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A certified copy of the marriage entry of John Roberts of Castell, Llanddeiniolen, and Catherine James, Bangor, married at Twrgwyn Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Bangor.

A charm against witchcraft found under a beam at Gelli Bach, Glyn Ceiriog, with related letters, 1930, from Charles B. C. Storey, Plas Nantyr, Glyn Ceiriog.

A Cheshire Glossary, with MS notes, by Roger Wilbraham. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 28.) English. 1/2 morocco. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

A collection of extracts of Mathew items by Edward Hazard Mathews, extracted by E. M. Bishop. English. (Formerly E. M. Bishop MS 28.) Donated by Alwyn Andrew, Liverpool, 1945.

A collection of legal precedents, with examples relating to Denbighshire properties. English. Leather. Donated by Mrs D. Macdonald, London, July 1949.

A composite volume of music books put together and annotated by Nicholas Bennett. It includes Richard Roberts: Cambrian Harmony, Carnarvon, 1829, (a copy given by J. D. Jones to John Ceiriog Hughes in 1863, and to Nicholas Bennett by J. H. C. 1874); Hughes: British Melodies, London, not dated; T. D. Morris: A Selection of... Welsh Airs, Chester, 1860; John Parry: A Collection of Welsh Airs . . . London, 1807; H. S. Hayden: A Collection of... Welsh Airs . . . Carnarvon, 1862; J. D. Jones: Cwymp Llywelyn, Wrexham, not dated; Brinley Richards: God Bless the Prince of Wales, London, not dated; George F. West: Rule Britannia, arranged for the Piano Forte, London, not dated; and Thecla Badarzewska: The Bells of Aberdovey, London, not dated.

A collection of pedigrees by Peter le Neve and others. (Formerly Clark MS.) 1/2 calf. Donated by Wyndham D. Clark, May 1949.

A collection of pedigrees, &c., made by Thomas Ellis, B.D., Dolgellau. English, Welsh. Donated by the Reverend T. J. Morris, Holyhead, & T. I. Ellis, Aberystwyth, May 1944.

A collection of typescript and manuscript scripts of Welsh plays (some incomplete), including 'Y Cybydd' (a translation by David J. Thomas of Molière's work L'Avare); 'Y Tri Dyn Dierth' by James Kitchener Davies; 'Ym Magl yr Heliwr' by Awena Rhun; 'Y Dyfroedd Tawel ; and 'Henffych Fore' (NLW ex 1640); together with a file containing letters, 1942-4, from H. J. Lewis, Director of Education for Cardiganshire, to E. D. Jones, Headmaster of Rhydypennau Council School, concerning youth clubs in the county, including the Welsh League of Youth (NLW ex 1641).

A collection of Welsh nationalist pamphlets and leaflets in Welsh and English, mainly produced by Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, including Egwyddorion cenedlaetholdeb (1926), The banned wireless talk (1931), and Y frwydr dros ryddid (1935), all three by Saunders Lewis; together with Blaenorion y Blaid (1936), a Plaid Cymru Summer School pamphlet; Paham y llosgasom yr ysgol fomio (1937) by Saunders Lewis and Lewis Valentine; Coelcerth rhyddid: croeso i'r tri (1937); and three issues of The Welsh newsletter, 1949, edited by R. G. Lloyd Thomas. There are also a number of pacifist pamphlets including Wales and the war (1940) and Havoc in Wales: the War Office demands (c.1946).

A copy of Husain bin 'Ali al Wa'iz al-Kashifi's Persian commentary on the Qur'an-Mawahib-i-'Aliyyah.

A commonplace book kept by the Honourable John Scott, M.P. [? for Boroughbridge, 1802-5, son of the first earl of Eldon], in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It contains poems, epigrams, epitaphs, parodies, metrical translations of the classics, etc., by J. Scott, W. 'Spencer, J. Fenton, and others, including ' Prologue to - Nothing, spoken at a Masquerade at Wynnstay, Septr. 1800, by a Character of a Strolling-Player' ; letters and copies of letters mainly to and from John Scott ; ' An account of the present State of England', by C. Heberden ; a copy of an address delivered at Oxford, June 25, 1800, by William Crow[e], entitled 'Oratio Crewiana'; miscellaneous quotations and extracts; etc.

Extracts from printed works, journals, etc., 1817-1829.

A commonplace book containing poetry, Latin axioms, and extracts relating to religion, theologym philosophy, etc.

A commonplace book [?of John Jones, Ioan Triphlyg] containing Welsh poems, mainly in free metre, prose extracts, arithmetical and astronomical exercises, etc.

The commonplace book, 1699-1715, of John Copner, vicar of Abergwili.

A commonplace book and catalogue of deeds [at Longnor Hall], by Joseph Corbett and another. English. Red morocco. Purchased from Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1950.