A list of trading vessels from 1837 onwards which were built on the river Dee, the material including the towns of Rhyl, Flint, Connah's Quay, Queensferry and Chester.
'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.
A copy of Charges delivered by the Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge in the Shire Hall of the County of Cumberland at the Spring Assizes for the year 1840, on Friday, the 21st of February ... and of A Charge delivered to the Grand Jury at the Assizes for the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne by the Hon. Sir John Taylor Coleridge, February 26 1847, with a letter, 11 April 1840, from the author to Sir Harford Jones Brydges.
A manuscript of John Henry Scourfield: The Grand Serio-Comic Opera of Lord Bateman and his Sophia ..., which was first published at the Middle Hill Press, Cheltenham in 1863 and afterwards in London in 1865.
Notes, made mainly between 1838 and 1842, by George Thomas Clark (1809-1898), afterwards of Dowlais and Talygarn, Glamorgan, on the architectural features of a large number of churches in England, with occasional notes on monuments, castles and certain residences, almost all the notes being accompanied by sketches.
Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 Notes on architecture, with sketches (1838-1842), NLW MS 4740D
A history, compiled c. 1840, possibly by Edward Edwards, of the abbey of St Peter and St Paul, the vicarage of the Holy Cross and several churches, all in Shrewsbury.
An incomplete copy of Nicholas Culpeper: The English Physician Enlarged ... (edition unknown), with additional manuscript notes on herbs by William Bona, Llanpumpsaint, who has also indicated every herb known to him and grown in his garden. Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) (1764-1833) has entered what appears to be a list of money gifts at a so-called bidding in Carmarthenshire, possibly on the occasion of his own marriage.
A register, 1647-1649, giving particulars of the sale of episcopal lands in England and Wales, including the dioceses of St Asaph, Bangor, St Davids and Llandaff.
One of two volumes containing lists of lands and manors mentioned in thirteen of the books of liveries preserved among the miscellaneous books of the Court of Wards and Liveries. The places have been entered under the names of English counties, this first volume containing names taken from volumes 1-8. According to a note, 1719, by C. Grymes on the inside cover the index was compiled by one Phillips.
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.
Two tracts - (a) a description of England, in fifteen chapters, compiled in 1445, beginning 'tractatus iste compendiose extractus de diversorum historiographorum diversis ... describit Angliam ... '; (b) a genealogical chronicle in the same hand projected from Adam to Brutus and from Brutus to Henry VI, but in execution brought only to Edward I, with a continuation in a sixteenth century hand to Henry VIII (1518). The pattern of this genealogical chronicle is that of the Promptuarium Bibliae attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis. The text begins 'Adam in agro damasceno ...' (cf. Thomas Jones, Y Bibyl Ynghymraeg (Cardiff, 1940), p. xiii) and has lines added for the Saxons, kings of Britain, princes of Wales, the different divisions of Saxon England, kings of England, princes of Demetia, princes of Venedotia, &c.
An index to wills, mainly of Brecknockshire interest, at the Hereford District Registry and elsewhere, compiled by H. J. T. Wood, a member of a family connected with Gwernyfed, Brecknockshire.
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).
A volume, 1716-67, containing culinary, medical and veterinary recipes, mainly compiled by Mary Edwards, probably of Great Ness, co. Salop, later the wife of the Reverend William Parry of Ness (will proved at PCC, 1767), with additions by other hands. The recipes were mainly acquired from relatives and friends from the same county, but a few are drawn from printed sources such as The Gentleman's Magazine. An index is included on pp. 299-310.
Leaves from five English manuscripts: two consecutive leaves from the sanctorale of a large missal including the proper for St Credan, presumably from Evesham Abbey, [15 cent.] (ff. 1-2); a leaf from a gradual containing alleluiatic verses and tract for the feast of an apostle, [14 cent.] (f. 3); a leaf from a collection of Latin motets, [13/14 cent.] (f. 4); two conjugate leaves from the temporale of a noted missal, [14 cent.] (ff. 5-6); and a fragment of a leaf from a large antiphonal, [14/15 cent.].
