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A notebook originally used as a subscription book for the [Llanfihangel Crucorney?] Whit-Monday athletic sports, [c. 1878]. It was subsequently used by John Davies to record house, hay, coal, maids' wages, and other accounts, 1879-1916; accounts with Pandy C. M. Church, 1883-1916; accounts of a Dairy School at Pandy, 1899; and notes on Monmouthshire genealogies and antiquities.

A notebook containing the bidding account of John Davies, 'Account of what we received 22 Decr 1807 being our Wedding Day at The 3 Compassess' (ff. 1-6); an incomplete copy of his elegy Marwnad ar Farwolaeth Owen Rees o Gaerfyrddin ... yn 68 Oed (Caerfyrddin, 1808) (inverted text ff. 8 verso-11 verso); and sermon notes.

Notebooks containing drafts of 'Nodion Cymdeithasfaol' or reports and minutes of meetings and committees of the South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association, 1896-1899; together with notes on some aspects of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, e.g. on Howell Harris.

An essay on 'Cymreigyddion y Fenni and its work'.

Y Dyddiadur Methodistaidd, 1866, 1898-1899, 1901, 1904, The Diary of the Calvinistic Methodists, 1875-1876, 1905, 1907-1908, 1910, 1912, 1914-1915, A Diary of Sundays for 20 Years, 1886-1906, Pettitt's Handy Diary, 1916, and Year Book of the Council of the County of Monmouth, 1895 (lettered 'Alderman John Davies'), 1900-1901 (lettered 'Alderman Davies'), with manuscript entries by John Davies, Pandy.

An essay on 'Enwogion Gwent'. The essay corresponds largely to NLW MS 11418E, but contains additional biographies of Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan of Newport, and William Thomas ('Islwyn').

A transcript of the trust deed, 26 June, 1866, of a school to be erected at Cae Plockin, parish of Llantillio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, for the education of the children and adults, or children only, of the labouring, manufacturing and other classes in the several parishes of Llantillio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, Foothog, Herefordshire, Partrishow and Llanbeder, Brecknockshire, and Llanwenarth and Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, and to be conducted upon the principles of the British and Foreign School Society. The transcript is written on the dorse of an incomplete Scripture examination script of Philip Francis, Graig, Abercanaid, Merthyr.

A notebook containing minutes of the committee of managers of Forest B[ritish] School, parish of Llantilio Pertholey, 1888-1906. Almost the entire volume is in the hand of John Davies, who was originally correspondent and subsequently became chairman of the committee. On the inside upper cover is a note by John Davies, dated 22 March 1907, that by order of the Board of Education the school was henceforth to be called 'Llantillio Pertholey Forest Undenominational School'.

An essay, with appendices, written [c. 1870], on 'Methodistiaeth Cymru Hyd 1811' [the history of Calvinistic Methodism to the Ordination of 1811]. At the end of the volume are some accounts of purchases for the house (food, etc.) and payments of taxes made by John Davies during the period 1877-1879.

A notebook containing minutes of the committee of the Abergavenny District of the Welsh Nonconformist Council, 1891-1897, the secretary of the committee being John Davies; draft reports (undated) of South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association meetings; particulars of receipts and disbursements on behalf of Forest British School, 1903-1904; extracts from memorial inscriptions at the churches of Llanfihangel Nant Brân, Brecknockshire, and Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, transcribed during the period 1908-1909; and an address entitled 'The First Chapter in the History of Nonconformity of the [Abergavenny] District', delivered at Mozerah [Calvinistic Methodist Church, Llanfihangel nigh Usk], in 1911.

A notebook containing notes on forms of church government, philosophy, the early history of Capel-y-ffin Baptist Church, border antiquities (Ewyas Harold, Kilpeck, Kenderchurch, Rowlstone, Michael Church, Patricio, Craswall, etc.), characteristics of early architecture, the 'arrangement' of Llanthony Abbey, etc., together with some statistics of a Bible class at Pandy, 1873.

Notes on the doctrine and the rite of baptism and on philosophy; a paper on Sir John Oldcastle, styled Lord Cobham (d. 1417), read to the Cambrian Archaeological Association at Abergavenny, [18] August 1876; notes from Edmund Jones: ... Account of the Parish of Aberystruth (Trevecca, 1779); notes of visits to Gloucestershire and to Bala, 1882-1883; etc.

An incomplete essay on 'Monmouthshire Worthies'. The list of subjects begins with Geoffrey of Monmouth and ends with Sir Thomas Phillips, barrister, of Newport.

An index of scriptural headings compiled by John Davies, possibly in preparation for his Allwedd Duwinyddiaeth ... (Carmarthen, 1823).

A notebook containing notes on logic; Latin exercises; a commentary on portions of the Greek text of chapters 6-7 of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans; and notes on Roman history.

A volume originally used to record membership of the Pandy Medical Aid Society, 1887-1888. The list of members is largely in the autograph of John Davies, and is followed by an address (48 pp.), also in his hand, on 'Billy Bray' [William Bray, Cornish miner and preacher].

A volume of holograph sermons, c. 1790, by John Davies, Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Glythe, Nantglyn, co. Denbigh. At the beginning is a list of places at which the sermons were preached.

Undated sermons notes by John Davies ('Sion Gymro').

A notebook containing sermons by John Davies, 1819-1821, with a list of the places at which each sermon was preached, 1819-1838 (ff. ii-ivv).

Sermons written and delivered by John Davies ('Sion Gymro').