Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800.

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Notebook

Notes by Dr Wynne and a scribe, including extracts from Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (ff. 1-35 verso); notes on Arithmetic (ff. 38-42); copies of the preface to Dr Bathurst's Will (ff. 43 verso-44); Dr Bathurst's Latin Oration in the House of Convocation, Oxford, 1676 (ff. 46-54 verso); a Latin speech at Westminster School, 1708 (ff. 55 verso-58); the preamble to the patent of Robert Harley, created Earl of Oxford (ff. 58 verso-59); notes on Geography, with references to books, extracts from Greek, Latin and English geographies, including extracts from Edward Lhuyd's letter to the Bishop of Carlisle about the signification of the names of places in the British (ff. 62-87 verso).

Poetry and riddles,

Manuscript and printed verses, riddles and puzzles written on loose sheets, dated between 1624 and 1847. The file contains elegies in Welsh by Rhisiart Phylip (Richard Philip), and Harri Howel in memory of Annes, wife of Moris ap Robert Wynn of Glyn, 1624 and Sir John Owen [1666] respectively; memorials to Griffith Owen [infant, of Llanddyn], 1666; a description of Nanmor in Latin by Lewis Anwyl; lines in Latin by Thomas Price in honour of Sir Robert Owen, 1697; The Captive King by Dr Walcot (Peter Pindar); and verses celebrating archery. Other authors include Richard Duke, Humphrey Kynaston, 1711, Robert Godolphin Owen, 1749, and the Marquis Wellesley. The remainder of the poems concern the Civil War and anti-parliamentarian sentiments [1642x1649]; the Jacobite cause, religious toleration and anti-Catholicism [1688x1746]; Whig and Tory politics; the French-Indian wars and Wolfe 's fatal victory [1759]; imitations of classical Latin themes; the local life of Oswestry and its Corporation, 1770-1836; the coming of age of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 1793; a dinner given by the Bishop of Bangor, 1797; grievances of New Chapel [Penrhos]; the election of W. R. Ormsby-Gore as M.P. for Sligo, 1847; and the Shropshire Hounds.

Anwyl, Lewis, 1596-1641