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An imperfect volume containing poetry in strict and free metres ('cywyddau', 'englynion', 'carolau', 'dyrïau', 'cerddi', and 'penillion') by David Lloyd, David Gorlech, Richd. Abram, Evan Gryff', Edward Morris, Robert Edward, Richard Thomas, Ed'd Cadwalader, Morus Robert, Hugh Morris, Hugh Kadwalader, John Evans ('or Esgwivrith'), David Nanmor, John Richd., and Sr. Rys; instructions on the 'suptraction' and 'adition' of money; a table showing how to determine the times of high tide at Beaumaris; a form of 'A plain bill of dept', 1682; numerous medical and other recipes, in English and Welsh (e.g., 'Rhag y Cymsymsiwn', 'Rhag y llynger', 'Rhag y Pigin', etc.); 'Messurau Cyff Pandy'; 'Llyma y saith bechod marwol ...', 'Dyma y Cynghorau sydd rhag y saith bechod marwol ...', and 'Llyma y saith weithred y drugaredd ...'; 'A Choice Collection of Proverbs & Apophthegms'; 'Llyma brif ddewis bethau gan wr'; rate assessment accounts in the parish of Penmachno, 1690?, and in the hundred of Nant Conwy, 1717 and undated; a charm entitled 'Dyma swyn rhag rhaib ag adwyth'; and a valentine. The volume is partly in the hand of Rees (Rice, Riceus) Roberts.

One of eight volumes consisting of several hundred letters, chiefly of the first half of the nineteenth century, written mainly to John Jenkins and his wife, to Walter Davies and his daughter Jane, and to John Vaughan (Penmaen Dyfi) and other members of his family, by numerous correspondents, including: Caleb Lewis (Cardigan), D. Jones Lewis (Gilfach), John Lewis (London), David Lloyd (Llanbister), Howel W. Lloyd, Angharad Llwyd, C. T. C. Luxmoore (Guilsfield), Carl Meyer, Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, S[arah] Millingchamp, W. Morgan (Bradford), Joseph Morris (Shrewsbury), and Richard Newcome.

One of six volumes consisting of several hundred letters ranging in date from the late eighteenth century to about the middle of the nineteenth, and addressed mainly to Walter Davies, with some to his daughter Jane, to John Jenkins, and to John Vaughan, from numerous correspondents connected with various aspects of Welsh life and including: Owen Jones (Owain Myvyr), Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), Robert Jones (Rotherhithe), Theophilus Jones, Thomas Jones (Bardd Cloff), Thomas Jones (Esgair Ifan, Towyn), Thomas Jones (Llanrhaiadr), William Jones (Cadfan), William Jones (Brwynog), James Kearney, William Davies Leathart, Samuel Lewis (London), David Lloyd (Llanbister), John Lloyd (Wigfair), Simon Lloyd (Bala), Angharad Llwyd, Richard Llwyd (Bard of Snowdon), and Joseph Hayes Lyon.

Transcripts by John Jenkins of vocal and instrumental music, sacred and secular, with English words added in some instances, and a letter, 1808, to John Jenkins from David Lloyd, Llanbister.