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The first of two volumes of copies of inscriptions on tombstones in Newmarket Church, Flintshire, with notes on the history of the parish transcribed from manuscript sources by Thomas Allen Glenn.

The second of two volumes of copies of inscriptions on tombstones in Newmarket Church, Flintshire, with notes on the history of the parish transcribed from manuscript sources by Thomas Allen Glenn.

The first of two volumes of manuscripts called Genealogical notes relating to the ancestry of the people called Quakers in Wales and Early meetings of the people called the Quakers in North Wales, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1920.

The second of two volumes of manuscripts called Genealogical notes relating to the ancestry of the people called Quakers in Wales and Early meetings of the people called the Quakers in North Wales, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1920.

Two charms against witchcraft from the Towyn area of Merioneth, and photostat facsimiles of two similar charms discovered in the neighbourhood of Llanidloes?, Montgomeryshire.

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 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.

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'.

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.

An assessment for the relief of the poor of the parish of Llandilofawr, Carmarthenshire, 4 April, 1854.

A terrier of all buildings, glebe lands, tithes, and other profits and rights appertaining to the parish of Llanbeblig in the county of Carnarvon and diocese of Bangor, 18[35].

An account book of Daniel R. Jones, carpenter and joiner, of Tyddyn y Bwlch, Penrhyn[deudraeth], Merioneth, 1866-1880.

Four holograph letters to the Reverend Dr. [William] Buckland, Christ Church, Oxford, from J[oshua] Trimmer, Caerna[r]von, etc., 1834-1836 (a 'good budget' of 'diluvial news' from Caernarvonshire, the 'alluvia' of Dublin Bay, etc.) (together with one draft reply), and from J[ohn] E[ddowes] Bowman [the elder], from Varteg near Ponty Pool, Monmouthshire, and from Gresford, near Wrexham, 1836 (papers read at the British Association meetings at Bristol, the excavation of the Cefn bone cave); and one holograph letter from Geo. Cumming, Dolhyfryd, near Denbigh, to the Reverend Edward Stanley (of Adderley) [sic] at the British Association, Bristol, 1836 (observations on the limestone caves at Cefn).

Sermons largely by R[ichard] A[bbott] Jones, Baptist minister successively at Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, and Swansea. The majority of the sermons are dated within the period 1851-1875.

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

A steward's account book of Newtown (Montgomeryshire) Wesleyan Circuit for the period 1830-1867. The accounts are almost entirely in the form of statements of receipts and disbursements in respect of successive quarterly meetings. Insets in the volume include a receipt, [18]48, from Thos. Kempster, Welsh Pool, to the Newtown Circuit for the payment of £31.3s. in settlement of a claim; statements of prospective income and present income, 1866; and a holograph letter from Jno. Davies, Newtown, circuit steward, to the Reverend Chas. Prest, Islington, London, and a reply, 1866 (the division of the circuit and the possibility of a grant towards the support of ministers at Newtown and Welshpool).

A holograph letter from [the Reverend] John Elias ('o Fô'), Llanfechell, to Mr. F. Carmichael, Llysdulas, near Amlwch, 1822 (explaining the effects of revivals upon the behaviour of the congregations at Welsh Nonconformist religious meetings).

A volume of transcripts of leases, grants, charters, etc., 1704-1755, relating to the issues and profits of the origianl seal for cos. Caernarvon, Anglesey, and Merioneth, and of sums of money payable for fines and recoveries levied in the said counties, compiled for reference by William Wynne, serjeant at law, who was granted a lease of the original seal in 1729. The volume is indexed.

A copy of a survey, 1822, and vestry minutes and accounts of the overseers of the poor, 1823-1892, of the parish of Llanfairorllwyn, co. Cardigan.

The original manuscript of Richard Bennett: Methodistiaeth Trefaldwyn Uchaf . . . (Y Bala, 1929).