Archifdy Ceredigion Archives
Emrys R D Prosser Collection

ACCESSION 1322 and 1447

Ref: PRO/B4

Research: Miscellaneous
The papers in this Sub-series are mostly those pertaining to Prosser’s general research interests, including Welsh history, geography, and culture.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/1
TITLE: Transcripts of letters and documents relating to George Smith and Robert Sibbald
DATE: 1811-60
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Transcripts date from c1970s.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/2
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Pioneers of the Welsh Coalfield by Elizabeth Phillips’
DATE: 1924
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Comprises newspaper cuttings taken from the Western Mail pasted into notebook. The article won the Western Mail £100 prize at the 1924 National Eisteddfod. The article is in five parts, of which the end of part five is missing. Notebook annotated ‘Economic History Ivor Prosser’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/3
TITLE: Research notes and associated materials
DATE: 1930s-1960s
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes newspaper cuttings, primarily from the Western Mail, concerning the Welsh in Australia and America (in particular Madoc and the discovery of America), the ironmasters, and tracing the history of a house; an untitled exercise book with notes in Welsh concerning local anecdotes including the death of an elephant in Tregaron and Twm Sion Catti; a ‘Report and Balance Sheet’ for Nantymoel Industrial Co-operative Society; a financial and annual reports of Horeb English Baptist Church, Nantymoel for 1947 and 1948; typescript notes, possibly a sermon, concerning the Easter; a ‘Questionnaire on Welsh Folk Culture’ by the National Museum of Wales; a ‘Public Health Department Annual Report’ of 1953 for Tregaron Rural District Council; a collection of weather sayings as competition entries from the 1951 Eisteddfod; a bibliography of Tregaron; a letter noting sources for a study of Twn Sion Catti; and research notes concerning mining and smelting deposits in Flintshire and Denbighshire.
LANGUAGE:: English and Welsh

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/4
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Welsh Culture’
DATE: 1947-48
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Series of short essays on aspects of Welsh culture, including place names, houses, and communication. Signed on inside cover ‘Sm Williams’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/4a
TITLE: ‘The Welsh Plough’ by F G Payne
DATE: 1954
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Transcript of the Payne’s work with pencil sketches. Annotated on cover ‘Emrys R D Prosser Part I’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/4b
TITLE: ‘The Welsh Plough’ by F G Payne
DATE: 1954
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Transcript of Payne’s work. Annotated on cover ‘Emrys R D Prosser Part II’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/5
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘A Geography of Wales: Chapter V Historical Geography Part I’
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: A handwritten work, probably by E R D Prosser.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/6
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘A Geography of Wales: Chapter V Historical Geography Part II’
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: A handwritten work, probably by E R D Prosser.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/7
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘A Geography of Wales: Chapter V Historical Geography Part III’
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: A handwritten work, probably by E R D Prosser.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/8
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘[A Geography of Wales?]: Chapter VIII Agriculture’
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: A handwritten work, probably by E R D Prosser.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/9
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘A Geography of Wales Vol[ume] 1: Chapter II Structure and Landforms Part I’
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: A handwritten work, probably by E R D Prosser.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/10
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘A Geography of Wales Vol[ume] 2: Chapter II Structure and Landforms Part II’
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: A handwritten work, probably by E R D Prosser

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/11
TITLE: Untitled notebook relating to A Geography of Wales
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: A handwritten work, probably by E R D Prosser. Title of first page reads ‘Structure and Landforms’ although it has not been possible to ascertain how this fits in with the other notebooks concerning ‘A Geography of Wales’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/12
TITLE: Manuscript entitled ‘The Ogmore Valley: A Regional Survey by Emrys R D Prosser’
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Handwritten manuscript concerning ‘The Geology of the Ogmore Valley’ including maps, charts, sketches, and black and white photographs.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/13
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Wales Through the Ages’
DATE: 14 October 1958-24 March 1959
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from a programme of the same name delivered by the BBC Welsh Home Service. Includes leaflet at front providing titles and synopsis of programmes, and by whom they were delivered. Includes notes [by Prosser?] as to the usefulness of the content and its delivery.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/14
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Festival of Wales 1958 Tregaron Exhibition’
DATE: 1958
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Minutes of meetings of the Tregaron Festival of Wales Exhibition Committee.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/15
TITLE: Booklet entitled ‘Programme Making’ by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes
DATE: November 1958
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Annotated ‘Tregaron WI’. Includes newsletter concerning the ‘Country Feasts and Festivals Competition 1961-1962’ to be read at the monthly meeting, dated June 1960.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/16
TITLE: Booklet entitled ‘Time to be Social’ by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes
DATE: March 1959
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Concerning the need to include social events at monthly meetings. Includes a list of suggested activities.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/17
TITLE: Research notes concerning social and economic history
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from a number of publications including Newell’s Diocesan History of Llandaff, Lipton’s An Introduction to the Economic History of England: Vol I The Middle Ages, and Webb’s The History of Trade Unionism.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/18
TITLE: Booklet entitled ‘Parliament for Wales’
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Published by the Committee of the Parliament for Wales Campaign.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/19
TITLE: Research notes
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from Lewis’ The Mediaeval Borough of Snowdonia.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/20
TITLE: Research notes concerning the social and economic history of Wales
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes on foolscap taken from a number of publications including Carpenter’s Notes on the History of Cardiganshire Lead Mines, Williams’ The Economic Development of Swansea and District to 1921, and John’s The Industrial Development of South Wales.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/21
TITLE: Research notes relating to economic history
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes notes taken from Lewis’ The Development of Industry and Commerce in Wales During the Middle Ages.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/24
TITLE: Research notes
DATE: nd [c.1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook containing notes taken from the publication The Early Christian Movement in Wales by V E Nash-Williams, The Druids, by T D Kendrick, and The Book of the Anchorite of Llanddewi Brefi by Thomas Jones.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/25
TITLE: Bibliography
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook containing a list of books concerning Welsh place names.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/26
TITLE: Notebook containing research notes on early civilisations
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: The book is paginated and seems to be a continuation of a previous notebook as page numbering begins on page 70.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/27
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Salt’
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications including Davies’ Cardiganshire Salt Smugglers and Williams’ Contraband Cargoes.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/28
TITLE: Research notes relating to Welsh law
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook containing research notes from a number of publications concerning early Welsh law and custom.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/29
TITLE: Research notes concerning Welsh finance and accounts
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook of research notes compiled from various publications including Waters’ Account of the Sheriff of Caernarvon.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/30
TITLE: Research notes on early Welsh history
DATE: d [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Taken from a number of sources including calendars of Patent Rolls, Charter Rolls and Close Rolls, Giraldus Cambrensis, and other secondary material.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/30a
TITLE: Scrap book entitled ‘Defion ac arferion hen, neu wedi darfod mewn cysylltiad ag amaethyddiaeth’
DATE(S): nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Cuttings from an article concerning agriculture. Welsh text with Welsh and English annotations.
LANGUAGE:: English and Welsh

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/31
TITLE: Research notes from published sources
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from T B Read A History of the Old English Letter Foundries and W Y Carman A History of Firearms.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/32
TITLE: Research notes
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from a number of publications and manuscripts, including Madge’s The Domesday of Crown Lands, [NLW?] documents relating to Strata Florida, Williams’ The Cistercians at Strata Florida, and Williams’ Rebecca Riots.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/33
TITLE: List of abbreviations
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: List of abbreviations for organisations and publications, probably used by Prosser in his notes.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/33a
TITLE: Booklet entitled Procedures at Meetings by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes
DATE: 1961
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Provides details for the WI committee, sub-committee, monthly meetings, annual meetings, and county federation committee meetings.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/34
TITLE: Publication entitled The Cistercians in Wales: Some Aspects of their Economy by David H Williams
DATE: 1965
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Annotated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/35
TITLE: Article entitled ‘The dates of the Celtic saints’
DATE: 1966
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Written by John Morris, from the Journal of Theological Studies Volume xvii, pt.2. Annotated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/36
TITLE: Research notes taken from publications relating to the industrial history of Wales
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Primarily concerning the rise of chemical industries and processes.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/37
TITLE: Four articles by Melville Richards
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: ‘The Irish Settlements in South-West Wales: A topographical approach’, ‘Welsh Meid(i)r, Moydir, Irish Bothar “Lane Road”’, and ‘The Distribution of some Welsh Place-names’ (parts 1 and 2). Some annotations.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/38
TITLE: Research notes concerning non-conformism
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from publications and documents, including Williams’ ‘Welsh Wesleyan Methodism’ and a chart showing baptisms at Capel Wesle, Tregaron. Original folder annotated ’33’

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/39
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Patterns Purpose (Celtic Ore)’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from a publication by Cyril Fox entitled Pattern and Purpose: A Survey of Early Celtic Art in Britain.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/40
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Offa’s Dyke �" Various’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes concerning Offa’s Dyke taken from a number of publications. Includes a series of maps showing the settlement of Anglo-Saxon England’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/41
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Canu Aneirin I’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Transcription of Ifor Williams’ Translation of the Book of Aneirin.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/42
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Canu Aneirin (cont’d) II’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Transcription of Ifor Williams’ Translation of the Book of Aneirin.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/43
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Llyfr Aneirin III’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes on early Welsh poetry, including some translations.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/44
TITLE: Research notes relating to Welsh farming
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: With particular reference to sheep farming. Notes taken from publications dated 1958-9. Includes map with no identifying features, possibly Tregaron area.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/45
TITLE: Untitled notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes relating to the social and economic history of Britain taken from a number of publications including Fay’s Great Britain from Adam Smith to the Present Day and Quennell’s A History of Everyday Things in England.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/46
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘De Palor Early Christian Ireland’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from De Palor and also Chadwick’s Studies in the Early British Church.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/47
TITLE: Research notes concerning ‘Cunedda and Wales’.
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Only the first few pages of the notebook are used. Notes taken from an unknown publication.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/48
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Powell The Celts’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from Powell’s The Celts including copies of maps.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/49
TITLE: Notebook of notes relating to early British and Irish history
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications including O’Rahilly’s Early Irish History and Mythology and Jackson’s Language and History in Early Britain.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/50
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Richmond (ed.) Roman and Native in N[orth] Brit[ain]’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from Richmond’s publication, including sketches.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/51
TITLE: Notebook of notes relating to early British history
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications, including Stenton’s Anglo Saxon England and Chadwick’s Studies in Early British History.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/52
TITLE: Research notes concerning Welsh agricultural history and banks in Aberystwyth, Brecon, and Llandovery
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/53
TITLE: Hand drawn map entitled ‘Porth-y-ffynnon Twm Shon Catti Cae’r Hen Blas’
DATE: nd [c.1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
MEDIUM:: Pencil and ink on tracing paper. Mounted on card
SCALE: 25 inches to 1 mile
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Map showing the ‘site of the fountain gate near the flaenog’. Traced from an original OS map by Thomas Jones, possibly as part of a school project.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/54
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Beveridge Voluntary Action’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from Lord Beveridge’s publication Voluntary Action: A Report on Methods of Social Advance, primarily concerning Friendly Societies. Includes map showing the location of Friendly Societies in Wales, and details of manuscripts at the NLW relating to Friendly Societies and savings banks in Wales.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/55
TITLE: Notebook entitiled ‘[Lo?]ng-case clocks [T]regaron District’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Gives names and addresses of clock [makers/sellers?].

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/56
TITLE: Notebook listing manuscripts relating to a history of the church in Wales
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Also includes a list of [Tregaron?] school leavers 1938-1942. Gives name, age, sex, date of entry, father’s occupation, previous school, further education and occupation on leaving.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/57
[TITLE: Untitled notebook of pre-printed maps of Wales and the UK
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: The pre-printed maps have titles but the maps themselves have not been annotated to illustrate the title with the exception of a map showing ‘The Prehistoric Period III �" The Post-Roman Period’ showing Norse settlements and archaeological finds in Wales. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/58
TITLE: Research notes
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes and maps relating to mining in Wales. Also includes notes of items loaned for an exhibition at Tregaron School, and a newspaper article from the Western Mail entitled ‘The Welsh at Waterloo’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/59
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Welsh Homespun R A Roberts Newtown 1930 also Celtic Sunrise D Leatham London 1951’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes research notes taken from the publications named in the title of the book, and various other publications relating to the history of Wales. Annotated on cover ‘24’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/60i and ii
TITLE: Research notes from publications and original documents
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 2 folders
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes notes on the economic and agricultural history of Wales, provision of water supply, and reports from the School Medical Officer for Glamorgan County Council for 1946 and 1947. Originally in folder entitled ‘Emrys R D Prosser, UCW Aberystwyth’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/61
TITLE: Research notes
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Taken from a variety of publications concerning the history of Wales, with particular reference to its religious history.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/62
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Welsh Place names’
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from Neville Richards’ publications Gre, Greon, Greor, Grewys mewn enwau lleoedd: nodiadau cymysg and The Supernatural in Welsh Place Names.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/63
TITLE: Research notes concerning Offa’s Dyke
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from an article by Sir Cyril Fox.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/64
TITLE: Notes relating to Welsh law
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes particularly relating to land law. Possibly written as a speech or lecture.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/65
TITLE: Research notes concerning early Welsh history
DATE: nd [1960s;1980s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from publications, including Howell’s Regalian Right in Wales and the March: The Relation of Theory to Practice, Nash-Willis’ Topographical List of Roman Remains found in Wales, and Hughes’ A Regional Study of North Cardiganshire Prehistoric Earthworks.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/66
TITLE: Research relating to Evan Roberts and Welsh Revivalism
DATE: 1974
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Newspapers cuttings from the Western Mail including a series of articles on Welsh Revivalism by Tom Davies and letters of response. Also includes notes on manuscripts and publications relating to local history research and an article from an unknown source entitled ‘The Mail Coach Stone’ concerning the A40 memorial stone near Llandovery, erected as a warning to coach drivers against drinking and driving after a crash in 1835.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/67
TITLE: Notes taken from calendars and catalogues of documents relating to Wales in the NLW and British Museum
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from Owen’s A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Relating to Wales in the British Museum, Green’s Calendar of Deeds and Documents Vol III: The Hawarden Deeds, and Ballinger’s Calendar of Wynn (of Gwydir) Papers, 1515-1690.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/68
TITLE: Partial notebook containing notes relating to a social and economic history of Wales
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from an unidentified publication. Topics covered include sheep farming, mills, and the brewing of beer. Front part of notebook is missing. Pagination begins on page 69.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/69
TITLE: Two notebooks entitled ‘Religious Instruction Vols I and II’
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 2 documents
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebooks containing research notes taken from G M Roberts’ History of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/70
TITLE: Research notes relating to Welsh cultural history
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from Rachel Bromwich’s Cantre’r Gwaelod and Ker-is.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/71
TITLE: Research notes relating to place names in Wales
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from R G Thomas’ Enwau Afonydd a Nentydd Cymru, Volume I.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/72
TITLE: Research notes
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Handwritten and typescript notes and essays on early Welsh history, with particular reference to early Christianity in Wales. Mostly comprises notes made from named publications. Contained in folder labelled ‘A. Bibliographical, B. St Caron Sites, C. St Caron notes, D. Early Christians, E/F. Irish in Wales, G/H. Brythonic Christianity, XYZ. Prehistoric’.
LANGUAGE:: English and Welsh

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/73
TITLE: Notebook comprising notes relating to the early history of Wales
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from publications including Harden’s Dark-Age Britain, Hodgkin’s A History of the Anglo-Saxons, and Wade-Evans’ The Emergence of England and Wales. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/74
TITLE: Research notes concerning Welsh history including monastic, educational, and social history
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from publications including Phillips’ The Monastic Libraries of Wales, Owen’s The Life and Works of Lewis Morris 1701-1765, Davies’ Everyday Life in Wales and Bradley’s Highways and Byways in South Wales.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/75
TITLE: Research notes relating to the history of Wales, Methodism, and migration
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from publications including Wearmouth’s Methodism and the Struggle of the Working Classes 1850-1900, Evans’ Some notes on the History of the Principality of Wales in the Time of the Black Prince 1343-1376, and Redford’s Labour Migration in England 1800-50.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/76
TITLE: Research notes relating to the social and economic history of Wales
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from various publication, including Green’s Early Banks in Wales, Sheel’s The Welsh Woollen Industry in 16th and 17th Centuries, and Richards’ Wales Under the Penal Code (1662-1687).

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/77
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Baxter 639’
DATE: nd [c1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes relating to food taken from publications including Encyclopaedia Britannica and Lloyd’s The Welfare State: English History 1906-1967.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/78
TITLE: Research notes relating to historical sources
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes a list of black and white slides, a list of places with OS sheet number and grid reference, and a list of sources including ledgers, day books, and invoice books.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/79
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘The Charity School Movement: A Study of Eighteenth Century Puritanism in Action. M G James’
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Comprises notes taken from the same publication.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/80
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Giraldus Cambensis’
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Comprises notes taken from The Itinerary Through Wales and The Description of Wales. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/81
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Roman Period’
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from publications including Wheeler’s Rome Beyond Imperial Frontiers, Nash-Williams’ The Roman Frontier in Wales, and Williams’ An Introduction to the History of Wales. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/82
TITLE: Papers relating to research
DATE: nd [1970/80s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes a list of NLW photostats in [Tregaron?] School Library, research notes taken from Neill’s A History of Christian Missions, and a bibliography relating to saints and linguistics.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/83
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘43’
DATE: nd [1970/80s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes concerning religious history in England and Wales taken from a number of publications including Gough’s The Early Christians, Bullock’s The Life of the Celtic Church and Chadwick’s Celtic Britain.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/84
TITLE: Notes and research material
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: The original untitled folder contained: a notebook containing a sermon; a notebook comprising brief notes on biblical mountains; a map showing the reorganisation of local government in Wales; a map of the Falmouth and Truro area; and a tracing of a map showing properties in the Llangybi area.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/85
TITLE: Notebook containing research notes on prehistoric Wales
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Mostly incomplete.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/86
TITLE: Notebook comprising research notes relating to traditional crafts
DATE: nd [1970/80s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRITION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a variety of publications, including Jenkins’ Traditional County Craftsmen and Davey’s Building in Britain. Paginated. Annotated on cover ‘34’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/87
TITLE: Notebooks comprising maps of the National Farm Survey 1941-43
DATE: nd [1970/80s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Maps show sizes of farms in acres, tenants, and owner-occupiers. Notes in rear show the ‘acreage per landowner in each county [of Wales] as percentage of acreage for Wales’ from 1877.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/88
TITLE: Research notes concerning gloves
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a number of publications including Cunningham’s Handbook of English Costume. Also includes notes taken from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Volume 11, 1971, relating to hotels and inns. Folder annotated ‘35’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/89
TEMPORARY REF: 1447/25/29
TITLE: Notebook number 44 comprising notes on early English and Welsh history
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes concerning English inns, hill forts, and religious history, taken from publications including Borer’s The British Hotel Through the Ages, Bowen’s A History of Llanbadarn Fawr, and Miller’s The Saints of Gwynedd. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/90
TITLE: Notebook numbered 46 comprising notes on early British History
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from publications including Pearce’s The Kingdom of Dumnonia, Owen’s Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales, and Ellis’ Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/91
TITLE: Notebook number 48 comprising notes on the agricultural and natural history of Britain
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from publications, including Harvey’s The Industrial Archaeology of Farming in England and Wales, Rackham’s Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape, and Pollard’s Hedges. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/92
TITLE: Notebook number 50 comprising notes on a history of the church in Wales
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from the publications Y Ddinas Gadarn: Hanes Eglwys Jewin Llundain by G M Roberts, and Crwydro Llundain by T I Ellis. Paginated. Notes made in English.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/93
TITLE: Notebook number 39 comprising notes relating to Christianity and hagiology
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from various publications, including Fenn’s Isolation or Involvement?, Mould’s The Irish Saints, and Wade Evans’ Welsh Christian Origins. Paginated

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/94
TITLE: Notebook number 40 comprising notes on historic buildings and stagecoaches in Wales
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from Smith’s Houses of the Welsh Countryside and Williams’ Stage Coaches in Wales. Extract taken from HWC relate to the local area only. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/95
TITLE: Notebook number 36 comprising research notes taken from publications
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from Griffiths’ The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages amd Cowley’s The Monastic Order in S. Wales. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/96
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Thomas Johnes o’r Hafod 1748-1816’
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from the above publication [by William Gibson]. Cover annotated ‘53’. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/97
TITLE: Research notes relating to Christianity in Wales
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Taken from an unknown source.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/98
TITLE: Notebook containing notes taken from the Rhydyronnen manuscripts
DATE: nd [1980/90s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes sales by the auctioneer, invoice books, local suppliers, and personal and household information.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B4/99
TITLE: Research notes relating to title deeds
DATE: nd [1980s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes relate to deeds concerning a number of properties in the Tregaron area, including Brynmaen, Wern, Brynowen, and Tynywaun. Includes three black and white photographs of unidentified [school?] groups, probably dating from the 1930s and 1940s. Possibly include Ivor and ERD Prosser.