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

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 .

Ten letters, 1923-1926, from Joseph Alfred Bradney, Tal-y-coed, Monmouthshire, to E. I. Williams, Pontypridd (ff. 1-21); two letters, 1938-1952, from E. I. Williams to E. Silk, headmaster of Nant-y-glo Secondary School, the former listing Charity Schools, 1737-1847, in the parish of Aberystruth (ff. 23-6; and two letters, 1941-1942, concerning the loan of documents of Monmouthshire interest including some of the above (ff. 27-8).

Miscellaneous legal and other papers. They include details of the debt on the Baptist chapel at Caernarvon, 1828-1842; a receipt, dated 1826, for payment for printing 750 copies of 'Llythyrau Cymanfa y Bedyddwyr'; resolutions passed at a meeting held in the house of John Thomas, in the village of Cross Inn, 1850, relating to the building of a Baptist chapel; share certificates in the Brynmawr Gas Company held by 'Nefydd'; a draft of a petition from the inhabitants of Blaenau to the Postmaster General; sermon notes by Daniel Jones; etc.

A notebook begun in 1826 by John Williams (1806-1856), Baptist minister and author of Yr Oraclau Bywiol, containing essays, sermons, poems, etc.

A report book, 1854, containing a daily record of the transportation by rail of goods and merchandise between Newport and iron-works, possibly Nant-y-glo.

'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 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.

Essays, etc., on various subjects, most of them submitted for competition by various writers, as follows: 'Traithawd ar Effeithiau Niweidiawl Penboethni a Phleidiaeth Grefyddawl &c. &c... . Eisteddfod Iforaidd Cendle ...', 'Traethawd ar ragoriaeth y Bibl fel llyfr yr Ysgol Sabbothol ... Eisteddfod Aberdare', 'Y Prif Wyliau Iuddewig ... Eisteddfod Pontardawe ... 1870', 'Traithawd ar Onestrwydd ... Buddugol yn Nghyfarfod Llenyddol Tredegar, 1865', 'Traithawd ar "Y moddion mwyaf effeithiol i ddyrchafu cysur y gweithiwr" ... Eisteddfod Brynhyfryd ... 1853', 'Traithawd ar Fuddioldeb Gwybodaeth, yn enwedig i'r Bobl Weithgar ... Cyfrinfa Odyddawl Llaneurwg, 1850', 'Traithawd ar yr Ysgol Sabbothol ... Cymdeithas Iforaidd Casbach ... 1852', 'Aberdulais Eisteddfod ... 1860 ... An Essay on "The Advantages of Education to the Working Classes"', 'The Antiquity of the House of Tredegar or the Descendants of Ivor Hael' [? for a Newport eisteddfod], and 'The Inconsistency of Affection towards Christian Pastors'.

Essays, etc., on various subjects, as follows: 'Traethawd ar Gyfaddasrwydd y Sefydliad Iforaidd i genedl y Cymry ... Eisteddfod Iforaidd Pontardawe 1870', 'Traethawd ar y Cymhwysderau mewn Athraw Ysgol Sabbothol. I Cyfarfod Llenyddol Ysgolion Sabbothol Blaenaugwent a Salem Blaenau', 'Traethawd ar y Daioni y mae y Beibl wedi ei wneud i ddyn fel bod moesol' and another on the same subject, two essays on 'Rhwymedigaethau Cristionogion i daenu yr Ysgrythyrau Sanctaidd trwy yr holl fyd ...', 'Traethawd ar y lles y mae Dadguddiad Dwyfol wedi ei wneuthir i ddyn Fel bod Cymdeithasol ... Eisteddfod Bryn Hyfryd, Glyn Ebwy', 'Traethawd "ar gyfaddasrwydd Crist'nogaeth i gyfarfod a dyn fel bod moesol" ... Eisteddfod Soar, Maesteg, 1857', 'Traethawd "Ar Ogoniant y Grefydd Gristnogol." Testyn rhoddedig gan Gyfrinfa Caradog Cwmfelin i Eisteddfod Llanelli ... 1856', 'Traethawd ar Yr Apostol Paul ... Eisteddfod Hermon Nantyglo ...', 'Traethawd ar y Lles y mae Datguddiad Dwyfol wedi wneyd i ddyn fel bod cymdeithasol ... Eisteddfod Brynhyfryd, 1854', 'History of Moses, Tredegar Eisteddfod', 'Traethawd ar "Athrawiaeth yr Efengyl a'i Hordinhadau"'; addresses, etc., including 'Anerchiad Mathetes i fyfyrwir Athrofa Hwlffordd ... 1865'; etc.

Eleven printed diaries (Poor Robin, Merlinus Liberatus, Merlinus Anglicus junior, The Coelestial Atlas, Tymhorol ac Wybrenawl Newyddion) for the years 1729, 1731, 1732, 1739, 1768, 1770, 1773 (2), 1778, 1780, and 1789 kept by Edmund Jones (1702-1793), of The Tranch, Pontypool, Independent minister; the entries include texts of sermons, names of places at which sermons were preached, lists of persons received into communion, sums given to charity, 'benevolences' received, horoscopic diagrams, details of books bought or lent, 'sayings and doings of erroneous men', accounts relating to the printing of the diarist's A Relation of Apparitions of Spirits in the Principality of Wales, published in 1780, references to Miles Harry, Howell Harris, and William Williams, Pantycelyn, and to the followers of Daniel Rowland, Llangeitho, etc.

Four volumes of diaries kept by 'Nefydd' for 1841, 1857, 1865-1866, 1868-1871.

An Essay on 'Derwyddiaeth' by 'Nefydd' and in his autograph.

Two volumes of sermons, hymns, poems, and memoranda, written in 1827-1828 and 1835-1836 by David Saunders, Baptist minister, poet, and hymn-writer, with transcripts by him of a few poems by other writers.

Fifteen volumes of sermons by Daniel Jones.

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.

Biographical notes relating to Daniel Jones; a letter, November, 1851, from Daniel Jones to his son-in-law, 'Nefydd'; etc.

Miscellaneous papers of Daniel Jones (1788-1862), Baptist Minister at Liverpool, Cowbridge, Felinfoel, Tongwynlais, etc., father-in law of 'Nefydd'. They include 'Trwydded Farddonawl Daniel Jones Cwmsarnddu gerllaw Llanymddyfri; o Eisteddfod Mon, Awst 15, 1815 ...', 'Hanes C[hristmas] Evans yn Merthyr', 'Cadwraeth yr Iaith Gymraeg, trwy ddylanwad yr Ysgol Sabothol', 'Ffiniau neu Derfynau Plwyf y Blaenau neu Aberystrwyth', obituary notices of Robert Edwards (Dinas), Dafydd Bowen, etc., a note headed 'Cydunwyd fel y canlyn gan ychidig frodyr a gyfarfu yn Addoldy Heol Emwnt ar nos wener y 300 o fawrth 1821', sermon notes, etc.