Showing 250 results

A transcript made in 1828 by John Jenkins of 'The Manafon Manuscript of [Welsh] Pedigrees ... belonging to ... Walter Davies ...'.

Pedigrees of Welsh families, with additions in the hands of John Davies, Rhiwlas, Llansilin, and Walter Davies; memoranda relating to members of the family of Foulkes, Penygraig, Llansilin; englynion and other poems by Elin Foulkes, Richard Foulkes, Huw Morus, Elis Cadwaladr, Sion Morus, Mathew Owen, Morys Dafydd, Sion Cadwaladr Owen, Richard Parry (Athraw ysgol yn Roe Newbrough yn Sir Fon), Huw Llwyd Cynfal, Ellis Roberts (Elis y Cowper), Hari Howel, and Robert Humphreys (Robin Rhagad); and Pymtheg Llwyth Gwynedd.

'Llyfr Silin yn cynnwys Achau amryw Deuluoedd yn Ngwynedd, Powys, &c.', being a transcript by John Jenkins of the pedigrees contained in MS. 1666.

A treatise on central and local government in Britain, including ecclesiastical and parochial administration.

Material collected by Walter Davies and relating mainly to the parish and church of Manafon, including Manafon tithes, the enclosure of common lands, pews in Manafon church, Queen Anne's Bounty, and the British and Foreign Bible Society; prayers and sermons; a fragment of an address on reading the scriptures [? in the hand of Lewis Bagot, bishop of St. Asaph]; papers relating to the orthography of the Welsh Bible; an essay written by Efrydydd for an Amlwch eisteddfod, 1866, on Cysondeb Daiareg â'r bennod gyntaf o Genesis; a letter, April 1, 1826, from the deacons and elders of The Church of Christ meeting at the old Chapel Llanbrynmair, inviting Samuel Roberts (S.R.) to accept their unanimous call to become co-pastor of the church and assistant to his father at Llanbrynmair; etc.

'Marwnad Griffith Jenkins Kilbronne (father of John Jenkins, Kerry), yr hwn a fy farw Hydref 13th 1781', by John Jenkin (Ioan Siencyn).

An elegy on John Vaughan, Penmaen Dyfi, Merioneth, written by Merfin Dyfi for the national eisteddfod held at Aberystwyth, 1865.

'Marwnad ... Mrs Mary Jenkins, Kilbronne' [mother of John Jenkins, Kerry], by Evan James.

Three volumes of elegies by 'Y Bardd Hiraethlon', 'Cynddylan ap Callawg', and 'Gwladgarwr' on the death of John Vaughan, Penmaen Dyfi, Merioneth, probably submitted for competition at the national eisteddfod at Aberystwyth, 1865.

A statement, 1793, submitted by Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu o Fôn) and Owen Jones (Owain Myvyr) to Cymdeithas y Cymmrodorion vindicating their adjudication upon elegies written on the death of Richard Morris (1779), with transcripts of the elegies submitted for competition by Guttun Gwrecsam [i.e. John Edwards, Siôn Ceiriog] and Richard Jones (o Drefdraeth ym Môn).

Five volumes of miscellanea by Walter Davies, including notes written when he was making a survey of North Wales, extracts from poems, Latin and Greek vocabularies, a calendar of saints' days, lists of place-names, etc.

Miscellanea, including extracts by Walter Davies from Joshua Thomas : Hanes y Bedyddwyr ... (Carmarthen, 1778).

Transcripts by Walter Davies of pedigrees of North Wales and Shropshire families, geographical notes, lists of technical words, and poems by Gwylim ap Sefnyn, Lewis Mon, Rhys Goch Glyndyfrdwy, Tudur Aled, Hywel Swrdwal, Dafydd Cilan, and Lewis Morganwg.

Two volumes of miscellaneous notes and extracts on a variety of subjects, mainly in the autograph of Walter Davies.

Miscellaneous notes by Walter Davies relating mainly to Welsh literature, history, and archaeology.

Poems by Morgan Evans (Cynllo Maesyfed), William Owen (Gwilym Glan Hafren), John Jenkins, William Williams (Gwilym Cyfeiliog), John Roberts (Hersedd), and John Jones (Myllin); an account of premiums and gratuities given to bards, essayists, singers, and harpists at the Powys eisteddfod, 1824; and a broadside, Byrr ystyr a gyfiaithwyd or Saisneg, ar y cymmun, ar rhwymedigaethau yr ym ni oll danynt megis dilynwyr Crist iw dderbyn (Mwythig, 1788).

Miscellaneous notes and fragments, poems, eisteddfod admission tickets, etc., mainly in the hand of Walter Davies.

Miscellaneous printed matter collected by Walter Davies and John Jenkins and comprising minutes, etc., relating to the Cambrian Society of Dyfed, the Cymmrodorion Society of London, the Cymmrodorion Society in Powys, and the Chester Cymmrodorion, eisteddfod and gorsedd admission tickets, various notes by Walter Davies and John Jenkins, press cuttings giving reports of eisteddfodau and concerts, book prospectuses, poems, Resolutions and Prospectus of the Bangor Religious Tract Society, obituary notice of John Jenkins, etc.

'Englynion' by Walter Davies and others; adjudications by him on 'englynion coffa' upon the death of Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris) and David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion) and on other poetic compositions; and extracts by Walter Davies from William Buckland: Reliquiae Diluvianae ... (London, 1824).