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A home-made volume, roughly bound in parchment, containing transcripts of hymns and some sermon notes in the hand of David Thomas, Llwynywermwd, Llan-y-crwys, son of the Reverend Zacharias Thomas, Baptist minister, of Aberdyar, etc. The volume was compiled during the period 1805-1806. Among the papers used to compile the manuscript are an agreement, 1790, for the lease, from W. Williams to Zacharias Thomas, of Emlych, parish of Penbrey, co. Carmarthen; a voucher, 1797, to Zacharias Thomas from D. J. Jenkins, Lampeter, for a waistcoat, etc.; and a holograph letter from John Williams, Carmarthen, to Zech. Thomas, 1802 ( the distribution of 'papers' to the Association and the churches). The volume also includes the score of a hymn-tune entitled 'Difyrwch gwyr y Gogledd'.

Holograph sermons and sermon notes, 1837-1840, of Evan Lewis, Pant [Abergorlech], and Brecon [Independent] College (aft. Congregational minister, of Brynberian), together with a prayer and miscellaneous memoranda. NLW MS 11660A also contains a journal of a preaching tour of cos. Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan undertaken by Evan Lewis and E[lias] Jacob, a fellow-student at Brecon, June-July, 1840 (see D. Morgan Lewis: Cofiant. . ., pp. 83-4).

Holograph sermons and sermon notes by D. Morgan Lewis. NLW MS 11652B also includes notes of sermons, 1826-1827, delivered by D[aniel] Davies, Cardigan, J[oh]n Davies ['Siôn Gymro'?], D. Harries, Carmarthen, W[illiam] Davies, Fishguard, J[oh]n Thomas, Glynarthen, Ja[me]s Phillips, 'Bethlem' [St. Clears], D[avid] Bateman [Rhosycaerau], and others; holograph notes of addresses delivered by the Reverend J. G. M[orris, Newport, co. Pembroke] at the funeral of Mrs. [Catherine] Lewis (wife of the Reverend Evan Lewis, Brynberian), [4] May, 1892 (printed in D. Morgan Lewis: Cofiant ... Evan Lewis, Brynberian (Aberystwyth, 1903), pp. 240-3), and at the funeral of the Reverend Evan Lewis, 23 July, 1896; a hymn, signed 'E. Lewis, Iscoed [ i.e., the Reverend Evan Lewis, Brynberian], Aug- 31, 1880' (published in facsimile in D. Morgan Lewis: Cofiant. . ., p. 262); 'Catecism ir Band of Hope' (incomplete); a paper by D. Morgan Lewis entitled 'What are the reasons which induced you to enter the Christian Ministry, and why among the Independents?'; notes by D. Morgan Lewis entitled 'Darpariadau Cymdeithasol angenrheidiol i wrthweithio dylanwad y fasnach feddwol'; and a press cutting of a report of a paper on 'Higher Education and Ministerial Training in Wales' read by D. M[organ] Lewis at a meeting of the North Wales English Congregational Union, 1885.