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An imperfect volume written by Perys Mostyn otherwise Perys ap Rychart ap Howell 'o degaingl (degygl)', 1543, with one lacuna (7 pp.) completed by John Lloyd of Caerwys, c. 1779, from a manuscript of Ed[ward] Llwyd [sic] in the Sebright library. It contains 'englynion y misoedd' by Neryn Gwodrudd [Aneirin Gwawdrudd]; 'llyma y devddec arwydd y sydd yn mestroli y xij miss y vlwyddyn ...' by D'd Nanmor; 'llyma englynion yn dangos pedwar man y byd affeth yw naturiayth pob vn o honynt ...' by Rys Brychan; 'Gossodiad ynys brydain', 'Racgorav yrnys bellach', 'Rhyfedhodau yr ynys hon', 'Rhannau yr Ynys', 'Llawer o ryfedhodau sydh Ynghymru ...', 'O racynyssedd yr ynys', 'O briffyrdd brenhinol yr ynys', 'Y Prif avonydd penaf', 'O brif ddinessydd yr ynys ...', 'Gwledydd a Siroydd yr ynys...', 'Kyfreithiav yr ynys ...', 'Or kenedlaythav a wladychassant yn ynys brydain ...', 'Or Saith brehinniayth ai tervynav ai dechread a pha hyd i parhassant ...', 'O eisteddvay pennaf archescyb ...', 'Or kenedlavthav a wladychant yr ynys honn a pha amser y doyth pob vn ir ynys ...', and 'Or iethoydd a natvriaythev y kenedloydd a wladychassant yr ynys hon ...'; 'divegwawd taliessin'; '... y llythyr a elwir kyfrinach y kyfrinachoedd a gavas arestotteles yn hemyl yr haul ...'; 'Llyma y modd y Ranwyd ac i Rivwyt kantrefoedd a chymydav holl gymerv yn amser Llywelyn ap gruf' y twyssoc diwaythaf or kymerv'; and a Red Book of Hergest version of 'Ystorya de Carolo Magno' (incomplete).

A manuscript in the autograph of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing a copy of Nennius's 'Eulogium Britanniæ' (ff. 1-57); notes relating to Nennius copied from a manuscript in the hand of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (ff. 67-88); triads copied from a manuscript in the hand of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, by Lewis Morris in 1738, with marginal and intertextual notes (ff. 89-112), and from the Red Book of Hergest (ff. 137-152); 'Araith Iolo Goch' (ff. 114-116); poetry, the poets cited including Aneirin, Iolo Goch and Mabclaf ap Llywarch (ff. 119-157b); etc. On f. 189 is a table of contents in a later hand. On f. iv the title page reads 'Y Cynfeirdd Cymreig, Vol. II'.
This manuscript is the source of the text of Series I of the Triads in the Myvyrian Archaiology Vol. ii, pp. 1-22. The englynion at ff. 119-122b are practically the same as those in Myvyrian Archaiology, pp. 543-547, col. i, but that the arrangement is different. The text at f. 132 was copied in September 1758 from an autograph manuscript of Edward Lhuyd. The text at f. 154 verso was transcribed from Llyfr Coch Nannau (see Mostyn MS 144) 'and collated it with my brother Lewis Morris MSS'.

A manuscript in the hands of the Reverend Samuel Williams, Moses Williams, Iaco ab Dewi and others, containing one hundred and sixty-eight numbered items, mainly poetry, including about two hundred and thirty-five triads (item 13). The poets cited include Taliesin, Bleddyn Fardd, Iolo Goch, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Siôn Cent and Siôn Phylip. Item 165 contains a genealogy of Welsh saints. Item 166 is a copy of cols 1165-1169 of the Red Book of Hergest. Item 167, which contains englynion, is in the hand of Edward Lhuyd, and was 'sent through the post to W. Baxter in Totnham Highcross near London'. Item 168 is a piece entitled 'A true Character ... of the Gentry within the Counties of Carmarthen, Pembroke and Cardigan during the Commonwealth'.