Welsh Journals

Montgomeryshire Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales. The notes below, prepared by the staff in the Department of Manuscripts in the National Library under the direction of the Librarian, are intended to be suggestive rather than exhaustive their aim is merely to indicate where manuscript material of Mont- gomeryshire interest is likely to be found. PART I. A. PENIARTH AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS. Of the Welsh collections catalogued by Dr. J. Gwenogvryn Evans for the Historical Manuscripts Commission the following are now in the National Library COLLECTION. REPORT. Mostyn Vol. I., Part 1. Peniarth (including Hengwrt) I., Parts 2 and 3. Wrexham „ II., Part 1. Llanwrin II., Part 1. Merthyr Tydvil (Llywarch Reynolds) II., Part 1. Aberdare II., Part 1. Plas Llanstephan (including Moses Williams) II., Part 2. Panton II., Part 3. Cwrtmawr (J. H. Davies) II., Part 3. B. CROSSWOOD MANUSCRIPTS. (N.L.W. MSS. 1641-1952). This collection includes the manuscripts of the Reverend Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), those of the Reverend John Jenkins, Kerry (Ifor Ceri), and the Trevor MSS. The scope of the collection is a very wide one, covering a large number of subjects, such as history, genealogy and heraldry, archae- ology and antiquities, topography, travel, agriculture, mineralogy, folklore and customs, biography, philosophy, theology, history of