Part of Peniarth Manuscripts Collection
A schedule of deeds relating to the Vaughan estates; abstracts from deeds at Hengwrt; and an imperfect copy of answers in a suit in Chancery by Elizabeth Lloyd and Blanch Lloyd, 1713.
The first part of the manuscript is mainly fragmentary.
Elizabeth Baker correspondence,
Part of Peniarth Manuscripts Collection
A volume into which are tipped sixty letters mainly addressed to Mrs Elizabeth Baker at Hengwrt. The correspondents include Mrs Gilbert H. Lewis, East Grinstead; M. Lloyd, Gwerclas and Corsygedol; E. Owen, Shrewsbury; and Alice and John Yeo, Mount Gold and Plymouth. '485' on label pasted on spine.
Peniarth Manuscripts Collection
A collection of manuscripts, [12 cent.]-1909, from the library of Peniarth, Merionethshire, the core of the historic collection being that of the library accumulated at Hengwrt, Merionethshire, by Robert Vaughan during the seventeenth century. The collection includes many of the most important Welsh language manuscripts, including the Black Book of Carmarthen (Peniarth MS 1), the Book of Taliesin (Peniarth MS 2), the White Book of Rhydderch (Peniarth MSS 4-5) and Brut y Tywysogion (the Chronicle of the Princes) (Peniarth MS 20), as well as important manuscripts in other languages such as the Hengwrt Chaucer (Peniarth MS 392), the Law of Hywel Dda (Peniarth MS 28), Beunans Meriasek (Peniarth MS 105) and Bede's De natura rerum (Peniarth MS 540B).