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Family papers and estate records, 1370-1941, of the Baker-Gabb family of The Chain, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, and their antecedents, mainly deeds and documents relating to lands in Monmouthshire and Herefordshire, mainly from the second half of the sixteenth century, when the Bakers first appear as stewards of the lordship of Abergavenny, including deeds relating to the town and castle of Abergavenny, the Priory of Abergavenny, and the Priory of Llanthony Prima; records of the following Monmouthshire manors: Cwmyoy, Llanthony, Stanton, Redcastle, Oldcastle, Triley, Abergavenny, Ewyas Lacy, Crickhowell, Hothneslade, and Newton or St Margaret's from 1632 onwards, including court books, perambulations and rentals; a breviary in the English style of the fourteenth-fifteenth century (NLW MS 16147A); papers relating to David Lewis, Catholic bishop of Llandaf, including his speech at the place of his execution, 1679; and diaries etc. of John Baker Gabb, private chamberlain to Pope Leo XIII, 1859-1892; a poll of burgesses of Monmouth, Newport and Usk, 1715, and material on the genealogy of the Baker Gabb family. -- Many of the letters and deeds belong to the solicitor's practice established by Thomas Gabb in 1760.

Invoices from booksellers, British and several from German dealers, for books and stationery purchased by the Theological College at Bala.

A ballad relating to a foxhunt in Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire.

Ballads of local interest by John Jenkins, Ffynonforgan, Felinfach, Cardiganshire.

Typewritten copies of Y bwth lle cês fy magu, Yr ymfudwr (yn hiraethu am gartref), and Cynghor hen fardd o Gaerphili i'w fab pan ar briodi.

A collection of some Welsh ballads and songs current among the old ballad-singers of Aberdâr, made by John Davies ('Pen Dâr', 1864-1940) about 1936 with a view to a radio programme. Words and sol-fa notation for nine ballads or songs, words only of several others. A letter and proposed script (ff. 1-5) contain some information about the singers.

Baledi printiedig, sef torion o'r County Echo (Abergwaun) wedi'u pastio ar bapur, yn dwyn y ffugenwau 'Y Giach', 'Christy', 'Gwynodl' a 'Glynfab'; ac emyn-donau mewn llawysgrif gan [?ac yn llaw] Christopher B. Williams ('Alaw Ingli') = Printed ballads in the form of cuttings from the Fishguard County Echo pasted onto paper and bearing the pseudonyms 'Y Giach', 'Christy', 'Gwynodl' and 'Glynfab'; and manuscript hymn-tunes by [?and in the hand of] Christopher B. Williams ('Alaw Ingli').

Cyfrol a drosglwyddwyd gan Adran y Llyfrau Printiedig yn cynnwys cerddi gan y baledwr Mathew Richard Williams ('Mathew Bach', 1876-1964), Caergeiliog, a gasglwyd ynghyd yn 1971 gan T. D. Hughes, Bodedern; ymddangosodd y mwyafrif ohonynt yn Y Clorianydd, papur newydd wythnosol sir Fôn; cyhoeddwyd nifer o'r casgliad hwn yn John L. Williams (golygydd), Cerddi Mathew Bach (Caergeiliog, 1974).

A manuscript containing a note by J. P. Harris, Rhyl, and a copy by him of a ballad dealing with the murder of a Scottish pedlar by 'Evan Hugh Shon a Marged ei wraig', Wtra Wen, Llanfair Caereinion.

Bank book recording transactions made by officials of the Devil's Bridge Sheep Dog Competition, co. Card. See also NLW MS 23180D.

Typescript schedules of the Banks archives in private hands, containing papers relating to Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806-1863) and to James Watt, Junior and Senior.

The baptismal register of Soar Free Methodist or United Methodist Chapel, Aberystwyth, 1868-1892.

Baptismal registerof Bethesda C. M. Chapel, Pentredwr, Denbighshire. English. Between boards. Purchased from the Reverend H. Jones Davies, Llangollen, April-May 1961.

Cywyddau and poems in free metre by Morgan Prys, Cadwaladr Roberts, Huw Llwyd Cynfal, Ellis Rowland, Hugh ab Evan, Sion Dafydd Las, John Prichard Prys, and Evan Williams, with a few englynion.

Galarnad Mam am ei mab, written in 1824 by Disyml Hiraethog.

Poems, mainly by and in the autograph of Richard Jones ('Rhisiart Glan Ogwen'), Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, with some in the autograph of John Henry Hughes ('Ieuan o Leyn').