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Rule-book of an excise-officer. It may have belonged to a certain David Lewis, who served at Halifax and Nuneaton. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) English. Suede. Purchased from Bob Owen, Croesor, June 1959.

The English version of the Rule of the Third Order of St Francis 'for the Brethren and Susters of the order of Penitentis' (ff. 2-15v). The Latin version was first composed in 1221. The text is printed from this MS by W. W. Seton, Two Fifteenth-century Franciscan Rules, Early English Text Society, OS, 148 (1914). An identical text was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1510 (STC 19596), see W. Marx, The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist XIV (Cambridge, 1999), p. 18. Written in good bastard secretary script. Added, contemporarily, in similar script, on ff. 15v-17: 'Beatus Franciscus. De tercio eciam ordine. Beatus Franciscus produxit multos flores ', an account of notable members of the Third Order, including those canonized and beatified, also printed by Seton, pp. 55-7. This text derives from the twenty-seventh sermon of Bernardine de Bustis, Rosarium sermonum predicabilium; the sermon cannot date from before c. 1475. On ff. 18-19, indication of the prayers to be said at matins and compline (corresponding to the instructions in chapter 11 of the Rule), with facing full-page miniatures; those for the five intervening hours are missing, no doubt cut out for the sake of their miniatures. Three full-page miniatures survive, of mediocre quality, in arched frames with borders of foliage and flowers: on f. 1v, St Francis receiving the stigmata; f. 17v, the arrest of Jesus in the garden; and f. 18v, Christ before Pilate. There are illuminated initials, that for the added text on f. 15v with good marginal floriation. Folios 9v and 15v are reproduced by Seton.

A bookplate from a book presented by the National Library of Wales to the Education Department (Celtic Section) at Ruhleben Camp, Germany, 1915, for the use of Welsh civilian prisoners interned there.

A small collection of programmes and tickets for Wales rugby matches against England, Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand, 1924-1955.

A typescript pedigree of the Rubincam family of Green Meadows, Maryland, USA, compiled, 1954, by Milton Rubincam in the form of an 'ahnentafel' or table of ancestors (ff. 1-28).
The table records sixteen generations of the Rubincam family, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, and is accompanied by notes (ff. 28-33) and an index (ff. 34-38). A few ancestors are of Welsh origin (see f. 7).

Minute book, April 1893-October 1913, of the Aberystwyth sub-branch of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Besides minutes of meetings, 1892-1913, the volume includes routine diary entries and reports on incidents of animal cruelty, 1895-1901 (ff. 20-95 passim), press cuttings, 1893-1900 (ff. 12 verso, 14, 17, 41, 44, 46 verso-47, 68 verso, 86, 90), letters, 1893, and copy letters, 1893-1901 (ff. 2 recto-verso, 21 recto-verso, 42, 62 verso-65, 76 verso-77, 81, 88 verso, 95 verso-96), and printed circulars, 1893-1894 (ff. 9 verso, 15 verso).

A copy of the donor's autobiography describing his experiences as a prisoner of war in camps in Singapore, Thailand and Japan, 1942-1945.

The minute book of the committee appointed to arrange the Royal Welsh United Choir's visit to the Paris Exhibition, 1900; letters from J. J. Brazier, Philbert Breban, Jean le Fustec (founder of the Gorsedd of Brittany) and others; miscellaneous printed material.

This collection consists of war diaries, 1916-1918, of the 14th (Service Battalion), Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The diaries, with some entries written in the hand of Major Wynn Wheldon, give a day-to-day chronicle of the activities of the battalion on the Western Front including reports on operations and actions, particulars of casualties, etc.

Royal Welsh Fusiliers recruiting accounts in the hand of Sam. Hobson. English. In boards. Purchased from Myers & Co., booksellers, Ltd, March 1942.

Records of the Society from its formation in 1904 until 1955, comprising minutes of council and committee meetings and secretary's reports

A royal sanction, dated 11 February 1761, given to the establishment of a corps of Royal Welch Volunteers; a certificate, dated 7 June 1822, showing that John Morris, Trefeurig was accepted as a substitute in the Cardiganshire militia for John Jones, weaver, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire; a royal commission, dated 22 June 1900, appointing Edward Price Meredith a second lieutenant in the 1st Herefordshire Volunteer Rifle Corps.

A typescript 'Register of Appointments to the Royal Victorian Order' compiled by Philip Hancock, recording (in chronological order) all Dames Grand Cross, Knights Grand Cross, Dames Commander and Knights Commander, appointed between 1936 and 1997.

The order book of the Royal Monmouth and Brecon Militia, 3 February 1804 - 1 November 1805.

A typewritten report of 'Tour No. VI' by the Sub-Committee of the Royal Commission on Coast Erosion in the United Kingdom, July-August [1907], and of a resolution of the Sub-Committee taken at Carmarthen, 24 July [1907]. The tour comprised visits to, among other places, Caldicot Level, Berwick Embankment near Llanelly, Burry Port, New Quay, Aberayron, Aberystwyth, Borth, Barmouth, Criccieth, the track of the Cambrian Railway, Nevin and Morva Nevin, Carnarvon, Llanfairfechan, Colwyn Bay, Rhuddlan Marsh Embankment, and Rhyl. Following the report is the name in pencil of D. R. Daniel, who was secretary to the Commission, and following the resolution the name of Sir W[illiam] Ffolkes, the chairman.

Records of the School, 1950-1975, and of TG Richards, Headmaster 1965-1973. The records comprise a school log book, 1950-1969; a pupils' leaving book, 1957-1968; newspaper cuttings, [1965x1975]; notes compiled by the donor about his father, TG Richards, [2016]; photocopy of a short history of the School, written in 1967; and a CD containing scenes of school events and activities, compiled from 8mm cine film taken by TG Richards in the 1960s.