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Archdeacon A. O. Evans manuscripts
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Bangor Diocesan Choral Festivals

Miscellaneous papers, mainly connected with the Bangor Archdiaconal Choral Festival and the Bangor and Anglesey Choral Association, 1899-1906, with some papers relating to the Church Choral Union of the Archdeaconry of Carmarthen.

Music

Five manuscripts music books containing hymn-tunes, chants, etc., used at Llanfaethlu and Llansadwrn churches, etc.

Miscellaneous papers

Miscellaneous papers, including notes relating to Rowland Williams (1779-1854), canon of St. Asaph and rector of Ysceifiog, and father of Rowland Williams (1817-70), Vice-Principal of St. David's College, Lampeter; a note, dated November 9, 1892, by Thomas Briscoe (1813-95), D.D., chancellor of Bangor Cathedral and vicar of Holyhead, relating to the incumbency of Holyhead; papers concerning the insurance of Llanfaethlu church, Anglesey; a list, compiled by Canon W. H. Harris, Lampeter, of Cornish and Breton equivalents of certain Welsh ecclesiastical terms; 'An Estimate of repairs and alterations to Peblig mill...', October 29, 1823; etc.

Briscoe, Thomas

'Thomas à Kempis and Wales'

Three volumes of material relating to Welsh versions of Thomas à Kempis's De Imitatione Christi, etc., collected by Archdeacon Evans when he was preparing the bibliography afterwards published in The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, IV, pp. 30-2.

Bangor National Schools

A printed appeal, issued 9 May 1866, for subscriptions towards the cost of erecting new National School buildings in Bangor, Caernarvonshire, with a list of some subscriptions.

Letters

Letters of sympathy received by Archdeaon A. O. Evans on the death of his brother, Captain John Henry Evans, in 1930. Among the correspondents are a large number of clergymen of the Church in Wales.

Miscellanea,

Miscellaneous papers kept by Albert Owen Evans:- an order in the case of Rowland Evans, president of the Bangor Rechabites, and David Davies, a member of the society, 1853; a sermon preached at Llanfechell, 1880; instructions to local 'observers' of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 1912; questionnaires on the parishes of Llanfaethlu and Llanfwrog, Anglesey, by the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales, 1915; an imitation mourning card for Hamlin H. Jones, B. A., 1898; and a circular entitled 'The Church Question and the Forthcoming Election' [in Anglesey, 1918].

Bangor diocesan church committee,

A minute book of the executive, emergency, and sub-committee meetings of the Bangor Diocesan Branch of the Central Church Committee and of the Bangor Diocesan Church Committee for Church Defence and Church Instruction, 1895-1906. Among the insets is a holograph letter, 1904, from H[enry] L[ewis] James, the Rectory, Llangefni, to the secretary, Canon [Edward] Hughes [rector of Barmouth].

Welsh Church Commission,

Typescript copies, transcribed from shorthand notes, of minutes of proceedings of the Royal Commission on the Welsh Church, 19-20, 26-27 October, 1906. The witnesses include J[oseph] Lloyd, vicar of Llanpumpsaint, T[homas] Thomas, vicar of Abergwili, H[enry] T[homas] Jacob, pastor of Peniel Congregational Church, Abergwili, Evan Ungoed Thomas, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Carmarthen, T[homas] R[ees] Walters, vicar of St. David, Carmarthen, Thomas Thomas, farmer, Llan-gain, Thomas Johns, D.D., pastor of Capel Als Congregational Church, Llanelly, and Maurice Griffith, pastor of the English Calvinistic Methodist Church, Llanelly.

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