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Final concord in a fine levied between David ap Thomas David, plaintiff, and William John Thomas, deforceant, when the deforceant acknowledged three messuages, etc., in Bodedern to be the right of the plaintiff.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers deposited in 1957.

An account, 1716, of the opening of the will of Sir Richard Myddelton after his death, and a memorandum, 1698, relating to his wife's money, together with a copy, 1649-1653, of the will of 'Richard Middelton the elder [?1631-1700] of London'.

Answer of Edward Loveden, defendant. with Sebastian Loveden in a case brought by John Lee and Anne his wife, John Gilmore and Katherine his wife, Dorrell Dearing and Elizabeth his wife, and Mary Loveden, daughters of Walter Loveden, the defendant’s brother, concerning the claim to property in Buscot and Lambourn [post-1649]

Letters addressed to John Owen (d. 1712) of Penrhos, 1649-1710 (Nos 96-135), and to Mrs Margaret Wynne (d. 1723) of Bodewryd, 1679-1723 (Nos 136-219).
The correspondents include [Sir] William Williams [baronet], 1657-1698 (Nos 113-135) and Margaret Wynne's son Edward Wynne [Chancellor of Hereford], 1709-1723 (Nos 182-212).

Papers of Colonel John Jones relating to Ireland:- a breviate of the invoice of the provision shipped in the 'Jonas' of London (Captain Richard Willsheere, commander) and assigned to the Hon. Sir Charles Coote, kt., Lord President of Connaught, 15 February, 1649/50, and an account of the delivery of the same by Peregrine Greene to Wm. Oxford at Youghall, 20 April, 1650 (countersigned by Wm. Dobbins, commissioner, 19 August, 1650); two invoices of ammunition put on board the ship 'Peregine' by William Dobbins, commissary of ammuniation, for the armies in Ireland, 14-22 April, 1650; an invoice of medicaments provided by Thomas Saxton, apothecary, by directions from Doctor Waideson for the use of the garrison of Kilkenney, 6 August, 1650 (countersigned by Rob. Waideson, and by Wm. Dobbins, 14 August, 1650); and a transcript of a letter from Edm. Ludlowe, Dublin, to Sir Rich. Blake, 19 March, 1651/2 (the application from the Earl of Clanricard for the settlement of this nation).

To John Owen. Subject: Requests him to obtain a passage to Ireland for the bearer, Lord Barnewall's footboy, etc.

Order from Tho: Madrin and others, commissioners under the Act for the General Composition for Delinquency in Northwales, to Rodericke Davyes of Bodronyn for the payment of £5, being his proportion of first payment, with receipt for the same.

A volume containing poetry mostly in strict metre, together with some prose items and a significant body of prophetic prose or vaticinatory verse, transcribed between 1649 (see pp. 285-288) and 1660 by Wiliam Bodwrda; the volume would appear to have been 'No. 17' in his own collection of manuscripts (see f. iv and p. 342).
The cited works are mainly those of fifteenth-century poets, including eulogies by Lewys Glyn Cothi and prophetic poetry by Dafydd Gorlech, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd o Fathafarn and Robin Ddu. Several pieces of prophecy are either anonymous or attributed to ambiguous and obscure authors such as Taliesin, y Bardd Cwsg and y Bergam. Eulogies composed in praise of the Bodwrda family are found on pages 181-193 and 285-288. Wiliam Bodwrda himself has paginated the manuscript from 1-341, but some of these numbers have been cropped in binding. The paper, according to the transcriber's practice, has been folded before use giving three vertical creases on every page, the left-hand crease being used as a guide for the alignment of the text. The transcriber uses a catchword on the bottom right-hand corner of most verso pages.

An alphabetically arranged commentary on a number of scriptural themes, with references to a number printed works of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, e.g. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, De origine Sacrae Scripturae ...; John Weemes, Works; Phillippe de Mornay, Seigneur du Plessis Marly, A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion which Sir Philip Sidney began to translate; Johan Reuchlin, De Arte Cabalistica; Petrus Columa, Galatinus, De arcanis Catholicae veritatis; and Jacobus Bolducius, De Ecclesia ante legem. The work seems to have been begun in 1649, and its general appearance suggests the methods of William Maurice of Llansilin, but there are no names, nor any other clues to the authorship.

Copy.

To John Wynne. Subject: Request for loan of his one eyed Cock, which was victor at Beaumaris.

To John Wynne. Subject: Death of John Wynne's wife Elin.

A catechism which begins with the question 'What is Religion?' and ends with the question 'From whence came the word Presbyterian?', the answer being 'From the Phanaticks'.

A volume of household and medical recipes written at various times from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. There are two mid-seventeenth century hands (A and B) with additions in many late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century hands. Hand A runs from ff. 1-9, and hand B from ff. 9-12, 20-23 verso, 26-40, 73-74 verso, 77, 83 recto-verso, 87 verso-113 with additions on the paste-down on the inside of the front cover and ff. 1 verso, 6 verso, 8 recto-verso.
Papers found loose in the manuscript have been brought together at the end (ff. 118-125). These include a receipt (dated Mar. 26, 1753) to Mrs A. Hay for payment for a neglige cap, signed D. W. Healey (f. 123), and an undated letter from T. Knight addressed to Mrs Nancy Lloyd at Nanney (ff. 124-125).

Copy of the 'Historia Brittonum' of Nennius.
A copy of this manuscript in the hand of Ieuan Fardd is now NLW MS 2020iB.

Poetry, songs and prose literature, mainly manuscript, accumulated by the Pryse family of Gogerddan, [1650x1950]. The main themes of the poems are eulogies of the distinguished house of Gogerddan, Pryse family birthdays, love, hunting, drinking, mortality, contemporary national and local events, politics and elections. They include an early ‘cywydd’ to Sir Richard Pryse [1650x1675] and a notebook containing ‘Barddoniaeth’ and other writings of John Lewis of Cardiff, compiled in 1879-1880. Other items of interest are a sheet of maxims framed in a decorative roundel, traced from the original manuscript of Elizabeth Henrietta Phelps (printed 1782), an early 19th century Welsh-English vocabulary, and typescript essays on salads and dressings, possibly by Sir Lewes Pryse (d. 1946)

Exemplification of a fine, levied 25 August 1623, between William Thomas and David Lloyd, gentlemen, plaintiffs, and Edward Bulkeley, Elen his wife, John Jeffreys, weaver, and Margaret his wife, deforceants, when the deforceants acknowledged two messuages in Llachgenvarowy and Bodedern to be right of the plaintiffs.

Some seventeen booklets, or parts of booklets, containing sermons in English in several hands, now bound as one volume. All are undated with the exception of a sermon preached on 27 June 1675 (f. 49 verso); the same sermon bears the signature of Robert Wynne, MA (f. 48), and this and others may be partially in his hand.

To John Wynne. Subject: Cocks and cock-fighting.