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Miscellaneous poems, including a 'pryddest' on 'Saccheus ar ben y Sycamorwydden' written for an eisteddfod at Tredegar, 1870; a 'Carol Plygain' and a 'Carol Pasg'; various poems - some of them in the autograph of 'Nefydd' - by 'Giraldus' (Haverfordwest), William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), Robert Williams ('Robert ap Gwilym Ddu'), 'Gwyliedydd Gwent', William Jones ('Gwilym Ilid'), John Blackwell ('Alun'), etc.; 'Trioedd yr Offeiriad'; and hymns by J. M. Thomas.

A miscellaneous collection of records mainly relating to Wales compiled towards the middle of the seventeenth century. -- The manuscript begins on page 53 with extracts from 'Llyfr Coch Asaph', with the additions from the hand of William Bullocke, as in Peniarth MS 231 - a manuscript written by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, and most probably the immediate source of the Nefydd version; the 'summa' of 'Llyfr Coch Asaph' compiled in 1602, which is also contained in Peniarth MS 231, as well as the list of contents of another St. Asaph record - the 'liber pergamenus' which is now deposited with the Church in Wales records at the National Library; a transcript of a record of proceedings on a writ of quare impedit brought by the Prince of Wales against Howel Gymen and a hundred and seventeen others, touching the advowson of a prebend in the collegiate church of Holyhead ('prebenda de Castro Keby') supplied by 'Mr. Ellice the Councellor'; a collection of historical records relating to Wales taken directly from the hand of Robert Vaughan in Peniarth MS 236; a transcript of the 'Historia Britonum' of Nennius, copied out of a book given to John Selden by William Camden, compared with a version in 'Oxford Library' under the name of 'Gilda Minor', and ending with an extract from a Cottonian manuscript (pp. 245-88); a copy of the statutes of Chester Cathedral, temp. Henry VIII (pp. 289-310); 'Ymrafaelion henwau Ynys Brydain', etc. - seventeen chapters of pseudo-history and description of the Isle of Britain (cf. slightly different versions in Peniarth MSS 163 and 215), with a supplement containing accounts of place-names not included in the main text, a reference to the earthquake of 1574/5, the wonders of Scotland and Ireland, the conversion of the various British nations to Christianity, and 'y naw helwriaeth', 'mesurau cerdd dant', and 'trioedd mab y krinwas' (pp. 312-49). -- At the end of the volume are a number of documents relating to Cheshire and Flintshire - a note of entail of Flintshire lordships, Flintshire rents of assize, the customs of Dee mills and other records taken from a book of Edward Whitby, recorder of Chester, and a transcript of Robert Vaughan's copy of the fealty roll of the Prince of Wales, 29 Edward I .

A part of a notebook containing a number of hymns, all of which were published in 1767 in Golwg ar Ddull y Byd hwn yn myned heibio.

Miscellanea of Ben Jones ('P.A. Môn'), including 'Ellis Jones Coach Account for December 24, 1821 To August 3, 1822', 'Sandeman a Morgan Ratler ym Môn o 1790 i 1825', 'Cerdd i'r Gwr y torrwyd ei law, ac y diengodd y lleidr oddiarno - neu'r Gwr a dorrodd ei ffenestr i ffuantu lladroniaeth arno er duo ei gymmodogion ... Mawrth 8, 1825', 'Darluniad o Dy Cyfarfod y Trefnyddion Calfinaidd a elwir Moria, yn nhref Caerynarfon ...', 'Gwrthdystiad merched Cymru' (see Seren Gomer, 1829), etc.

Eight volumes of notes of sermons preached between 1798 and 1817 at Pershore, Evesham, Tewkesbury, Birmingham, Pontypool, Abergavenny, etc., by John Rowlands, Baptist minister.

A 'pryddest' entitled 'Ar ddefnyddioldeb yr Ysgol Sabbothol, Testyn Eisteddfod Llysymaen, Hydref 22, 1855', an 'awdl' entitled 'Cymru' sent to 'Eisteddfod Aberafon ... Mehefin 23, 1853', and 'Pryddest i, neu ar Ddyffryn Clwyd, i Sylw Beirniaid Eisteddfod Dimbych, 1860' - all by Daniel Jones.

Poems and drafts of poems by Daniel Jones.

A collecting book used in 1839 on behalf of 'The Baptist Church Meeting, in Great Crosshall Street, in Liverpool' and containing a few sermon notes; 'Y perygl o ddirmygu gweinidogaeth yr efengyl'; a draft of an application, written in 1817 by Daniel Jones, of Erryd in the parish of Kilcwm, to the justices for the County of Carmarthen and the Clerk of the Peace for certification of the dwelling house of Ann [sic, ? Mary] Rice in Stone Street, Llandovery, as a place for religious worship; sermon notes; etc.

Fifteen volumes of sermons by Daniel Jones.

Three volumes of account books, 1841-1844, 1851-1852, and 1864-1865, relating mainly to the distribution of the Baptist journal known as Seren Gomer.

Sixteen volumes of various account books used by 'Nefydd' between 1842 and 1869. MS 7082A contains some memoranda of a farmer in Denbighshire, 1843-1852.

A copy of Dyddiadur yr Annibynwyr, 1854, with entries by 'Nefydd' relating to British Schools, etc.

Three volumes relating to the work of 'Nefydd' as a printer, 1864-1868.

A copy of a prospectus of the work by 'Nefydd' which was published in 1852 as Crefydd yr Oesoedd Tywyll ... yn cynnwys y Traethawd Gwobrwyol yn Eisteddfod y Fenni ar Mari Lwyd ..., a list of orders for copies, etc.

One of two volumes of 'Nefydd' miscellanea, including material relating to Welsh literature and bibliography, eisteddfod adjudications, etc.

One of two volumes of 'Nefydd' miscellanea, including material relating to Welsh literature and bibliography, eisteddfod adjudications, etc.

'Llyfr Cwrdd Chwarterol yr Eglwysi Bedyddiedig yn Aberduar, Castell Newydd, Cilfowyr, Llangloffan, Rhydwilym, Moleston, a Llanelli', 1765-93.

'Hanes Eglwys y Bedyddwyr yn sir fôn yr hon a gorphorwyd yn Eglwys ynhre-fol-llwyn isa ar y 20 fed o fehefin yn y flwyddyn 1779 gan y parchedig weinidogion Stephan Dafis, a Dafydd Jones pont y pwl', with notes and additions by Ben. Jones ('P. A. Môn').

A receipts and disbursements book, 1845-1863, of Salem Baptist Church, Blaenau, Monmouthshire.

A notebook containing sermons, probably by David Evans, Newbridge, 1853.