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Asks whether William Maurice means to proceed against him at the next Merionethshire Assizes for the glebe land in Llanfihangel-y-Traethau. Requests that the trial be deferred until the next assizes following, by reason of some earnest business the writer has. Meanwhile he hopes that they can better end the matter amongst themselves than the trial of law will end it. 'Your poor kinsman'.

Legal business about execution of a commission. Has done his best for the bearer in making him a petition and preferring the same to the whole Council at the table. The same is sent by the Council to the justices of the peace for Caernarfonshire desiring them to continue his stipend of 20s.. The letter, a copy of which is enclosed, is subscribed by Mr Justice, Sir Henry Townshend, and Sir Francis Eure.

Wishes to be remembered to various members of the family. Sir Harry Johnes is committed to the Fleet for breaking the decree. A messenger has been sent by the court for Thomas Jones and Watkin Morgan who are to pay their rents and arrears. The rest of the tenants are to pay their rents at Llanbadarn Fawr and not at Abermarlais. Sir Harry now sues William Maurice's bond of a thousand pounds and has been served with a subpoena to stay his proceeding. Progress of suit against Owen Ellis in the Star Chamber. He sends daily to her Ladyship for agreement but she will not yield to him. Concerning the lease for fishing he will move Sir Thomas Trevor and Sir John Walter herein with a letter under his master's hand. As for the quarries, William Maurice shall have his patent next term ... it will cost £8 as the secretary told the writer. As for the cloaks he was fain to go to his master's old friends, Mr Prat, and there took up eight liveries and a cloak for the footman. The cloak, though somewhat coarse, is the best he has. The writer has put his hand to the bill conditionally, so that his Worship may agree when he comes up to London himself. As for the spices and sugar loaf, he has no money to pay for them but will do what he can therein. He and Rowland Gruffydd entered into bond with one Mr James Medlecot, merchant tailor, for £40. Morris Jones received £20 and her Ladyship the other £20, so that the writer received not a penny. Sends two new books by the bearer. Has also sent two quarts or more of 'sallet oel' by the Oswestry carrier, Robert Floyd. His master should cause someone to inquire for the same at Mr Blodwell's shop. He cannot say when he will be home because her Ladyship is to go to Northamptonshire for two or three days and then she will come home. She has done her best endeavour in William Maurice's causes 'soe did wee all: ut apparet'. Has spoken with Morris Jones for money to buy Mrs Anne a hat but he complains that he wants money himself. The writer is not acquainted with any hat-seller and therefore wonders whether he can be trusted. Paper and both kinds of wax will be sent with the cloak. Morris Jones and Humffrey Jones are cold friends, but the writer could not tell Morris Jones that William Maurice means to have a lease of Aberglaslyn 'for they be both fiends and foes for anythinge I know'. Owen Ellis cannot abide honest Rowland Gruffydd and the writer. Rowland was very rude with Sir Henry Johnes about William Maurice's money, and so likewise was Morris Jones. But Mr Price, Sir William Thomas's son-in-law, railed against Rowland Gruffydd, Morris Jones, and the writer. He is against William Maurice tooth and nail and is very 'yelle' both in his discourse and carriage teste Henrico Bodvell armig. Sir Ffoulk Grevell's letter to Sir John Walter (delivered by the writer) did much good in their cause against Owen Ellis. Sir John Walter will be himself in place at the next hearing to see that the Prince shall not be wronged.

Sends the bearer, Elissa Pugh, his servant, with a letter of attorney to receive that £100 which is due to the James Price in May next, to be paid at the Church of Llanaber, Merionethshire. Prays William Maurice to pay it. Wishes to be remembered to his aunt, Mrs Anne Brynkir, and his cousin, Mrs Jane Awbrey.

An account of Major Edgar William Jones, educationist, sportsman and radio advisor in religion of Barry, compiled by his granddaughter Margaret Siriol Colley, 2010.

Includes letters from J. Gwenogvryn Evans, E. Maunde Thompson, A. S. Green, Heinrich Zimmer, E. S. Dodgson (2), James A. H. Murray (3), Henry Bradley, F. Haverfield (2), Theodore Roosevelt, George G. T. Treherne (2), F. C. Conybeare, C. E. Doble, John Herbert James (3), D. B. Monro, George Goschen (Viscount Goschen), D. Brynmor Jones (4), I. Gollancz, E. W. B. Nicholson (5), Wentworth Webster (2), Arthur G. Langdon, Edmund Lechmere, Alfred L. Jones, W. R. Morfill, Edgar Jones, Alfred Anscombe (2), W. P. Ker, D. Lloyd George, Randall Davidson (2), F. C. Burkitt, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Alfred Daniell, William Boyle, Spencer Walpole, John Thomas ('Eifionydd') (2), Edward Owen (2), G. Hartwell Jones, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, T. Marchant Williams, W. H. Preece (3), David James ('Defynog'), Fanny Bulkeley-Owen, Henry Owen, E. Lorimer Thomas, W. Hawker Hughes, Horace Hart, Goddard H. Orpen (2), Daniel Rees, Charles E. Breese (4), A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl') (4), H. R. Reichel, A. Sidgwick, Edward Anwyl (2), Laurence Gomme, Henri Gaidoz, William B. Halhed, J. B. Bury (2), J. Romilly Allen, and Lewis Morris (2).

Most of the letters are from A. J. Sylvester, Principal Private Secretary to Lloyd George, to Major Edgar Jones, father of Gareth Jones. There also photocopies of the journal The Critic for 24 August 1935 which contains a tribute to Gareth Jones.

The file contains correspondence relating to the general election campaigns of 1945 in the Flintshire constituency and 1950 in the Flintshire East constituency. Many are addressed to Eirene White congratulating her on her election to parliament in February 1950. The correspondents include George Bernard Shaw, 1945, Major Edgar Jones, 1950, T. I. Jeffreys-Jones, 1950, William Mars-Jones, 1950, Frank Soskice, 1950, Emlyn Williams, 1950, and Harold Wilson, 1950.

Photocopies of press cuttings reporting Gareth Jones's capture and subsequent murder, including some not available elsewhere in the archive. Some are tributes to him. There is a copy of Gareth Jones's death certificate. There is also a small number of original letters to Major Edgar Jones and his wife sympathising with them on the death of Gareth Jones and reflecting on his life and contribution. There are two interesting letters from Winifred Combe-Tennnant reflecting on Gareth Jones and paying tribute to his memory.

Stray items relating to Major Edgar Jones (1868-1953), father of Gareth Vaughan Jones, and headmaster of the Barry Boys' County School from 1899 until his retirement in 1933. They include a small quantity of correspondence on a wide range of subjects, including letters from Gwilym Davies, undated; Sir Owen M. Edwards, 1916; W. Goscombe John, 1952; Dr Thomas Jones CH, 1925, 1947, 1950, 1951 and 1952 (many referring to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth); and Sir John Edward Lloyd, 1929 (relating to the Welsh Language Society). Many of the letters refer to educational themes. There are also two letters, both dated 1953, from Major Edgar Jones to his daughter Eirian Lewis, mother of Dr Siriol Colley. There are also some tributes to Major Jones upon his death in 1953.

Compositions submitted to the crown competition (MS 23052D), the chair competition (MS 23053D) and the other poetry competitions (MS 23054D) at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Wrecsam, 1933. MS 23052D includes a letter from J. Gwili Jenkins, one of the adjudicators (f. 1) and the winning pryddest by Simon B. Jones (ff. 2-12); MS 23053D includes letters from the three adjudicators, T. Gwynn Jones, R. Williams Parry and J. J. Williams, together with copies of the latter two's adjudications (ff. 1-25) and the winning awdl by Edgar Phillips ('Trefin') (ff. 26-34).

A collection of prayers in the autograph of Robert Edgar, and based upon texts taken from the Old and New Testaments.

See also WCC/TO/RB/G4 for a full list of the churches and burial grounds.

'Carolau', 'cerddi', 'cywyddau', and a few 'englynion', most of them transcribed by John Beans. Among the poets represented are Huw Morus, Edward Morus, Ellis Cadwaladr, Edward Samuel, Robert Hwmffres, Dafydd Morus, Gruffudd Edward, Mathew Owen, Robert Sion Owen, Ellis Rowland, Edward Rowland, William Roberts, Jonathan Hughes, William Thomas, Richard Abraham, Cadwaladr Roberts, Ned Lloyd ('o'r Bala'), Thomas William, Evan Thomas, Ellis Roberts, Arthur Jones ('o Langadwaladr'), John Jones, John Parry, Dafydd Puw Rowland, John Hughes, Ellis Roberts ('Elis y Cowper'), Morus Roberts, John Evans, Ellis ab Ellis, Thomas Jones, Derwas Griffiths, Rowland Hughes, Sion Hwmffre, Hugh Jones (Llangwm), John Cadwaladr ('o'r Bala gunt and ynawr athraw ysgol yn Llangwm'), - Lewis ('curad Cerrig y Drudion'), Lewis Morris ('Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn), Sion Tudur, Wiliam Phylip, John Davies ('Sion Dafydd Las'), Maredudd ap Rhys, etc.

Letters to John Cowper Powys arranged alphabetically, A-E. The correspondents are as follows: Tetsuo Akiyama (5), 1961-1964 + 1 undated Christmas card; Margaret Armstrong (1), 1953; Avice Maud Bowbyes (1), 1960 (reference to the death of the novelist, poet and playwright Reginald Hunter); Nellie Browne (1), [1920s]; Adrian Bury (2), 1946; A. B. Clinkscales (1), 1957; Benjamin De Casseres (1), 1937; Helen Dreiser (1) [?incomplete], undated; P. [?W.] Drinkwater, of the Home Office (1), 1937; Malcolm Elwin (2), 1944, 1960; and Emily, family nurse (1), undated.

Genealogical Papers including certified extracts from parish registers and copies of birth and death certificates, 1748-1927, correspondence, 1871-1946, pedigree of the Morsehead family of Widey Court, early 18 cent.-1899, from whom Maud Fitzwilliams was descended; a printed work by George W. Marshall entitled Notes on the Surname of Hall, 1887; a rough pedigree of the descendants of William Hall of Bristol, mid 18 cent.-mid 19 cent.; pedigree of the Hall family of Ashford Bowdler, Shropshire, 1691-1761; together with copies of monumental inscriptions relating to the same, 1733-92 and copied late 19 cent.; monumental inscriptions, certified extracts from parish registers and a rough pedigree of the Hall family of Screveton, Nottinghamshire, mid 17 cent.-1798; a printed work by Arthur Hepburn Hastie entitled Notes on the Supplemental Pedigree of the Hastie Family [of East Grinstead, Sussex] post 1913; genealogical tables of the Campbells of Clenary and Pennymore, Scotland, 1650-late 19 cent.; a pedigree of the Brathwaite family of Ambleside and Warcop, Kent, late 15 cent. onwards and compiled in 1830, and a volume containing memoranda and notes compiled by Charles Home Lloyd Fitzwilliams in 1880 from family papers (this volume also contains copy court rolls of the court leet and view of frankpledge of man. Duffryn Tivy, co. Card., 1834-50), and a pedigree of Sir Robert Peel, c. 1841.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from Mabel Powys, first wife of Littleton Charles Powys (1), [1940] (with a short note from Littleton Charles Powys); John Cowper Powys's sister, Philippa (Katie) Powys (8), [1945], [1948], 1957, 1960 (one letter, 1960, containing a note from Katie's sister, Lucy Penny; Isobel Powys Marks, daughter of John Cowper Powys's brother, Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys (13 letters and 2 postcards), 1946, 1949, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1971 and undated; Lucy Penny's daughter, Mary Casey (16 letters and 2 postcards), 1949, 1953, 1958-1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972 (reference to scattering John Cowper Powys's ashes on Chesil Beach and the death of Llewelyn Powys's wife, Alyse Gregory), and Mary's husband, Gerard (1), [?1980] (refers to the death of Mary Casey); John Cowper Powys's niece, Eleanor Powys (1), 1949; John Cowper Powys's son, Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1949 (enclosing four photographs of Littleton Alfred, one taken with John Cowper Powys, and three of which are inscribed by Littleton Alfred Powys, with a note by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir on f. 51) and an undated photograph of St Dominic's Church, Dursley, Gloucestershire, inscribed on the dorse by Littleton Alfred; John Cowper Powys's brother, Littleton Charles Powys (1), 1949; Stephen Powys Marks, son of Isobel (1), 1959; John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law, Faith Powys (4), 1962, 1963, 1967; Marian Powys's son, Peter Powys Grey (2), 1963, 1966; Antonia Goldhill, daughter of Isobel (4), 1963 and undated); John Francis Cowper Powys, grandson of Theodore Francis Powys (3 letters and 1 postcard), 1967, 1971, 1972 (references to his marriage and including ink drawings illustrating his new home and possessions, and mention of the death of Violet Powys, John's grandmother); John Cowper Powys's brother, William Ernest (Willie) Powys (1), 1967; and Theodore Francis Powys's daughter-in-law, Sally Powys, wife of Francis Llewellyn Powys (5), 1967, 1978, 1980 and undated.

Twenty-two letters and one postcard, 1944, 1946-1947, 1949, 1952-1953, 1957-1960, to John Cowper Powys from his niece Mary Casey, daughter of Lucy Penny. The letters mostly contain personal and family news, with references also to the deaths of novelist and journalist Theodore Dreiser in 1945 (f. 8) and of Joan Lambert Wilkinson, wife of the writer Louis Wilkinson (f. 39), in 1957, Mary's husband Gerard Casey's ill-health in 1959 (ff. 42-46 verso), and Gerard and Mary's response to John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959) (f. 44). One letter includes a note to John Cowper Powys from Gerard Casey (f. 16-verso). Enclosed with one letter (ff. 27-32) are photographs of Gerard Casey and Mary's uncle William (Willie) Powys and his sons Gilfrid and Charles Powys and of scenes of rural life in Kenya.

Sixteen letters and one postcard, 1939-1961 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his niece Mary Casey's husband Gerard, who addresses John Cowper Powys as 'dear God-Uncle'. The letters contain mostly personal and family news.

Includes letters from Gerard Casey (2), Reginald Caton (28), Barry Cole (2), Brenda Chamberlain (3), Joseph Clancy (2), Gillian Clarke (10), Gladys Mary Coles (2), Michael J. Collins (2), Jack Common (2), Don Congdon (8), Anthony Conran (7), B. L. Coombes (2), Herbert W. Corby (5), and Tony Curtis (25).