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Pedigree and achievement, [1603x1614], of William Gruffyth [or Griffith], 'Justice of the peace and corum of the Cittie and Libertie of Westminster and of the Countie of Middlesex, and Sergeant of Armes to the Kinge', compiled by Rhys Cain, containing sixteen other fully painted and impaled coats of arms.
The pedigree traces William's ancestry fourteen generations, in the male line only, via the Griffiths of Penrhyn and Ednyfed Vachan [Fychan], to Ednyfed's grandfather Ierwerth ap Gwgon; in addition, Ierwerth's descent from Koel Godeboc is recorded in a cartouche at the head of the pedigree. William's uncle Pyrs [or Piers] Griffith, the last of the family to own Penrhyn, is also included, as are William's six siblings and seven children, presented without heraldry. The achievement, with nine quarterings, is placed at the foot of the pedigree, between depictions of the two alternative crests with which it was associated. The pedigree is based on the work of Guttyn Owain, Gruffydd Hiraethog, Ieuan Brechva and William Llyn, as noted at various points in the margins. The roll is an example of style 3 in M. P. Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996), pp. 11-12. William and his parents, siblings and children are not recorded among the descendants of Sir Rhys Griffith (d. 1580) in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families (Horncastle, 1914), p. 185.

A transcript, [c. 1904], in the hand of Thomas Parry of Penygroes, Caernarfonshire, of the Taicroesion Pedigrees, originally compiled in about 1723 by John Ellis of Taicroesion Uchaf, Llechylched, Anglesey, containing pedigrees of North Wales families, primarily those of Anglesey and Caernarfonshire (pp. 1-505).
The pedigrees are transcribed usually one to a page, on the rectos only; the pedigrees for Bodorgan (pp. 23-24), Gwedur (pp. 131-132), Llanddyfnan (pp. 187-188), Mysoglan (pp. 227-228), y Llys yn y Penrhyn (pp. 287-288), Stymllyn (pp. 317-318), Treiorwerth (pp. 343-344) and Mostyn (pp. 387-388) extend over two pages, while there are two pedigrees each on pp. 55, 479 and 495. The contents are listed on ff. v-vi. The text throughout is framed in double red lines and titles are stamped in black ink. Some twenty pedigrees have additions and corrections in pencil (pp. 2-423 passim). Another transcript by Thomas Parry, which is practically identical in content and format and presumably of similar date, is now NLW, Broom Hall MS Vol. 3; that volume is stated to have been copied from John Ellis's original manuscript (now Bangor MS 13564), then owned by the lawyer R. D. Williams, in 1904. Items found loose within the volume (6 ff.), including manuscript and printed pedigrees, have been tipped in on blank leaves (pp. 507-517).