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A poor rate assessment book for the parish of Llanbeblig, Caernarvonshire, 1783, with a printed copy of a similar assessment for 1788.

A list of wills and letters of administration of persons surnamed Humphreys, Owen and Rowland, 1540-1786, extracted from calendars at the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House, London.

A transcript of Le Neve's 'Catalogue of Knights' from British Museum Harleian MSS 5801-2.

An alphabetical index to North Wales pedigrees in British Museum Harleian MSS 1974, 1936 and 1969, together with a list of British Museum manuscripts containing Welsh pedigrees.

A transcript of all the items relating to 'the Principality of Wales' in the preface and index to A Catalogue of the Harleian Manscripts in the British Museum ... With indexes of persons, places, and matters, I-IV (London, 1808-1812).

'Historical Memoirs of the Ancient and present State of Mona ... by a Land Surveyor, [i.e. William Williams, Llandegai [1738-1817]], 1807', followed by an index of commotes and parishes named in the work.

A diary, 1816-1817, of Mrs H[annah] Williams, Llanrug, wife of Peter Bayley Williams, with an account of a journey from Llanrug to Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire.

A copy of William Owen[-Pughe]'s Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg. A Welsh and English Dictionary ... (London, 1793), with manuscript corrections and additions by William Owen-Pughe which were incorporated into the second edition (1832).

An interleaved copy, with manuscript notes by the author, of Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (Llandovery, 1852).

An account of the eisteddfod held at Caernarfon in September 1821, with some of the adjudications and poetical competitions, together with correspondence.

A miscellany compiled, 1718-1742, by David Williams, Bodeulwyn, Anglesey, containing englynion, ballads and other poems in Welsh and English, some of the English ballads being printed; a few Latin poems; genealogical and historical notes, including extracts from wills, mainly relating to Anglesey; medical and household recipes; Anglesey rentals, and notes on estates and farming; a copy of a terrier of the glebe lands of Llanfechell, 1599; extracts from parish registers; etc.

A transcript, 1819, made by Peter Bayley Williams of Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain ... edited by Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg').

Copies of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire wills and letters of administration preserved at the District Probate Registry, Bangor.

Letters and papers, 1825-1826, relating to the proposed memorial to Goronwy Owen.

An account of castles in Wales extracted in 1793 from various sources.

Copies of the wills of William Bodvel of Madryn, 1756, Gwen Bodvel of Bodfan, 1579, and Morris Owen of Tygwyn, proved 1713, all of Caernarvonshire.

British Remains ... to which are added Memoirs of Edward Llwyd ... By the Rev. N[icholas] Owen Jun A.M. (London, 1777), with nineteen pages giving the arms, drawn and coloured by hand, of the families mentioned in that portion of the manuscript called The Names and Arms of the Ancient Nobility of North Wales ..., followed by a pedigree of the Ruthven family.

A transcript of 'Marwnad Abraham Wood ...' and 'Dwy wers i bedwar dyn ag oedd mewn gweddiau a mawl yn addoli ...' by William Williams, Pantycelyn.

A seventeenth century manuscript containing cywyddau and awdlau, possibly in the hand of a scribe of the Dr John Davies (Mallwyd) school, by Sion Tudur, Tudur Aled, Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan and many others.

A nineteenth century manuscript containing cywyddau and other poems by Robin Ddu, Iolo Goch, Hywel ap Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Rhys and others, together with the twenty-four measures of cerdd telyn and cerdd crwth.