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A translation by J. Skinner Jones, rector of Heneglwys, Anglesey, and John Williams (1833-1872) of the Welsh text of the life of Gruffydd ap Cynan printed in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales ..., II (London, 1801), with additional notes.

Arguments against levying an impost for wines brought into Welsh ports, with a transcript of a decree, 19 November 1584, in a cause in the court of the exchequer between John Pooll, deputy farmer of the impost, and John Vaughan and others touching wines discharged at Bewmarres [sic] (cf a statement, temp. James I, on the same question in Cardiff Records, IV, 143-5); a letter, 17 Sepember 1636, from Edmund Griffith (1570-1637), bishop of Bangor, to Sir Thomas Holland, Berw; transcripts of a decree by Sir John Lambe (1566?-1647), read in the church of the Arches, 13 November 1637, touching the case of Williams v. Sir Thomas Holland, and of depositions taken, by commission, at Llanidan, 4-5 January 1637/8, in a case in which Lewis Williams, vicar there, was a defendant, with the opinion of G. Sweitt (see also NLW MS 1546 iii) - a Rowland Williams, curate and schoolmaster, was also involved, and the depositions throw much light on the condition of the clergy in Anglesey.

A manuscript containing transcripts by Angharad Llwyd of a portion of Peter Roberts's 'Cwtta Cyfarwydd' (see NLW MS 1559B) and a few North Wales genealogies.