Notebooks containing sermons in Welsh, ca. 1866-1869. There is a draft letter from William Owen (see 561, below) to officers of Llanddona chapel on p. 144 of MS 23144.
A volume of extracts (partly with carbon copies) from printed sources, compiled by W. P. Elwy Jones of Cwmpadarn Council School and of Aberystwyth, towards a history of the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire. The volume also contains lists of dialect words.
Papers from the library of O. J. Hughes, estate agent, Nantlle, including versions of a report, 1888, on the Llwyngwern Slate and Slab Quarry, Corris, Merioneth, together with monthly particulars of production, profit or loss, etc., 1886-8; a report on Daren y Gessel Slate and Slab Quarry, Pennal, Merioneth, signed by O. J. Hughes; and an incomplete essay (19 pp.) entitled 'Traethawd ar lechfaeni Nant Nantllef', 1868.
Six notebooks containing notes of sermons. Five are in the hand of Timothy Evans (d. 1837), vicar of Llanbadarn Trefeglwys and Cilcennin, Cardiganshire, and contain sermons which were preached during the period 1797-1812 at Llanb[adarn Trefeglwys] and Kilk[ennin], Llandewi [Aberarth], Llandinol, Llansantffraed, and Kiliau [Aeron]. The sixth notebook contains a sermon in another hand which was preached at Llanbadarn Trefeglwys and Cilcennin on 8 July, 1787, and which bears the inscription 'By V. Davies'.
A minute book of the Six-weekly Meetings of the Arfon District of Calvinistic Methodist Sunday Schools, Caernarvonshire, 1845-52, mainly in the hand of Richard Owen Williams, Bangor, and subsequently of Thomas Lewis (1821-97), Bangor, Member of Parliament for Anglesey.
A volume, dated 1888, from the library of James Morris, blacksmith and magician, of Cwmbelan, Montgomeryshire, containing transcripts from ['Raphael' (pseud.):] The Art of Talismanic Magic: being selections from the Works of Rabbi Solomon, C. Agrippa, F. Barrett, etc. ... 1879 (London, 1880).
A bound volume containing holograph notes and pencil and pen-and-ink sketches [by the Reverend Elias Owen, vicar of Efenechdyd, 1881-1892, and of Llanyblodwel, 1892-1899, being material subsequently incorporated in his published work Old Stone Crosses of the Vale of Clwyd and Neighbouring Parishes, together with some Account of the Ancient Manners and Customs and Legendary Lore connected with the Parishes (London [1886])].
A note-book possibly in the hand of the Reverend John Evans, Baptist minister, best known as John Evans, Abercannaid, Merthyr. The contents consist entirely of sermon notes, 1827-1829 and undated. Inset are loose items, including a note addressed by D. Rhys Stephen, from Abertawy, to the Reverend John Evans, [18]31 (accompanying a copy of a three-stanza hymn by John Morris, headed 'Hymn dduwiol a gyfansoddwyd i'r Parch. Mr. Davies, Alltwen'), and further sermon notes, [18]44 and [18]67, bearing the initials 'J.E.'., or the signature 'John Evans'.
A lecture by W. J. Waterhouse on the history of the Church of England, particularly in Wales, in the seventeenth century, and minutes of various Church Defence committees and meetings held in the Rural Deanery of Ultra Aeron, Cardiganshire, 1906-1907, during the campaign for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales.
A journal, 1818-1836, with full details relating to his work and activities, receipts and payments, etc. kept by a Carmarthenshire farmer, possibly David Thomas (1756-1840), Llwynywermwd, Llanycrwys, son of Zechariah Thomas (1727-1816), Baptist minister.
Thomas, David, 1756-1840 Journal and accounts (1818-1836) possibly kept by, NLW MS 4560D
An entry book, 1783-1798, of fees collected by the Reverend John Rocke on the passing of fines and recoveries in the Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire circuit of the Court of Great Sessions.
Rocke, John, Rev. Entry book of fees and recoveries (1783-1798), NLW MS 4526E
