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Material relating to Cardiganshire

  • NLW MS 6974F
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  • 18-19 cents

Press cuttings, mainly of Cardiganshire, particularly Aberystwyth, interest, accumulated by members of the Davies family of Antaron, Aberystwyth; two letters from Edward Richard [1714-1777], founder of Ystradmeurig School; posters, broadsides, etc., including a copy of 'Can I. Clod i Ystradmeurig' and 'Can II. Clod i Bont Rhydfendigaid' by J. Hughes, Llwyn-glâs.

Extracts from public records, etc.,

A roughly-bound composite volume of notebooks in the hand of J. H. Davies containing extracts and transcripts from seventeenth and eighteenth century public records relating mainly to Cardiganshire and taken especially from Gaol Files, 1732-69 (among them 'Quotations sent to Welsh Gazette' with captions in the hand of George Eyre Evans); and copious extracts and transcripts of seventeenth century Welsh Puritan and Quaker interest, including material from Merioneth Gaol Files, temp. Charles II, notes and extracts on 'Personalia' (with similar material relating to Dafydd ap Gwilym etc.); an extensive list of titles of, with extracts from, printed books and Acts of Parliament, a list of Members of Parliament for Welsh constituencies, 1640-60 (Cardiganshire from 1624), transcripts from Thomas Shankland, '"Diwygwyr Cymru" Beriah Gwynfe Evans', Seren Gomer 1901, passim, etc. There is a classified index at the end of the volume.

Miscellaneous accounts,

Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1771-1866, and copies of the accounts of the treasurer of the Cardiganshire County stock, 1857 and 1862.

Sermons

Sermons preached originally in several parishes in Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire, 1790-1792, by Thomas Davies.

Press cuttings, &c.,

An album containing press cuttings, reprints of articles in the Aberystwyth Observer, 1899-1905, posters, etc., mainly relating to Aberystwyth and Cardiganshire, and minutes of the committee of the 'Highgate Men's Club', Whitchurch, Shropshire, founded in 1889, with correspondence and other papers relating to the club.

Benefit applications,

An application for benefits under the Old Age Pensions Acts, notice of meetings, etc., all relating to Cardiganshire.

Cardiganshire press cuttings,

A scrap-book of press cuttings of Cardiganshire interest. The titles include 'Y Parch. Phiup [sic] Pugh a'i Amserau' (attributed in the hand of J. H. Davies to D. Worthington, with the comment that 'This article is wrong in nearly every detail'), 'Some Old Records of Cardiganshire', 'Cymru Fu' ('Grand Jurors for 1732', 'An old Revenue Conflict in Cardiganshire', 'Old Welsh Ballads', 'Extracts from Gaol Files', 'The First Press in Wales', and 'The Manor of Perfedd...'), 'Glimpses of Aberystwyth in Shakespeare's Time' by E. A. L. [i.e. Professor E. A. Lewis, University of Wales, Aberystwyth], 'Fifty Years of the 'Cambrian News', Welsh Journalist's Reminiscenses' by W. R. H. [i.e. William Robert Hall, Aberystwyth], 'The House of Peterwell', etc.

Cardiganshire extracts,

A volume in the hand of J. H. Davies containing extracts from manuscript and printed sources and from public records largely relating to Cardiganshire (e.g. family pedigrees, with references to the life and work of Dafydd ap Gwilym; ministers' accounts, with lists of officers of commotes; rentals and surveys, court rolls, inquisitions post mortem, etc.).

Morysiaid Môn,

A manuscript in the hand of J. H. Davies recounting the activities of Lewis Morris ('Llywelyn Ddu o Fôn') in Cardiganshire (with particular reference to the incidents at Esgair-mwyn lead mine in 1751-3 which led to his imprisonment); and a typescript article by [J. H. Davies] entitled 'Morysiaid Môn a'u lle yn Hanes Cymru'.

Bibliographical notes, etc.,

A scribbling tablet in the hand of J. H. Davies containing extracts of Cardiganshire interest from patent rolls and other public records, fourteenth to sixteenth centuries; copious printed titles and bibliographical notes; extracts from NLW MSS 77-8 (hymns of William Williams, Pantycelyn), Cwrtmawr MS 99 (manuscripts of Taliesin Williams ('Ab Iolo'), and Cwrtmawr MSS 385-6 (letters addressed to Howel Harris, Trevecca), etc.

Extracts from public records,

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies, c. 1900-02, containing extracts from public records largely of Cardiganshire interest, e.g. 'Indices and notes to .... Fines' (temp Geo. I-Geo. II) and other legal records, ministers' accounts temp Ed.III-Ric.II; hearth tax returns for the parishes of Llangeitho, Llanbadarn Od[w]yn and Gwnvill (Gwynfil) and Llanio, 1672; etc.

Miscellanea,

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies containing extracts of Welsh interest from public records, e.g. rolls and fines (15th to 19th centuries) relating to Cardiganshire; a list of distinguished Welshmen (16th to 19th century), in alphabetical order of surnames, who were buried in London; lists of, and extracts from, Lloyd (surname) and other probate records (17th to 18th centuries) in the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House; a bibliography of John Penry; extracts from printed books and from Welsh manuscripts in the British Museum, etc.

Cardiganshire public records, etc.,

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies containing memoranda of public records (16th to 19th century) of Cardiganshire interest; an annotated list of signatories alphabetically extracted from A Word for God (1655); etc.