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Harvest accounts of William Davies, Brynffanigl-ucha, Betws-yn-Rhos, Denbighshire, for the period 1855-1875.

An account book of a farmer of [the parish of Guilsfield], Montgomeryshire, containing particulars of daily receipts and disbursements for the period 1796-1804. There are references to the sale of livestock, crops, and farm produce, to the receipt of rent and of interest on loans, and to payments in respect of food and clothing, wages, turnpike tolls and other travelling expenses, taxes, coal, lime, stones, slates, tithes, chief rent, etc. At the beginning and the end of the volume are memoranda, 1790-1798, relating to agreements for the delivery of barley and peas, the shoeing of horses, etc.

A volume containing nine autograph sermons by the Reverend Hugh Davies ('Hywel Ddu o Arfon', d. 1909), curate of Glasinfryn, co. Caernarfon, 1876-83, afterwards serving with the South American Missionary Society at Chubut, Patagonia, with details of the date and place of delivery, 1871-9 and 1906-8, together with an index of texts (f. i verso).

Two typescript volumes used by students for learning Welsh and revision devised by Islwyn Ffowc Elis for use at the University College of Bangor being 'A first Welsh Course' and 'Ymarferion Cymraeg', [1955]. = Dwy gyfrol deipysgrif a luniwyd gan Islwyn Ffowc Elis ar gyfer myfyrwyr yn dysgu Cymraeg ym Mhrifysgol Bangor sef 'A first Welsh Course' ac 'Ymarferion Cymraeg', [1955].

Account book of Evan Jones, Park, parish of Llangwm, co. Denbigh, containing particulars of meat sold, 1852-4, and other accounts and memoranda, ca. 1855-62. The volumes was used, 1920s, to record over three hundred sheep earmarks from farms in counties Denbigh and Merioneth.

Notebook, apparently of Phillip Nicholas (b. ca. 1799), Pantygwyddel, Llanfyrnach, co. Pembroke, containing farming accounts and memoranda, 1847-68. Miscellaneous receipts and accounts, 1830-66, found loose inside, have been filed separately (MS 23191iiB).

Account book containing details of receipts and expenditure relating to animal fairs, 1906-14, sheepdog trials, 1908-30, and an eisteddfod, 1903-9, at Devil's Bridge, co. Cardigan.

Notebooks containing sermons in Welsh, ca. 1866-1869. There is a draft letter from William Owen (see 561, below) to officers of Llanddona chapel on p. 144 of MS 23144.

Six notebooks containing notes of sermons. Five are in the hand of Timothy Evans (d. 1837), vicar of Llanbadarn Trefeglwys and Cilcennin, Cardiganshire, and contain sermons which were preached during the period 1797-1812 at Llanb[adarn Trefeglwys] and Kilk[ennin], Llandewi [Aberarth], Llandinol, Llansantffraed, and Kiliau [Aeron]. The sixth notebook contains a sermon in another hand which was preached at Llanbadarn Trefeglwys and Cilcennin on 8 July, 1787, and which bears the inscription 'By V. Davies'.

A minute book of the Six-weekly Meetings of the Arfon District of Calvinistic Methodist Sunday Schools, Caernarvonshire, 1845-52, mainly in the hand of Richard Owen Williams, Bangor, and subsequently of Thomas Lewis (1821-97), Bangor, Member of Parliament for Anglesey.

Mae'r casgliad yn cynnwys cyfriflyfrau, 1896-1970; adroddiadau y capel, 1964-1969; gohebiaeth, 1932-1950, yn ymwneud â phrynu rhydd-ddaliad y capel oddi wrth stad Plas Machynlleth, ynghyd â chatalog gwerthiant perthynol; ac amrywiol bethau, 1897-1968 = The collection comprises account books, 1896-1970; chapel reports, 1964-1969; correspondence, 1932-1950, relating to the purchase of the freehold of the chapel from the Plas Machynlleth estate, together with a related sale catalogue; and miscellanea, 1897-1968.

A volume, dated 1888, from the library of James Morris, blacksmith and magician, of Cwmbelan, Montgomeryshire, containing transcripts from ['Raphael' (pseud.):] The Art of Talismanic Magic: being selections from the Works of Rabbi Solomon, C. Agrippa, F. Barrett, etc. ... 1879 (London, 1880).

A volume of extracts (partly with carbon copies) from printed sources, compiled by W. P. Elwy Jones of Cwmpadarn Council School and of Aberystwyth, towards a history of the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire. The volume also contains lists of dialect words.

Papers from the library of O. J. Hughes, estate agent, Nantlle, including versions of a report, 1888, on the Llwyngwern Slate and Slab Quarry, Corris, Merioneth, together with monthly particulars of production, profit or loss, etc., 1886-8; a report on Daren y Gessel Slate and Slab Quarry, Pennal, Merioneth, signed by O. J. Hughes; and an incomplete essay (19 pp.) entitled 'Traethawd ar lechfaeni Nant Nantllef', 1868.

A volume of sermons preached during the period 1723-1731 by R. E.? at places in Anglesey and possibly in Caernarvonshire, e.g. Penrh[os], Penm[o]n and Llanfaes. Some of the sermons were preached also during the period 1793-1803.

Tune book of David Thomas, Bremenda, Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, containing anthems, hymn-tunes, and carols by David Thomas and others.

A volume of psalm- and hymn-tunes by 'Zabulonun' [i.e. Thomas Edwards, 'Caerfallwch'], John Francis, Pwllheli and others.

An account book of receipts and disbursements by Owen Hughes, overseer of the highways for the parish of Llanwnda, Caernarvonshire, for the year ending 25 March, 1843. The accounts relate to Rhydynogfelan road, Lone Coch, from Tymawr to Bontfayn, Voryd road, from Saron to Mount Pleasant, from ffrood y Caedy to Penyfridd, from 'Weslian' Chapel to Ishoreb, from Voryd to Caedoctor Bridge, from Bontnewydd to Alldloydmawr, from Frood y Caedy to Tynlon, Lone y Clip, etc.

'Rhostryfan. Hanesion o'r Dyddiau Gynt', being a typescript copy of stories of local characters written by W. Gilbert Williams, Rhostryfan, July, 1936, and based on their associations with four ruined buildings in the district, namely 'Y Castell', 'Pen y Gaerwen', 'Y Felin Frag', and 'Y Pwrws'.

Cyclostyled copies of hymn-tunes and other sacred music by Thomas John Hoskins ('The Blacksmith Organ Builder'), Pentre, Glamorgan.