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NEWS AND NOTES NONCONFORMIST RECORDS One of the most satisfying features of recent accessions to the Department of Manuscripts and Records is the presence of an unusually large number of registers and ancillary documents of Welsh Nonconformist causes. Two outstanding examples, received on deposit, have been those of Castle Street, Abergavenny, and Bethesda, Tywyn, Congregational Churches, the former comprising an account book of the building of the meeting-house, 1792-4, and correspondence and title-deeds dating from 1699, and the latter a register of baptisms from 1809 to 1902 (with gaps), a minute book for the years 1893-7, and a variety of late nineteenth and early twentieth century account books. A group of Baptist records of exceptional interest was found to contain a history and register, 1887-1942, of Carmel Church, Pontrhydfendigaid, a minute book, 1895-1930, and register, 1914?-27, of Seion Church, Barmouth, and in particular a transcript made by Evan Lewis, Ffaldybrenin, in 1841 of the register (1751- ) of Bethel, Caeo, and its associated churches on the Carmarthenshire- Cardiganshire border (a typescript copy of Evan Lewis's transcript, which contains additional entries to 1875, is preserved in N.L.W. MS. 10785). No class of local records has suffered more grievously from the neglect of so-called custodians, but the experience of the past two years suggests that more may have survived than was at one time supposed, and it is indicative, too, of the growing concern in Wales for the preservation of historical material that the Library should recently have acquired, sometimes from sources other than official, such treasures as a minute book of Capel Tegid Calvinistic Methodist Church, Bala, 1839-41, registers of the Congregational Churches of Main, Meifod, 1821-37, and Moriah, Rhymney, 1851-8, and of the Calvinistic Methodist Churches of Capel y Glyn, Llangywer, 1813-65, and Saron, Y Friog, 1865-71, and a notebook compiled in 1845 recalling in great detail the foundation in 1827 and the subsequent history of Capel Aled Congregational Church, Llansannan. B. G. OWENS. SURVEY OF THE HONOUR OF DENBIGH, 1334. In November, 1959, the Library acquired two volumes, now designated N.L.W. MSS. 17303-4, which contain a transcript of the extent of the castle and honour of Denbigh taken by Hugh de Beckele in 8 Edward III (1334). The transcript comprises ff. 1-48 of the early XV cent. Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 3632 (which represents an incomplete version of the text) and ff. 165-287 of a complete late XIV cent. text contained in a manuscript in the Maitland Library in All Souls College, Oxford. The Maitland Library MS. was at one time in the possession of Col. Henry Richard Lloyd Howard, C.B., of Wigfair, Denbigh, and subsequently passed to Frederic Seebohm (1833-1912). A collotype facsimile of this volume, also from the library of Frederic Seebohm, is preserved in N.L.W. MS. 5554, and a holograph letter, 14 November, 1894, from C. E. Doble, Clarendon Press, Oxford, to Seebohm, which is bound with the transcript recently purchased by the Library, indicates that Seebohm had made a suggestion for the publication of the facsimile. However, a few years before his death, Seebohm presented Col. Howard's manuscript to the Maitland Library, and in 1914 it was edited for the British Academy by Paul Vinogradoff and Frank Morgan under the title of Survey of the Honour of Denbigh 1334. Col. Howard's manuscript was in Seebohm's hands in 1904 when he published The Tribal System in Wales, and Appendices Ba- Bi of this work comprise transcripts (in this order) of ff. 75-9, 85-7, 89-92, 100, 151-2, 154-9, 161-7, 169, 171, 180, 201-8, 243-5, 214-16, 246-7, 153-4, and 148. Some extracts from the survey were also published in J. Williams: Records of Denbigh and its Lordship (1860). Seebohm (Tribal System, p. 3on.) tells us that he also possessed 'a careful transcription [of Col. Howard's manuscript], for which I have to thank the patient labour of Mr. W. K. Boyd', but there is no direct evidence to identify this copy with N.L.W. MSS. 17303-4. B. G. OWENS.