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Journal, 1830 (watermark [18]28), of a tour primarily of Pembrokeshire, the Lake District and Edinburgh by an un-named Cornishman, in the company of his niece Anne Kendall of Lostwithiel.
The volume begins with a retrospective recounting of the journey from Lostwithiel, Cornwall, to Bath, Somerset, 5-29 [recte 10] April 1830 (ff. 1-4 verso). The journal proper begins in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on 7 July (f. 11) and continues with excursions and tours to Pembroke, Haverfordwest, Solva, St Davids and elsewhere within the county, 7-26 July (ff. 11-62 verso), followed by the journey through parts of mid and north Wales and north west England, 27 July-5 August (ff. 63-65 verso), the Lake District, 5-8 August (ff. 65 verso-70), and the Southern Uplands of Scotland, 9-12 August (ff. 71-76), ending in Edinburgh and its environs, 12-30 August (ff. 76-91 verso). The journal includes descriptions of the Stackpole, Orielton, Slebech and Picton Castle estates (ff. 14-15 verso, 19-20, 22-23, 25 recto-verso, 26-27 verso), St Mary's Church, Haverfordwest (ff. 29 verso-33), and the Bishop's Palace and Cathedral at St Davids (ff. 42 verso-50) and an eyewitness account of the launch of the frigate HMS Seahorse at Pembroke on 21 July (ff. 57 verso-58 verso). The writer is presumably one of Anne Kendall's four uncles then living, namely the Rev. Francis John Hext (1779-1842), Captain William Hext (1780-1866), James Cotes Kendall (1770-1836) or the Rev. Nicholas Kendall (1781-1844).

Propositions, 16 May, 1729, of Richard [Smallbrooke], bishop of St. Davids, proponent, in the cause of Dr. John Davies, precentor of the cathedral church of St. Davids, appellant, touching the latter's refusal to accept a commission to continue and adjourn the ordinary visitation of the cathedral church granted to the Reverend Richard Pritchard, M.A., one of the canons and prebendaries of the said church.

A copy of Browne Willis: A Survey of the Cathedral Church of St. David's ... (London, 1717), which belonged in the eighteenth century to Erasmus Lewes and in the nineteenth to David Lloyd Isaac, both of whom have added marginalia and notes on fly-leaves. According to a note by Lewes the friend who supplied Browne Willis with material for the first ninety pages was a Dr. Edwards who lived under that name at Carmarthen though his real name was Dr. Wotton (i.e., William Wotton, 1666-1726, D.N.B., lxiii, 61-3).