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A volume of Pennant miscellanea. It comprises poems, mainly in English and Welsh, including 'An Elegy on the death of Captain Thos. Myddelton, Denbigh' by Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), translations in the autograph of R. Williams, Vron, from paraphrases by Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), 'Banks of the Daw' and 'Ode to Laudanum' by and in the autograph of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'Garricks Verses on seeing Buxton' and 'Upon seeing Garricks verses', an elegy on the death of Sir Stephen Glynne (d. 1 April 1780), and two poems in Estonian with Latin translations and the melody in staff notation; printed broadsides, circulars, etc., including a copy of Dafydd Ddu Feddyg [David Samwell], Ode for St. David's Day, 1791 ([?London], [1791], ESTC T231565), being a copy sent by Samwell to Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) with an autograph poem entitled 'To Thos. Edwards of Nant on his having received the Honour of Cadairfardd at St. Asaph Eisteddfod in May 1790'; letters and transcripts of letters from Sir John Wynn, bart., of Gwydir, to Sir Hugh Myddelton (September 1, 1625), from Robert Wynne, Gresford, to Richard Williams (March 24, 1731/2), from Thomas Pennant to John Lloyd, Caerwys, to Thomas Pennant from Mathurin-Jacques Brisson (author of Ornithologie and other works), John Lloyd, Caerwys, Richard Williams, Vron (together with a mock elegy to Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir)), Richard Davies, Holywell, and John Edwards, Kelsterton, from Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) to Paul Panton, from John Williams, Ystradmeurig, to Philip Yorke, Erthig, to David Pennant from Samuel Strong, John Parry, Henry Parry, Llanasa, Edward Jones, J. Oldfield, J. Douglas, J. W. Eyton, Leeswood, and E. Williams (secretary of the Flint and Denbigh Agricultural Society), and from William Davies Shipley (dean of St. Asaph), G. Thompson (editor and publisher of A Select Collection of Original Welsh Airs), David Howell (Llawdden), Thomas Croft (secretary to the 'Committee of the Grand Flintshire Eisteddfod', 1835), J. P. Eyton, etc.; material relating to Moses Griffith, the Welsh artist who accompanied Thomas Pennant on many of his tours, including his terms for executing landscapes, portraits, etc.; legal papers, including an inventory taken in 1637 of the goods, etc., of Robert Jones of Halkin, a copy of a bond from Thomas, baron Dillon, Viscount Castello Galler, and Theobald, viscount Jaffe, to Hugh Pennant of Bichton, a receipt (1774) from David Jones, Trefriw, for ten shillings and sixpence paid by Thomas Pennant, and depositions (1792) of colliers in regard to the alleged drowning of coal on the land of Sir Roger Mostyn; printed matter, including press cuttings, broadsides, circulars, etc., relating to volunteers to the merchant navy, the Metropolitan Cambrian Institution, poor-law, railways, communication with Ireland, hospitals, the Holywell Association, eisteddfodau, parliamentary elections, the Association for the encouragement of Agriculture and Industry, military service, schools in Flintshire, entertainments, mines, benefit clubs, etc.

A manuscript copy, [1820s]-[1830s] (watermark 1814), of tours of North Wales undertaken in the Autumn of 1817 (pp. 1-30) and October 1819 (pp. 31-90) by Captain Henry Hanmer and his wife Sarah, including descriptions of visits to Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the Ladies of Llangollen (pp. 10-11, 14-19, 45).
The itinerary includes Llangollen, Wrexham, Beddgelert, Caernarfon, Bangor, Llanberis, Holyhead, Conway and St Asaph, and includes descriptions of Dolbadarn Castle (pp. 55-58), the Penrhyn slate quarries (pp. 65-66) and Parys and Mona copper mines (pp. 69-73). A number of related poems and tales are interspersed throughout the text (pp. 4-101), including verses by Anne Grant (p. 19), Anna Seward (pp. 22-29), Sir Walter Scott (pp. 31-33), W. Sotheby (pp. 37-45), W. R. Spencer (pp. 48-53), Dr [William] Dodd (pp. 61-62), and Amelia Alderson Opie (pp. 88-89). They are followed by further transcripts in the same hand (pp. 107-120), including verses by Thomas Noel (pp. 112-118) and Sir Walter Scott (pp. 119-120), and, in a different hand (pp. 121-139), verses by Byron (pp. 121, 125), R. B. Sheridan (p. 121) and Robert Southey (p. 123). The volume contains numerous cuttings from engravings, either pasted or tipped in (pp. 1-103 passim); several of these are by Henry Gastineau and are taken from Wales Illustrated: In a Series of Views... (London, 1830), as is the printed description of Llangollen on pp. 101-102. Inserted at the end (pp. 187-198) is a pamphlet by S. G. Perceval, The Ladies of Llangollen: New and interesting facts ([?1909]), transcribing extracts from the present manuscript. A press cutting, [1829], concerning the Ladies of Llangollen is pasted inside the front cover. Pressed flowers are pasted in on pp. 57, 64-65, and the remains of a leaf has been placed in an archival envelope.

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 collection of papers formerly inserted in NLW MS 13236B. Items 1-4, 8, 15-18 are in the hand of William Owen [-Pughe], and item 10 is in the hand of D[avid] Thomas [Dafydd Ddu Eryri]. The contents include: 1. a collection of englynion by R.D. [?Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn)], Mor [sic] ap Evan ab Dadd., and D.T. [?David Thomas]; 2. 'Flangelliad i Vardd y Glyn' by 'Twm pen y waen'; 3. 'Carol Nadolig, ar fesur o gyfansoddiad Beethoven yn Rhifyn VIII o'r Musical Library', beginning 'Heddyw y gwynfydedig ddydd ...'; 4. 'Dau englyn ar ddyn meddw a gysgodd gyda'r bardd yn Sarn Vraint yn Mon'; 5. 'Englynion (2) er coffadwriaeth Davydd Richard Llansilin' by 'R. B. Clough Tyn y celyn Rhagr - 1826'; 6. englynion (2) entitled 'At Fardd Du Nantglyn'; 7. a couplet by 'rhyw Offeiriad' and an englyn by 'Owen Gronw ... Tâd Gronw Owen'; 8. englynion (3), the first beginning 'Prydydd ysgrivydd cu llon - sain ethol ...'; 9. ['Ar hyd y nos'] in old notation followed by englynion, three of which are by Walter Davies, Jonathan Hughes, and T. Nant [Thomas Edwards], and several penillion telyn; 10. 'Geiriau diweddaf Dafydd 2 Sam. 23' by D[avid] Thomas, 1804, beginning 'Ysbryd yr Arglwydd, ddedwydd Dduw ...' (cf. NLW MS 325E, p. 17); 11. English verses entitled 'The Legend of Carn Tyrne'; 12. an incomplete copy of 'Padouca Hunt' by [David Samwell] (cf. NLW MS 13225C, pp. 129-136); 13. an English translation of ['Cywydd y Daran'] (cf. Owen Jones & William Owen, Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym (London, 1789), pp. 80-82); 14. epilogue of an interlude performed at London, beginning 'Wel nosdawch bawb ar unweth ...'; 15. notes on Welsh antiquities, geographical features and locations, etc., written in part on the reverse of a printed bill of Richard Jones, King's Head Inn, Llandovery; 16. a list of English words with cognate words in other languages; 17. a letter, 1828, from Wm Owen Pughe, Egryn, to Mr. Bailey, containing draft Welsh and English inscriptions to commemorate the Eisteddfod held at Denbigh, 16-18 Sept., 1828; 18. a transcript of the title-page and introduction to Gruffydd Robert's Dosparth Byrr ... (1567); 19. ?autograph of Joanna Southcott; 20. printed list of subscribers to 'Bardd Nantglyn's Memorial Fund'; 21. memorandum concerning a certain Ruth Thomas, etc.; 22. culinary recipes; 23. articles of agreement, 1836, for a lease of copper and lead, etc., under Wenallt, in the parish of Darowen, co. Mont. (part wanting), with alterations in pencil for another agreement concerning Brynmoel, Penegoes; 24-25. two letters, 1850, from John Hay Williams, Bodelwyddan, to [ ]; 26. engraving of an unidentified ?bronze object (cf. Arch. Camb., 1855, illustration facing page 273); 27. a steel engraving by T. Hodgetts, 1822, of a portrait of Idrison [i.e. William Owen-Pughe]; and 28. forty printed copies of the Lord's Prayer in Hebrew.

Manuscripts, [16 cent.]-[?1841], mostly collected or written by Iolo Morganwg. They include transcripts of Welsh poetry, pedigrees, grammars, and manuscripts belonging to Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, Lewis Morris, Gwallter Mechain, Ieuan Brydydd Hir, Thomas Glyn Cothi, Richard Morris and others; literary papers of Iolo Morganwg, including hymns and psalm-tunes, English and Welsh poetry and Bardic papers; other papers including diaries, memorandum books and notebooks; and accounts of his father, Edward Williams, senior.

A composite volume containing miscellaneous material, chiefly in the hand of William Owen [-Pughe]. Pages 283-298 are in the hand of John Davies, Pentrefidog, and a note by him on p. 298 reads: 'Mae yn ddrwg ginni na allaswn ei wneuthur yn well yr wyf wedi mynd yn rhy garnbwl wedi gadel y 90. o oedran J:D.'. The contents include: pp. 1-6, 'The Laws of Menu. Memorandums'; p. 30, a brief word-list; pp. 45-96, a bardic grammar with examples of the twenty-four metres of Welsh poetry, beginning: 'Sillafeu a derfynant mewn dwy neu dair or bogeild ...', the text is preceded by a note: 'gwell [sic] y dechreu yn y Llyfr glas, Dwned S.Vn.'; p. 97, lines entitled 'To Beli', beginning: 'Mi rythiolaf buddig Beli ...', with translation; pp. 99-101, 'Y Breiniau a roes Rhun i Wyr Arfon'; pp. 141-144, a list of the terms of rhetoric with Welsh equivalents; pp. 145-149, 'William Salbury yn danfon annerch ar Gruffudd Hiraethawc ag ar eraill of gelfyddyt, ex Autographo Salesburiano script 1552' (text published, see Henry Lewis, 'Llythyr William Salesbury at Ruffudd Hiraethog', BBCS, vol. II, pp. 113-118); p. 181, a note in shorthand and Hebrew; pp. 184-190, 197-199, 202-203, notes in shorthand; pp. 211-212, a shorthand-Hebrew vocabulary; pp. 213-214, a poem attributed to 'Gwyldrem Tarianmaon', beginning: 'Tan fyg Lywodraeth, Dewr Ymmerodraeth, Ynys Prydyn ...'; pp. 215-217, 222, an elegy to Robin Ddu o Fôn [Robert Hughes], beginning: 'Cloed awdur gwaith clodadwy ...'; pp. 225-228, a Welsh translation of the first two scenes of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth; p. 233, key to shorthand symbols; pp. 237-268, pages of shorthand; pp. 281-282, 'Odlig newydd', seven stanzas beginning: 'Ar bethau o dragwyddol bwys ...'; pp. 283-284, 297-298, 'Cywydd yn dang[os] mor bur yw Cydymaith ag mor ffals yw un arall. o waith Thomas Price o blas yolyn', beginning 'Mae Bruson gyfion gyfion [sic] oedd gall ...'; pp. 285-297, 'Hanes Merddyn ap Morfran', beginning: 'Y mae Prosess rhai or Awduron yn dangos fod gwr o fewn y wlad a elwir Nant Conwy ...' and ending 'na gwr o drugiain mlwydd ar yr Awr hon'; p. 298, two englynion by J:D. [John Davies, Pentrefidog], describing his handwriting in old age, beginning: 'Y llaw anhylaw yn hwylio/'r pinn ...'; pp. 299, 314, a note on the definition of God; pp. 300-342, notes on grammar and the parts of speech; p. 345, lines beginning: 'Hence Darkness! Light thy ancient seat regain ...'; pp. 347, 350, a list of place-names; and pp. 355-358, a note relating to Joanna [Southcott], dated 1803, and a passage concerning the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

A composite volume, the contents including: pp. 1-2, an English prose rendering of a cywydd by Tudur Aled requesting a horse from the Abbot of Aber Conwy, the first line of the original being 'Gydag un a geidw Gwynedd ...'; p. 3, 'Names of the Horse', a list of equivalents in several languages; pp. 3-15, 'Extracts from the historical triads of Britain' followed by several quotations and extracts relating to the horse; p. 17, a formal acknowledgement, 1794, from T. W. Wrighte, secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, of the second part of William Owen [-Pughe]'s dictionary; pp. 19-44, an English translation of the beginning of Llyfr y Tri Aderyn ... by Morgan Llwyd (for an edition of the Welsh text see Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd, vol. 1, ed. by Thomas E. Ellis (Bangor, 1899), pp. 157-189); p. 45, eleven verses beginning 'Mi glowais newydd digri ...', and an englyn beginning 'Dannod lliw'r manod ai Mîn, dannod Twyll ...'; p. 47, a list of words headed 'New Holland Language'; pp. 49-86, vocabularies, notes on languages, etc.; pp. 87-110, a Cornish-English vocabulary (A-C), headed 'from a Mss at Mr Halsells wrote about 1710' ('30 years ago' deleted), as well as Cornish versions of the Lord's Prayer; pp. 111-118, a Welsh-English vocabulary; pp. 125-156, 'Egwyddor y Prif Gristnogion Neu reol y Bywyd wedi ei adnewyddu Gyda dull o wir dduwioldeb A'r modd i brofi ein buchedd yn gyfatebol', based on Hugh Turford, Sylfaen Buchedd sanctaidd ... (Carmarthen, 1773), pp. 55-103; pp. 159-168, 'Awdyl voliant i Rys ab Gruffydd ap Howel ap Gruffydd ap Ednyfed Vychan o Von', by Einion Ofeiriad [sic] dated 1280, in the hand of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), beginning 'Rhys ap Gruffudd fudd feiddiaw rhoddiawdr rhyssedd ...'; pp. 179-187, a holograph copy sent to Mr. Thomas Roberts, Goldsmith, of an elegy entitled 'Awdl ... goffadwriaeth am ... Goronwy Owain sef Testyn y Gwyneddigion ... 1803' by 'Eliwlod' [= David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion)] (cf. Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion, Awdlau Coffadwriaeth am y Parchedig Goronwy Owain ... 1803 (London, [1803]), pp. [9]-18); pp. 191-193, printed proposals, 1789, for printing A Welsh and English Dictionary ... by William Owen; pp. 195-196, five stanzas entitled 'Peace' beginning 'The Song of Peace who would not gladly sing ...'; p. 197, a broadside containing an elegy by Dafydd Ionawr [David Richards], Marwnad y Seneddwr Enwog, Thomas Williams o Fon Esquire (Dolgellau: T. Williams, 1803); p. 199, a printed notice of an eisteddfod to be held at Caerwys, Whitsuntide 1798, under the auspices of the Gwyneddigion Society; and pp. 202-247, a draft introduction by William Owen [-Pughe] to his dictionary, most of which is crossed out, together with miscellaneous linguistic material.

Transcripts, [early 19th cent.] (watermark 1803), in an unknown hand, of odes, ballads, dialogues and satirical letters of English political interest, composed by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams in the period 1732-1745.
With the exception of 'To Kitty Walker' (f. 62), all the works appear, with mostly minor variations, in The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams..., 3 vols (London, 1822). The contents list (f. i recto-verso) includes titles of additional poems, after f. 119, which were subsequently cut from the volume.

A composite volume of miscellaneous material. The contents are: p. 1, sketch of a medal design bearing the legend 'Hu Gadarn yn arwain y Cymry i Ynys Prydain. C. y Gwynezigion - 1772'; p. 4, an engraving of a miniature portrait of David Samwell (cf. Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1926-1927, facing p. 70); pp. 5-10, 'Ode, Written on a long and uncommonly tempestuous cruise with a squadron of Men of War in about 63° North Latitude. Decr. 24, 1794' by David Samwell, in the hand of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), with two verses in the hand of David Samwell (cf. Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1926-1927, pp. 91-93, 133); pp. 13-31, a Greek-English-Welsh vocabulary; pp. 32-38, English and Greek versions of the Gospel according to John, ch. 1, vv. 1-15; p. 41, lines of verse beginning 'Pan oleua (anvona) tirion wawr ...'; p. 43, three stanzas beginning 'Arisel ye spirits of the storm ...'; pp. 45-53 'Catalogue of Mr. Jones's Welsh MSS. The property of the Earl of Macclesfield. Mai 29d. 1803', i.e. a catalogue of Welsh MSS at [Shirburn]; pp. 65-71, lists of words showing similarities between languages: Welsh-Hebrew-English (p. 65), Welsh-Latin (p. 66), Welsh-Greek (p. 67), Welsh-Latin (p. 68), Welsh-Arabic (p. 69), Welsh-Hebrew-English (p. 70), and Welsh-Latin (p. 71), all in the hand of William Owen [-Pughe]; and pp. 73-128, 'Geirieu Manaweg', an English-Manx vocabulary in the hand of William Jones, an assistant to Edward Lhuyd.

Autograph manuscript, dated 11 September 1799 (watermark 1794), of Anna Seward's 'Sonnet for the drawer in the thatched shed by the brook at Plas Newydd'. It was published, with a very few minor alterations, in The Poetical Works of Anna Seward, ed. by Walter Scott, 3 vols (Edinburgh, 1810), III, 314.
Seward stayed with Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, The Ladies of Llangollen, at their Plas Newydd home for four days in September 1799 (see Letters of Anna Seward: Written between the years 1784 and 1807, ed. by A. Constable, 6 vols (Edinburgh, 1811), V, 248-53).

Cyfrol yn cynnwys barddoniaeth a chaneuon yng Nghymraeg a Saesneg, ynghyd â rhai testunau rhyddiaith Cymraeg, a gopïwyd, [1780au], gan Humphrey Jones o Gastell Caereinion, sir Drefaldwyn. = A volume of Welsh and English poetry, with some Welsh prose texts, transcribed, [1780s], by Humphrey Jones of Castle Caereinion, Montgomeryshire.
Ceir yn y llawysgrif gerddi Cymraeg gan John Thomas o sir Drefaldwyn (tt. 2-11), John Thomas 'o bentre'r Fidog' [Pentrefoelas] (tt. 12-14), Robert Evan[s] o Feifod (tt. 16-17) a David Evans o Lanfair Caereinion (tt. 23-24), pedwar cywydd gan Morys Probert [ap Robert], Huw Llwyd Cynfel ac eraill (tt. 46-52), a phedwar englyn (tt. 52, 54). Mae'r cerddi Saesneg, ar amrywiaeth o bynciau (tt. 1, 14-15, 19-23, 25-29, 44-45, 53), yn cynnwys y gân 'On Masons and Masonry' gyda'r dôn mewn hen nodiant (t. 53). Fe gynhwysir hefyd adysgrif o'r cyfan o'r gyfrol Histori Nicodemus… A osodwyd allan gan Dafydd Jones (Yr Amwythig, [?1745]) (tt. 30-43); a rysáit meddyginiaethol ar gyfer clefyd y brenin, neu'r mandwyn (tu mewn i'r clawr blaen). = The manuscript includes Welsh poems by John Thomas of Montgomeryshire (pp. 2-11), John Thomas 'o bentre'r Fidog' [Pentrefoelas] (pp. 12-14), Robert Evan[s] of Meifod (pp. 16-17) and David Evans of Llanfair Caereinion (pp. 23-24), four cywyddau by Morys Probert [ap Robert], Huw Llwyd Cynfel and others (pp. 46-52), and four englyns (pp. 52, 54). The English poems, on various subjects (pp. 1, 14-15, 19-23, 25-29, 44-45, 53), includes a song 'On Masons and Masonry' accompanied by the tune in staff notation (p. 53). Also included is a transcript of the whole of the volume Histori Nicodemus… A osodwyd allan gan Dafydd Jones (Shrewsbury, [?1745]) (pp. 30-43); and a medical recipe for the 'King’s Evil', or scrofula (inside front cover).

A composite volume in the hand of the Rev. Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing Welsh and English poetry (pp. 1-102, 127-207, 215-393, 497-507, 549-664), by Ieuan Fardd himself, Edward Richard, Tudur Aled and Edmwnd Prys and others, as well as extracts from Pope's Messiah (including a Welsh translation) (pp. 33, 47) and a translation from the work of Milton (pp. 215-242). One poem (pp. 153-173) is dedicated to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. There are also extracts from Virgil's Fourth Eclogue, with Beattie's translation into English (pp. 13-28), from Dryden's translation of Virgil (109: The Song of Simeon) (pp. 103-114), from Lord Lyttelton's history of Henry II (1767) (pp. 115-125), and from 'Llyfr Plas y Ward' ('Ystori Gr: ap Cynan') (pp. 397-428); copies of letters from Dr Tancred Robinson to Robert Davies, Llannerch, and between Robert Davies and William Lloyd, bishop of St Asaph (pp. 429-451); 'A letter on British History' relating to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Humphrey Llwyd and others (pp. 461-492); a copy of a translation, 1629, by the Rev. Richard Lloyd of a work by Arthur Dent (second edition (1683), edited by Charles Edwards, with a copy of Charles Edwards's preface) (pp. 493-496); a copy of the title, dedication, etc. of James Howell's Lexicon Tetraglotton (London, 1660) (pp. 513-548); etc.

A copy of an oration ('autore Domino Wayvil') ostensibly delivered at Cambridge, 1706 (pp. 1-20), an 'Epitaphium Ecclesiae Authore ignoto', 1706 (p. 21), and a poem 'on the burning of Ye Memorial' by John Prince (p. 22), all in the same hand; extracts 'out of ye Memorial' against leniency towards Dissenters on the accession of Queen Anne, [?1705] (pp. 23-28); and extracts, 1778, from Thomas Gurney's Brachygraphy; or, Short Writing (16 ff.).

Miscellaneous documents including three holograph letters to Thomas Jenyns (Jennings), Dodleston, from Edward ap Ellis, 1630 (sureties), T. Vaughan, Hengwrt, 1631/2 (the apprehension of a barker for a debt of £200), and Rich. Vaughan, Corsygedol, 1632/3 (the release of a poor prisoner); two holograph letters from J[ohn] Pardoe, London, to Madam [ ], 1762 (the receipt of letters), and to Mrs. Anne Bee, Salop, 1773 (the payment of a dividend); a holograph letter from Edw. Lewis, Dolgelley, to Richard Whittacres, Cottone, 1634 (Edward ap Ellis's writ); a holograph letter from [ ] Lucking?, London, to [ ], 1703 (the affairs of the family of Mr. Abbott); a holograph letter from Sinah Mathews, C[astle] B[romwich], to her nephew John Williams, Chester, 1734 (begging the acceptance of two cheeses); a holograph letter from [ ] to the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Affairs [1688?] (the writers' determination not to sit upon a case) (transcript; mutilated); a receipt, 1710, by Mary Hieron to Mrs. Susannah Hulton, Dudliston, for a guinea; a receipt, 1762, by B. Hatchett to the Reverend George Hodges and William Prichard, trustees in the will of William Morrall, deceased, for £62.6s. received upon a bond; an undated [eighteenth century] poem entitled 'The Ghost'; a memorandum, 1633, concerning the apprehending of Edd. ap Elice otherwise Edd. Wynne; a copy of an inscription upon a memorial tablet to Ellis Lloyd of Penylan [Ruabon], who died in 1712; an abstract of the will [13 September, 1663] of Sir Griffith Williams [of Pen'rallt, Conway] (mutilated); an account (1 page) of Dudliston, said to have been written by W. Challner, senior; a draft of a letter [nineteenth century] relating to a road to be constructed in order to avoid the Oswestry Trust; and a pen drawing of an ecclesiastical dignitary.

A poem entitled 'Homer's Iliads in Immortal Doggrel'.

An imperfect volume containing medical, culinary, and household recipes, and miscellaneous literary items including extracts from [Edward] Bysshe: The Art of [English] Poetry [(London, 1702)], an incomplete transcript of [John] Dryden's poem 'Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musique', extracts from 'Sir Charles Grandison's Memoirs' [? Samuel Richardson: The History of Sir Charles Grandison . . . (1754)], extracts from [Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd earl of] Shaftesbury: Characteristicks [of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)], extracts from [William] Mason's poem ['Musaeus: A Monody to the Memory of Mr. Pope'], etc.

An album or commonplace book originally kept at the New Inn, Llanberis. It contains a short sketch of the history of Llanberis, a note on John Closs, who died of exposure on Snowdon in 1805, with lines composed on the occasion by P[eter] B[ailey] W[illiams]; a 'Sonnet to Snowdon' by Miss Locke; odes to Snowdon, 1819; a 'Sketch of Snowdon for the benefit of sojourners at Llanberis' by Colonel Bell; a note on Evan Evans ('Ieuan Brydydd Hir') with an elegy by R. Williams of Vron near Mold, 1790; a sonnet by Kirke White; particulars of ashes carted, 1823-1827; and notes of visitors to the Inn, 1819.

Miscellaneous loose press cuttings and manuscript notes (some in the hand of Thomas and David Pennant), extracted from NLW MSS 12706-12714. The cuttings contain notes on the 'History of the sugar cane' (1832), and 'Northern herring fishing' (1827); news of an explosion at 'Mr. Eyton's Flint colliery' (1828), a meeting at Holywell in connection with a proposed petition against Catholic emancipation (1829), a suit, Sillitoe v Thomas, at Denbigh Great Sessions (1828), and the sale of an extra- illustrated copy (the Chiswell copy, consisting of eleven volumes quarto and one folio) of Thomas Pennant: A Tour in Wales, by Mr. Thorp, bookseller, of St. Martin's Lane [London], to an American buyer; obituary notices of the Reverend Thomas Maurice, assistant keeper of MSS at the British Museum (1824), and of Sir Thomas Mostyn [6th bart., of Mostyn, co. Flint] (1831); and a copy of a poem entitled 'Verses to Mr. Pennant on the writer's being apprized of his intention to make a visit into Cornwall'. The manuscript notes include 'A List of rare Plants observ'd in N. Wales nearly in the Order they were discover'd'; an 'Index to Walpole's Catalogue of Portraits at Woburn'; a list of ? portraits in various residences in England and Scotland, with a note at the top, in Thomas Pennant's hand, 'such as I have are marked thus X'; an 'Account of the Money mortified by George Heriot, Jeweller, to K. James VI, for founding his Hospital in Edinburgh'; copies of memorial inscriptions to Sion Trevor, Trevalyn, Dame Catherin, wife of Sir Richard Trevor of Trevalyn, Nicholas Pennant, Robert Pennant, Simon Yorke of Erthig, and his wife Dorothy, Elizabeth Yorke of Erthig, Sir John Williams, bart., of Bodelwyddan, and his wife, Dame Margaret, and Thomas Mostyn Edwards of Kilken Hall; notes on the Yarmouth herring fishery (1786); a rough pedigree of the Pennant family (sixteenth-eighteenth century); a list of the children of Mr. Lloyd [? the Reverend John Lloyd] of Caerwis (1794), with dates of birth; comments on [E.] Olafsen: Reise durch Island, 2 vols., 4°(Copenhagen and Leipsic, 1774); a copy of the inscription on Whitford school house; data relating to the births and deaths of various members of the Pennant family, 1637-1699; consolidated census statistics (houses and population), relating to the six counties of North Wales, with more detailed figures relating to specific parishes in co. Flint (1800), etc.

Miscellaneous poems in various hands including poems entitled 'A Christmas Chace 1777' (mention of Porkington and Llanarmon), 'The Cheshire Grand Jury's Address to Sir J[?oseph] J[?eky]ll' [chief justice of Chester, 1697- 1717] (referring to the prosecution of [Henry] Sacheverel[l] in which Jekyll had taken part), 'On the total Eclipse of the Moon, July 3oth 1776', and 'A Mere Sketch for the Amusement of you and yours' (addressed on the dorse to John Lloyd, Esqr., Wickwer near St. Asaph), a Latin epitaph to Jonathan Edwards [principal of Jesus College, Oxford, 1686-1712], and a poem written by Richard Howard [later rector of Denbigh, 1818-1843, and of Llandegfan with Beaumaris, 1826-1843, etc.] at Mold, 10 April 1802 (addressed on the dorse to Miss [ ] Lloyd, Mold).