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Ten sermon notebooks of the Reverend Hugh Pugh, Mostyn.

Sermon notes of the Reverend Hugh Pugh, Mostyn.

Cottage sermons by the Reverend J. Myrddin Thomas, Mold.

Letters (including a few autograph letters), sermons and other papers of the Reverend J. Myrddin Thomas, Mold.

Letters, sermons and other papers of the Reverend J. Myrddin Thomas, Mold.

Letters, sermons and other papers of the Reverend J. Myrddin Thomas, Mold.

Letters, sermons and other papers of the Reverend J. Myrddin Thomas, Mold.

Letters, sermons and other papers of the Reverend J. Myrddin Thomas, Mold.

Miscellaneous papers, [19 cent.], including sermons and letters, by various authors.

Sermon notes and poetry by Hugh Pugh, [Mostyn].

A copy of the monthly periodical 'Y Geiniogwerth' (1847), with sermon notes in manuscript.

Two notebooks (pasted together) of the Reverend John Lloyd Richards (1790-1854), vicar of Llanwddyn containing 'Subjects for [weekly] themes given by Mr Ainger for 1821', '...[L]ines ... set up in a neat frame in the room at the Pavilion by the falls of the Clyde in Scotland', 1817; verses by R. Davies entitled 'I Bedwar Rhan y Flwyddyn'; prose texts entitled 'The Number Seven', 'English Language' and 'Esau and Jacob'; verses entitled 'Happiness' by the present Bp. of Calcutta. Dr. Heber'; personal accounts, 1821-31 (expenses at St Bees College and at Nun Monkton, payments to hired servants, receipts of rent etc.); etc. The scribe's sister, Mary Richards, during the period 1870-3 has used blank spaces to record copious memoranda, anecdotes and transcripts of verse and family letters.

A manuscript of the Reverend Jeffrey Davies, Penrhiw, Llangamarch, Brecknockshire containing mainly notes of sermons, scriptural addresses and meditations. The first page is dated 28 August 1833 and the last 14 June 1835, but there are a few intermediate dates within the period 1839-40. The text on pp. 270 ff. is entitled 'y pumed pwngc i araithio arno yn Ngyfarfod blynyddol yr Ysgol Sabbath yn Defynog Mawrth 13 1835'. At the end of the volume are verses entitled 'Cymanfa Cader Idris. Hanes cymanfa a gynhalwyd ar gopa Cader Idris ... i ystyriaid y modd mwyaf effeithiol i dynu i lawr yr Hen Eglwys Loeger ac i ymwrthod ar degymau'.

A notebook bearing the name of H[ugh] Pugh, London, December 1821, containing various entries, c. 1822-4. Loose papers of later date in the volume indicate that the owner was the Reverend Hugh Pugh (1803-68), generally known as the Reverend Hugh Pugh, Mostyn, Flintshire. The contents include an account of a journey by coach from (?)Hackney to Cambridge, Newmarket, Norwich, etc., 18 March-4 April [1822], followed by a note: 'Started from London for Wales (on Saturday) either the 26 or 27 of June 1822', sermons (one dated 'Llanfihangel Jan 4th. 1824 - Sunday') and sermon notes (partly in pencil), items of verse including 'Penillion Nadolig gan E. Evans Ty mawr Towyn', and various notes and extracts ('Extracts from Cicero's Letters to his Son', 'Legal Errors', etc.).

A volume of sermon notes in the autograph of the Reverend Christmas Evans (1766-1838). On pp. 584-5 are 'Deisyfiadau C. Evans ar yr Arglwydd Awst 2. 1826. Pan oedd yn cychwyn i Gaerphily'. A note by [J] Spinther [James] facing p. 584 begins 'Dyma'r "Cyfamod" y dywed Cofianwyr Christmas Evans ei fod ar goll' (see also his Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Nghymru, Cyf IV (Caerfyrddin, 1907), pp. 433-4).

A volume of sermon notes bearing the name 'Richard Foulkes Dimbuch (crossed out) Ebrill 12 1813', above which J. H. Davies has written in pencil 'Richard Foulkes (1784-1823)' [i.e. 'Silas Glandyfrdwy', Baptist minister]. Other items include a few medical and veterinary recipes and some music.

A small notebook probably in the autograph of the Reverend Hugh Pugh (1803-68), Mostyn inscribed '"Tarian Rhyddyd" &c. Novr. 1838' and containing minutes, November 1838 - July 1839, and a list of co-proprietors in connection with Tarian Rhyddid, a Dymchwelydd Gormes, a monthly publication, the first number of which appeared in January 1839. The 'Reverend H. Pugh' is named as secretary and the Reverend W[illia]m Rees as editor. At the reverse end of the volume are some sermon notes.

A notebook bearing the name 'John Peters ('Ioan Pedr'), Bala, 1861' containing outlines of sermons, 1862-5, some fuller than others. In some cases only the subject and the text are given.

A composite volume containing sermons, extracts or 'hints' from sermons (taken partly from a sermon by Mr [Daniel] Rowland), a hymn and a holograph elegy [by the Reverend Edward Matthews, Ewenny] written on the dorse of an invoice to him, 1888, for the purchase of a printed book.

A commonplace book of Cellan, Cardiganshire provenance, containing sermon notes, household and weaving accounts, 1819-24, hymns, 'englynion', medical recipes, Welsh proverbs, etc. The volume was begun in 1791 by Thomas Griffiths, Tynycoed, Cellan.