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A volume in the hand of R[owland] Watkins, Eglwyswrw containing tables of particulars of sermons preached at Ebenezer [Baptist meeting-house, Eglwyswrw] and at 'Other' and 'Different Places' during the period 1805-11. The latter for the most part consist of neighbouring meeting-houses and private houses, the [Calvinistic Methodist] meeting-house at Eglwyswrw (including the opening service, 27 October 1808) and Baptist Association, quarterly, and monthly meetings in West Wales. The volume also contains abstracts of sermons by Lewis Evan(s), minister of Ebenezer Church, and others and, beginning from the end, are details of 'Light Infantry Exercise' and hymns.

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.

Tune book, watermarks 1821-1822 (ff. 2, 3, 36, 47 etc.) and written mainly during the 1840s (ff. 3, 79), containing anthems, psalm-tunes and hymn-tunes, many of English origin. The collection includes 'Hymn Nadolig gan y diweddar Parche[di]g Mr Williams Llangynyw' (ff. 76 verso-7 recto).

Two nineteenth-century tune books now joined together as one volume, with further quires and single leaves added to the first part, which contains mainly popular and traditional Welsh and English tunes together with a few hymn-tunes, and is dated 1827 in the hand of Mair Richards, Darowen (on front cover). The second part, containing mainly popular and traditional tunes, together with a few hymns in Welsh, may have been first compiled by Thomas Davies, shoemaker, Esgaironen Fach, Llanarth, Cardiganshire, 1847-1857 (notes on covers and ff. 2, 20 verso), who added a list of customer accounts on ff. 16 verso-18.

Tune book of Mair Richards (1787-1877), Darowen and Llangynyw, containing hymn-tunes, anthems, carol-tunes, psalm-tunes and popular tunes, with some accompanying words in Welsh and French.

A copy of Thomas Williams, Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol, neu gerddoriaeth eglwysig (Llanidloes, Thomas Williams, [1846]) (ff. 2-73), bound with a manuscript tune book (ff. 74-143), ?1890s, containing hymn-tunes and anthems.

A copy of a hitherto unidentified printed tune-book (ff. 3-14), lacking title-page, ?second half of the nineteenth century, bound with a manuscript tune-book (ff. 15-84), also second half of the nineteenth century, containing hymn-tunes.

Tune book, second half of the nineteenth century, containing hymn-tunes and traditional Welsh and English tunes.

Tune book, first compiled in the late eighteenth century, containing anthems, hymn-tunes and psalm-tunes, with some accompanying words in Welsh; ff. 1-20 appear to have been written in the 1840s.

'Absence, death to those who love' composed for Miss F. Wyndham by John Parry, junior, 4 April 1839; 'The song of Flylas', by John Parry, junior, 26 Jan. 1840; 'A Summer Midnight' by John Parry, 24 Nov. 1843; 'Smiling Spring', 24 April 1854; 'Night, or hush'd in repose', 2 Oct. 1855; 'Meeting and Parting at Sea', 14 Nov. 1855; two hymn-tunes, 'Raglan' and 'Ty Gwyn' composed for the Llanover Choir 19 Sept. 1865; 'The New-born Year', 12 July 1858; 'Rest in peace, sweet child', 15 Nov. 1858; 'Oh! 'tis pleasant to walk in the meadows in spring', composed expressly for the Llanover choir, 4 Sept. 1865; 'A Winter Night's Song', composed for the Llanover choir, 30 Sept. 1865, with words, also by John Parry, written at Ty Uchaf, Llanover; 'Glory to God in the Highest', December 1871; and undated works- 'A little hymn of thankfulness arranged in an easy form for the use of National Schools and sung by the children of Surbiton National School for whom it was written', 'The departure of the Nightingale', and 'The Sweet vesper bells of Ancona'.

The tune book of John Evans, Pantgwyn, parish of Llanfair Orllwyn, 1850, containing hymns and anthems.

Copies of the hymn-tunes 'French', 'Venice' and 'Josiah'.

A collection of hymn-tunes selected by David Lewis from J[ohn] and R[ichard] Mills: Y Cerddor Eglwysig, 1846, Cydymaith y Cerddor, and T. B. Mason's Collection; 'Clod a Mawl i'r Hollalluog Dduw' by David Lewis; and a duet, 'Gwyllt Walia', by William Ellis, schoolmaster, which was awarded the first prize at the competitive meeting of the Aberystwyth Literary Society, 1857.

A collection of airs, anthems, duets, part-songs, choruses and hymn-tunes, composed, arranged or harmonised by David Lewis, 1854-1907.

A collection of anthems, hymn-tunes, airs and part-songs, composed, arranged or harmonised by David Lewis, 1865-1904.

A collection of songs, anthems and hymn-tunes, including compositions and arrangements by David Lewis, D. Wylor Owen, J. Edward Williams, Sirhowy, Jos. Jones, Ty-Newydd, William William Pritchard, Tregarth, W. Reynolds, Brymbo, R. M. Hughes and William Hughes ('Alaw Manod').

Hymn tunes, anthems, etc., some of them composed by John Edwards ('Meiriadog'), and some with words.

Anthems, hymn-tunes, glorias, etc., some with and others without words.

'Canto y Gynulleidfa, sef Anthemau a Thonau cyfaddas i'w canu yn yr addoliad cyhoeddus, gan David Bynner ('Dewi Cadfan'), Llangadfan, Chwefror 8fed 1859'. The anthems are 'Praise the Lord, O my soul', 'The Congregational Anthem', and 'Moliant Seion'. Several of the hymn-tunes have titles of Montgomeryshire association, e.g. Beulah, St Cadfan, Cannoffice and Myfod.