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A transcript of part of a Cardiganshire missionary collection book for 1826, originally directed towards the Foreign Mission in London.

Accounts, and memoranda of agreements for letting properties and tithe in the parishes of Llanfihangel Ystrad, Trefilan, and Cilcennin, Cardiganshire, 1805-1821, by Thomas Davies, vicar of Ystrad and rector of Trefilan.

A diary for the year 1808 kept by a North Cardiganshire attorney.

A volume containing religious songs and carols, in Welsh, of the 17th and 18th centuries. The authors were mostly natives of the Teifi Valley in Cardiganshire, where the book was written c. 1720; however, pp. 226-34 and 245-344 are in later hands. Many of the compositions were written by Evan Griffith of Twrgwyn, Cardiganshire. Dates of songs are incorporated in the last lines, but the author's meaning is not always certain and the dates in the latter portion cannot be relied upon. In some cases, the author's name has been obtained from Cwrtmawr MS 45.

A bound volume containing printed Acts of Parliament, 1736-1868, largely relating to the conveyance of lands for charitable uses; a printed circular letter, 1861, from the Wesleyan Chapel Committee to the Superintendents of Circuits, calling attention to the provisions of 'An Act to amend the Law relating to the Conveyance of Land for Charitable Uses', 17 May 1861; and a manuscript alphabetical list, compiled circa or after 1871, of trust deeds of Calvinistic Methodist churches, Sunday schools, day schools, dwelling and chapel houses, cemeteries and land in co. Cardigan.

A register of criminals apprehended by Cardiganshire Constabulary, 1897-1933, with physical descriptions of prisoners and details of previous convictions. Photographs are included of most of those sentenced between 1897 and 1909.

Account books, 1869-71 and 1888-9, of cash receipts and expenditure on account of the highways in the districts or townships of Broncastellan, Cwmrheidol, Melindwr, Tirymynach, Trefeirig, Clarach, Vaenor Lower, Issa yn Dre, Parcel Canol, Vaenor Upper and Ucha yn Dre, all in North Cardiganshire.

'Stores Book No. 2' of the 'S.C.L.M. Ld.' (?South Cardiganshire Lead Mining Company), 1912-14.

Extracts from inquisitiones post mortem, temp. Elizabeth - James I, relating to Cardiganshire.

The file comprises the probate of the will of Thomas Lloyd of Cilgwyn, 1790, a deed of partition of the Cilgwyn estate, 1834, a charge of #40,000 on the estate, 1855, and the probate of the will of Edward Compton Lloyd Fitzwilliams, 1880.

Extracts taken by John Davies from Cardigan Fines, Inquisitions Post Mortem and Lay Subsidy Rolls, mainly relating to Lampeter, with translations by Dr E[dward] A[rthur] Lewis.

Particulars showing by whom various properties in the parishes of Ysbyty Ystwyth, Llanafan and Llanychaiarn were owned and occupied, c. 1865.

Particulars showing by whom various properties in the parishes of Llanddeiniol, Llanychaiarn, Llanilar, Llanrhystud, Llangwyryfon and Rhostie, Cardiganshire were owned and occupied, c. 1865.

Llyfr cofnodion, 1987-1989, cyfarfodydd chwarterol Cyfundeb Annibynwyr Ceredigion (gweler hefyd Mân Adneuon 466-8, 482 & 1557-8). / Minute book, 1987-1989, of quarterly meetings of the Cardiganshire Congregationalist Union (see also Minor Deposits 466-8, 482 & 1557-8).

A draft essay entitled 'Observations on Parturition amongst the Poor In the Upper District of Cardiganshire' by [Dr. Richard Williams, Aberystwyth]. The paper is watermarked 1837.

Deeds and documents relating to Pengelly, parish of Troed-yr-aur, Cardiganshire, and to other properties mainly in Cardiganshire, 1564-1865.

A 19th century volume containing sermons preached at Blaenporth, Aberporth, Llangranog, Llechryd, Llandygwydd, Trelech, Llanllwchaiarn and elsewhere in south-west Wales.

Two sermons preached at Llanychaearn and Llangwyryfon, 1836, and at Lledrod and Llanilar, 1837.

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 extract from the proceedings of the Epiphany Quarter Sessions for Cardiganshire, 1826, signed by the Clerk of the Peace, presenting Rees Jones, Nantremenin, Llandysul 'as a fit person to serve the office of chief constable for the lower Division of the Hundred of Moyddyn for the year ensuing in the Room of John David Jones ...'.