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A copy of Catherine Crowe, Ghost stories and Family Legends (1859), containing manuscript notes, 1868, by Hubert Smith.

A transcript made by R[obert] Glover, Somerset Herald, in 1572 of a text of the 'Libellus de Officio Militari' of Nicholas Upton written by ('script per') Baddesworth in 1458. Blank spaces have been left for the appropriate blazons. The work was published under the title of Nicholai Uptoni de Studio Militari (Londini, 1654). The text is divided into the following four books 'Liber primus de Coloribus', 'Liber Secundus de Regulis et Signis in Armis depictis,' 'Liber tertius de animalibus et auibus in armis portatis ...', and 'Liber Quartus De Veteranis quos modo Heraldos appellamus'. At the beginning of the volume is a full-page blazon of the arms of Austen Steward, 1560 (or, a fesse chequy azure and argent, on an escutcheon of pretence of the last, a lion rampant gules debruised by a bend or), and at the end are seven folios of the biography and genealogy of the family of Steward (Stuard, Stuart, etc.) ('Transcriptum Geneologiae familiae Senescallorum in Anglia') ('...est geneologia Thome Steward et Rich'i filii sui breuiter extract' ex rotulis') compiled by John Moore, Norroy King of Arms, 1572, with later additions begun in 1714, and one page containing a list of English peers ('magnates Anglie') of the time of Elizabeth I and a scale of precedence. On the first page of the volume is an impression of a seal bearing a crest - before a stump of a tree, a sword, point downwards sinister, and the legend 'A.S. Fortiter defensa ob Scotica sceptra'. Each of the upper and lower covers bears four ornamental metal bosses, a blind tooling of the stump-of-tree crest, and additional gilt and blind tooling.

An interleaved copy of The Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England (1774), with manuscript notes.

Autograph letters, [?19 cent., first ½], mainly to E. Watkins, Aberystwyth from various authors.

Sermon notes and text, in Welsh and English, by Hugh Pugh, Mostyn.

Sermon notes and text in Welsh and English by Hugh Pugh, Mostyn.

[A transcript by 'Myrddin Fardd' of] 'Owdl Merch Glaf er Coffa Crist a'i Ddioddefaint' by Katring uch Gruff ap Hoell o Landdyniolen.

Llangeitho Sunday School book, 1870-1880, written in several hands.

A Latin notebook, with translations and notes.

A list of Welsh proverbs compiled by 'Myrddin Fardd'.

A Catalogue of Welsh books arranged alphabetically according to author by J. H. Davies, and an autograph letter, 1895, from J. Hugh Edwards.

Notes on Xenophon.

A volume of transcripts by Charles Saunderson ('Siarl Wyn o Benllyn'; 1810?-32) of 'cywyddau', 'englynion', and 'awdlau' by Rhys Llwyd ab Rhys ab Rhiccert, Bedo Phylib bach, Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Lewis Mon, Ieuan Tew Brydydd, Huw Cae Llwyd, Iolo Goch, Ieuan Deulwyn, Gruffudd Llugad Gwr, Sion Phylib, Dafydd Llwyd, Ieuan Cae Llwyd, Bedo Brwynllys, Hywel Dafydd ab Ieuan ab Rhys (1460), Ieuan Du'r Bilwg, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Thos. Prys o Blasiolyn, Rhisiart Phylip, Dafydd ab Meredydd ab Tudur, Gruffydd ab Lew' Fychan, Lewys Morganwg, Gutto'r Glynn, Rhys Goch Glyndyfrdwy, Robin Ddu, Rho. Fychan, Rho. Ab Huw, Rhobert Dyfi, Wm. Prys, Morus Dwyfech, Gwilym Ganoldref, Sion Tudur, Syr Philib Emlym [sic], Rhisiart Fynglwyd, Wiliam Cynwal, Sion Phylib, Ffowc Prys, Edmwnd Prys (Archdiacon Meirionydd), Roger Cyffin, Rhobert ab Hywel ab Morgan, and Owein Gwynedd, and 'Dirifau duwiol' by Morgan Llwyd, together with an incomplete index ('Y ddangoseg'). There are references at the beginning of some poems to printed versions and there is a note on the fly-leaf by J. H. Davies referring to an entry in Cwrtmawr MS 457 of the date of birth of Charles Saunderson. The paper is watermarked 1810.

A manuscript in the hand of David Ellis, Cricieth, containing 'cywyddau' by Dafydd ddu o Hiraddyg, Dafydd Nanmor, Dafydd ap Edmwnt, Tudyr Aled, Gutto'r Glynn, Sion Phylip, Ifan ap Tudyr Penllyn, Iolo Goch, Sion Tudyr, Wiliam Lleyn, Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Lly'n Fychan, Thomas Prys, Risiard Phylip, Syr Owain ap Gwilym, Huw Arwystl, Gruffudd Gryg, Doctor Sion Cent, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Llywelyn ap Guttyn, Lewys Glyn Cothi, Morus Dwyfech, Syppyn Cyfeiliog, Lewys Môn, Gruffudd ap Ifan ap Llywelyn Fychan, Owen Gwynedd, Tudyr Penllyn, Deio ap Ifan Ddu, Rhydderch ap Ifan Llwyd, Rhys Goch Glann Ceiriog, Mredydd ap Rys, Robin Dyfi, Ifan ap Howel Swrdwal, Bedo Aeddrem, Evan Tew, Gwilym ap Ifan hen, Edmwnt Prys, Ifan Brydydd hir, Llywelyn Goch ap Meirig hen, Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Gutyn Owain, Gruffydd Hiraethog, Howel Dafydd Llwyd ap Gof, Ifan Llwyd Brydydd, Rees ap Ednyfed, Ifan ap Hywel Swrdwal, Llowdden, Rhys Cain, Dafydd Jones, Edward Urien, Hywel ap Reinallt, Ifan Dewlwyn, Syr Dafydd Trefor ('Person Llaneugrad') Sion Ceri, Lewys Daron, Gruffudd ap Tudur ap Howel, Rhobin Ddu, Hywel ap Reinalld, Ffoulk Prys ('Mab y Parchg. Edmwnd Prys ... Person Llanllyfni a Chlynog'), Tudur ab Wiliam Fychan, Huw Penant, Hywel Cilan, Gruffydd Phylip, Cadwaladr Cesel, and Dafydd ap Ifan ap Owen ('aer yr Hendrefawr'). At the beginning of the volume is an alphabetical index ('Cynhwysiad egwyddorol') of first lines, and at the end a progressive list of titles and an alphabetical list of poets, together with their floruit dates. The volume is said (p. vi) to have been transcribed at Ty du, Llanberis, in July 1766, from a manuscript of William Phylip, Hendref fechan, Dyffryn Ardudwy (Cardiff MS 19, part II). There are annotations, variant forms and additions by the scribe (David Ellis), by P[eter Bailey] Williams, Llanrug (1763-1836) and O[wen] W[illiams] ('Owain Gwyrfai'), Waunfawr. The spine is lettered 'David Ellis MS'.

[The Legend of Penrhyn Creuddyn].

'Enwau anghyfiaith ym mhlwyfi Penbryn, Llangranog, Llanarth a Llanllwchaiarn' by H. Tobit Evans, Llanarth.

A play entitled 'The Absentee'.

A sermon book of the Reverend Evan Griffith, New York, [19 cent.], containing sermons in Welsh.

A life history of Giraldus Cambrensis, with extracts, in Welsh, from his work, 1836; notes on Tacitus's 'Agricola' and on 'Horace Satires', History of Rings, etc., 1835.

Sermon notes in Welsh by Hugh Pugh, [Mostyn].