Dangos 57 canlyniad

A manuscript in the hand of Lewis Morris ('Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701-65) based on a volume entitled 'Mysteria Kabalae Bardicae' and on other sources quoted by the scribe. It contains poetry by Taliesyn, Merddin, Rhys fardd, Gronw ddu o Fon, Ll'n ap Owain, Y Bardd Cwsg, Y Ffreier Bacwn, Robin Ddu, Davydd ap Gwilim, Llowarch Offeiriad, Iolo Goch, Sr Roger y ffeiriad, Huw ap Rhisiart ap Dld, Bleddyn Fardd, Gronwy Gyrriog, Gruffyth Gryg, Alis verch Gryffyth ap Ieuan, Iefan ap Rhydderch ap Ievan Llwyd, D'd Nanmor, Gvttor Glyn, Tvdvr Aled, Sion Brwynog, Gyttvn Owain, Tvdvr Penllyn, Gruffydd Llwyd ap Davydd ap Einion, Simwnt Vychan, Sion Keri, Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn, Llewelyn ap Guttyn, Lewis Mon, Sion ap Howel ap Ll'n Vychan, Gruff. ap Ieuan ap Ll'n V'n, Rhys Meigen, Deio ap Ieuan Du, Lewis ab Edwart, Gronw ap Ednyfed, Sion Tudr, Bedo Eurddrem, Huw Arwystl, Ll'n Brydydd Hodnant, Robt. Puw, Edward Morris (Perthi Llwydion), Huw Morys, Lewis Morris, Rhys Cain, and anonymous poetry; 'Llyma freuddwyd Grono ddu o fôn'; 'Prophwydoliaeth Ddewi'; 'Prophwydoliaeth yr Eryr o Gaer Septon'; 'Prophwydoliaeth y Doctor Banystr'; 'Prophwydoliaethau Robin ddu'; a list of, and extracts from poems, by Dafydd Lloyd ap Llewelyn ap Gryffydd; 'Araith Iolo Goch'; notes from a manuscript in the hand of Thomas Prys of Plas Iolyn; 'The British Triades' translated from a copy in the hand of Mr [Robert] Vaughan of Hengwrt; 'Achau'r Cwrw a'i Fonedd a'i Hanes'; 'Some Remarks upon the Commodities of Anglesey, & Quaere wh. ye Laziness of the Inhabitants be not a great Cause of their Poverty & Want of Trade'; 'Achau Elsbeth Brenhines Lloegr'; etc. The volume was begun in 1726, and there are some additions to the year 1759. There are a few entries by Peter Bailey Williams (1821), and also by St Geo[rge] Armstrong Williams, who has included a short biography of Lewis Morris.

(I and ii). An interleaved copy in two volumes of The English Works of the late Rev. Eliezer Williams with a memoir of his life by his son St George Armstrong Williams (London, 1840), with corrections and annotations by the Reverend St George Armstrong Williams. (Iii). (A) Letters addressed to the Reverend Eliezer Williams (1754-1820), vicar of Lampeter (1805-20), from St G[eorge] Armstrong, Whitehaven, 1803 (personal finances, expectations of war, intends applying for a company in the Leitrim Militia), [Susan] Lady Blandford, undated (gift of books for addressee), Charles Bowdler, Lampeter, undated (invites Evans ('Ieuan Brydydd Hir'), Aberystwyth, 1778 (the publication of writer's sermons and the addressee's subscription, writer's distrust of Evan James, hopes addressee and Richard Thomas will transcribe 'the Damhegion from the Llyfr Coch' for him, Sir Watkin [Williams Wynn]'s generosity, intends 'to print the Adagia Britannica and the Triades with Mr Vaughan of Hengwrt's notes in two volumes', hopes addressee, Mr Rice Jones and Mr Richard Thomas will help to obtain subscribers (published in D. Silvan Evans (ed.) Gwaith y Parchedig Evan Evans (Caernarvon, 1876), pp. 243-4)), H. Flemyng, Dublin, 1817 (addressee's claims on the estate of the late Captain Armstrong's estate), John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway, 1792-6 (12), from Galloway House, London, Bath, etc. (addressee's work on the earl's pedigree to establish his claim to an English peerage) [the Earl was created Baron Stewart of Garlies in the Peerage of Great Britain, 6 June 1796], Andrew Stuart, London, 1790 (Lord Galloway's pedigree, reference to documents, etc.), Thomas Thomas, Aberporth, 1819 (the tenant of Lluest farm feared the rights of Lluest might be overlooked by the commissioners partitioning the common), G. Williams, Limehouse, 1793 (rearrangement of meeting with addressee because of writer's funeral engagements), [Reverend] Peter [Bailey] Williams (1763-1836), Llanrug, 1793 (family and personal news, prejudice against his father wearing off, sales of his father's edition of the Bible, approved of addressee's plan of establishing a school at Paddington) and 1805 (addressee's return journey to Lampeter, little Harry to be innoculated with cowpox because of the smallpox in the parish, comments on Dolgellau, antiquarian notes, inscriptions at Pant y Polion, Carmarthenshire and Llanwnnen and Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire, names and dates of various Welsh saints' festivals), a copy ?of the previous letter which has been altered and contains some additions, [ ], London, 1785 (news of Oxford acquaintances, writer had been a candidate for an office in the University but had been unsuccessful, writer's interest and that of Crowe had clashed and he had thus been unable to solicit the support of Crowe's friends, who would normally have supported him). (B) Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the Reverend Eliezer Williams, including drafts or copies of letters from the Reverend Eliezer Williams to his mother from Galloway House, 1791 (a translation of a letter written in Welsh) (religious sentiments, his father's writings), to Charles [?Stewart, later Bishop of Quebec], c. 1812 (family news, enquiries concerning addressee's family), a letter written from Lampeter, 1817 to [ ] (writer's claims on Captain Armstrong's estate, describes his own circumstances since he had married Captain Armstrong's daughter and the help he had given Captain Armstrong and his family); original letters from [William Stuart], Bishop of St Davids, c. 1795, to [? Lord Galloway] (the present state of the diocese rendered it important, to the King as well as to the people, that the residence of the clergy should be more exemplary than hitherto, hopes Mr Williams's absence will not be protracted), T [ ], 1799, to the Earl of Galloway (requests the loan of Mr Williams's two pamphlets), the Reverend Eliezer Williams, Lampeter, 1814, to his brother the Reverend Peter Bailey Williams, Llanrug (writer's involvement in the controversy relating to Welsh orthography in Seren Gomer, desires David Thomas to look over the writer's ode, [Lampeter] illuminated for the return of the Cardiganshire Militia, writer's opinion of the peace), a newspaper cutting relating to a meeting held by the pupils of the late Reverend Eliezer Williams held at the Star Inn, Lampeter, 14 June 1822, in order to open a subscription to erect a monument to his memory, 'An Acrostic to the Memory of the late Mrs Armstrong, the wife of St George Armstrong, Esq., of Annaduff in the County of Leitrim, Ireland'. (C) Letters relating to The English Works of the Rev. Eliezer Williams to the Reverend St George Armstrong Williams from Charles Cradock, London, 1840-1(2) (details of the cost of binding and despatching the book and the receipt of a remittance from addressee), Jenkin Davies, Talybont, Brecon, 1841 (details relating to sales of the book and of subscribers who had died or moved, etc.), Mathilde Tobler, Glangwna, 1840 (gratitude upon the receipt of a gift of the book), a letter from Dr [Joseph] Bosworth, Etwell, 1843, to the Very Reverend Dean of Bangor [James Henry Cotton] (obliged to addressee for recommending The English Works of the Rev. Eliezer Williams, it had revived his desire to become acquainted with the Welsh language and literature, intends applying himself to the subject as soon as his present work was finished, requests addressee to take charge of his subscription of a sovereign, his high opinion of the work). (D) Miscellaneous letters and papers, including letters (2) from A[nne] A[rmstrong] Williams, Fron, near Caernarvon, 1840, to her son [St George Armstrong Williams] (family news) and to her husband, the Reverend St George Armstrong Williams, at the Belle Vue Hotel, Aberystwyth (family and local news), copies of a letter from Cyril Williams, Talcymmerau, 1844, to [Christopher Bethel] Bishop of Bangor, with the bishop's reply (support for the retention of a curate in the parishes of Llannor and Denio, Caernarvonshire), a letter from ? George W. Edmonds, Middlesborough, 1880, to his grandfather (personal), a bill, 29 September 1797, for the funeral of the daughter of the Reverend Mr Williams, proposals (draft) for publishing an English edition of Peter Williams's annotated Bible, a blank Schoolmaster's Certificate (printed), a printed copy of the rules of the Carnarvon Clothing Club (Cymdeithas Dilladu y Tlodion yn Nghaernarfon) in English and Welsh, copies (drafts) of the rules of the Pwllheli Clothing Club (Cymdeithas Dilladu y tlodion y' Mhwllheli) in English and Welsh, and of the Llannor Clothing Club, Cymdeithas i ddilladu y tlodion yn Llannor, in Welsh.

A seventeenth century manuscript with a previous, brown-paper, ? upper cover bound in at the end. Ff. 1 recto-8 recto contain extracts from, and abstracts of sections of, a text of the Welsh translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae', i.e., 'Brut y Brenhinedd'. These extracts and abstracts, according to the superscription to f. 1 recto, are 'O Lyfr manachlog dinas Basing a scrivenassai Guttun Owain, herwydd y dywedir, . . . ar llyfr me[m] brwn sydd eiddo Mr. Rob[er]t Dauies o Wisane yn sir y Flint' [i.e., the manuscript generally known as 'Llyfr Du Basing' ('The Black Book of Basingwerk'), which, at the time of compiling the present volume, was in the possession of Robert Davies, esq., of Gwysaney, co. Flint, and is now NLW MS 7006D]. Ff. 9 recto-14 verso contain extracts from, and abstracts of sections of, a text of the version of the Welsh chronicle 'Brut y Tywysogion' known as 'Brenhinedd y Saeson'. These, too, according to the superscription to f. 9 recto, are from the same manuscript source as the contents of ff. 1-8 ('Hyn sydd yn calyn (sic) a dynwyd o lyfr manachlog Dinas Basing wedi ysgrivennu yn deg ar vemrwn a flaw, herwydd y dywedir, Gutun Owain, yr hwn lyfr sydd eiddo Mr. Rob[er]t Davies, esqr., o Wisane yn sir y Pint'). The superscriptions and texts are in the hand of the Welsh antiquary Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, co. Merioneth (see T. Jones (ed.): Brut y Tywysogyon . . . Peniarth MS 20 Version . . . (Cardiff, 1952), pp. xviii-xix). Ff. 15-18 are blank and the previous, brown-paper cover is inscribed in the hand of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') 'Copy of Llannerch MS. by Robert Vaughan, Esqr., of Hengwrt'. There are also a few marginal notes in Edward Williams's hand. The present volume is probably the item listed by William Maurice in his catalogue of the Hengwrt Library, 1658, as 'Membr. lxxxviii. Noates out of ye Booke of Basingwerke. O law Robert Vaughan. Folio Ten[au]' (see Wynnstay MS.10 in the National Library of Wales, f. 255). The volume was missing from the Hengwrt Library when Aneurin Owen compiled his catalogue in 1824 (see Transactions of the Cymmrodorion . . ., vol. II, 1828, pp. 403-16; and Archaeologia Cambrensis . . ., 1871, pp. 129-39). A transcript of the contents in the hand of Edward Williams is to be found in British Museum Add. MS 15003, pp. 1-51 (see T. Jones: op. cit., p. xxvi).

Miscellaneous papers and note-books containing notes, extracts, transcripts, lists, etc., in the hand of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') bound together in one volume. The contents of pp. 53-60, 73, 75, 86-9, 91, 143-206, 209-17, 233-8, and 279-90 consist mainly of lists or groups of Welsh words and phrases sometimes with English definitions and/or illustrative excerpts from the works of Welsh poets. Some of these lists or groups contain words extracted from one source such as poems by, or attributed to, Taliesin, or to be found in 'The Book of Taliesin', John Bunyan: Taith y Pererin, William Wotton: Cyfreithieu Hywel Dda . . . (London, 1730), etc. P. 13 is inscribed 'Glynn Papers 1821. Customs of the Manor of the Lordship of Coity Wallia. From a Copy in the Hand Writing of Richard Jenkins, Esqr., of Hensol Castle, Glamorgan, 1714', and is followed (pp. 17-27) by an incomplete copy of the presentments of a jury of survey for the lordship and manor of Coyty Wallia aforesaid [co. Glamorgan], 1631 [/2]. Other items in the volume include pp. 33-6, anecdotes relating to the brothers Richard and William Twrch and the building of the chapel (1586) and the porch (1600) at Bewper [ co. Glamorgan], with references to Inigo Jones (see also NLW MS. 13089E above); 37-41, a copy of Sir Walter Scott's 'Hymn to Christopher North, Esqr.' transcribed from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, April 1821; 45-9, notes relating to the ruins of a ?Roman 'glass and pottery manufactory' near Caer Rhun [co. Caernarvon], and to nature in the languages and literatures of Wales and England; 69-71, a transcript of the answers to a questionnaire relating to the parish of Llantrithyd [co. Glamorgan]; 72, stanzas of ?two Welsh hymns; 83-4, notes on differences in the use of the verb in the Welsh of North and South Wales; 107-10, notes relating to the Welsh bardic tradition, more particularly the use of triads by the bards, with examples of such bardic triads and English translations; 112, a list of the persons (?commissioners) in whose presence the 'eisteddfod' was held at Caerwys [co. Flint] in 1565 (sic) and of the bards and musicians who were licensed at the said 'eisteddfod'; 113-34, ?extracts from [Paul Henri] Mallet: Northern Antiquities . . . [? the translation from the French by Thomas Percy, London, 1770] and [Joseph] Ritson: A Select Collection of English Songs (1783); 135-41, draft proposals for publishing a multi-volume work containing essays on aspects of Welsh literature, history, bardism, etc., with transcripts of, or extracts from, original Welsh documents and manuscripts relating thereto and English translations of the original source material (see Prospectus of Collections for a New History of Wales in Six Volumes . . . by Edward Williams (Carmarthen, 1819 )); 142, a note on the aims of 'Cymreigyddion Deheubarth, a Corresponding Literary (Philological) Society of South] W[ales]' and a list of six rules headed 'Unitarian Discipline and Polity'; 207-08, a list of Latin words, mainly common nouns, commencing with the letter v with English definitions and, occasionally, Welsh ? derivatives; 221, suggestions by E[dward] Williams re the cultivation of vineyards in Britain; 225-32, miscellaneous horticultural notes ('A New Method of propagating trees', 'A new . . . method of raising Cowcumbers', 'To ripen Grapes'), etc., extracted mainly from the Weekly Miscellany, [Philip] Miller: The Gardener's Dictionary . . ., and Ra[lph] Austen: A Treatise of Fruit Trees . . . ; (continued)

239-46, extracts ? from letters of L[ewis] Morris and a commonplace book of R[obert] Vaughan of Hengwrt relating to matters of Welsh etymological, bardic, and antiquarian interest, with comments, sometimes severely critical of the opinions expressed by Morris and Vaughan, added presumably by Edward Williams ('ignorance . . . inconsistency … willful lies, a complete triad of Lewis Morris' grand accomplishments', 'the abominable falshoods of Robert Vaughan'); 247 + 250, transcripts of 'englynion' attributed to Jenkin Richards and a note on Richards's religious attitudes (written on the blank margins, etc., of an incomplete copy of printed proposals, 1792, by [Sir] Herbert Croft for publishing a new edition of Dr . [Samuel] Johnson's Dictionary); 251-66, miscellaneous items including a list of the 'Names of Constellations in Wales', two notes relating to the bard Iolo [Goch], a note on a volume containing prophesies by various bards 'collected by Mr. Ellis Wynne of Las Ynys', ? an extract from a letter from W[illia]m Wynne to L[ewis] Mor[ris] relating to an ode by Goronwy [Owen] and his use of the 'Cadwyn fyr' measure, an extract from a letter from Edw[ar]d Llwyd to Robert Davies at Llannerch [co. Flint] referring to glass beads which may have been 'Roman or referable to our glain Neidr', an extract from a letter from R[ober]t Vaughan of Hengwrt to Archbishop Usher relating to the different yokes used in yoking oxen in Wales, a critical comment ? by Edward Williams on the opinions of Lewis Morris and [Robert] Vaughan of Hengwrt with regard to the story of Brutus, a brief note on 'The Cantref Breiniol' and the 'saith cantref' of Morganwg, an extract from a letter on the subject of freemasonry published in the Gentleman's Magazine, September 1794, lists of 'Y chwebeth a wnaeth i'r Brytaniaid golli anrhydedd ei Pendefigaeth', 'Meibion Cynfarch', 'Rhyfeddodau Ynys Prydain', 'Geiriau Gwir Taliesin', and 'Deuddeg pwnc cas gan Grist . . .', versions of the Lord's Prayer in Welsh, transcripts of four 'englynion' attributed to Huw Caerog, Huw Llyn, Hugh Pennant, and Wiliam Cynwal, and headed 'Englynion Eisteddfod Caerwys', extracts from various Welsh poems, etc.; 267-78, a fourteen point 'Outline of a Plan for a Complete and Superb History of the County of Glamorgan Sketched by Edward Williams, 1806'; 293 + 296, a memorandum of a proclamation, 1795, of a bardic meeting to be held at Pen Bryn Owain, co. Glamorgan, in 1796; 294-5, notes on Hywel Siôn of Brofeisgyn [co. Glamorgan] (2nd half 17th cent.) and 'Yr Hen Saphin' of Pen y bont ar Ogwr [co. Glamorgan] (? early 18th cent.), to both of whom many proverbial or popular sayings were attributed, and comments on the use of proverbs by the Welsh (? part of an introduction to a proposed collection of Welsh proverbs); 301-08, a copy of the introduction, the letter to the reader, and the notes on Arthur and his knights to be found at the beginning of Lewys Dwnn's volume of pedigrees of the families of cos. Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan (see S. R. Meyrick (ed.): Heraldic Visitations of Wales . . . by Lewys Dwnn . . . (Llandovery, 1846), pp. 7-10); and 309, a list of 'Grammars in the possession of E. Williams' (? 'Iolo Morganwg').

A manuscript in the autograph of Moses Williams containing Welsh proverbs translated into Latin. Inside the front cover is inscribed: 'Transcribed out a MS. writ by Dr Davies. The Drs.' First and Second Translations are in the Harleian Library. There is another Copy with additions by Mr Vaughan of Hengwrt.' The transcript is mostly written on one side only of the folios, leaving the other side for the many additions made by the transcriber. After f. 97 there are five leaves of additions on paper of a smaller size, and ff. 129-138 contain 'additional Proverbs by Mr. W. Langford late Parson of Llan fawr communicated by the Rev. Mr. Ball Vicar of Northop'.
This collection of proverbs is fuller than the one printed by Dr John Davies at the end of his Dictionary.

A manuscript containing a collection of Welsh arms and pedigrees compiled and abridged from the works of several authors during the years 1697-1698 by John Gruffydd of Cae Cyriog, Ruabon, here transcribed and rendered into English by William Jones of Llangadfan. P. ix contains 'A list of the Heralds and Genealogists from whom the author compiled the following Book and the dates of their MSS'; amongst the names mentioned are Gutun Owain, William Salesbury of Rhug, John Salisbury of Erbistock and Foulk Owen of Nantglyn. At the beginning of the volume are loose papers which include two letters in the autograph of Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain'), one of which is dated 3 June 1799 and relates to the Board of Agriculture. At the end of the volume (pp. 155-166) are copies of letters from Robert Vaughan concerning Gwaithfoed, Lord of Cardigan, with a reply from Mr Kynaston of Pant y Byrsley.

A manuscript containing the Bruts (pp. 67-203, 213-292); genealogical tables (pp. 6-66); pedigrees (pp. 293-350); &c. The text is bi-columnar in several styles of writing and in different shades of ink but by one hand, probably that of Owain Gwynedd, except for pp. 138-139, which are in a later hand, possibly that of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt. Place names written in the margins at pp. 333-336, 340, 342-343 may be in the hand of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt. The volume has a label on the front cover in the same hand as most of the Peniarth Manuscripts and is numbered '3'.
Cf. Aneurin Owen's Catalogue of the Dwning MSS No. 3. This manuscript is described in the Bruts (Oxford, 1890) as 'Mr. Egerton Phillimore's Folio MS'. The text beginning at p. 67 agrees with that of Peniarth MS 212 (= Hengwrt MS 319). For the text beginning at p. 213 see Bruts, p. 349.

A manuscript containing 'Leges Hoelianæ ex vetustissimo Exemplario Membranaceo Per Guilielmum Mauricium Lansilinniensem', noted as being 'fideleter Transcriptæ Annno Domini MDCLXII'. The words 'Per Guilielmum Mauricium Lansilinniensem' and 'Anno Domini MDCLXII' have been blottesquely deleted by a hand which has substituted in the margin 'in Bibliothecâ Roberti Vaughan de Hengwrt Armigeri': in other words, it is a transcript of pp. 1-47 of Peniarth MS 28. The text is beautifully written but left unfinished.
In c. 1685 the transcript was noted as being 'curâ Doct: Humphrys Decani Banchorensis'.

A pedigree of the family of Hanmer of Hanmer, Flintshire ('Stemmata et Propagines antiquae familiae Hanmer de Hanmer transcript. ex libris Oweni Salusbury de Rûg. ar.') in the hand of Robert Vaughan (1592?-1666) of Hengwrt, Merioneth, with additions to the year 1684; a nineteenth century table showing the relationship between the families of Hanmer and Bunbury of Bunbury Stanny, Cheshire; another early nineteenth century table of the descendants of Gamaliel Lloyd of Mattersea Abbey, Nottinghamshire; and A list of the Nobility and Gentry, at Preston Guild, 1802.

A miscellaneous collection of records mainly relating to Wales compiled towards the middle of the seventeenth century. -- The manuscript begins on page 53 with extracts from 'Llyfr Coch Asaph', with the additions from the hand of William Bullocke, as in Peniarth MS 231 - a manuscript written by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, and most probably the immediate source of the Nefydd version; the 'summa' of 'Llyfr Coch Asaph' compiled in 1602, which is also contained in Peniarth MS 231, as well as the list of contents of another St. Asaph record - the 'liber pergamenus' which is now deposited with the Church in Wales records at the National Library; a transcript of a record of proceedings on a writ of quare impedit brought by the Prince of Wales against Howel Gymen and a hundred and seventeen others, touching the advowson of a prebend in the collegiate church of Holyhead ('prebenda de Castro Keby') supplied by 'Mr. Ellice the Councellor'; a collection of historical records relating to Wales taken directly from the hand of Robert Vaughan in Peniarth MS 236; a transcript of the 'Historia Britonum' of Nennius, copied out of a book given to John Selden by William Camden, compared with a version in 'Oxford Library' under the name of 'Gilda Minor', and ending with an extract from a Cottonian manuscript (pp. 245-88); a copy of the statutes of Chester Cathedral, temp. Henry VIII (pp. 289-310); 'Ymrafaelion henwau Ynys Brydain', etc. - seventeen chapters of pseudo-history and description of the Isle of Britain (cf. slightly different versions in Peniarth MSS 163 and 215), with a supplement containing accounts of place-names not included in the main text, a reference to the earthquake of 1574/5, the wonders of Scotland and Ireland, the conversion of the various British nations to Christianity, and 'y naw helwriaeth', 'mesurau cerdd dant', and 'trioedd mab y krinwas' (pp. 312-49). -- At the end of the volume are a number of documents relating to Cheshire and Flintshire - a note of entail of Flintshire lordships, Flintshire rents of assize, the customs of Dee mills and other records taken from a book of Edward Whitby, recorder of Chester, and a transcript of Robert Vaughan's copy of the fealty roll of the Prince of Wales, 29 Edward I .

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 transcript of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt's essay, printed Oxford, 1662, under the title British Antiquities Revived: or a friendly Contest touching the sovereignty of the three Princes of Wales in ancient times ... .

A composite volume mostly in the hand of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing transcripts of correspondence between Lewis Morris, Edward Richard, James Phillips and Samuel Pegge (see Cambrian Register, Vol. i, p. 357) (ff. 1-36); a copy of Morgan Jones's letter from New York, 10 March 1685/6, relating to Welsh Indians (ff. 41-43) (see the Gentleman's Magazine, 1740, and NLW MS 2577B); extracts from a letter of Griffith Roberts (ff. 54-57) and from a commonplace book of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (ff. 193-208); proverbs in Welsh and Latin (ff. 58-63); autograph proposals for printing a book of poetry (later 'Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru') to be edited by Ieuan Fardd and Rhys (Rice) Jones and published by David Jones, Trefriw (ff. 89-92); a note on manuscripts in the Mostyn library (ff. 98-99); a copy of Henry VII's charter of North Wales (f. 100); poetry (ff. 112-113, 116-124, 209-212); the Introduction to Lewis Morris et al's Celtic Remains, and copies of letters from Lewis Morris to Robert Vaughan and others (ff. 125-164); a copy of Annals of Wales by Robert Vaughan (ff. 165-192) (see Mostyn MS 136); chronicles, etc. with notes by Lewis Morris (ff. 213-239); further extracts from various sources; etc.

Twelve booklets containing transcripts, [1772x1787], by Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) from various printed and manuscript sources relating to the history of Wales, including letters from Dr John Davies of Mallwyd to Sir John Wynn and Owen Wynn of Gwydir in relation to Dr Thomas Williams's dictionary; letters from Robert Vaughan to Sir Richard Wynn and Sir Owen Wynn; an account of Merioneth by Robert Vaughan; 'Cywydd marwnad Huw Morus'; and a 'carol plygain' by Edward Samuel.
Transcribed in part from a book published in MDCCLXXII [1772] (p. 6).

An autograph letter, 7 February [16]93, from Humphrey Humphreys, bishop successively of Bangor and Hereford (1648-1712), to Peers Maudit, Windsor Herald; letters and genealogies sent to Bishop Humphreys, 1704-1707, by Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms (1661-1729), and Thomas Humphreys, mainly concerning the pedigree of Sir William Humphreys, a sheriff of the City of London, with notes thereon and on Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (1592?-1666), by Bishop Humphreys.

Transcripts, mainly by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, of the extent of the lordship of Denbigh, 8 Edward III; an exemplification of letters patent granted to John Weston, prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 7 Henry VII; an undated extent of Merioneth; accounts of the escheator of Merioneth, 1615; and the extent of Caernarvon, 26 Edward III. Ff. 131-134 are very fragmentary.

Transcripts by Robert Vaughan of tracts and documents relating to the Council in the Marches of Wales, including 'The Inconveniences of exemptinge English sheires [Gloucester, Worcester, Monmouth, and Salop], shewed to Queen Elizabeth'; propositions concerning the jurisdiction of the King's Bench in the Marches; precedents for installing plaintiffs in possession; 'The effecte of the King's speech ... 3 November 1608'; 'A Treatise of Wales and the Marches thereof'; an abstract of records in the Tower concerning the Marches; 'A discourse or relation of the ancient and moderne estate of the Principalitie ... by Serieant Dodderidge'; instructions to the Council of the North, 1595/6; a survey of lands in Tal y Bont, Merioneth; a note on the lordship of Glasbury; and 'A description of the Councell and Court established in the Principality and Marches of Wales', and 'An exemplification touching proceedings in Chancery at the request of ye right honorable Ralphe Lo: Eure'.

Eighteen diaries and notebooks containing memoranda and accounts by Howell Vaughan, 1663, Katherine, widow of Griffith Wynn of Bodfean, and later wife of Colonel Hugh Nanney, 1692, Hugh Evans, agent to the said Katherine, 1682-1690, Lumley Williams of Ystumcolwyn, 1696, Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, 1745 , and others.
Several of the diaries, which include almanacks by Trigge, Gallen, and Rider and the Daily Journal, contain entries relating to the Nannau estate. Rider's British Merlin for 1698 contains a few englynion in manuscript, and in one notebook there are inventories of linen and utensils at Nannau, 1692.

A manuscript containing transcripts by Angharad Llwyd (1780-1866) of pedigrees of Welsh families and of letters of Robert Vaughan (1592?-1666), Hengwrt, as well as various extracts. The manuscript also contains poems by Richard Newcome (1701-1769), Reginald Heber (1783-1826) and J. Slaney.
A letter, 17 October 1634, from [Sir] Marmaduke Lloyde to 'Lieutenant Colonell Davys' [Thomas Davies] is loose in the volume.

A small composite volume (124 pp.) containing brief chronicles written by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt with some annotations by Lewis Morris and a few additional items written towards the end of the eighteenth century. The contents are as follows: p. 1, a note concerning 'Ystradmeurig' and Edward Richards [sic] (cf. Panton MS 24, pp. 134-5); pp. 9-24, 'Allan o hen llyvrae memrwn wedi eu scrivennu ers gwell no 300 mlynedh y cawd y cofion hynn : Oes Gorthyyrn Gorthenev hyt weyth Vadon ydymladaud Arthur ar Saesson ... or pan doeth Normyn gyntaf (y ynys Brydyn [yny aeth Gruffut ygwystel, dwy flyned ar bymthec a deugain a chant hyt vrwydr Derwyn, chwe blyned a chue chant]', followed by a note in the hand of L[ewis] M[orris], 'This vastly differs from that printed with H. Llwyd's Brev. of Brit. - 1731 and is a better copy'; pp. 27-31, 'Allan o vn or llyfrae dywededic vchod y cawd hyn sydh yn calyn' : 'Oyd yr Arglwyd pan las Arthur yg gad Gamlan ... y gwisgywt goron e dyurnas am ben Edward y vab'; pp. 33-8, 'Or vn llyfr y cawd hyn' : 'Henwe y Brenhynet. Eneas ysgwythwyn, gwedy yntau Ascanus ... gwedy ynteu Cadwallawn, gwedy ynteu Catwaladyr vendigeit'; pp. 39-47, 'Dyriau Sr. Morgan', twenty-four in number, beginning 'Mi glywais sôn gan fagad ...', with a note by 'E:h:' [probably the Reverend Evan Herbert], followed by 'Some account of Dr. Edmund Prys who rendered the Welch singing Psalms into the common metre', also by 'E:h:'; pp. 49-52, 'Allan o hen lyvr memrwn Cyntaf henv a vu ar yr ynys hon cyn y chael nae chyuanhedu Clas Merdin ... ar drytyd yn gear (gaer) Euravc yny Gogled. sef yw honno Iorc'; pp. 55-70, 'Mewn llyfr o law G: Owen y cefais i hyn. Llyma henwav y pedwar brenhin ar hvgain a varnwyd yn gydarnaf ... ac un a elwid Wden or Saeson a wisgawdd coron Loygyr. ynewyn ar varwolaeth vchod a barhaodh xl o vlynydhoedh yn gymeint ac na alle y byw gladhu y meirw'; pp. 73-6, 'Pedwar marchoc vrddol ar hugain oedd yn llys Arthur ... A thrwyr gwyr hynny yddoedd Arthur yn gorfod ymhob lle'; pp. 79-83, 'Kadwaladrus ultimus rex Britanniae illustris ... et Rodericus uero requiescit in Kibij Castro in Mona'; pp. 85-8, 'Mewn hen lyfr papur wedi eu scrivenu ers. 180 o vlynydhoedh y cawd syn callyn. Vltimus rex de genere Bruti fuit Cadwaladrus ... et alium. fillium cuius nomen mychi incognitum, est'; pp. 91-109, 'Llyfr W: llun. Blwydhyn eissiav o dheucant a phvm'il a fv or amser i gwnaethbwyd Adhaf hyd oni dhoeth Crist yngknawd tyn ... a hwnw a dhywaid y brydwyr mae coronoc vaban yw a dhywawd Merdhin wyllt am danaw gynt'; pp. 111-116, 'Th Will'ms allan o hen Vemrwn a gowsai y Cof hwn. Llyma val y descennodh pendevigaeth Gymru er yn oes Vaelgwn Gwynedh ... yn ol Madawc ydoeth Coronoc Lhvndain' (see Peter C. Bartrum 'Disgyniad Pendefigaeth Cymru', The National Library of Wales Journal, Vol. XVI, 253-263); and a copy by E. H: of a warrant, 5 January 1636/7, to Evan Thomas of the parish of Talyllyn, Merionethshire for the levying of ship money in the said parish of Talyllyn in the hundred of Estimaner, Merionethshire ('N:b: I have the Original of this warrant now in my Possession. E:h:'). In connection with the Reverend Evan Herbert, see Panton MS 24, p. 135; he was rector of Llanfairfechan, Caernarvonshire from 1801 until his death in 1830. The chronicles are to be found in Panton MS 23, pp. 155-229, and Panton MS 38, pp.137-145, but whether the Panton manuscripts contain a direct transcript from the present manuscript is uncertain. There are some pencil notes in the autograph of St George Armstrong Williams. The number '22' occurs on a label on the cover, with '384' written in pencil above.