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A manuscript containing flyting poetry exchanged between Archdeacon Edmwnd Prys and Wiliam Cynwal. Following the death of Wiliam Cynwal, Edmwnd Prys breaks off the exchange and composes an elegy to his erstwhile poetic rival (p. 177). Another elegy by Edmwnd Prys, to Siôn Phylip, occurs on p. 187. Richard Morris indexed the manuscript for W. Jones, Armiger, R.S.S., London, 1747 (see pp. iii-v). At p. 124 there is a copy of a letter from Edmwnd Prys to Wiliam Cynwal which refers to nine cywyddau of Wiliam Cynwal, of which a note on p. 93 of Peniarth MS 125 informs us the ninth was lost.
The extensive explanatory marginalia accompanying the compositions of Edmwnd Prys, coupled with the fact that the elegy to Siôn Phylip was evidently once folded and carried in the pocket, suggests that this manuscript may be a holograph once belonging to Edmwnd Prys. Much of the text of this manuscript, or one of the same archetype, was transcribed into Peniarth MS 125, though Peniarth MS 49 has four additional lines following 'Dôd i ddôl dedwdd Wiliam ...'.

A notebook in the autograph of R. Prys Morris ('Robyn Frych') [Dolgellau] containing copies of two 'cywyddau' by Edmwnd Prys ('Cywydd Priodas' beginning 'Rhai a gar yn rhagorawl', 1623, and 'Cywydd Marwnad Sion Phylip Bardd ac Athro' beginning 'Rhodd Dduw gwyn yw rhwydd ganu', 1620), and a note by R. Prys Morris referring to the death of his mother, Elinor Morris, 12 September 1875.