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Welsh chapels in London

The file comprises a MS list of Welsh chapels in London, arranged by denomination; a similar list with the addition of names and addresses of persons who will look after posting bills; a MS list of names and addresses of parties concerned with Welsh chapels in London; a letter from John Owens to C. W. Jones concering the lists, 1876; a similar letter from C. W. Jones to John Owens, 1880; and two notes on Welsh chapels

Valor ecclesiasticus

A manuscript containing the names of all rectories 'in the kingdom of England and Calais and the Marches thereof' of the annual value of over £10, arranged in dioceses, deaneries and counties, followed by the names of all vicarages in England, Wales and the Marches of the annual value of over £10, similarly arranged, all having been transcribed from the Liber Regis in the First Fruits and Tenths Office.

Unpublished early poems

Exercise book containing drafts of a poem, 1924, composed by Vernon Watkins during his year at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and apparently unpublished (ff. 48-54 verso, 57 recto-verso).
The volume also contains notes, 1924, on the Epistle to the Ephesians (ff. 1-11).

Tune book,

Two nineteenth-century tune books now joined together as one volume, the first bearing the dates 1816 and 1866 (inside covers) in the hand of Mair Richards of Darowen, and the second 1850 (inside front cover); the first part contains popular and traditional Welsh song and dance tunes, the second, English waltzes, marches and quicksteps with a few traditional Welsh tunes and hymn-tunes. Also included are an englyn attributed to M[air] R[ichards], but signed below in red by David Richards ('Dewi Silin'; 1783-1826), who may have been the first owner (part one, f. 1).

Mair Richards and others.

Transcripts and extracts

One of forty-one volumes containing transcripts of, and extracts from, parish registers and bishops' transcripts of parish registers principally from Monmouthshire, in the autograph of Bradney, with several insets in the autographs of John Hobson Matthews (Monmouth), Francis Green (St Davids), John Davies (Aberystwyth) and others. This volume contains transcripts and extracts from the parish registers of Tregaer, 1696-1805; Usk, 1696-1807; Llanfihangel-iuxta-Usk, 1725-1812; Llanwenarth, 1726-1808; Aberystruth, 1727-1847; Llanhilleth, 1733-1838; Llanellen, 1754-1812; Penrhos, 1780-1812; Monkswood, 1794-1797; Llanmaes (Glamorganshire), 1583-1683; St John, Cardiff (Glamorganshire), 1671-1729; Elmley Lovett (Worcestershire), 1539-1693; Feckenham (Worcestershire), 1558-1696; and Hanbury (Worcestershire), 1578-1667.

The English country gentleman,

  • NLW MS 9319C.
  • File
  • 1823 /

'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]'.

Parker, Thomas N. (Thomas Netherton)

Terrier

  • NLW MS 2098E
  • File
  • 1616

A manuscript containing a terrier of lands, 1616, in Cheshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, together with memoranda involving money owing and lent, etc.

St Brides, Pembrokeshire, and Loughor, Glamorgan, marriage registers,

  • NLW MS 16273C.
  • File
  • 1943 /

Typescript transcripts and lists, 1943, compiled by David E. Gardner, comprising transcripts (for 1725-1812) and extracts (1813-1929) of marriages recorded in the parish registers of St Brides, Pembrokeshire (ff. 8-12); transcripts of marriages (1754-1837) recorded in the parish registers of Loughor, Glamorgan (ff. 13-33); and a list of non-parochial registers relating to Cheshire held at the General Registry Office, Somerset House (ff. 1-7).

Gardner, David E.

Sermons

'Ephemeris', being a list of sermon texts, etc. and of the places at which they were delivered, 1775-1794, by Thomas Morgan; most of the sermons were preached at Morley, Yorkshire, while others were delivered at Henllan and elsewhere in Wales. The sermons bear the serial numbers 3484 to 5572.

Sermon notes,

A pocket book containing sermon notes in Welsh ? by, and in the hand of, [the Reverend] Lewis Williams, Wesleyan minister, London, whose name, with the date 27 September 1842, appears on a fly-leaf at the beginning of the volume. The last page bears the date 1 July 1846. Miscellaneous memoranda in English have been inserted on a few pages.

Reverend Lewis Williams.

'Scrapiana' ...,

  • NLW MSS 9334-9342D.
  • File
  • 1884-1890 /

'Scrapiana', or cuttings from newspapers, both Welsh and English, collected by Charles Ashton. The cuttings, ranging from 1884 to 1890, are from Y Dydd, Gwalia, Cambrian News, Liverpool Daily Post, Tit-bits, Y Drych, The Welsh Farmers' Gazette, Liverpool Weekly Mercury, Wellington Journal, Y Llan, Oswestry Advertizer, and the Montgomeryshire Express.

Charles Ashton (compiler).

Reports on education,

  • NLW MS 12133D.
  • File
  • [c. 1764-1767].

A composite volume of the period c. 1764-1765 containing transcripts and drafts of reports on education in England, Wales, and Ireland, and of other papers on education, collected by a Russian commissioner with a view to establishing an educational system in Russia. The titles of the reports include 'Des Ecoles dans le Roiaume d'Irlande connues sous le Nom de Charter-Schools', 'Etat des Ecoles de Charité de la Grande Brétagne et de l'Irlande, l'année dernière, 1764', 'Ecoles ambulantes de Charite, dans la Principauté de Galles, en Angleterre', 'Etudes de l'École des Humanités', ‘'Reflexions sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs, établies à St. Petersbourg & à Moscou', 'Utilités de l'Étude de la Langue Latine & de la Grecque, pour l'avancement des Connoissances', 'Supplement à la pétite Dissertation sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs . . .', 'Doutes & Rémarques détachées, sur le Mémoire de Mr. le Conseiller Müller', 'Touchant le Protecteur général des Grandes Écoles & les Conseillers', 'Doutes touchant le Projet pour avoir 4 différentes sortes de Grandes Ecoles', 'Memoire Touchant les Grandes Ecoles d'Humanités en Angleterre, presenté au Mois de Novembre, 1764', 'Idée superficielle des deux Universites de l'Angleterre', 'Méthode d'enseigner les Humanités', 'Refléxions générales sur les principales Branches des Connoissances sur- tout en ce qui regarde La Prémière Education, & les Genres d'Études qui y conviennent', 'Projet de deux Grandes Ecoles, ou Séminaires Séculiers, l'un à St. Petersbourg, & l'autre à Moscou', etc.

Remarks on the Malt Tax ...,

  • NLW MS 9320C.
  • File
  • [1835x1900] /

An annotated interleaved copy of T. [N]. Parker's Remarks on the Malt Tax: with reference to the debate in the House of Commons on the 10th March 1835, and in defence of the farmers and maltsters against the injurious effects of misrepresentations and misprints, and the indiscreet kindness of some of their friends. Shrewsbury, 1835; with a covering circular and cuttings from the Salopian Journal.

Parker, Thomas N. (Thomas Netherton)

Religious societies,

The printers' copy (typescript, with manuscript emendations) of D[avid] E[ rwyd] Jenkins (ed.): Religious Societies (Dr. Woodward's 'Account') . . . ( Liverpool, 1935), in which sections of Josiah Woodward: An Account of the Religious Societies in the City of London, &c., and of their Endeavours for Reformation of Manners (4th ed., enlarged, London, 1712), were reprinted, with a historical introduction by D. E. Jenkins, dealing more specifically with Wales.

D. E. Jenkins.

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