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Bundle of six letters to John Chandler of Ipswich and Chelmsford, 1810-1812.

Bundle of sixteen letters: three to John Chandler, Chelmsford, 1811-1813; nine to his father, the Rev. T. Thirlwall, 1819; three to his brother Thomas, 1819; and one to his mother, 1819; the letters to members of his family were written and sent during a journey through Europe

Arrears due at Michaelmas 1812.

A manuscript volume containing abstracts of title, [c. 1816] (watermark 1814), relating to the estates of Sir Mark Wood of Gatton, Surrey (formerly of Piercefield, Monmouthshire), in the counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorgan.
The volume is in three sections (labelled A, B and F), abstracting Wood's title to the castle and manor of Pencoed, [Llanmartin], the manor of St Brides [Netherwent] and other properties in Monmouthshire, purchased from Thomas Mathews (pp. 1-106); Mathews' title to leasehold estates in Monmouthshire, including Gillylaes [Gelli-las, Llanfihangel Llantarnam] (pp. 107-145); and a supplemental abstract of Wood's title to estates in Monmouthshire and Glamorgan purchased from Mathews and others (pp. 146-346). In all some thirty-eight deeds are abstracted, the majority in abstract A. Abstracts A and B also include legal opinions of J[ohn] Holliday, Lincoln's Inn, dated 1794 and 1795 respectively (pp. 105-106, 143-145). The abstracts contain no reference to Wood's ownership of Piercefield, which had been sold in 1800.

Bundle of thirty two letters to John Thirlwall, Alnwick, Northumberland, his uncle, 1815-1844; also, a MS extract from The Quarterly Review, January, 1829, on Thirlwall's books

Papers concerning the enclosure and drainage of Cors Fochno (Borth Bog), 1816-1882. For general content see series level description. The file includes letters mainly to James Morice of Moelcerney and Richard Griffithes of Bishops Castle, from Isaac Williams of Lincolns Inn, 1825, Robert Williams of Bangor, 1820-1825, and Thomas Richards of Aberystwyth, 1833; a copy case over illicit turf-cutting, 1823, and a list of property in Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn of H.R. Jones of Garthmil Hall, Montgomeryshire, in which he claimed rights of pasture and turbary.

Manuscript journal of a tour of New York State and the Niagara Peninsula, Upper Canada (now Ontario), 15 August-1 September 1816, written by a Welsh Old Etonian, possibly Pierce Wynne Yorke.
The writer and his companion (identified only as Richard, see ff. 18 and 45) leave New York City on 15 August 1816 (f. 1) and travel by steamer and wagon up the Hudson River valley (ff. 1-10 verso) to Albany, staying there 17-20 August (ff. 10 verso-16); they then continue overland, visiting Utica, 21-[23] August (ff. 21-24 verso), the Finger Lakes (ff. 28 verso-33 verso), and Buffalo, 28-29 August (ff. 35 verso, 38 verso). After crossing the Niagara River into Upper Canada they visit Niagara Falls, 29 August-1 September (ff. 40 verso-45), and continue to Newark [Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario] on 1 September (f. 45 verso). The volume contains frequent references to their accommodation, travel arrangements and the often unseasonable weather (1816 being the so called 'Year without a Summer'), as well as descriptions of the scenery and flora, agricultural practices, Indigenous Americans, American manners and politics and the effects of the War of 1812. Also included, in pencil, are a verse on Col. Cecil Bisshopp (inside front cover), brief accounts of bills paid (f. i) and mostly illegible notes apparently relating to the contents of the journal (inside back cover). The author is not named but evidently has close connections with North Wales (see ff. 4 recto-verso, 5 verso, 27 verso, 28 verso-29 verso, 45), is an Old Etonian and a schoolfriend of Bisshopp, whose grave he visits at Lundy's Lane, Niagara (see f. 44); Pierce (or Peirce) Wynne Yorke of Dyffryn Aled appears to be the most plausible candidate.

Bundle of sermons, in Welsh, c. 1820-1869

Bundle of notes (probably used for sermons), undated

MS notebook, Traethawd ar Athrawiaeth Bedydd ac Arddodiad dwylaw a fwriadwyd iw ddarllen gan y rhai a chwenuychant gael eu conffirmio gan yr Esgob, n. d.

Ymhlith y papurau amrywiol mae dau englyn i ‘Ysgorpion Llanrwst' yn llaw Gwilym Hiraethog.

Papers relating to Montgomeryshire tollgates, including a mounted letter from Thomas Penson, road surveyor, to Mr Griffiths, lessee of tollgates, 1822; a mounted 'Memorandum of interest due from the commissioners of Llanymynech Trust', from the Oswestry District trustees' minute book, 1 May 1824; a mounted memorandum of the clerk to the Oswestry District trustees, 1824; handbills and posters relating to the First District of Montgomeryshire Roads, 1840-1885; a newspaper cutting containg a notice of auction of tolls of First District of Montgomeryshire Roads, 1842; and three encapsulated posters, 1842 and 1870.

The First District of Montgomeryshire Roads handbills and posters comprise conditions of letting, 7 Feb. 1840, 2 Feb. 1841; notice of auction of Berthllwyd gate, 5 June 1840; notice of auction of St Giles and Pwllybidron gates, 7 Aug. 1840; notice of auction of tollgates of First District, 24 Dec. 1840; notice (2) of meeting of Trustees of Turnpike for co's Mont., Mer., Shrop. and Denb., 24 Dec. 1840, to consult re. erecting tollgate near Highgate; notice as above re. erecting tollgate at Nantdwyfildir; notice of auction of tolls, 5 Feb. 1841; newspaper cutting (2) of a notice of auction of tolls of First District, 6 March 1841; notice of auction of tolls of same, 27 Jan. 1842; notice for electing new trustees, 22 Mar. 1842; notice for electing new trustees, 8 Dec. 1842; notices of expiration of Trust, 28 Feb. 1885; 2nd District of Mont. Roads, statement of receipts.

Bundle of three letters to Julius Hare, Cambridge, 1824-1853

Bundle of sermons and notes, c. 1825-1871

Transcripts, [19 cent., second ¼]-1854, in the hands of the Rev. Thomas Dyer (1782-1852) of Abbess Roding and W. H. D. Longstaffe, of letters, 1759-1775, of Fanny Morgan, Wales and Cross Inn, primarily to Catherine (Kitty), Elizabeth and Armine, daughters of the Rev. Thomas Dyer (1700-1780), Marylebone, and to Sally Dyer (later Phillips) of Court Henry, their cousin.
The letters were copied by the younger Thomas Dyer, in no particular order, into two notebooks formerly belonging to Elizabeth. W. H. D. Longstaffe dissected the notebooks to reassemble the transcripts in chronological order, recopying portions as necessary. These were then pasted onto guards, and annotated by Longstaffe, and apparently assembled into a volume; this was subsequently also disbound and the individual leaves put in the present plastic sleeves. The elder Thomas Dyer (1700-1780) was the younger brother of John Dyer, the poet; the younger Thomas Dyer (1782-1852) was his grandson and the nephew of the three Dyer sisters.

Bundle of sermons and notes, c. 1827-1874

A notebook containing questions by Samuel Roberts on chapters in the Old Testament.