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A volume of genealogies of Anglesey families, mostly of the maternal descent. Also included are a cywydd by Ie[u]an Tew Brydydd, 'Kowydd i ofyn cyngor i'r llwynog' by Hugh Lloid (Cynfel) (pp. 156-157) and a poem in free metre, written in 1636.
Five fragments of parchment have been pasted in on pp. 171, 173, 175, 177 and 179.

1. Hugh ap William ap Hugh of Llanbeder, co. Anglesey;
2. William Bold of Tre yr ddol.
   Release of Tythyn Ddavydd ddy in Mathavarn wion, in the parish of Llanbeder.

A small group of records relating mainly to the family of Wynne of Bodewryd, Anglesey, comprising: six title deeds of properties in Cregryst, Conishiog-Lys, Heneglwys, Holyhead, Isallt, Llandrygarn, Llangristiolys, Llechgwenfarwy, Llysdulas, Tregadrodd, Trelowarch, Trevirior and Uchdryd, Anglesey, 1608, 1680-1685 (items 1-2, 5-8); a precept to take the oath of a petty constable for the parish of Rhosgolin, 1680 (item 3); letters of administration of the goods and Chattels of Elizabeth verch Rees, otherwise Woods, of the parish of Holyhead, Anglesey, granted to her husband William Woods of the said parish, 18 December 1682 (item 4); three letters from Wm Kinaston to John Owen of Penrhos, near Holyhead, 1687/8-1707, relating to legal actions (items 9-11); a grant of the advowson of the curacy of the impropriate parochial chapel of Bodewrid, 1724/5 (item 12); and plaintiff's observations (partly autograph), minutes and an order, 1725/6-1727, in the suit of Edward Wynne, LL.D., chancellor of the diocese of Hereford, against William Mostyn [of Castle, Montgomeryshire] and others, touching the purchase of lands in [Bodedern, Llanfair-yn-neubwll, Rhoscolyn, and Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf, Anglesey] (items 13-15).
Also included is a covering letter, 23 March 1957, from the donor to the National Museum of Wales, relating the recent history of the documents.

Manuscripts, estate records and papers of the Wynne family of Bodewryd, Anglesey, including records of the Bodowyr estate (Bodedern), Anglesey, and Plas Einion estate, Denbighshire, and papers of the Owen family of Penrhos, Anglesey; important Welsh literary manuscripts, legal manuscripts relating to civil and ecclesiastical law; the antiquarian collections of Edward Wynne, chancellor of Hereford, relating to Wales and to the diocese of Hereford, and part of the collection of Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor and later of Hereford; letters to Humphrey Humphreys, 1691-1709 (mainly 1705-1709); Wynne family correspondence, 1613-1816; legal papers, [17 cent.]-[18 cent.], especially relating to a lengthy action between Chancellor Edward Wynne and the Mostyn estate following the purchase by Wynne of the Bodowyr estate, 1721-1746; estate, personal and household accounts, 1603-1753; and title deeds, [13 cent.]-1864.

A seventeenth-century manuscript in several hands, containing englynion, cywyddau, carolau, dyriau and other poems in free metre in Welsh and English. The following are some of the poets represented: Tudur Aled, Sion Tuder, Gytto'r Glyn, John Brwynog, Thomas Powel, Robert ap Hugh Delyniawr, Rowland Vaughan, Hugh and John Kenricke, Syr Hugh David o Sir Henford, Syr Hugh Roberts, Robin Ddu and Ficker Llan ddyfri. Among the poems in free are 'Ymddiddanen rhwng Mr. John Gruffyth a Richard Boulkley' (ff. 45-46 verso), a second poem on a similar theme (ff. 19 verso-20), published as 'Ymddiddan rhwng Mr. John Griffith, Llanddyfnan, a'i ewythr Mr. Bwlclai, yn 1647' in Hen Gerddi Gwleidyddol 1588-1660, Cymdeithas Llen Cymru 2 (Cardiff, 1901), pp. 16-18; and a copy of 'Karol y wraig o ganan' (ff. 80-81 verso) which differs slightly from that published in Casgliad o Hanes-Gerddi Cymraeg, Cymdeithas Llen Cymru 4 (Cardiff, 1903), pp. 11-15.

Literary, genealogical and medical manuscripts and two printed books, [16 cent., first ¼]-1814, relating to, or collected by, the Wynne family of Boderwyd.

Manuscripts, many of which were written by or for Edward Wynne, LLD, DCL, Chancellor of the diocese of Hereford (d. 1755), and by several members of the important families with which he was connected.

Letters, 1595-1864, addressed to John Wynn Edwards (d. 1614); John Wynne of Bodewryd and Chwaen Wen (1617-1669); John Owen of Penrhos (d. 1712); Mrs Margaret Wynne of Bodewryd (d. 1723); Humphrey Humphreys (1648-1712); Anne Wynne, wife of Edward Wynne; Edward Wynne, Chancellor of Hereford; and Margaret, Lady Stanley; letters relating to the marriage of Edward Wynne and Anne Lloyd (1714); and other miscellaneous letters.

Exemplification of a fine levied between William Hookes of Conwey, plaintiff, and David ap Res ap Ll'n ap Gruff' and Angharat verch David his wife, deforciants, on Monday before the feast of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 1534, when the deforciants acknowledged five messuages in Mathavarn wyon and Pentraith, to be the right of the plaintiff. (Seal of the Justices for cos. Caernarvon, Merioneth and Anglesey.)

Deeds and documents relating to, or collected by, the Wynne family of Bodewryd.

Deeds and documents, 1317- 1762, relating to the Wynne family of Boderwyd, as well as the families of Lewis of Chwaen and Owen of Penros Bradwen, concerning properties in Anglesey and a few in Flintshire.

Deeds and documents relating to, or collected by, the Wynne family of Bodewryd.

A copy of the first issue of Trysorfa Gwybodaeth, neu Eurgrawn Cymraeg, [?3 March] 1770, each of the four sections separately paginated [1]-8 (ff. 2-5, 10-13, 18-21, 26-29), and copies of the first three sections (the news sheet is missing) from the sixth issue, [?12 May] 1770, each paginated 41-48 (ff. 6-9, 14-17, 22-25).
Also included is a sheet, March 1770, advertising the publication of the fourteenth part of Bibl Cymraeg; Gyd a Sylwiadau ac Esponiadau ar bob Pennod, ed. by Peter Williams (1770, see Libri Walliae 369-372) (f. 1).

Notes in the hand of Chancellor Wynne, comprising notes on Anglesey and on Welsh genealogies (pp. 1-8); a genealogical table of the pedigree of Edward Wynn of Bodewryd (pp. 9-15); abstracts of deeds relating to Bodewryd and Tyndryvol, and copies of papers relating to lawsuits (pp. 17-90); some memoirs relating to Chwaen wen and Bodowir (pp. 91-98); and biographical notes of some members of the Bodewryd family (pp. 99, 107-110).
Also included is a copy, in the hand of Hugh Hughes, of a cywydd, 'Marwnad Dd. ap Rhees ap Lle'n ap Gr. Tad Hugh Gwynn Bodewryd a Phirse Llwyd Gwredog' by Sion B[rwynog] (pp. 15-16).

Farm, household and other accounts of Dr Wynne for 1750-1751, with memoranda and notes of books. This seems to be a jotter from which Dr Wynne would enter the accounts into his ledger.
A bill for 1812 is also included (ff. 39-40).

An interleaved copy of Henry Rowlands, Mona Antiqua Restaurata ... (Dublin, 1723, ESTC T139797), with manuscript notes by two former owners, Lewis Morris, [1740s], and Sir J. T. Stanley (later 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley), [1840s].
The notes are to be found on additional leaves inserted at the beginning of the volume (ff. i-ii, pp. 1-84 passim), at the end (pp. 85, 166-168) and on the interleaves, with annotations on some of the original printed leaves by Lewis Morris. The volume also includes a number of pen and wash drawings by Lewis Morris of churches, houses and other objects, including churches at Rhospeirio, Llanrhuddlad (pencil draft), Amlwch, Holyhead, Llanddona, Penrhôs Lligwy, Llanelian (pencil draft), Llanerchmedd, Bodedern, Llanfechell, Llanynghenedl, Llanfflewyn, Llanvair yn Neubwll, Llanddausant, Aberffraw and Bodewryd, the village of Llanfechell, and the seats of Brynddu, Caerau, Bodowen, Bodorgan and Penrhos; these are mostly to be found on the additional leaves at the end of the volume (pp. 85-143 passim).

A miscellaneous gathering of papers, some of which have been endorsed by Bishop Humphreys: (a) papers relating to Denbighshire, including extracts from the Survey of 1334 (ff. 3-7); (b) copies of papers relating to the petition (1619) of Thomas Canon, Surveyor of Crown lands in South Wales, concerning the supplanting of the mountain thieves of Wales, and disposing habitations in convenient places (see Calendar of State Papers. Domestic 1619-1623, p. 55) (ff. 8-9); (c) copy of a list of the inhabitants of Anglesey who were amerced for being in arms and rebellion with Owen Glyndyfrdwy, 1406, with a table of the fines, copies of the jury panels, and a list of outlaws (a portion, the lists for the commote of Llivon from a fragment found among Edward Lhuyd's papers, was published in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd ser., 5 (1859), pp. 177-180; Browne Willis, in A Survey of the Cathedral Church of Bangor... (London, 1721), pp. 84-85, quotes from a copy of this record, which he saw in the collection of the then Dean of Bangor) (ff. 61-90); (d) a seventeenth century Welsh calendar (ff. 10-16); (e) 'Catalogus Alphabeticus s[anc]torum Cambrobritannicae', by Bishop Humphreys (ff. 17-22); (f) copies of papers on British Chronology sent by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt to Archbishop [James] Us[s]her (c.f. NLW MS 3044B) (ff. 23-51).