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An essay on 'Beirdd Morgannwg hyd ddiwedd y 18fed ganrif (The Bards of Glamorgan to the end of the 18th Century)'.

Poetry and essays written by John Jones ('Gwalch'), Aberaman, mainly for 'eisteddfodau' in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire.

A table dealing with the commutation of tithes in Cadoxton juxta Neath, Glyncorrwg, Llangyfelach, Llantwit Lower and Bonvilston and Llancarfan in Glamorgan, together with particulars of certain tithe charges on the parish of St Peter's, Carmarthen.

A survey of the manors of Penmarke, Funmon, Barrey, and Lancadle, Glamorgan, made by Evan Mouse in 1622, being a typescript copy (280 pp.) of the Welsh section of a manorial survey acquired in 1936 by the Bedfordshire County Record Office.

A manuscript containing sermons delivered at Bridgend and Coity, 1829-1830, by William Jones, Congregational minister (1784-1847).

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.

Survey of the manor or lordship of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, co. Glamorgan, containing answers to articles of enquiry presented to twenty-one named jurors, followed by sections containing details of properties, tenants, rents and services.

A volume containing a collection of inscriptions from mural tablets and gravestones in Glamorgan churches.

Certificates of the Contract for the Redemption of Land Tax in the County of Glamorgan, 1799 (together with related receipts, schedules etc.), related certificates and schedules, 1798-1819, and copies of the Poor Rate assessments for the parish of Llantwit Major for the years 1826 and 1834.

Sermons preached during the years 1720-1764, mainly at Margam, Penrice, Oxwich, etc.

Sheep Register, printed and sold by W. Whittington, Post Office, Wind Street, Neath, and used to record ear-marks in the Bryn, Port Talbot and Maesteg area, c. 1930-1940.

The second of two volumes of manuscripts called Genealogical notes relating to the ancestry of the people called Quakers in Wales and Early meetings of the people called the Quakers in North Wales, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1920.

A glossary, by Isaac Craigfryn Hughes, of the Gwentian dialect as spoken in Glamorgan, with an introduction in English.

A manuscript containing notes of sermons preached in Glamorgan.

(a) A notebook (8 pp., in Welsh) containing 'Trioedd y Lladron', twelve in number, 'o Lyfr Thomas Philip o Dreos', in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg, followed by 'Credo Wladwriaethol' written in another hand; (b) The Bardic Institutes in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg (in English): (i) '[The] Bardic Institution according to [the] Laws of Gruffydd ab Cynan'. A note at the end states that this is an abstract of the Institutes as given by Dr John David Rhys in his Welsh Grammar, 1593; (ii) 'The Bardic Institutes as Traditionally retained down to the Present Day, by the Glemorganshire Bards who assert, and believe that they are unalteredly the same with those of the Ancient British Bards and Druids'.

Extracts from the Book of Heirs (1-22 Elizabeth), abstracts of inquisitiones post mortem for Glamorgan (Henry VIII - Charles I), extracts from subsidy rolls for the western hundred of Glamorgan (34 Henry VIII), an abstract of a survey of Dinas Powis (8 Elizabeth), notes on the lordship of Gower (1093 - 1182) and materials for a history of parishes in the lordship, together with Llangyfelach, Llanguicke and Llansamlet.

Illustrations and sketches of churches at Cowbridge, Penarth, Llandyrnog, Llangernyw, Llanychan, Llangwyfan and Llansannan, with notes and miscellanea.

An incomplete biographical dictionary of Glamorgan poets and literateurs, from Rhys Morgan to Nathaniel Williams, compiled, [20 cent, first ¼], by Philip Thomas.

A glossary of the Welsh of Glamorgan compiled by Thomas Morgan (1850-1939), Baptist minister at Skewen.