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Lectures on 'A System of Christian Ethics: or Essays on Moral Philosophy' transcribed by J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') 'from an old volume of manuscripts bound together, and which had been bought in London, by the late Rev. D. Davies, Baptist minister, of Wauntreoda, Whitchurch, in the neighbourhood of Cardiff. Author unknown, and nothing to indicate whose they were originally . . . The manuscript was very old . . . but the handwriting was excellent, and it seemed in a fit state for the press'. The transcript was completed at Whitchurch, 16 January, 1864.

Lists compiled by J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') from the manuscripts of John Phillips, Glandwr-isaf, parish of Llanfyrnach, co. Pembroke, of sermons preached largely at Hebron Congregational Chapel, 1826-1879, and of Roger Grifiths, Kile (Cilau)-isaf; parish of Llandysilio East, co. Carmarthen, of sermons preached at Nebo Congregational Chapel, 1883-1887. At the end are particulars, also from a notebook of Roger Griffiths, of collections and disbursements at Nebo, 1883-1886. The lists have been recorded partly on the dorse or blank spaces of a printed National Memorial to the Right Hon. The Earl of Rosebery, K.G., Premier, 'for arresting the growth of European armaments' [c. 1894-1895], returns of March School Board, 1897, forms of Statistical Returns of the Sunday School Union, 1900-1901, and a printed notice of meetings of Marsh and Chatteris Federation of the Evangelical Free Churches, 1903.

An extensive register in the hand of J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') containing an annotated list of members of Hebron Congregational Church from 2 November, 1850, when Simon Evans accepted the pastorate, to 1902, and similar lists of baptisms, admissions, admissions by transfer, dismissions, exclusions, restorations, marriages, burials, etc., by Simon Evans during his pastorates of the Congregational churches of Pen-y-groes (1844-1856), Hebron (1850-1885), and Nebo (1850-1885). The volume was completed at March, co. Cambridge, 17 April, 1903. The lists are written on the dorse of a printed parliamentary voters' register for the parish of Merthyr Tydfil, 1872.

'The Welshman's Candle', being a holograph 'free and correct' translation, with an introduction, by J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') of 'An Exhortation to hear and read The Word of God' from Rhys Prichard: Canwyll y Cymru . . . (London, 1646).

Holograph 'specimens of translation' by J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') of the 'Exhortation' contained in MS. 11692B. There are considerable verbal variations between the two texts.

'The Welshman's Candle', being holograph translations by J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') from Rhys Prichard: Canwyll y Cymru . . . (London, 1646). Some of the translations are signed at March during the period 1883-1887, and are written on the dorse or blank spaces of printed circulars, etc., of the National Education League, 1873 and undated, the Central Association for Stopping the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday, 1882, and the London Missionary Society, undated, a printed appeal on behalf of a New Congregational College for Wales, 1862, a printed programme of a competitive literary meeting at Beulah [Congregational Chapel], Whitchurch, near Cardiff, 1867, a printed leaflet of hymns to be sung at the anniversary of Ivor Chapel Sabbath School [at Dowlais], 1870, a printed prospectus of Thomas Nicholas: The Pedigree of the English People (5th ed., 187[ ]), a printed undated appeal on behalf of a testimonial to the Reverend Thomas Rees, D.D., Swansea, etc.

Transcripts in the hand of J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') from Y Diwygiwr, July, 1854.