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A facsimile manuscript in two parts mostly in the hand of William Watkin Edward Wynne. The first part comprises copies (some printed) of charters, public records, deeds, pedigrees, poetry, etc. of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire interest, some of which are taken from transcripts made by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt. The material includes records and pedigrees relating to the Wynn family of Peniarth; notes on the Maurice and Owen families of Clenennau, Penmorfa, Caernarvonshire, with related deeds possibly in the hand of William Maurice of Llansilin; deeds relating to the Porkington estate; an extent of the commote of Eifionydd, 1352; an extract from the Coroner's Rolls for Merionethshire, 1345; charters of Castell y Bere and Harlech Castle; pedigrees of Madog ap Dafydd of Hendwr, Llandrillo, Merionethshire; an ode to Einion ap Gruffydd of Corsygedol by Gruffudd Gryg; odes to Dafydd ab Ieuan ab Einion by Guto'r Glyn and Dafydd Nanmor; letters addressed to W. W. E. Wynne, the correspondents including Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain'); etc. The second part is also mostly in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne and again comprises material mainly of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire interest, including pedigrees, correspondence, deeds, etc. relating to the Porkington estate and to the Maurice family and to the Wynne family of Glyn and Ystumcegid, Caernarvonshire; poetry relating to members of the Wynn family of Glyn by Huw Machno, Rhisiart Cynwal and others (one elegy translated into English); press cuttings taken from the Cambrian News, 1879; letters addressed to W. W. E. Wynne, the correspondents including Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain') and Joseph Morris; etc.

A volume containing an alphabetical index of personal and place names in Peniarth MS 456 (Ancient Peniarth MS 58), vol. 2 (not in NLW).
'Index to Peniarth MS 58. vols 2 ... WWEW. Peniarth Nov'r 1st 1871' on f. 1 verso.

A volume containing an alphabetical index compiled by W. W. E. Wynne of personal and place names in Peniarth MS 461 (Ancient Peniarth MSS 24 and 62), being a collection of letters and papers entitled 'Merioneth Collections' (not in NLW).

Pen and ink drawings of camps at Coryn, Bach y Sil, Craig Aderyn and Llwyngwril, Merionethshire by William Wynne Foulkes.

A notebook containing genealogical notes and pedigrees mainly of North Wales families in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne. On p. iii 'Peniarth M.S. No. 47' has been corrected to '18'.

A list of books compiled by W. W. E. Wynne, 14 May 1826, a quarter of which belonged to the Penbedw Library and which were sent, 5 June 1826, to R. H. Evans, 93 Pall Mall, London to be sold.

An album containing correspondence mainly addressed to Sir Richard Puleston, bart, and his wife, Lady Emma Puleston. The correspondents are the duke of Clarence (Nos 1-4), Sir Benjamin Bloomfield and Colonel McMahon, both in attendance on the Prince Regent (Nos 5-28), Edmund Currey, aide de camp to the duke of Gloucester (Nos 29-31), the dukes of Beaufort (No. 32), Dorset (No. 33), Cleveland (Nos 34-5), and Buccleugh (No. 36), the duchess of Buccleugh (No. 37), the dowager duchess of Rutland (Nos 38-41, 44-5), Lord Forester (No. 42), Lady Katherine Forester (No. 43), the duke and duchess of Argyll (Nos 44-50), Elizabeth, marchioness of Westminster (Nos 51-9), Lady Elizabeth Belgrave (Nos 60-3), the dowager countess of Warwick (Nos 64-5), the countess of Clonmel (No. 66), the countess of Uxbridge (Nos 67, 69-71), Sophia Paget (No. 68), J. Sanderson, Plasnewydd (No. 72), the earl of Kilmorey (No. 73), Lady Georgina Needham (Nos 74-5), Lord Mulgrave (No. 76), J. Lloyd, Portsmouth (No. 77), Lord Adam Gordon, commander-in-chief of the forces in Ireland (No. 78), Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon (Nos 79-92, 94-5, 97-105), the Honourable Charles Trevor (Nos 93, 96), Lord Berwick (Nos 106-8), General the Lord Viscount Hill (No. 109-12), Lord Kenyon (No. 113), Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, Llangollen (Nos 114-19), Viscount Fielding (Nos 120-1), the Honourable Mrs West (Nos 122-3), Sir Robert Leighton, bart (No. 124), Lady Bromley (No. 125), Sir Robert Peel, bart (No. 126), Sir John Kynsaton Powel, bart (No. 127), Sir George Nayler, York Herald (Nos 128-9), Sir Herbert Taylor (No. 130), Mrs Isabella Pigot (Nos 131-4), W. A. Madocks of Tremadog (No. 135), T. J. Pettigrew (No. 136), and Messrs Willoughby and Eustace, Piccadilly (No. 137); together with a printed pedigree of the descendants of Sir Robert Maude, bart (No. 138).
A letter from Sir Joseph Banks, dated 22 November 1814, has been removed from the volume (between items 130 and 131): this was sold separately (lot 312) at Sotheby's, 23-4 March 1981, but was not purchased by NLW.

A printed copy of John Reynolds of Oswestry’s 'The Scripture Genealogy, beginning at Noah and his three sons, to the time of Job the Son of Issachar ... Also a display of herauldry Of the particular Coat Armours now in Use in the Six Counties of North-Wales, and several others Elsewhere; with the Names of the Families ...' (Chester: printed by Roger Adams, for the author, 1739).

The manuscript is in two sections: The first section is dated c. 1720 and comprises poetry relating to Garth Maelan; medical recipes; and English verses. The second section is dated c. 1753, is titled 'The Book of Gruffudd Roberts of Llan Fihangel, Carnarvonshire', and comprises 'Cywydd y Cacwn'; carols; and poetry.

A collection of poetry of numerous poets of the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

The manuscript is in two parts and comprises pedigrees in the hand of John Cain. The first part was written in 1638-1641 and the second part in 1613-1641.
There are also a few letters to John Cain from Dafydd Lloyd (part i, pp. 113-114, and a copy of another on p. 115) and Sion Clywedog (part i, p. 83, part ii, p. 64), and a letter from Henry Nedham to J. Cayen.

A collection of pedigrees compiled by and in the hand of Robert Vaughan, with marginal notes and references.
Also included are additions in various hands and fifteen loose folios belonging to another manuscript by Robert Vaughan. Some of the text has been restored by W. W. E. Wynne.

The beginning of the story of the Grail (in Welsh) in the hand of Robert Vaughan. The remainder of the manuscript is written c. 1609 mostly in the hand of John Jones, Gellilyfdy and comprises: sections on Persian history in English and Old French; various texts and fragments written on the backs and margins of letters and other documents and sewn together, including Breuddwyd Pawl, Breuddwyd Iorwerth and medical recipes; letters addressed to the Lord President of the Marches of Wales; and a Latin theological treatise.

Single lines of poetry arranged alphabetically, most probably in the hand of John Jones, Gellilyfdy.

The manuscript is in two parts. The first contains an English poem entitled 'Faction Display'd', temp. Queen Anne; an account of the Vaughan family of Corsygedol mainly transcribed by Angharad Llwyd, with an original rental of the Corsygedol estate, 1637; a transcript by W. W. E. Wynne of Powell of Ednope's 'Pentarchia' from a manuscript at Brogyntyn, with a letter by the Rev. Robert Williams, Rhydycroesau. The second part comprises a booklet of extracts from a manuscript at Porkington (now Brogyntyn MS 14) in the hand of Lewis Anwyl relating to the families of Anwyl of Park and Owen of Porkington and Clenennau. Peniarth MS 440ii was published by W. W. E. Wynne in Montgomeryshire Collections Vol. IX (1876), pp. 357-64.

A composite manuscript, the four parts probably together from the start. Tracts on theosophy, astrology and conjuring. At first in unbound booklets (witness some soiled surviving paper covers, pp. 28, 29, 96, 120). In Welsh and English, the Welsh by four collaborating scribes, the English by three others, their texts complementing those in Welsh. All of [17-18 cent.].
(i) pp. 1-28. A tract, in Welsh, its beginning wanting; cites Peter of Abano, H.C. Agrippa and Gerard of Cremona, and on p. 14 reads: ‘Hud yma yr ysgrifenais tu ag at y ffordd blaunaf su ynghwaith Peter Albanws gwelwch wrth yr Elament fel llufr Morgan Llwud natur dyn.’ All by scribe A. The watermark of this part appears to be Churchill 243 (1707).
(ii) pp. 29-96. Beginning ‘Yn y llyfyr cynta yr hwn uw pedwerydd llyfr Agrippa’. By scribes B (pp. 29-62, 65-78), C (pp. 63-4), A (pp. 78-83b, 90-4), D (pp. 84-9).
(iii) pp. 97-120. ‘Pwy bynnag a ewllyssio wubod dirgelwch’, citing Peter of Abano, followed by ‘Aphorisms’, in Welsh, numbered 1-14 (pp. 97-110) and ‘72 [o] golofnau ar uchel henwau Duw’ (pp. 111-18). All by scribe B.
(iv) pp. 121-94. Texts in English, written by three other contemporary hands. These comprise ‘Aphorisms’, in English, numbered 15-48 (pp. 121-64); geomancy (pp. 165-94) including on pp. 167-79 ‘Gerard Cremonen[s]is of Astromonical [sic] Geomancy’; and astrology (pp. 181-94).