Emynau Thomas Williams, Rhes-y-cae, Sir y Fflint,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

Reference
- GB 210 NLW MS 12694B.
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
- [1785x1900] /
Name of Creator
- Williams, Thomas, b. 1772
Language of Material
- Welsh.
Physical Description
- Contact NLW for more information.
Location
- ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A volume containing two hundred and seventy numbered hymns (four-stanza sections of longer hymns, in some instances, being numbered as one hymn), ? by, and in the hand of, Thomas Williams [weaver, hymn-writer, and lay preacher], of Rhes-y-Cae, Flintshire. Some of the hymns are annotated, ? to denote the specific occasion for which they were written, e.g., 'Dydd ympryd, 1831 Ionawr 19' (No. 18); 'Cyfansoddwd [sic] ar [a]mser pla yn y flwyddyn 1834' (Nos 19-20 ); 'Jubili yr ysgol sabothol yn y flwyddyn 1831' (No. 61); '. . . iw chanu wrth gychwyn corff Meistres Owens tu ar bedd, sef gwraig y Parch. O. Owens, Rhes y Cae' [Anne, first wife of the Reverend Owen Owens, Congregational minister at Rhes-y-cae] (No. 65); 'Canwyd y rhan gyntaf o'r hymn isod yngladdedigaeth Parch. R. Williams, gweinidog yr efengyl yn y Wyddgrug [the Reverend Robert Williams, Congregational minister at Mold]. A'r ail ran yngladdedigaeth Parch. D. Jones, gweinidog yr efengyl yn dref ffynon' [the Reverend David Jones, Congregational minister at Holywell] (No. 68); 'Dydd ympryd Mawrth 21, flwydd [sic] 1832 ' (No. 69); 'Cyfansoddwyd y penillion hyn yn y flwydd [sic] 1832, pan ydoedd llawer meirw gin pla oedd y pryd hynu' (No. 121); 'Diolchgarwch am y cyheuaf [sic] yn y flwyddyn 1832' (No. 126); 'Penillion a ganwyd wrth agor Capel Salem' [Salem Congregational chapel, parish of Cilcain, built 1826] (No. 215); and 'Cyfansoddwyd yr hym hon ar ryddad y Caethion' (No. 268). Inset is a biographical note (typescript) on Thomas Williams [being an extract from the Reverend W[illiam] A[lonzo] Griffiths: Hanes Emynwyr Cymru (Caernarfon [1892]), p. 152]. At the beginning of the volume is a first-line index to the hymns.

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Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 12694B.

Other Finding Aids

The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

Archivist's Note

February 2010.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971);