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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 notebook containing pedigrees of the family of Elliot of cos. Pembroke and Carmarthen, supported by transcripts of ecclesiastical probate records, 1586-1817, in the Diocesan Registry, Carmarthen, and extracts from the parish registers of Hubberston, Laugharne, Nolton, Roch, and Steynton, and monumental inscriptions in Hubberston Churchyard.

A volume containing 'Copies of Correspondence [1818-1821] which passed between the Revd. John Collier Jones of Exeter College, Oxford, afterwards Rector of that College, and the Revd. Daniel Jones, Rector of Ruckinge, near New Romney in Kent, relative to the Pedigree and Coat of Arms belonging to the family of Llanio, in Cardiganshire, of which estate the said Daniel Jones had then become the reversionary proprietor, and from which family both of them were descendants'; and pedigrees from transcripts made by J. J. Lloyd Williams, M.A., among them being 'Pedigrees of all the Gentry in the Counties of Cardigan, Carmarthen and Pembroke, faithfully transcribed from a manuscript of the late Mr. William Lewes of Llwynderw, by Sylvanus Jones, Dec. 8th 1760'. Inset is a holograph letter relating to the manuscript from J. J. Lloyd Williams, The School House, Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Carmarthen, to Alcwyn C. Evans, 1888.

Draft notes, extracts, memoranda, etc., by C. F. Egerton Allen relating to the arms of Pembrokeshire and other families. The material is based on printed sources, memorial stones and tablets, and bookplates, and among the longer items are 'Notes for Ordinary of Arms in Enderbie' (see N.L.W. MS. 12219D) and 'An attempt to trick the coats of arms blazoned in an App[endi]x to Laws 'Little England beyond Wales' pp. 424-446'. Much of the material is written on the dorse of a variety of printed sheets relating to the disarmament conference summoned by Nicholas II of Russia [1899]. Accompanying the material are holograph letters and post cards to C. F. Egerton Allen from E. Hewlett Edwards, Tenby, 1911, J. T. Evans, Stow-on- the-Wold, [19]04, Francis Green, St. Davids, 1910, Mabel Lloyd, Cresborough, Haverfordwest, etc., [19]05-1906 (together with a letter from C. F. Egerton Allen to Mabel Lloyd, [19]05), [Sir] H[enry] O[wen] [London] 1904, and D. P. S. Reid, Boulston, near Haverfordwest, [19]03.

Draft notes, extracts, memoranda, etc., by C. F. Egerton Allen relating to the genealogies mainly of Pembrokeshire families. Some of the material is written on the dorse of applications and testimonials for the posts of Headmaster of the Intermediate School, Penarth, 1896, of Director and Inspector of Education for co. Pembroke, 1904, etc., and on blank forms of an international memorial in support of the disarmament conference summoned by Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia [1899].

A rent roll of lands in Hauerfford west to be inserted in the estate 'for the erecting and may[n]teyning of the ffree schole', together with a covering letter, 18 October 1613, from Thomas Lloyd, Kilkethed, to John Skinner, esq., mayor of the town and county of Hauerfford west; draft rentals of the estates of John James, Esq. [Pantsaeson], in the parishes of Monington, St. Dogmells, Moylgrove, and Bayvill, 1809-1810; pedigrees of the families of Cornwallis of Abermarles, co. Carmarthen, 1721, of David of Blaenllechog, parish of Llangolman, co. Pembroke, 1823, and of Rice of Tyhen [parish of Llandysilio East], co. Carmarthen, the latter compiled by John William Phillips, Haverfordwest; lists of members belonging to the Loyal Welsh Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons who meet at the Victoria Hotel, Pembroke Dock, and of the Lodge of Freemasons called the Saint Davids Lodge held at the Nelson Hotel, Milford, 1839; typescript copies of letters from Tho. Picton, Carmarthen, to J[ohn] Philipps, Haverfordwest, 1815 (enclosing bills of exchange), John Martin, Withybush, to his son [John Phelps at Ely], 1815 (money, personal, news of the recipient's brother Samuel in the battle of Waterloo), and Sam[ue]l Phelps, Bois de Bologne, Comy, near Paris, to his brother John [Phelps at Ely], 1815 (an account of the battle of Waterloo); six typescript papers on 'Agricultural Law'; a typescript report of a public inquiry held at the Town Hall, Fishguard, 28 July 1905, by the Local Government Acts Committee of the Pembrokeshire County Council for the purpose of considering an application by the Fishguard Parish Council for the conversion of the parish of Fishguard into an urban district; typescript 'Addenda' to a 'Pembrokeshrie Archaeological Survey' by J. W. Phillips, [19]08; etc.

An illustrated history of the family of Harries of Tre-gwynt, parish of Granston, co. Pembroke, compiled in 1918, with additions to 1933, by N[elson] G[eorge] Harries, Wolverhampton. Relevant press cuttings are mounted in the volume, and the illustrations are largely in the form of photographs of the interior and exterior of the house and of family coats of arms.

A volume containing 'An English Pedegree & Genealogy of The Gentry of the Counties of Cardigan Carmarthen & Pembrock In Three Bookes with a table to Each of Them, Together with their Arms ffixt to Each Pedegree'. It was written in 1739 and was apparently copied from the same source as Peniarth MS. 156, which was published in West Wales Historical Records, vol. I, pp. 3-96, vol. II, pp. 1-96. Most of the pedigrees are taken down to 1739, but there are additions and insets in later hands to 1769, and one inset in the hand of W[illiam] G[wynne] S[tedman] T[homas of Carmarthen]. At the end of the volume, originally in the form of loose leaves, are notes of births, marriages, and deaths, 1695-1769, of members of the families of Lloyd of Cilgwyn and Coedmor and Lewes of Troedyraur, co. Cardigan.

A poem (202 lines), with annotations, entitled 'The Celtae'; and a list of contents of, and some transcripts from, a manuscript in the library of Chetham College, Manchester, entitled 'Short pedigree [sic] of Divers Noblemen, Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen & Gentlewomen of Pembrokeshire, containing all or most of the Eight Ancestors from whom they are Descended together with the arms of most of them - London - Printed by John Winter for the author, a.d. 1671'.

The Tucker MS, being an early eighteenth century collection (with later eighteenth century additions) of pedigrees of Pembrokeshire families attributed to Thomas Tucker of Sealyham, Pembrokeshire.

A manuscript containing Pembrokeshire, Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire pedigrees (ff. 1-76, 80-87); the beginning of the Welsh Laws (ff. 77-79); and a table of the contents of ff. 17-76b (f. 80).
Ff. 17-76b, 80-80b are in the hand of George Owen of Henllys (see f. 59) and are dated 1577-1599; ff. 77-79b are in a later hand; ff. 83-86b belong to 1684; f. 87 is in the autograph of the Reverend Samuel Williams; and ff. 1-16b are in an eighteenth century hand.

A scrap-book of literary and historical press cuttings, c. 1896-1900, compiled by J. H. Davies. The titles include, 'London Welsh Jottings', 'Ysgrifenydd y Cyffes Ffydd', 'A Great Welsh Soldier' [i.e. Owen Lawgoch], 'Pererindod yn Nhyddewi', 'Story of the Revolt of Llewelyn Bren', 'Cyfres yr Hen Gerddi', 'Gohebiaeth Awdwr "Cathl y Gair Mwys", 'Darganfyddiad Llenyddol yn yr Amgueddfa Brydeinig. Cywydd Anghyhoeddedig o Waith Goronwy Owen', 'Dewiniaid Dyffryn Clwyd', 'Kruger a'r Cynghorwr Sirol Cymreig', 'Ymwelydd hynod o New Zealand. Maori yn Medru Cymraeg', 'Breuddwyd Nos Wyl Dewi', 'Llenyddiaeth y Flwyddyn' (by J. H. Davies), 'Peter Williams', 'Lloffion Llenyddol', 'Bedd Dafydd ap Gwilym', 'Hen Ddewiniaid Cymru', 'Straeon Hen Gymry Llundain', 'Yn Amsang ein Tadau' and 'Old Pembroke Families' (both by Henry Owen, Poyston), 'Taith i Ardal Twm Sion Catti', 'Cywydd Coffadwriaethol i'r diweddar T. E. Ellis, As' (by [William Powell] 'Gwilym Pennant', London) 'Crogi'r Lleidr Defaid a Melldith Gwrach Dyffryn Aeron', 'Hela Owen Lawgoch', 'Gwrdd y Cymru Fyddion', 'Athrofeydd y Methodistiaid', 'Cynghorau Lleol Cymru', 'Welshmen in Patagonia', etc.