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A volume containing a transcript of a register of the parish of Llanpeter Pont-Stephen, co. Cardigan, viz. baptisms and burials, 1695-1745, and marriages, 1739-1744. At the end are extracts, 1723-1812, from a register of Llanwenog, Llanwnen, and Sulian, co. Cardigan.

A volume of extracts by Alcwyn C. Evans, largely relating to Welsh families, from Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies. Inset is a transcript, with notes, in another hand, of arms on a chimney-piece in the old part of Werrington House, Devon.

A volume containing a list, compiled by Alcwyn C. Evans in 1851, of the names and autographs of the mayors of Caermarthen, 1400-1852; two leaves of a daily school register in the hand of Alcwyn C. Evans, June 1890-July 1891; and a list of Oriental proverbs.

A volume containing extracts relating to the families of Blome, Brigstocke, Edmond, etc.; a pedigree of the family of Thomas of Tyhen in Caio; transcripts and extracts of Welsh Baptist interest, largely from David Jones: Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru (Caerfyrddin, 1839), among them being lists of ministers of Aberduar Church, of Soar Church, Llandyfaen, and of Newcastle Emlyn, its branches, and Panteg, and histories of Tabernacle and Penuel Churches, Carmarthen, and Rhydwilym Baptist Church; lists and abstracts of St. Davids ecclesiastical probate records, 1602-1817, particularly relating to the family of Phillips; memoranda, anecdotes, and verses; and an armorial, largely of Welsh families, arranged in alphabetical order.

A volume of pedigrees of Welsh families extracted from The Book of Baglan. Inset is a photograph of a page of the original manuscript.

A notebook containing abstracts of wills and compiled pedigrees based thereon, largely pertaining to families in cos. Carmarthen and Pembroke. The volume is labelled 'Wills. Trelech &c.', and the greater part of the material relates to families in the parish of Trelech a'r Betws, e.g., Thomas of Rhosychen, Martin, Thomas of Nantyrafruwcha, Thomas of Parcybedw, Thomas of Treto, Twmpath, Cluntwmpath, and Llwyncrwn, John of Godredewi, Griffith of Blaengwelltog, Morgans of Rhosychen, Francis of Plasparke, Thomas of Gelly, Thomas of Pantronow, Francis of Plasparke, Morris of Pantronow, Rees of Penyceire, John of Perthygwenyn, Rees of Plasyparke, etc. Among other families recorded in the volume are Rees and Pryse of Rhydarbenne and Francis and Lloyd of Pantgilgane, parish of Llangeler, Hall of Begelly, etc., and White of St. Twinnels, etc. The pedigrees are supported in some cases by extracts from parish registers. At the end is a list of contents.

A pedigree chart of the family of Trevor of Trevalun, co. Denbigh, and Plas-teg, co. Flint, etc.

A volume of miscellaneous transcripts and extracts largely of Carmarthen and Carmarthenshire interest. The contents include an alphabetical list of place-names in England, Wales, and Scotland, with etymological notes; an alphabetical list of English, Welsh, and other personal names, with brief notes on their derivation; notes on the chief elements in Celtic river names, English place-name elements, English vocabulary, Carmarthen fairs, folk-names, genealogy, early Britain, Owen Glyndwr, the monastic orders, the Stone-Age men, 'Twm Sion Catty's alleged marriage with the Heiress of Ystradffin', etc.; annotated transcripts of the last letters written by David Rees, Llanelly, who was hanged at Carmarthen in 1888; an account of Sir Hugh Vaughan, the duellist, from 'Les Chroniques de Jersey' written in 1585 by Samuel de Carteret, with an English translation; a transcript of a letter from Theo. Jones, Brecon, to the Reverend James Donne, D.D., Oswestry, 1804 (the genealogy of the Donnes of Radnorshire); notes on William Barlow, bishop of St. Davids, etc.; a poll of the parish of St. Peter's, Carmarthen, 1855, for the 'final extinction of Church-Rates'; a list of place-names in cos. Caermarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke, 'as on Emanuel Bowen's County Seats Map of Wales', ca 1710'; transcripts of deeds of lease and release of the Quaker meeting-house at Caermarthen, 1748-1831; lists of names of persons extracted from records of the borough of Caermarthen, 1530-1835, and an annotated alphabetical list of place-names from the same source; notes on the recorders, 1569-1890, chamberlains, 1633-[1831], town clerks, ante 1578/9-1825, sword-bearers, [1688]-1823, and civic serjeants-at-mace, 1578-1831, of the borough of Caermarthen; transcripts of a final concord relating to properties in Eweny, Golwynston, Landowe, Wyke, Coychurche, Peterston, Pendyloyn, Saint George's, Saint Andreas, Wenvo, Cadoxton, Coston, Pennarth, Cogan, Landav, Whitechurche, Aberdare, and Saint Johns, and the advowson of the church of Peterston, co. Glamorgan, 1583, and of an estreat of the court roll of the manor of Peterston super Ely, co. Glamorgan, 1633; a transcript, with an English translation, of the roll of fealty and presentments on the accession of Edward, the Black Prince, to the Princedom of Wales, 1343; transcripts of 'Can Morfudd i'r Gyllell' by [Edward Williams] 'Iolo Morganwg', of a letter from Thomas Jones ('Twm Sion Cati'), Tregaron, to Gregory Price, the Priorye, Hereford, containing a pedigree of the recipient's family taken from Llyfr Baglan (The Book of Baglan), and of the will and probate of Sarah Daniel of Brondawe, parish of Llanegwad, co. Carmarthen, 1838; extracts from a lecture on 'The Public Records relating to Wales' by Richard Arthur Roberts ('son of the late respected Jonathan Roberts, of Dark Gate, Carmarthen'), delivered before the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1889 [see Y Cymmrodor, vol. X, 1889, pp. 157-206]; 'The Rising of the Welsh Rebecca-ites', probably in the form of extracts from newspaper files; a description of the arms of Sir William Nott, G.C.B. ( from the College of Heralds, by favour of T. M. J. Watkin, Portcullis, 1895); annotated transcripts of elegies in memory of the Reverend Peter Williams, Carmarthen, by Griffith Williams ('Gutyn Peris'), Braich Talog, and John Williams, St. Athan; English translations by the scribe of the Fabeln ('Fables') of Gotthold Ephrain Lessing and of Streit and Friede ('Strife & Peace or a few Scenes in Norway') by Frederica Bremer; geological notes on South Wales, with illustrations; extracts from Chas. Knight: The Pictorial History of England; a transcript of the letters patent granting county status to the borough of Carmarthen, 1604; forms of legal instruments, bills, insurance policies, etc.; 'Key to Norie's Navigation' [ i.e., John William Norie: . . Practical Navigation]; 'Exercises in Mathematics, etc.'; a list of Griffith wills and administrations among the ecclesiastical probate records in the St. Davids Diocesan Registry at Carmarthen; etc. The volume was originally in the form of loose leaves of uniform size contained in a box-file lettered 'Ex Alcwyn Evans MSS. Miscellanea'.

A volume entitled on the cover 'The Records of the Corporate Borough of Carmarthen, during the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, Charles II., James II., William & Mary, Anne, George I., and George II. Ad verbum et literam transcripta, ex tabulis publicis ab Alcuino C. Evans'. The volume contains transcripts of records from the original 'Book of Ordinances' preserved in the common coffer of the borough, the records dating from 1590 to 1764. According to the imprint on the title-page the work was compiled at Carmarthen between September 1851 and July 1853.

A volume lettered on the spine 'Register of St. Peter's Carmarthen. Alcwyn C. Evans. Carmarthen'. It contains transcripts of entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials in the parish registers of Newchurch, co. Carmarthen, 1720-1812; a biographical list, compiled in 1893, of vicars of Saint Peter's, Caermarthen [sic], 1278-1889; transcripts of entries of baptisms, marriages, burials, etc., in the parish registers of Saint Peter' s, Carmarthen, 1671-1812 (excepting 1690-1699 when no entries were recorded); transcripts and/or English translations of charters and other records, ante 1186-1567, of the abbey of Strata Florida, taken from public records and from manuscripts in the British Museum, together with a list of the abbots; and a transcript, with minor omissions, of the register of the Independent Church of Pant-teg, Abergwili, 1690-1813, contained in NLW MS 12388C. The Pant-teg register contained in this volume was published by E. D. Jones in Y Cofiadur, 1953, pp. 19-70.

Three volumes containing 'A History of the Town and County of Caermarthen' by 'Cyfrangwr', i.e., Alcwyn C. Evans. The work was awarded the prize and a gold medal at the National Eisteddfod at Carmarthen, 1867. It is divided into sections with the following headings: Preface; (i) Its ancient and present name and boundaries; (ii) Its rivers, lakes, and mountains; (iii) Its historical summary; [iv] The Town of Caermarthen. Volume III is an Appendix consisting of a genealogy of Sir Thomas Jones, Abermarlais; 'The Gentry of Caermarthenshire living in 1602' ('as given by Geo. Owen'); extracts from documents relating to places in the town and county of Carmarthen; the parliamentary representation of the town and county of Carmarthen; an abstract of a charter of King Henry III to Meredydd ab Rhys, 1257; a rent-roll of the town of Carmarthen, 1575; extracts from Leland's Itinerary; excerpts from the Liber Landavensis and The Book of St. Chad; a chart of the genealogy of the Welsh Princes; transcripts of oaths of the mayor, bailiffs, and constable; a transcript of a 'cywydd' written by Griffith Llwyd ap David ab Einion Lygliw on the trial of Morgan ab Davydd ab Llewelyn of Rhydodin (Edwinsford) in Caio, circa 1390, with an English translation; an English translation of the charter granted by Sir Guy de Brian, kt., to the burgesses of Laugharne (early 14th cent); and an 'Index to the County'.

A transcript and English translation by Alcwyn C. Evans of 'The Chartulary of The Monastery of St. John the Evangelist, situate in Priory Street, Caermarthen. For a long time lost, but lately found among the Hengwrt MSS . . .' [Peniarth MS. 401]. At the end are notes on the Priory and lists of chancellors, precentors, treasurers, and archdeacons of the diocese of St. Davids.

A notebook containing a list of ecclesiastical probate records, 1685-1776, of persons surnamed Price, Thomas, Howell, Lewis, Evans, etc., in the archdeaconry of Carmarthen in the diocese of St. Davids; and lists, also from the archdeaconry of Carmarthen, of 'Abstract[s] of Wills that I have', 1589-1849, and 'Wills I should like to have', 1564-1703. A few of the abstracts are said to have been made on 24 December 1890.

A notebook containing excerpts relating to events in the history of Wales and to Welsh families and places, arranged under places, taken from William Dugdale: The Baronage of England (London, 1675-6).

A place, personal name, and general index, arranged alphabetically, to Archaeologia Cambrensis, B. B. Woodward: The History of Wales . . . (London, 1853), The Red Dragon, Notes and Queries, The Gentleman's Magazine, The Cambro-Briton, etc. Accompanying the index are Welsh-English-Latin equivalents of place-names.

Two massive volumes entitled 'Bonedd y Cymry, gathered from MSS. and from other sources' and containing pedigrees of gentry deriving mostly from south-west Wales. There is an elaborate index ('Gentium', 'Locorum', and 'Nominum') to the first volume, and an imperfect index of names to the second volume. The first volume was completed on 8 December 1898.

A volume lettered on the spine 'St. Peter's Register Arranged' and containing an alphabetical index or 'collocation' of names recorded in the registers of the church of St. Peter's, Carmarthen. The names are arranged in chronological order under each surname.