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A volume of press cuttings from Yr Haul, 1872 et seq., being charters and other public records, 1201-1590, with English translations, relating to the borough of Carmarthen, Whitland Abbey, Dinevor market and fair, Talley Abbey, church goods, plate, etc., in co. Carmarthen, colleges and chantries in co. Carmarthen, etc. The contributions were submitted to Yr Haul by John Robert Daniel-Tyssen, F.S.A., Brighton, with copious annotations by Alcwyn C. Evans. The latter has added, in his own hand, marginal and other notes, a list of contents, and an index of persons. Also included in the volume is a cutting, signed by Alcwyn C. Evans, 23 July 1877, of a short biography of Dr. William Parry, of the Army Hospital of Fort Pitt, Chatham, a native of Llethrach, near Carmarthen.

Three volumes containing 'A History of the Town and County of Caermarthen' by 'Cyfrangwr', i.e., Alcwyn C. Evans. The work was awarded the prize and a gold medal at the National Eisteddfod at Carmarthen, 1867. It is divided into sections with the following headings: Preface; (i) Its ancient and present name and boundaries; (ii) Its rivers, lakes, and mountains; (iii) Its historical summary; [iv] The Town of Caermarthen. Volume III is an Appendix consisting of a genealogy of Sir Thomas Jones, Abermarlais; 'The Gentry of Caermarthenshire living in 1602' ('as given by Geo. Owen'); extracts from documents relating to places in the town and county of Carmarthen; the parliamentary representation of the town and county of Carmarthen; an abstract of a charter of King Henry III to Meredydd ab Rhys, 1257; a rent-roll of the town of Carmarthen, 1575; extracts from Leland's Itinerary; excerpts from the Liber Landavensis and The Book of St. Chad; a chart of the genealogy of the Welsh Princes; transcripts of oaths of the mayor, bailiffs, and constable; a transcript of a 'cywydd' written by Griffith Llwyd ap David ab Einion Lygliw on the trial of Morgan ab Davydd ab Llewelyn of Rhydodin (Edwinsford) in Caio, circa 1390, with an English translation; an English translation of the charter granted by Sir Guy de Brian, kt., to the burgesses of Laugharne (early 14th cent); and an 'Index to the County'.