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Autograph letters of the Reverend Peter Roberts addressed to Dr Lind, 1799-1809; a letter on telegraphy; a silhouette of Peter Roberts; a manuscript entitled 'Address to the British Nation' and a printed broadside entitled 'An Address to the Seamen of the British Navy', both of which are subscribed by 'A Briton', (Peter Roberts).

A volume containing texts of (a) the fuller version of 'Ystoria Dared' (pp. 1-40), translated by Peter Roberts in The chronicle of the Kings of Britain, 1811, (b) the so-called 'Brut Tysilio' or 'compiled version' of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae' (pp. 41-198), also partly translated by Peter Roberts (op. cit.), and closely allied to the text of British Museum MS Cotton Cleopatra B.v., and (c) 'Brut y Saeson' to the year 1461 (pp. 199-308). Pp. 1-88 are in a late 14th century hand; the remaining pages are in the hand of Gutun Owain, the 15th century bard and herald associated with the abbey of Basingwerk. A note, dated 1630, by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt refers to the misplacement of many pedigrees, and another note, dated 1809, by Peter Roberts refers to the identification of the volume by William Maurice, Cefn-y-braich.

A manuscript containing transcripts by Angharad Llwyd (1780-1866) relating to land tenure in Cheshire, also transcripts by her from several parish registers, from memoranda in a Bible at Ruabon church, from a collection of arms of French families, from deeds at Hawarden, from Vaughan of Corsygedol monuments, and from various other sources. The manuscript also contains, amongst other items, genealogical notes relating to North Wales families and a letter, 1818, from Peter Roberts, Oswestry, to Angharad Llwyd.

Notes on Welsh biography, history and topography in the hands of the Reverend Peter Roberts (1760-1819), rector of Halkyn, co. Flint, and Angharad Llwyd (1779-1866), written in the margins and on the interleaves of a copy of William Owen [-Pughe], The Cambrian biography ... (London, 1803).