript); (xii) 'Nodiadau am Gynghorwyr Tref[aldwyn] Uchaf. Mont. Exhorters', etc., 1925 (notes in pencil based on the Trevecka Letters, H. Harris Diaries, etc., with extracts from the H. Harris Diaries, 1738-1739); (xiii) 'Y Dathliad. Ymbaratoad ato', 1934 (two holograph copies, one incomplete, and a typed copy); (xiv) 'Canmlwyddiant Mynyddog. Llanbrynmair. 24 Awst 1933' (in pencil); (xv) 'Hanes y Graig - parhad' (in pencil); (xvi) a letter, 1920, from Richd Owen, Eryri House, Tal-y-Sarn, to R. Bennett, concerning Robt. Davies, Oswestry, and Thomas Meredyth, etc., and lists of the names of preachers at Llanllyfni, 1820, and Caergeiliog, 1782 and 1820 (Welsh); (xvii) 'Methodistiaeth Caersws'; 'Caersws Methodism' (incomplete drafts in pencil); and (xviii) ['Hanes Rhydwen, Dylife. Nodiadau gan William Evans, Carno, John Lloyd, Dylife], a list of queries by R. Bennett concerning Rhydwen, with replies thereto by William Evans, [1922].

Addresses, etc., comprising: (i) 'Anerchiad yn Seiat y Pennant. Ion. 5, 1926 ... Salm 119. 19' (in note form); (ii) 'Perthynas yr Eglwys a'r Byd. Tach. 30, 1916' (in note form); (iii) 'Yr Ysgol Sul: y modd i'w diwygio. (Bont. Mawrth 2, 1919)' (in note form; pencil); (iv) [Ymgysegriad i Grist - bywyd y Tadau] (in pencil); (v) [Uniondeb Calon] (in note form; beginning wanting); (vi) [gair o ragymadrodd o flaen anerchiad], [?1929]; (vii) 'Cychwyniad Meth[odistiaeth] Gymreig. Gwrecsam, Tach. 1921' (in note form); (viii) 'Bywyd yn y Pennant &c yn yr oesoedd gynt. Llan. Ebr. 1919' (in note form); (ix) 'Seiat Llandinam. Ynghylch 40 aelod a 4 Cynghorwr Preifat' (notes in pencil), [?1926]; (x) Carno, [?1929]; Saron, [?1930] (notes in pencil); (xi) 'Ymddiddan fu rhwng y diweddar Mrs David Davies, Llandinam, a'r Parch E. Griffiths Meifod, un o'r dyddiau olaf y bu fyw' (not in the autograph of R. Bennett); (xii) llythyr oddi wrth y Parch. W. S. Jones, Amwythig, 1924, at R. Bennett ynghylch defnyddiau hanes Eglwys Maengwyn, Machynlleth; (xiii) 'Nodiadau allan o lyfrau Mr H. Gwalchmai - codwyd Hyd. 1893' (not in the autograph of R. Bennett); (xiv) press-cutting: 'Dyfyniad o'r "Haul" o Lythyr y Parch D[avid] Rowlands, Eb. 26, 1808', concerning Carno and Llanwnog; (xv) a letter from Matthew D. Wilson, Garthbwt, Caersws, 1926, to R. Bennett giving references from Y Drysorfa to John Morgan, the Rev. John Price, John Bywater, Evan Lloyd, and H. Gwalchmai; (xvi) 'Cyfrifon y Vestry &c.' Pennant, 1913; (xvii) 'Garthfawr [Llandinam parish]', [?1929] (English); (xviii) 'Gregory. Dinam Curig & Idloes', [?1929] (notes on wills, in pencil); and (xix) a list in an envelope addressed to Mr Bennett; on the envelope is the following note: 'Beth yw y rhestr hon? Ai trefn Llettyau Cynrychiolwyr y Cyf Misol yn y Bont? R. W. J[ones]'.

Items not in the autograph of Richard Bennett, comprising: (i) 'Dechreuad a chynydd yr Ysgol Sabbothol yn y Bont, Llanbrynmair. Papur a ddarllenwyd gan Mr Daniel Howell Ynghyfarfod Ysgolion Dosbarth Glan Dyfi a Llanbrynmair yn y Bont Gorph. 5ed 1896'; (ii) 'Hanes yr Achos yn y Waen' [ger Cemmaes] [missing]; (iii) 'Adgofion am John Breese or Cemmaes, Lewis Lewis & Martha Meredydd'; (iv) 'Hanes cychwyniad a datblygiad yr Achos Methodistiaid [sic] yn Neuadd a'r Deildref' gan 'Methodist' [John Jones, see Cyfrol 5].

Simplex notebook containing: (i) 'Hanes Maengwyn' (notes based on an essay written in 1875, etc.), 'Machynlleth Registers' (extracts); (ii) 'Hanes y Neuadd. Traethawd 'Methodist' ar gychwyniad a datblygiad yr Achos [John Jones]'. Hanes Deildref eto gan 'Methodist'; (iii) 'Nodiadau o'r Ystadegau mewn perthynas i Dref[aldwyn] Uchaf'; (iv) 'Life of Thomas Charles by D. E. Jenkins' (extracts); (v) Garthpwt: Eleventh Report of the Llanidloes Bible Society (Shrewsbury, 1826) (transcript); (vi) 'Ychydig o fanylion am y Jarmans o Fanwledd'; (vii) 'Nodiadau o MSS Newell am Dref[aldwyn] Uchaf'; (viii) 'Adroddiad o Feddiannau'r Cyfundeb i'r Gym[anfa] Gyff[redinol] 1882. T[refaldwyn] Uchaf (M. D. Wilson)'; (ix) 'Adroddiad am Athrofa y Meth[odistiaid] yn Ngogledd Cymru oi Dechreu hyd y fl. 1856. (M.D.W.) Enwau y Preg[ethwyr] o Sir Drefaldwyn a fu ynddi'; (x) [Pigion am Drefaldwyn Uchaf o'r Drysorfa, 1835-44, ac o gylchgronau eraill, etc.]; and (xi) '1846. Dyddlyfr R. Newell - a gefais yng Nghegidfa' (extracts).

Printed items, comprising: (i) Ystadegau Eglwysi y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd yng Nghyfarfod Misol Trefaldwyn Uchaf am ... 1915 (1916) (pp. 1, 2, 15, 16 only); (ii) Y Cronicl, Medi 1876 (contains an obituary of W. Williams (Gwilym Cyfeiliog), by S.R.); (iii) 'John Foulkes Jones. Sylwedd Anerchiad yng Nghyfarfod ei Ganmlwyddiant, Rhagfyr 16, 1926. Ad-argraff o erthygl Mr Richard Bennett, Caersws, fel yr ymddangosodd yn y 'Cylchgrawn Hanes' ..., Cyf. xii. Rhifyn 1'; and (iv) 'Dathlu Canmlwyddiant Ein Cyffes Ffydd. Papurau a Ddarllenwyd yng Nghyfarfod Misol Dyffryn Clwyd, a gynhaliwyd yng Nghapel Mawr, Dinbych, ar Fehefin 28, 1923 [gan Mr Gomer Roberts, Y.H., a'r Parchn Pierce Owen a J. Talog Davies, M.A.]'.

Numbered volumes containing mainly addresses and notes on the history of the Calvinistic Methodist cause in Montgomeryshire. The dates probably reflect original material from which Bennett's transcripts were taken; no clear distinction is made in the catalogue.

A notebook (cover wanting) containing notes of the sermons preached at 'Cymmanfa y Bala', 16-18 June 1818. The last of the sermons recorded is one by the Rev. Ebenezer Morris at Mallwyd on the afternoon of 18 June.

An exercise-book, containing a transcript by W. Bebb Hughes, Llwynygronfa, Aberhosan, Machynlleth, of reminiscences of the literary activities of the Pennant, Llanbrynmair, district, 1865-1895, by R. Bennett, in the form of a letter to a Mr Thomas.

Manuscripts, 1807-1953, mainly relating to Montgomeryshire chapels and preachers.

Manuscripts and papers from the library of the Rev. D. Teifigar Davies, 1807-1953, consisting of papers (addresses, notes, etc.) of Richard Bennett, relating mainly to Upper Montgomery Presbytery, 1876-1941; and other manuscripts and papers collected by Davies relating to Calvinistic Methodists in Montgomeryshire, 1807-1953.

Additional items not listed in cyfrolau I-VI, including a short address by Richard Bennett, to be read for him on the occasion of the Centenary of Park Chapel, i.e. Oakley Park, 1927; 'Pennillion Coffadwriaethol am Morris Evans', [?1891], by RB (see Cyfrol Goffa Richard Bennett, M.A., p. 67); a notebook containing two addresses, 1926, one on Psalm cxix, 19, 'Dieithr ydwyf fi ar y ddaear', and the other on the subject of 'Canmlwyddiant M.C. Caersws'; and two typewritten copies of 'Hanes Methodistiaeth Carno (1754-1814)'.

Leaves from an account book, or books, of an unidentified chapel, 1899-1901.

A copy of Old Moore's Improved New Almanac for 1844 (and pocket book) which belonged to Edward Gittins, Dolanog, Llanfihangel, Montgomeryshire, containing items of verse, accounts, medical recipes, and sermon notes. At the end of the volume are memoranda concerning local events, 1852-1874 (inverted text).

A poor-rate collecting-book for the township of Caerseddfan in the parish of Darowen, Montgomeryshire, 1872-1878, probably belonging to Edward Williams, overseer.

A volume containing the names of preachers and texts preached, 1850-1874, with a few notes of sermons, 1837, perhaps belonging to another book. The writer appears to have been from the Machynlleth district; the volume bears the names, at a later date, of Ann Jane Jones and Humphrey Jones, 4 Pont-faen, Forge, near Machynlleth.