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Journey notes and observations, 1766-1787, including notes from visits to London and Birmingham in 1766 concerning the manufacture of pig and bar iron. The notes contain the names and addresses of businessmen and details of their work, and notes on lead imports and exports in London. Also included are notes on forge processes at a foundry in Bristol, 1787, and observations on water wheels.

Notes, extracts, etc., by E. R. Horsfall Turner from various printed sources including [A. H.] Dodd: The Industrial Revolution in North Wales [( Cardiff, 1933)]; [Edward] Hamer [:A Brief Account of the] Chartist Outbreak [at Llanidloes in the year 1839 (Llanidloes, 1867)]; [J. L. and B.] Hammond: The Age of the Chartists, 1832-54 [(London, 1930)]; History of the Chartists and the Bloodless Wars of Montgomeryshire (Welshpool, N.D.); various numbers of the Shrewsbury Chronicle and Salopian journal for the year 1839, etc. The material was probably collected in the course of research work on Chartism in co. Montgomery.

Letters from Francis T. Havergal, 1884, to Thomas Powel concerning copies of the Hereford 'Mappa Mundi'.

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

Sermons preached at Walsall, Rotherhithe, Banbury, etc.

A book of press cuttings, portraits and miscellaneous notes connected with Welsh and English music from 1875 to 1900, with holograph songs by Richard Davies ('Mynyddog').

Legal precedents written in several hands and based largely on legal records of the early years of the reign of George II. Several of the documents recorded in the volume are of interest to co. Middlesex.

Reprints of articles by G. T. Clark and notes by him upon earthworks, castles, moated mounds, etc., in England and Wales.

The file contains papers of F. E. Llewellyn Jones's, grandfather, Thomas Francis of Blackmoore Farm, Abbeydore, Herefordshire, mainly probate, executorship and death duty papers, and accounts of his father Phillip Francis of Coity Mawr, Llanfeugan, Breconshire, farmer, who died in 1851. It also includes an agreement for letting Blackmoore Farm, and authority for his wife to continue farming.

Two nineteenth-century tune books now joined together as one volume, the first bearing the dates 1816 and 1866 (inside covers) in the hand of Mair Richards of Darowen, and the second 1850 (inside front cover); the first part contains popular and traditional Welsh song and dance tunes, the second, English waltzes, marches and quicksteps with a few traditional Welsh tunes and hymn-tunes. Also included are an englyn attributed to M[air] R[ichards], but signed below in red by David Richards ('Dewi Silin'; 1783-1826), who may have been the first owner (part one, f. 1).

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.

The file comprises a MS list of Welsh chapels in London, arranged by denomination; a similar list with the addition of names and addresses of persons who will look after posting bills; a MS list of names and addresses of parties concerned with Welsh chapels in London; a letter from John Owens to C. W. Jones concering the lists, 1876; a similar letter from C. W. Jones to John Owens, 1880; and two notes on Welsh chapels

The printers' copy (typescript, with manuscript emendations) of D[avid] E[ rwyd] Jenkins (ed.): Religious Societies (Dr. Woodward's 'Account') . . . ( Liverpool, 1935), in which sections of Josiah Woodward: An Account of the Religious Societies in the City of London, &c., and of their Endeavours for Reformation of Manners (4th ed., enlarged, London, 1712), were reprinted, with a historical introduction by D. E. Jenkins, dealing more specifically with Wales.

Notes of a lecture on Cornwall and its legends.

Instruction to the keeper of the gaol at Chelmsford in the county of Essex to receive and detain Henry Doubleday in custody for the illegal taking and detaining of one Evan Jones.

One of forty-one volumes containing transcripts of, and extracts from, parish registers and bishops' transcripts of parish registers principally from Monmouthshire, in the autograph of Bradney, with several insets in the autographs of John Hobson Matthews (Monmouth), Francis Green (St Davids), John Davies (Aberystwyth) and others. This volume contains transcripts and extracts from the parish registers of Tregaer, 1696-1805; Usk, 1696-1807; Llanfihangel-iuxta-Usk, 1725-1812; Llanwenarth, 1726-1808; Aberystruth, 1727-1847; Llanhilleth, 1733-1838; Llanellen, 1754-1812; Penrhos, 1780-1812; Monkswood, 1794-1797; Llanmaes (Glamorganshire), 1583-1683; St John, Cardiff (Glamorganshire), 1671-1729; Elmley Lovett (Worcestershire), 1539-1693; Feckenham (Worcestershire), 1558-1696; and Hanbury (Worcestershire), 1578-1667.

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.