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A composite text made of the extent of the castle and honour of Denbigh taken by Hugh de Beckele, 1334, being a transcript by Frederic Seebohm of British Museum Harleian MS 3632, ff. 1-48 and Maitland Library, All Souls' College, Oxford MS ff. 165-287. From f. 233 (NLW MS 17304E) onwards, the text was transcribed from Colonel Howard's manuscript. The text is written on the recto only and NLW MS 17304E is a direct continuation of NLW MS 17303E. Pasted in on the frontispiece is a letter, 1894, from the Clarendon Press, Oxford to Frederic Seebohm which relates to the publication of a facsimile of the Denbigh manuscript.
There are some annotations in pencil and red ink throughout both volumes and some notes in a different hand from that of the scribe inserted loose (NLW MS 17303E: f. 29; NLW MS 17304E: ff. 268, 273, 319).

Autograph specifications, dated February 1923, or work required in the restoration of the Priory House, Penmon, Anglesey by Geoffrey G[osset] Holme, architect, of Penmon. The manuscript contains architectural sketches (ff. 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 20, 30) and provisional sums (estimated amounts) relating to the restoration work. (f. 31).

The revised and heavily corrected final three pages, 1931, in John Cowper Powys's hand, of his novel A Glastonbury Romance (London, 1932) (ff. 1-3); Powys apparently rewrote the ending at the instigation of Phyllis Playter, who suggested the changes subsequently made to the original text.
Also included is correspondence, 1955-1957, of a Mr Baston, then owner of the novel's manuscript, comprising letters from Powys, 27 July 1955 (f. 4), and the US publishing house Simon & Schuster, 2 September 1955 (f. 6), with a carbon copy letter from Baston to Simon & Schuster, 15 August 1955 (f. 5), concerning Baston’s efforts to find the manuscript's missing chapters, and a letter from the bookseller George Sims, 28 January 1957, offering the present three folios to Baston (f. 7).

Account book, 1876-1929, of the Treasurer of Montgomeryshire Presbytery in respect of the Ministers' Fund of the North Wales Association of the Calvinistic Methodist Connexion.

'Maxims on the political, social, and domestic economy of the English country gentleman in his public and individual capacity', written in 1823 by Thomas Netherton Parker, Sweeney [Hall, near Oswestry]'.

Accounts of Dr Williams's Trust, 1778-1808, with particulars of payments to ministers, apprentices, and exhibitioners in North Wales, and to students at Northampton, with miscellaneous receipts, 1808-1821, and a statement of accounts of the estate of Edward Parry, vicar of Baschild (d. 1798), with Abraham Rees of Hackney, executor, and residuary legatee.

5 photographic portraits / group portraits connected with Blaenau Ffestiniog. Some are annotated on the reverse.

Six miscellaneous photos including a child playing on a beach, family portrait, a view of Cricieth Castle, two anonymous portraits and a studio portrait of Rev Owen Evans DD, Congregationalist minister, Liverpool.

Two accounts of a tour through North Wales, beginning at Erthig, 12 August 1775, and proceeding by way of Llangollen, Corwen, Bala, Dolgelley, Barmouth, Harlech, Penmorfa, Llanllyfni, and Caernarvon, to Bangor; with a brief account of a journey to Brussells.

A dictionary of Welsh biography compiled by Henry Blackwell (1851-1928), New York.

Register of the company of corvisers of Oswestry, 1587-1750.

Two volumes, written at the end of the nineteenth century, by Thomas Morgan Joseph-Watkin, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms, serving as an index to the Gilfach Pedigree Books (now NLW MS 23967i-iiE).
The first volume (23968iE) contains letters A-Pe of an index to family names, continued with letters Ph-Y in the second volume (23968iiE, pp. 181-315), which also contains an index to place-names (pp. 2-172). A pedigree chart by Joseph-Watkin, compiled [1894x1913] (NLW Rolls 62), shows that he was himself related to the Gilfach family.

Photostat facsimiles of Rural Deans' Visitation Queries and Answers for the diocese of St. Davids, 1717-1829. The original records are in the Palace at Abergwili.

A list of persons balloted, and substitutes, sworn and enrolled to serve as private militia men for the hundred of Llangyfelach, Glamorgan, 1760-1770; with a copy of a letter by L. Griffiths, 4 September 1817, on the deplorable situation of the Glamorgan farmers.

A manuscript music book belonging to Owen Jones (Owen y Cantwr), Penycae, Wrexham.

A collection of 'cywyddau' attributed to Dafydd ap Gwilym (17), Dafydd Nanmor (2), Hugh Morys, Madog Benfras, Iolo Goch, and Rhys Cain; 'cerddi' by Ellis Roberts Cowper, and Lewis Morris ('Llywelyn Ddu') ('Llythur Cymun Morgan Goch y Melinydd', with an addition by William Jones, and 'Cerdd Marwnad Llewelyn bach o Gaer ludd'); 'englynion' by Merddyn Emrys and Huw Huws; and an English 'charol to be sung on Christmas morning' by Hugh Hughes, 'late of Foel near Llanerchymedd'.

Minutes, 1894-1899, of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Celtic Society.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register of Llandough, Glamorganshire, 1583-1812.

A list, [September] 1795, by the artist John Malchair of Oxford, of drawings made by him on a tour of north Wales, 22 July-21 August 1785, written on returning to Oxford.
The drawings are described in chronological order, with some additional details and comments on the surroundings, people and weather. The itinerary includes Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire (f. 1), Dinas Mawddwy (f. 2 recto-verso), Barmouth (f. 3) and Harlech (f. 3 recto-verso), Merionethshire, and Beddgelert, Caernarvonshire (f. 3 verso). For a transcript of the list see Colin Harrison, John Malchair of Oxford: Artist and Musician (Oxford, 1998), pp. 150-152.

Papers of the donor, 1987-1988, relating to organising Walk for the world in Wales in 1987, comprising correspondence and publicity material. = Papurau'r rhoddwr, 1987-1987, yn ymwneud â threfnu Taith yn erbyn tlodi yng Nghymru yn 1987 yn cynnwys gohebiaeth a deunydd cyhoeddusrwydd.