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A volume containing photocopies of a collation of miscellaneous 11-plus examination papers, taken in Wales and England 1921-1949, accumulated by the Rev. J. Aelwyn Roberts, Bangor.

Transcripts, [early 19th cent.] (watermark 1803), in an unknown hand, of odes, ballads, dialogues and satirical letters of English political interest, composed by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams in the period 1732-1745.
With the exception of 'To Kitty Walker' (f. 62), all the works appear, with mostly minor variations, in The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams..., 3 vols (London, 1822). The contents list (f. i recto-verso) includes titles of additional poems, after f. 119, which were subsequently cut from the volume.

A notebook containing extracts from law reports, temp. George I.

One of two volumes containing a copy of John Wee[v]er: Ancient Funerall Monuments with in the vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland ... (London, 1631), interleaved, with manuscript additions.

Two typescript papers by the donor John Dorian Evans entitled 'The coal mining industry and government policy' (December 2006) and 'Cwmgwili colliery, 1960-1992' (December, 2009).

The file consists of printed items - leaflets, policy statements, reports, issues of journals - on the general theme of women's rights and women's issues.

'Memorandum on the Remains from the Cave at the Great Ormes Head' by Professor W. Boyd Dawkins; extracts from the parish register of Newmarket, 1698-1718, Newmarket tombstone inscriptions, and extracts from St. Asaph probate records, in the hand of T. Allen Glenn; notes by Edward Owen on 'Abbrevatio Rotulorum Originalium'; and a variety of extracts by Thomas Edwards from printed sources (relating to Offa's Dyke, the geography of North Wales in the Neolithic Age, Norman Britain), and from 'Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd'.

Miscellaneous notes and papers collected by Walter Davies and relating mainly to British topography, history, archaeology, agriculture, etc.

Correspondence, papers and publications, 1949-1955, relating to the Civil Service, including memoranda on efficiency in the Civil Service and its relations with the public, and a specially bound copy of Wyn Griffith's A Hundred Years. The Board of Inland Revenue, 1849-1949 (London, 1949).

Notes, mainly by G. T. Clark, on camps, castles, etc., in Britain.

The file contains collecting books for the local fund of the Lord Mayor of London's Fund for the Relief of Distress in Mining Areas, opened by Sarah Evans Davies, mayor of Welshpool. The notebooks give the names and addresses of donors, including the employees of local companies, and the sums donated.

A part of a copy of A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity, Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, &c. ... By a Gentleman of the Middle Temple [i.e. John Williams]... (London, 1732). The copy is interleaved, with numerous manuscript notes.

Two notebooks, NLW MS 16798Ai being a printed account book for the year 1802 possibly belonging to a yeoman farmer or man of similar profession, NLW MS 16798Aii being a journal without dates and containing only rough accounts on ff. 6 verso-7.
NLW MS 16798Ai mainly contains details of accounts settled and owed together with general observations on the weather, agricultural duties, etc. There are rough accounts on inside front cover, ff. i, ii verso, 85 recto-verso, and inside back cover. The location of the writer is uncertain but may have been Monmouthshire, Gloucestershire or another county at or near the Welsh border as mention is made of travelling to Howle in Shropshire (ff. 13 verso, 42 verso, 43 verso, 44 verso), to [?Soilwell Farm] in Gloucestershire (f. 32 verso), to Hereford (f. 29 verso), and to attending Ross[-on-Wye] church (f. 23 verso).

A scrap-book containing material collected by Eleanor Lloyd, part author of a Book of Sundials, towards a book on Stone Crosses, including notes, sketches, photographs, and printed matter.

Press cuttings of letters and articles contributed to North Wales newspapers by John Wynne, schoolmaster, of Caernarvon, author of Sir a Thre' Caernarfon, fel yr oedd ac fel y maent yn 1860; and a copy of a letter addressed by him to Lord Derby expressing satisfaction at the appointment of a bishop of Bangor, 1861. The press cuttings have been pasted in a book containing an incomplete essay on the early history of Britain and a list of Caernarvon residents.

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 photostat facsimile of a manuscript in St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden containing lists of clergymen in all the counties of Wales except Anglesey who were ejected during the Puritan Revolution. The list is based mainly on the writings of John Walker (1674-1747) and Edmund Calamy (1671-1732).

Notes on The Oldest Rocks in the British Isles, written in 1882 by Henry Hicks (1837-1899), M.D., F.R.S., President of the Geological Society, 1896-1898.

One of two volumes containing a copy of John Wee[v]er: Ancient Funerall Monuments with in the vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland ... (London, 1631), interleaved, with manuscript additions.