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Material relating to Shropshire castles and fortifications collected by Edward Edwards, bookseller, Shrewsbury, with many engravings, plans, etc.

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.

A manuscript in the hand of Moses Williams containing 'Consuedines Civitatis Hereford'; 'Consuetudines Arcenfield Ex Libro cui tit: Domesdei:' and extracts from the record of Caernarfon.

Notes of a lecture on Cornwall and its legends.

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.

This file consists of drafts of a speech about her experiences as a labour supporter and canvasser during the 1970 election, [c.1970x1990].

Mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys taflen ystadegol am y flwyddyn yn diweddu 31 Rhagfyr 1977, cyfrifon, 1979, a dogfen yn dwyn y teitl 'Y sefyllfa heddiw', 1995, yn perthyn i Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru Weston Rhyn, Croesoswallt. Daeth cofysgrifau ychwanegol yn perthyn i'r capel gan gynnwys tri llyfr cagliadau tuag at y Weinidogaeth, 1938-1982; dau lyfr y Trysorydd, 1936-1988, llyfr casgliad yr aelodaeth, 1920-1937; cyfrol yn nodi casgliad misol y plant, 1889-1950; llyfr yr eisteddleoedd, 1890-1963; ac ystadegau, 1910-1991 i'r Llyfrgell yn ddiweddarach.

A list of church livings in several English and the four Welsh dioceses, showing their value in the King's Books and, in some cases, their real value.

Letters, 1954-1994, relating to commissions and performances of works at the Cheltenham Festival, including the first public performance of the Clarinet Concerto (Opus 3), 1954.

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.

Black and white photographs documenting research into the life cycle of mushrooms with a view to increasing crop size. There is some duplication.

A volume containing a detailed summary by Samuel Roberts of sermons heard, 13 February - 19 July 1848, at Pall Mall and other Welsh Calvinistic Methodist chapels in Liverpool (pp. 1-115) and, 14-30 July 1848, in counties Anglesey and Caernarfon (pp. 115-143), with an index of preachers' names (pp. 144-147). The preachers include the Reverends Lewis Edwards, Bala, John Hughes and Henry Rees, Liverpool, and John Jones, Tal-y-sarn. Also included are details of Sunday School attendances and the lengths of the services.

A breviary, use of Sarum, from Lanteglos by Fowey, Cornwall, mid 15 cent. Comprises temporale (ff. 1-182), dedication of a church (ff. 182-8 verso), benedictions (f. 189 recto-verso), calendar (ff. 190-5 verso), psalter (ff. 197-281 verso, four leaves wanting after f. 230 and two after f. 296, with litany on ff. 275-8 verso), commune (ff. 282-321 verso), sanctorale (ff. 322-451 verso). On ff. 451 verso-75, added by three hands, are offices for nova festa including Saints David, Chad, John of Beverley and Winifred, the Visitation, St Osmund, and the Transfiguration; the first four are included in the calendar by the primary hand, the last three, together with the feast of the Name of Jesus, are added. Also added to the calendar by hands of second half 15 cent. are Saints Bridget, Patrick, Beuno and 'Willeus' (patron saint of Lanteglos by Fowey) and the dedication of the church of Lanteglos. Willeus is also added to the litany on f. 275 verso. Plain red and blue initials.

Volume intitled 'Survey. Breconshire estates. 1820', being a survey of the Breconshire and Herefordshire estates of Sir Charles Morgan, presented to him by Thomas Bold, agent, March 1821. The estates are divided into the Tredegar estate (4,555a), Dderw estate (1,572a.), Palleg estate (2,164a.) and Herefordshire estate (487a.), and include interests in canals and other utilities.

Biograpies of women, mainly English, taken from issues of Women's Herald and Women's Penny Paper, 1888-1893.

Speeches and addresses; adjudications; statistics, press cuttings, and notes concerning Calvinistic Methodism in Liverpool and district, 1838-1851; and a few religious poems.

Notes for an essay or address on 'Anfarwoldeb yr enaid' by Edward Roberts, ' ty Capel, Great [?Mersey] Street, Liverpool'.